| 2008-04-01 | To bloggers |
Satellite data – on the table of executives
RADARSAT-1 image, acquired during the snow storm on March 25, 2008 and posted on Kosmosnimki geoportal
SPOT-4 image of the Leningrad region along the borderline with Finland, acquired on February 2, 2008, posted on Kosmosnimki geoportal and used for forest area change detection and analysis
Forest felling dynamics (logging sites can be seen as white rectangles on the winter season image) along the border with Finland. To the left - 2006 IRS mosaic fragment, to the right – SPOT-2 image fragment of February 26, 2008
Primorsk oil terminal developments. To the left – per 2006 IRS data, to the right -RADARSAT-1 image acquired on September 14, 2007
The new direction of space geoinformatics started to progress in Russia and in the world, pertaining to the creation of geoportals and web-map services. First Russian geoportals are Yandex.Maps and Kosmosnimki with satellite geolocated mosaics of largest cities and central administrative regions.
An important issue in a geoportal development is to fill it in with updated space images and to created mosaics from a set of satellite imagery. The solution can be the integration of geoportals and regional centers of operational RS data reception into a unified solid production mechanism.
On March 25-27 the St-Petersburg Central R&D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics partnered with ScanEx R&D Center to showcase the real-time processing and transfer of space images, acquired from RS satellites, via encoded Internet channels to the customers of the government committee of St-Petersburg.
Earth Remote Sensing Center at the St-Petersburg Central R&D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, equipped with the Uniscan ground receiving station provided the RADARSAT-1, SPOT-2, SPOT-4, EROS-A and TERRA data reception. Kosmosnimki geo-service of ScanEx Center was used as a prototype of the regional geoportal. Relevant committees of Leningrad Region and North-Western Federal District administrations can be the potential clients of such geoportal.
Special attention was paid to the possibility of near real-time data reception from the all-weather RADARSAT-1 radar satellite. One of the images of the city and of the dike was acquired on the evening of March 25 during the blizzard with wind blasts over St-Petersburg.
The demonstrated version of geoportal can be used as a catalog for quick search for geospatial data and a tool for assessment and analysis of ecological situation, nature use control and environmental and high risk areas monitoring.
An important issue in a geoportal development is to fill it in with updated space images and to created mosaics from a set of satellite imagery. The solution can be the integration of geoportals and regional centers of operational RS data reception into a unified solid production mechanism.
On March 25-27 the St-Petersburg Central R&D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics partnered with ScanEx R&D Center to showcase the real-time processing and transfer of space images, acquired from RS satellites, via encoded Internet channels to the customers of the government committee of St-Petersburg.
Earth Remote Sensing Center at the St-Petersburg Central R&D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, equipped with the Uniscan ground receiving station provided the RADARSAT-1, SPOT-2, SPOT-4, EROS-A and TERRA data reception. Kosmosnimki geo-service of ScanEx Center was used as a prototype of the regional geoportal. Relevant committees of Leningrad Region and North-Western Federal District administrations can be the potential clients of such geoportal.
Special attention was paid to the possibility of near real-time data reception from the all-weather RADARSAT-1 radar satellite. One of the images of the city and of the dike was acquired on the evening of March 25 during the blizzard with wind blasts over St-Petersburg.
The demonstrated version of geoportal can be used as a catalog for quick search for geospatial data and a tool for assessment and analysis of ecological situation, nature use control and environmental and high risk areas monitoring.
