| 2007-05-08 | To bloggers |
Envisat satellite five-year operation period results summed up in Switzerland
ScanEx leading expert V. Zatyagalova near the poster report booth at the «Envisat Symposium-2007»
Integral map of the natural oil spills in the South-Western part of Caspian Sea, based on ENVISAT radar images (from the report of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science and the ScanEx R&D Center)
Oil spill near the oil production platform at the Volga River delta, INVISAT image fragment (from the report of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science and the ScanEx R&D Center)
On April 23-27, Montreaux (Switzerland) hosted the «Envisat Symposium-2007» of European Space Agency, dedicated to Envisat satellite data application for operational monitoring and research work in different fields.
Symposium sums up the results of the five-year operation period of the world largest Envisat satellite equipped with ASAR radar and a set of measuring instruments MERIS, AATSR, SCIAMACHY, RA-2, GOMOS, MIPAS, etc. The latest similar event took place in Salzburg in 2004.
The symposium was attended by 980 leading specialists in remote sensing from over 30 countries. There were 640 reports delivered and 430 posters demonstrated during seven sessions. The symposium was opened by the director of the European Space Agency RS program who spoke about the main scientific achievements for the past 5 years of the Envisat satellite operation. The users received 27 thousand radar images in 2006, whereas 1200 scientific projects have been implemented based on the RS data.
The main part of the reports was about the application of visible and IR band images, radar image, altimetry, interferometry, differention and polarimetric interferometry. The reports told about successful application of radar data in agriculture, ecology, nature use, geology, archeology, hydro-meteorology, oceanology, cartography and in natural disasters monitoring.
Leading expert V. Zatyagalova participated in the symposium representing ScanEx R&D Center and delivering the poster-report «Application of Envisat SAR imagery for mapping and estimation of natural oil seeps in the South Caspian Sea» prepared together with A. Ivanov (Institute of Oceanology) and B. Golubov (Institute of Geosphere Dynamics) and an oral report «A GIS approach to mapping oil spills in the marine environment». The report was presented in the session “Oil spills and slicks detection & monitoring” and raised a great interest. A pilot on-line project of ScanEx, aimed at Northern Caspian Sea oil pollution monitoring, was announced during the summary report. In 2007, ScanEx starts receiving Envisat data in Russia.
An ESA official presented the project of developing a group of space satellites called Sentinel that will replace ENVISAT and some other satellites in the nearest future. Within the next few years ESA plans to launch 17 satellites for continuous monitoring of key environmental parameters for practical and scientific purposes.
An exhibition was arranged within the frames of the conference where leading European companies involved in remote sensing data processing and distribution took part, such as KSAT, Eurimage, SERCO, SHELYS SRL, Gamma Remote Sensing AG and others. ESA demonstrated a variety of software programs for different data processing, received from Envisat satellite. Among the innovations - software for polarimetry and altimetry.
The principle idea of the conference can be worded as a transition from the collection and processing methods to the creation of fully functional applications and models, enabling to obtain overall data about natural events. In general, the symposium demonstrated a high level of cooperation between RS specialists of the European counties which is nowadays a must for the remote sensing business development and for scientific ideas implementation.
Symposium sums up the results of the five-year operation period of the world largest Envisat satellite equipped with ASAR radar and a set of measuring instruments MERIS, AATSR, SCIAMACHY, RA-2, GOMOS, MIPAS, etc. The latest similar event took place in Salzburg in 2004.
The symposium was attended by 980 leading specialists in remote sensing from over 30 countries. There were 640 reports delivered and 430 posters demonstrated during seven sessions. The symposium was opened by the director of the European Space Agency RS program who spoke about the main scientific achievements for the past 5 years of the Envisat satellite operation. The users received 27 thousand radar images in 2006, whereas 1200 scientific projects have been implemented based on the RS data.
The main part of the reports was about the application of visible and IR band images, radar image, altimetry, interferometry, differention and polarimetric interferometry. The reports told about successful application of radar data in agriculture, ecology, nature use, geology, archeology, hydro-meteorology, oceanology, cartography and in natural disasters monitoring.
Leading expert V. Zatyagalova participated in the symposium representing ScanEx R&D Center and delivering the poster-report «Application of Envisat SAR imagery for mapping and estimation of natural oil seeps in the South Caspian Sea» prepared together with A. Ivanov (Institute of Oceanology) and B. Golubov (Institute of Geosphere Dynamics) and an oral report «A GIS approach to mapping oil spills in the marine environment». The report was presented in the session “Oil spills and slicks detection & monitoring” and raised a great interest. A pilot on-line project of ScanEx, aimed at Northern Caspian Sea oil pollution monitoring, was announced during the summary report. In 2007, ScanEx starts receiving Envisat data in Russia.
An ESA official presented the project of developing a group of space satellites called Sentinel that will replace ENVISAT and some other satellites in the nearest future. Within the next few years ESA plans to launch 17 satellites for continuous monitoring of key environmental parameters for practical and scientific purposes.
An exhibition was arranged within the frames of the conference where leading European companies involved in remote sensing data processing and distribution took part, such as KSAT, Eurimage, SERCO, SHELYS SRL, Gamma Remote Sensing AG and others. ESA demonstrated a variety of software programs for different data processing, received from Envisat satellite. Among the innovations - software for polarimetry and altimetry.
The principle idea of the conference can be worded as a transition from the collection and processing methods to the creation of fully functional applications and models, enabling to obtain overall data about natural events. In general, the symposium demonstrated a high level of cooperation between RS specialists of the European counties which is nowadays a must for the remote sensing business development and for scientific ideas implementation.
