The 12th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference
Workshop on EO applications for the Mediterranean Sea
31st January 2017, IAF Center,
15Jabotinsky St ,. Herzliya, ISRAEL
Presentation : Use of EO for Mediterranean port cities
Vasiliki (Betty) Charalampopoulou | CEO/President
Geosystems Hellas S.A.
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Use of EO for Mediterranean port cities
The Mediterranean port cities since ancient times are the driving
force of the economy and that’s why are heavily populated.
The latest decades they have been monitored via airborne
and satellite imagery via several projects for defining the port
urban development but not often monitoring the environmental
parameters that that affects the people life / health and wellbeing.
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 Copernicus
Sentinels for
Urban Planning in Russia:
The SEN4RUS Project
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Mediterranean ports are supporting the economic life and urban expansion of the
port cities. Maritime monitoring in the port area can give environmental indicators
using data content provided by Copernicus Sentinels and support the urban
planning at local and regional scales. Sentinels and their contributing satellites have
good revisiting times and are open and free data and can be used for monitoring
the port city areas and marine areas - coastline and set indicators for ports urban
areas climate and changes that affects the people life / health and wellbeing. This is
related to socio-economic benefits of the Mediterranean countries citizens and
helps for decisions in port urban areas.
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Sentinel-1 provides continuous
sampling of the open ocean,
offering information on wind and
waves.
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shipping
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wave-energy applications
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track the paths of oil slicks polluters
Valuable resource for port urban
city planners : The ‘radar
interferometry’ remote sensing
technique combines two or more
radar images over the same area to
detect changes occurring between
acquisitions- down to a few
millimetres – across
3D CITY MODELS
What happens far out to sea has a direct
impact on societies
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The Sentinel-3 constellation (Sentinel-3A
and Sentinel-3B global coverage every
two days).
Sentinel-2 : wide swath high-resolution
multispectral imager with 13 spectral
bands
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Oceans are intrinsically linked to our
weather and climate.
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sea-surface temperature
The Sentinel-2 mission’s frequent revisits
over the same area and high spatial
resolution allow changes in the coastal
environment to be closely monitored.
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sea-surface height (future El Niño events)
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changes in surface ocean waters, seastate for estimating the heat content of the
upper ocean.
Health and pollution
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water quality parameters - surface
concentration of chlorophyll
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prediction of harmful algal blooms
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detect harmful algal blooms
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food sources - eutrophication
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measure turbidity (or water clarity)
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climate conditions and increasing climate
variability, economic development – port
area urbanisation.
waste products in coastal waters pollution incidents water clarity
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biogeochemical parameters
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monitor urban heat islands- explanation of
port cities
Set indicators
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The Mediterranean port cities since ancient times are the
driving force of the economy and that’s why are heavily
populated.
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Monitoring the environmental parameters that affects the
people life / health and wellbeing.
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The climate change, anthropogenic interference and also
increase of the refugees …
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This is related to socio-economic benefits of the
Mediterranean countries citizens and helps for decisions in
port urban areas.
You need a target and the target should not be defined as technology,
it should be defined as a purpose.
— Ola Rollén, Hexagon President and CEO
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The proposed project will effectively and efficiently exploit the information content
provided by Sentinels mass data streams in support of port cities and regional
planning. EO-based methods for evaluating environmental indicators, enabling its
integration into operational services for port urban planning, by providing indicators
for both urban and port-urban areas.
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Web-based Information System (WIS) will be developed to on-line evaluate these
indicators and to provide them in a form that allows direct implementation into urban
planning procedures.
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This will lead to more efficient routine urban planning, as well as to more efficient
climate change mitigation and adaptation, at local scale. A new business model will
be developed, based on the exploitation of the new generation of European
satellites..
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THE EU SOCIETY AND CITIZENS.
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Acquired on 4 July 2015 over Italy’s Venice lagoon, this image from the
Sentinel-2A satellite demonstrates the mission’s ability to monitor
sediment transport in coastal waters.
Sentinel-2 image
 The
Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/ESA
ancient Port of
Piraeus, southwest of
the city center… The
image captures various
vessels in the area,
waiting to enter or exit
the port, visible thanks
to the 10 m-resolution
on Sentinel-2A’s
camera.
This image – also featured on the Earth
from Space video programme –
comprises two scans from the Sentinel2A satellite on the same day: 22
December 2015.
•Copernicus Sentinel 2 data (2015) /ESA
•App Camp 2016 took place at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain
Sentinel-3A satellite very early image
recorded on 3 March 2016, takes us
over the River Nile and Delta and the
surrounding desert areas of northeast
Africa and parts of the Middle East.
Various countries in the
Mediterranean Sea were captured
last 10 May by the Sentinel-3A
satellite, in this false-colour image.
Parts of Greece, Turkey and Libya
are featured, showing their distinct
relief differences. In the middle of
the image is the Greek island of
Crete, dominated by harsh
mountains rising out of the sea..
EXAMPLE OF EXISTING GR-ISR PROJECT
5 Dimensional Multi-Purpose Land Information System-5DMuPLIS
www.5dmuplis.gr
Case study for urban re-adjustment
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Urban planning
LIS , Urban re-adjustment, Land policy
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3D modelling
3D models for urban planning,
3D topologies, Visualization
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4D/5D modelling
Creation of 4D and 5D, Tools for 3D
image analysis, Dense image matching,
Scale generalization
Thank you for you attention !
Betty Charalampopoulou
GEOSYSTEMS HELLAS S.A.
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.geosystems-hellas.gr
Did we get ready for the future?