Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Damen, M. C. J.

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Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856342815

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Volume 1-3 erschienen von 1986-1988

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

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Persistent identifier:: 856343064

Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Scope:: XV, 547 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856343064

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Signature of the source:: ZS 312(26,7,1)

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

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Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: 2 Microwave data. Chairman: N. Lannelongue, Liaison: L. Krul

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Title:: EARTHSCAN - A range of remote sensing systems. D. R. Sloggett & C. McGeachy

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167 Symposium on Remote Sensing for Resources Development and Environmental Management / Enschede / August 1986 EARTHSCAN - A range of remote sensing systems D.R.Sloggett & C.McGeachy Environmental and Space Systems Group, Software Sciences Limited, Famborough, Hampshire, UK ABSTRACT: Todays users of remote sensing systems require a capability to easily enhance and develop those systems to incorporate the results of state-of-the-art research, new applications and the launch of new satellites. The EARTHSCAN range of remote sensing systems has been designed around a core set of image processing and image manipulation routines to provide a basic building block on which to carry out both operational remote sensing and research work. The systems are designed in a modular way, for expansion, and to be portable between different host computer systems. A user friendly MMI enables the operator to use the system, and images are displayed on an associated workstation. The systems incorporate an advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) capability. The paper describes the architecture of the systems and their associated baseline image processing functions. Adaption of the system to generate new products, enhance the catalogue, add new image processing routines is illustrated. The range of systems are unique and cater for future developments, applications and new satellites. 1 INTRODUCTION The planned programme of remote sensing satellites due to be launched over the next 15 years has given a strong impetus to the development of remote sensing applications. The prospects for continued coverage and the long term availability of data across a wide geographic area have increased the interest of a number of user groups. In particular the prospects for the polar platform, to provide a long term facility, has been the focus of attention for a number of studies within the UK. Currently there is one main source of operational remote sensing data for land applications, the American polar orbiting satellite LANDSAT, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To date there have been four LANDSAT satellites and plans are advanced for the replacement of these satellites to provide a continuing service into the 21st century. A significant European contribution to satellite remote sensing is the deployment of the independent French remote sensing satellite, SPOT and the planned launch of ERS-1 in 1989. During the last ten years the capabilities and accuracy of the satellite sensors has increased offering a more useful stream of data to a wider range of users. Techniques for processing satellite data have also been rapidly developing over the past few years, due to intensive research, rather than in operational systems. The United Kingdom has recognised the benefits to be gained by playing a leading role in the remote sensing area and has invested considerable sums of money and effort into a national remote sensing programme. The United Kingdom is currently playing a leading role in the ERS-1 project and this is paving the way for the development of a national remote sensing infrastructure of archiving, processing and dissemination facilities. Under development in the UK, and in collaboration with ESA, the ERS Data Centre is currently at the Phase B stage of project definition. The consortium carrying out the design is led by Software Sciences with Huntings, Marconi Research Centre, Smith Associates and GEMS of Cambridge all collaborating in the project work. Resulting from this and other remote sensing projects, plus the investment of considerable private venture funds, a range of systems called the EARTHSCAN range have been developed by Software Sciences to cover a wide range of remote sensing applications. Growth is built into the systems to cater for the development of new techniques and application areas. Input data can be from one of a number of primary sources, live data, or from secondary sources, via magnetic tape input. The EARTHSCAN range is modular with a series of facilities from the 200 to the 5000 series system. The product range is divided, according to the primary sources processed, into three systems: CLOUDSCAN (TIROS-N, GOES, METEOSAT) LANDSCAN (LANDSAT, SPOT, IRS-1) SEASCAN (SEASAT, ERS-1, RADARSAT, NROSS) The LANDSCAN system is one of this range of computer systems developed in the United Kingdom by Software Sciences Limited in collaboration with the UK National Remote Sensing Centre. These systems cover Land, Sea and Meteorological applications and are amongst the most advanced systems of their type in the world. The systems support the following satellites: LANDSAT (MSS, TM) TIROS-N SEASAT ERS-1 (simulated data) SPOT 1 Growth exists in all systems for the introduction of imagery from a wide range of new satellite systems including: MOSS ERS-1

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