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Introduction

• Increasing interest in environment monitoring systems that utilize earth observation data • Information systems exist, but • Not comprehensive → limited interoperability • Limited to specific applications → not widely applicable Solution ENVIMON • VTT has • Hands-on experience on operative environment monitoring systems (e.g. FireAlarm) • Wide competence on environment monitoring, information systems and hardware sensors • Core technologies

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Mission and objective

• Mission • The mission of the project is to make the environmental monitoring that the participating organizations practice in their operation more efficient.

-> More accurate environmental information, less expensive approaches etc. • Objective • Main objective is to build systems to meet diverse environmental monitoring needs. • The applications are built onto a common software framework,

EOFrame

, which will be designed and implemented in the project.

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Scope

• Prototype systems for the natural disaster monitoring, forestry, forest fire, maritime, traffic monitoring, repository site monitoring, and season monitoring. • Methods and techniques (incl. software and hardware) that are required • Earth observation data a primary data source • The comprehensiveness and completeness of the systems depends on the application • Open and flexible platform to improve existing and introduce new applications • Utilization of components that use parallel computing (ClusterMaster, Vexcel SAR processing software) • Research oriented project • The results are not expected to be product-like • Operative systems can be developed in separate projects with minimum effort.

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Benefits

• Common framework • Cost-effective development and maintenance of diverse environment monitoring systems.

• Relatively small input per a partner enables service implementation.

• Partners contribute to the application requirement specification.

Environment monitoring system 1 Environment monitoring system 2 Environment monitoring system 3 Common framework

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Envimon concept

Satellites, aircrafts In situ measurements X data provider Image DBs Models

•weather •ice •smoke •oil

Environment monitoring Environment monitoring service

•analysing •processing •tailoring products

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Earth observation value adding chain

Input Environment monitoring service based on common framework Pre-processing Analysis Delivery

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Preprocessing

Image geometric and radiometric correction • Objective • Carry out image calibration to produce radiometrically and geometrically corrected images.

• Pre-processing includes data unpacking and converions for different instruments.

• Success criteria • Pre-processing required in each prototype application is done with the produced software.

5. 8.2003 V TT In bri ef • Relative radiometric accuracy ± 15-30% (depending on the band and absolute reflectance) with existing measurement data, and average geometric error less than one pixel are achieved.

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Disaster monitoring

• Objective • To develop analysis methods and procedure to provide timely information of the disaster at different phases, mitigation, warning, response, and recovery.

• The prototype system is focused on detection of topographic changes by landslide and extract its impact area using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) derived DEM of before and after disaster. • As the end product, an image data with damaged area information is published through internet and delivered to multi-level users on appropriate devices.

• Success criteria • The end user takes the system for test operation and is content with it. • The response time and accuracy of the system (simulated in optimum conditions) meets the requirements of the problem field.

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Forestry

• Objective • To develop methods and software for producing forest resource maps of various regions in the world • To develop and implement the spectral bank concept • Success criteria • A system that utilizes the spectral banks in e.g. forest variable estimation is implemented and working.

• Methods for forest variable estimation are improved and corresponding software revised.

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Forest fire

• Objective • To develope a tower based system for early warning of forest fires. • The system uses an imaging system based on several CMOS detector chips and an IR radiometer (or spectrometer) as input sensors. • Success criteria • Successful field tests of a hardware prototype of a tower based forest fire detection system on summer 2004 are carried out.

• Image processing software for locating smoke clouds from background illumination with low false alarm rate is verified with the field test data.

• The hardware and software of a tower based forest fire detection system is developed to such level that a product detailed design can be initiated.

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Maritime

• Objective • To develop a prototype application for maritime users that is built on the framework components. The focus is to minimize the amount of data to be delivered still providing the users with relevant data (satellite images, weather prognosis) for ship route planning support.

• Success criteria • The prototype application is considered useful by the users. • the products that they get are tailored according to their needs • their needs can be specified in a relevant way through the profile • The (server) application can be built using framework components to a significant degree.

• A (private) company is interested in licensing the technology for their business.

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Traffic monitoring

• Objective • To develop an automated image alignment procedure which enables object extraction from a time-series of images based on the changes observed • To develop an automated procedure, which identifies each traffic object (car, bus) in a series of consecutive images by its movement and outputs a vector specifying time, location and velocity • Success criteria • An image processing system can be tested in operational use by e.g. City of Helsinki.

• An automated image alignment procedure, which outputs spatially equivalent images and enables the use of aerial photographs from various sources is developed.

• Pattern recognition from the images and difference images can be done with an accuracy better than 80 % (the total number of each vehicle type).

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Repository site monitoring

• Objective • To develop and implement a pilot version of a monitoring system of a repository using multi-instrument earth observation data and other data • Success criterium • The operating prototype system for repository site monitoring is ready and the end user takes it in test use.

Onkalo

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Season monitoring

• Objective • To develop and implement a pilot version of a system for monitoring tourist seasons related phenomena, i.e., fall coloring, spring foliation, and snow and ice conditions. The system should use earth observation and other relevant data.

• Success criteria • The operating prototype service for season monitoring for tourism is ready and a tourism service provider takes it in test use.

• The developed methods for fall coloring, spring foliation, and ice and snow conditions monitoring satisfy the end users needs.

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Common software framework

• Objective • Implement a software framework (EOFrame) for building autonomous EO data processing and delivery services.

• Support building of applications on the framework in application WPs.

• Success criteria • The framework has been successfully used in at least four applications.

• The development time of at least three applications is reduced significantly because of the framework.

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Environment monitoring service implementation

Data User requirements Application Control Algorithms Delivery

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System components

Data Control

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Framework controls the whole chain of accessing, processing, and delivering data

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Control defined with “workflow mark-up language”

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Metadata for describing data files

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Storage system for metadata, intermediate processing results, final products, messages between processes, and archiving

Delivery

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Framework handles the data delivery

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Façade builds tailored data packages for users

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UI for manipulating “orders”

Algorithms

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Miscellaneous programs

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Implemented as framework “plug-ins”

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Input

Manager

A service built on the common framework Controller Preproc

Manager

Analysis

Manager

Delivery

Facade Get NOAA Forest fire Rectification Compress

Storage

(archive, short-term memory, buffering, messaging)

Get Image DB Get Radarsat Resample Rectification Biomass Spectral Render Crop Get NOAA

Modules

Projection Forest fire Map Server Compress

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Data Input workflow

Subscriber Profile

Framework conceptual view

Data Processing workflow Interface Software module Data Delivery workflow Data Storage

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User requirements Data Application Control Delivery Algo rithms

Partners

End users • employ environment monitoring systems System/service providers • construct and offer systems to end users for diverse applications Framework providers • distribute and offer the software platform for the system/service providers Technology providers • offer software and hardware for system/service and framework providers

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Project benefits

• Insight into the state-of-the-art, prospects and future trends of earth observation data based environment monitoring.

• Specifying the requirements of the environment monitoring systems. • Opportunity to utilize the existing technologies in novel earth observation applications.

• Possibility to further develop emerging technologies.

• Testing the developed environment monitoring systems in practice.

• Practical networking with national and international companies and institutes.

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Opportunity to launch product development projects with minimum effort.

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Business potential

• Cost-effective operation by using comprehensive environment monitoring systems (end users).

• Business from licensing environment monitoring systems/services to the end users (system/service providers).

• Business from licensing the common framework to the system/service providers (framework providers).

• Expanding markets for the existing products and/or developing new technology for the potential markets (technology providers).

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Utilization concept

• The future product development has two principal alternative paths • Product and general service facility development for a system provision company and • Specific service development for an end user or for a consultant.

Third party Service provider System provider End user VTT Research and product development

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Project details

• The overall budget 1200k€ for two years.

• TEKES funding 60%.

• Company/institute funding more than 10%.

• Companies may apply for industrial R&D grants from TEKES.

• Schedule • 1st project year 1.1.2004-30.4.2005

• 2nd project year 1.5.2005- 30.4.2006

• Research oriented project • Results are not expected to be product-like.

• Separate product development projects will be carried out in parallel.

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Consortium

• VTT Information Technology • Stora Enso Oyj • PIEneering Oy • Indufor Oy • Helsingin kaupunkisuunnitteluvirasto • YTV • STUK • NIED • TEKES Research party Partner, end user Partner, system provider candidate Partner, service provider candidate Partner, end user Partner, end user Partner, end user Partner, end user Financier

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Work packages

ENVIMON

WP1000 Management WP2000 Requirements WP3000 Preprocessing WP4000 Applications WP5000 Framework WP4100 Disaster mitigation WP4200 Forestry WP4300 Forest fire WP4400 Maritime WP4500 Traffic monitoring WP4600 Repository site monitoring WP4700 Season monitoring WP6000 Dissemination

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Study logic

Requirements

EOFrame requirements Application requirements

Preprocessing

Preprocessing design Preprocessing implementation

EOFrame

EOFrame design EOFrame implementation

Applications

Prototypes design Prototypes implementation Methods development

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Rough project schedule 1/2

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Rough project schedule 2/2

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Partner rights and fees

• Steering group membership • Access to the project results including software for trial use • Privilege to launch product development projects.

• Participation fee for the second project year 9000-12000€/year for SMEs, €15000-20000/year for other ENVIMON Steering group Sets up Present Future Product development Product development Product development