With environmental concerns having grown in interest recent years, it is essential to learn how to better manage the
resources and to make sure that our exploitation is not detrimental. A
coordinated approach is required to handle the increasing of natural and human
pressures on our environment and its resources. Aerial and satellite data and
their derived products are extensively used to achieve environmental management
goals.
Urban Green
According to estimates recently published by the
United Nations, the world's population lives as much in urbanized areas as in
the countryside. The most urbanized continent is Europe.
Today, in Western Europe more than 80% of the
population lives in urban areas. Due to urbanization and the corresponding
consequences, green urban spaces are often suppressed...
To keep cities and urban areas endurable for the following generation, Europe as well as the national, regional and local
authorities have assigned a high priority to monitor and plan its urban green....
- Monitoring tree health status
Authorities
can be held responsible for the damages caused by trees they own. Mostly, accidents due to trees' falling occur due to mismanagement. To obtain a qualitative management it is crucial to have a good
overview of the tree patrimony. A phytosanitary analysis allows designing a policy for
urban trees on short term as well as on a long term basis.
EUROSENSE has already
gained several years of experience in the field of Tree management... The most
important asset here is the use of
color-infrared images that permit the determination of whether a tree is
healthy or not (prior to detection with the human eye is possible) and the
integration of the data into a GIS (Geographic Information System) database... [Learn More]
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- Inventory and monitoring of urban green
In
addition, in the domain of mapping and monitoring, EUROSENSE has some strong
assets. As an illustration, the monitoring of green indicators and the inventory of green roofs can be given.
By means
of aerospatial images a detailed inventory can be made of all green areas in
town... [Learn More]
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Brownfields
Brownfields are abandoned, idle, or under-used
industrial or commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is
hindered by actual or suspected soil contamination. The presence of brownfield
land doesn‘t give an attractive picture to the city and affects the economic
prosperity of the region. Municipalities are often unable to revitalise
brownfields within their own resources, and their city centres and environs
remain degraded and under-utilised... [Learn More]
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Classifying and Mapping Vegetation
Vegetation plays an important role in maintaining biospheric equilibrium. Vegetation data and information are essential to manage and to control
this priceless resource. The mapping and especially
the regularly monitoring of the vegetation can give us information about
vegetation types, the condition of the vegetation, the change in the levels of
vegetation over time, biodiversity, dominant species, the proportion of native
and non-native vegetation cover,...
Remote
sensing methods can be employed to classify vegetation in a practical,
economical and repetitive fashion.... [Learn More]
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