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Green Space Services for Local Monitoring
Aratos Group
V3.0 2016/08
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Environmental Protection
Disaster Management
Land Use and GeoIntelligence
Agricultural sector monitoring
Homeland Security
Aratos Group
One of the first European downstream value added services company in the space sector.
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In a few words…
GreenSSLMTM is a permanent monitoring system using Earth Observation Satellites derived Space Data and handling complex computing interfaces dedicated to ●archiving ●indexing ●processing
environmental parameters which characterize the holistic status of an geographical area
… for any area, for any place, for any size
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Motivations and Targets
● Urban spreading
Land use change, human hazardous effects upon environment, inhibited areas near regions undergoing crisis
● Global economy dependence on agriculture, livestock and fishery
Vegetation growth, health and diversity, environmental and other factors causing stresses on ecosystem’s equilibrium, optimized solutions for increased production
● Environmental changes and wildlife extinction
Optimization of environmental theory, monitoring and modeling, definition of the interaction patterns of all factors across a landscape, design of crisis control and management plans
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GreenSSLMTM’s Services
• GeoIntelligence Applications - easy to design and maintain efficient cartography. Land use and cover records are of special importance to local authorities, as they provide a concise insight to the development and changes of an area, socio-economic levels and potential unauthorized actions, while also serve as a basic parameter to be taken under consideration on roads construction . In a nutshell, it generates an overall interpretation of the area’s division
• Water management - All the above descriptions applied on water environments. Water monitoring has been defined as a separate category because the processing techniques applied in this case, present great differentiation to those used in land coverage.
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GreenSSLMTM’s Services
• Agriculture and aquaculture - This category includes services dedicated to the optimization of productions and to the development of economic benefit, while maintaining environmental equilibrium
• Environmental management optimization - This service is dedicated upon all the holistic studies to understand environment to the level of climate recordings and burdening effects, while the priceless information acquired and manipulated by GreenSSLMTM is used to propose efficient reaction plans. This service aims at the optimization of environmental
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GreenSSLMTM’s Services
• Security and Safety - Under this topic are included two rather different processes but they both relate to the security and safety of an area and they may be interrelated. This category provides high resolution image data to allow constant surveillance of facilities (i.e. industrial) as well as analytic data that can detect upcoming hazards (i.e. tsunami).
• It is worth noting that GreenSSLM offers a dedicated pre-, during and post-crisis support with in time data acquisition, crisis assessment and management (recovery plans). SATELLITES DATA give a reliable and low cost set of informations
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Data management and potentials
An Satellite VAS environment-oriented product, aiming in
establishing an efficient relation coexistence relation of human
and environment
Ability to monitor any area regardless of
how remote, inhibited or not it may be
Ability to acquire real time data on short frequency periods, and archive them for the deduction of areas history and statistics
Ability to select, manage and process a vast amount and variety of complex
data across all the environmental levels of a landscape (as opposed to limited
covering of a specific area/ phenomenon)
Ability to detect environmental
phenomena non detectable by the human eye and/or
traditional monitoring
Ability to provide land use optimization plans, as
well as enforcement of agriculture and other
economy factors
Professional processing powered by environmental mathematical models and
imagery algorithms, designed by our team of environment
biologists
Brief environmental report of the area on
a 3-month basis
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GreenSSLM’s Service Levels Overview
• GreenSSLMTM’ s services range through a scalable measure of complexity depending on the end-user’s requirements using Satellites Data
• Services may vary from simply monitoring to advanced environmental theories applications
• Following is a brief description of the different levels presented
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An interpretation of this scalar approach, with respective example services fitted in each case. However,
the system does not offer de facto product packages; this information is provided for guidance and the
final approach to be followed depends upon the end-user’s specifications
GreenSSLM’s Service Levels Description
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GreenSSLM’s Services Levels Description
• Our system offers constant remote monitoring using Satellites Data and runs a combination of multiple algorithmic models, the results of which are analytically studied by our team of environmental biologists to deliver solutions which improve environmental theory and monitoring, human and wildlife co-existence and vegetation growth.
• A per 3-month period description of his area of interest, estimated upon all the respective mathematic models and image processing techniques applied on the data acquired for the specified region. Should a crisis appear, the end user will be immediately informed and respective descriptions will become more Frequent
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GreenSSLM’s Services Levels Description
• In time detection or even prediction of an upcoming natural hazard using Satellites Data.
• Reasoning behind the existence and/or emergence of a crisis, in order to allow the user to understand the environmental factors acting and contributing to this hazard
• A crisis management plan, as this is designed by our
environmental biologists based upon all the data collected upon
the area (history and identity of the region)
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GreenSSLM’s Services Levels Description
• Increased frequency of monitoring in the case of a crisis, assuring a
complete recording or pre- and post-crisis situation
• Ability to detect potential environmental crisis, not currently being
detected by ordinary methods and human eyesight (i.e. wildlife extinction,
vegetation crisis, phytoplankton crisis, extreme climate conditions, etc.)
• Online user interface, presenting analytical reports, graphical
representations and imageries of the area of interest. This way, the end
user is capable of constantly monitoring himself the status and progress
of the region and collecting all the relevant information concerning his
area of interest (sources of stresses, crisis management actions,
interactions, etc.)
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GreenSSLM’s Services Levels Description
• Online user interface in the form of a layered map, where the user is
able to filter and watch the current status, history and prediction of the
environmental factors acting upon his area of interest, with the aid of a
specially designed GIS interface on which the system presents all the
relevant values of the parameter the user chooses to study, and a
supported graphical representation of the respective layers’ statistics, for
better visualization and understanding
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GreenSSLMTM offers continuous monitoring on a wide set of inputs and multi-level processes to guarantee a
holistic coverage study of the end-user’s area of interest
How GreenSSLMTM works (1)
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The space data collected by GreenSSLMTM is
being carefully chosen upon the requirements of
environmental modeling, used for accurate
estimations of natural factors. This complex
pre-launch study is performed by our team of
environment experts who gather the necessary
theoretical and mathematical models, needed
to be implemented in our system.
This initial stage includes a concrete study of
the end-user’s area of interest based on static
region records and field studies. The overall
aim of the “launching step” is to understand the
nature and the object of the problem
How GreenSSLMTM works (2)
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The collected satellites information is in turn processed in four
different levels. First, the inputs which come from multiple sources,
including raw satellite data, are converted into formats able to be all
interpreted under a unifying interface [Data Collection].
Continuously, all the relevant algorithms and processing techniques,
which constitute the complex intelligence of GreenSSLMTM, are
applied [Data Processing & Interpretation].
How GreenSSLMTM works (3)
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Then the acquired results are
evaluated upon their environmental
importance, suggesting the green
prosperity of the area [Data
Assessment & Decision-
Making].
At this point we design user reports
which present and analyze the
received data and the respective
findings.
How GreenSSLMTM works (4)
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Following is geo-referencing all this information and illustrating it
upon respective maps, for the end user to visualize his area of
interest and the changes that this undergoes [User Interface].
The final results are used for the deduction of statistical records
(respective and deviant mean, etc) which serve as a concrete
description and conclusion of the overall study, and may also be
used as feedback input in the future studies of the area
[Comparative results].
Multi-Source Information Management Environment
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Monitoring and appreciating
environmental status is a very
challenging task, mainly
due to the vast amount and
diversity of all the relevant
parameters which act upon an
ecosystem and also because of
the close interacting relations
of those.
Multi-Source Information Management Environment
GreenSSLMTM ensures to collect the grand quantity of ambiguous information needed for a holistic environmental evaluation and thereby handles data of multiple origins:
A constellation of satellites monitoring Earth, day and night, providing high resolution imagery
A constellation of satellites collecting climate recordings of surface and atmosphere chemistry
A long and detailed collection of statistics and area classification reports upon the area
A feedback of the data acquired by the system, in the form of statistic parameters (respective means, mean deviation, etc) and history
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GreenSSLMTM for Crisis Management
Korean Oil Spill,
Credit: European Space Agency
Satellite picture of volcano,
Credit: earthobservatory.nasa.gov
● In time detection and prediction even of upcoming hazards
● Reasoning behind the existence / emergence of a crisis – educating the end user on environmental factors sensitivities
● Crisis management plan, designed by our team of environment biologists and specialists
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GreenSSLMTM: Easily adaptive to the end user’s needs
• Variation of the types and processing levels upon the end-user’s requirements
• Online user interface, with summary reports upon factors of the area and across time
• Online user interface, implemented as a GIS layered map for the user to manage the data acquired
• e-learning support from Aratos Group
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Procedure Technical Description A p r i o r i s t e p s
– Implementation of environmental mathematical models and image processing algorithms
– Definition of the data needed to be acquired to satisfy the end user’s requirements
– Collection of static land cover information on the area
P r o c e s s i n g s t e p s – Conversion of all input data into
formats able to be handled under a unifying interface
– Application of all the respective computations and evaluation of the environmental significance of the results
– Deduction of statistics and comparison with archived records to created a full report
– Presentation of all the acquired results in a graphical user interface
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• GreenSSLMTM manages a vast variety and quantity of data in order to calculate a set of indicating parameters, as these are evaluated to be catalytic in the alterations and/or preservations of an ecosystem’s status.
• These are the main factors considered in GreenSSLMTM’s environmental studies. Data received are collected with regard the estimation of these variables and supplementary details, while the results of each computation serve in turn as history information in statistical overviews and reports.
• A synopsis of the indicators used to cover all the possible aspects effecting and describing a natural environment, is given below.
Providing valuable information collected for the most holistic environmental studies for any area, for any place, for any size
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Environmental Indicators (According to the
United Nations Environmental Indicators)
Diversity Indicators Land Division Water Division Vegetation Population Statistics
» Terrestrial Protected areas
» Forest areas
» Water areas
» Agriculture land
» Arid and semi-arid areas
» Areas in crisis
» Inhabitant areas
» Areas used for livestock
» Areas used for wood consumption
» Use of fertilizers per unit of agriculture land area
» Energy and Minerals
» Fresh water areas
» Marine water areas
» Areas undergoing crisis
» Areas used for fishery
» Areas being inhabited
» Marine Protected areas
» Proportion of population in coastal zones
» Water resources
» Water supply industry
» Wastewater
» Vegetation diversity
» Vegetation indices
» Vegetation growth
» Population density
» Socio-economic levels
» Livestock density and diversity
» Wildlife density and diversity
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Climate Indicators Pollution Hazards Climate Disasters
» Protected areas
» Forestry
» Water areas
» Agriculture
» Arid and semi-arid areas
» Areas in crisis
» Inhabitant areas
» Areas used for livestock
» Areas used for wood consumption
» Air Pollution (emissions)
» Fresh water areas
» Marine water areas
» Areas undergoing crisis
» Areas used for fishery
» Areas being inhabited
» Protected areas
» Hazardous waste generation
» Vegetation diversity
» Vegetation indices
» Vegetation growth
» Climatological disasters
» Geophysical disasters
» Hydrological disasters
» Meteorological disasters
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Environmental Indicators (According to the
United Nations Environmental Indicators)
Why to implement GreenSSLMTM
• GreenSSLMTM offers complete innovative environmental solutions, based on state of the art technology and advanced processing techniques
• The implementation proposed delivers holistic results aiming in the optimization of environmental studies, land use and economy
• The space remote monitoring applied provides quick response and cost efficient services to any requirements of the end user
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Benefits of using GreenSSLMTM
Valuable, carefully selected, information for the most concrete environmental studies
GreenSSLMTM manages a vast variety and quantity of space data in order to calculate a set of indicating parameters, as these are evaluated to be catalytic in the alterations and/or preservations of an ecosystem's status and also serve as representative identities of a region's current status.
Delivering holistic reports and optimized land use solutions
GreenSSLMTM offers constant remote monitoring and runs a combination of multiple algorithmic models, the results of which are analytically studied by environmental biologists of our team to deliver solutions which improve environmental theory and monitoring, human and wildlife co-existence and vegetation growth.
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Summary
• GreenSSLMTM offers complete innovative environmental solutions, based on state of the art technology and advanced processing techniques
• The proposed implementation delivers holistic results aiming in the optimization of environmental studies, land use and economy
• The applied space remote monitoring provides quick response and cost efficient services to any requirements of the end user
A COPERNICUS satellite data usage for the protection of the environment!
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Example of Use: procedure
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For monitoring and control of an area of interest (i.e. the area of responsibility of a Protected Area Management Body) the below procedure is followed:
The gathered information is processed in four different levels.
– Data collection, data from various sources, including raw satellite data, is collected and receives initial processing.
– Data Processing, the data are processed with appropriate algorithms and associated techniques.
– Data Assessment, for fault finding.
– Conclusions, export of quantitative and qualitative environmental indicators.
Example of Use: deliverables
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1. Green SSLM maps of the region in printed and digital format in which the following information is logged in detail:
• The percentage of agricultural area and the area suitable for cultivation
• The extent of the urban area
• The size of the area that cannot actually be cultivated thus remains forested
• The region occupied by high protective key areas
• The unexploited areas
• The areas composed of grasslands, wetlands etc.
Note: The above data are varied and modified according to the requirements of the end user.
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2. Environmental Study presenting detailed data, and measurements of the monitored area, its characteristics and properties. Also the following environmental indicators:
• Descriptive, describing the current situation in the region, being calculated from satellite observations.
• Comparative, which compare the present situation in the region with previous periods.
• Productive, which show the size of the natural resources that are suitable for use in the region. These indicators are not calculated from satellite data but from statistical measurements.
3. Application user interface which shows the area to be monitored, the area maps and statistics.
4. Recent Satellite images of the monitoring area, from several satellites at appropriate spectral channels.
Examples of Use: deliverables
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Changes in Vegetation cover for a region
(a) August 2014
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Changes in Vegetation cover for a region
(b) November 2014
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Changes in Vegetation distribution based on NDVI index
(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) for a region
(a) July 2014 (b) October 2014
Example of Use: deliverables
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Soil composition
Example of Use: deliverables
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Mineralogical soil characteristics
Example of Use: deliverables
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Agricultural Use
ARATOS GROUP SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
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Contact Details
ARATOS TECHNOLOGIES S.A.
44, Pentelis Str.,
GR-17564, Athens, Greece
Phone: +30 210 9400033
Fax: +30 210 9400033
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.aratos.gr