Dr Haris Kontoes presenting the BEYOND EO Center of Excellence and the Geo-Cradle project @ the Mediterranean Regional Information Network (MedRIN) Kick-off Meeting in Chania, Greece, 13 & 14 July 2018. MedRIN will serve as a liaising network of remote sensing scientists working on land cover/land use change and stakeholders in the Mediterranean region
Dr Ioannis Papoutsis chaired the session "Natural & Man-Made Disasters" and presented the GeoHub service, while Ms Alexia Tsouni presented the FloodHub service.
Dr Stavros Solomos presented the Desert Dust service, while Mr Vasileios Sitokonstantinou presented a transferable Sentinel-based Agricultural Monitoring Scheme. Dr. Haris Kontoes chaired the session "Forest Fires" and will present the awarded operational FireHub service.
The role of the BEYOND Center of Excellence in COPERNICUS, for the monitoring of natural disasters in support to the Emergency Management Service ( EMS ) (http://emergency.copernicus.eu) and the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) (http://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu), as well as the role of BEYOND in the massive delivery of Sentinel satellite data to the scientific and stakeholders communities, was presented in the keynote speech given by Haris Kontoes , in the opening of the Geomapplica 2018 International Conference on Geomatics Applications.
Στις 26 Ιουνίου 2018 σημειώθηκε πλημμύρα μετά από έντονη βροχόπτωση στη δυτική Αττική, πλήττοντας κυρίως τις περιοχές της Μάνδρας και της Μαγούλας και προκαλώντας σοβαρές καταστροφές.
Η ομάδα της υπηρεσίας FloodHub του Κέντρου Αριστείας Τηλεπισκόπησης για την Διαχείριση Φυσικών Καταστροφών BEYOND (http://beyond-eocenter.eu/) του Ινστιτούτου Αστρονομίας, Αστροφυσικής, Διαστημικών Εφαρμογών και Τηλεπισκόπησης του Εθνικού Αστεροσκοπείου Αθηνών ενεργοποιήθηκε αμέσως μετά το συμβάν και χαρτογράφησε την έκταση της πλημμύρας στη Μάνδρα και τη Μαγούλα (534 εκτάρια), τόσο με χρήση τηλεπισκόπησηςκαι φωτοερμηνείας όσο και με αξιοποίηση δεδομένωνcrowdsourcingκαι αυτοψίες στην πληγείσα περιοχή
On the 20th and 21st of June the 20th Anniversary of the Baveno Manifesto – the birth of Copernicus program was commemorated in Baveno, Italy; dedicating the event to the official launch of Data and Information Access Services (DIAS).
The National Observatory of Athens (NOA)/ BEYOND Team participated in the Anniversary as an Early Adopter of the DIAS platform ONDA. NOA, within the framework of the H2020 RECAP project, has developed a novel, fully automated, object-based crop identification application that exploits time-series of Sentinel-2 images and applies machine learning algorithms.
Potential end-users are primarily Paying Agencies in Europe with a mandate to systematically monitor the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Other potential customers are agro-consultants and the farmers themselves by reducing the unintentional error rate in their declarations.
The application is currently being validated with the participation of Paying Agencies and farmers in Spain, Greece and Lithuania.
More info at: https://www.recap-h2020.eu/recap-crop-identification-processing-chain/
Η 8η Ενημερωτική Συνάντηση HellasGIs διοργανώθηκε την Πέμπτη 26/04/18 στη Σχολή Αγρονόμων Τοπογράφων Μηχανικών Ε.Μ.Π. με θέμα: «Ανάλυση της πλημμύρας στη δυτική Αττική στις 15/11/2017 με αξιοποίηση δορυφορικής τηλεπισκόπησης» και συντονιστή τον Δρ. Χαράλαμπο (Χάρη) Κοντοέ, Επικεφαλής Κέντρου Αριστείας BEYOND, Διευθυντή Ερευνών Εθνικού Αστεροσκοπείου Αθηνών & Εθνικό Εκπρόσωπο στο πρόγραμμα H2020 Διάστημα της ΕΕ.
Η εν λόγω μελέτη εκπονήθηκε στο πλαίσιο της υπηρεσίας FloodHub του Κέντρου Αριστείας Δορυφορικής Τηλεπισκόπησης για την Διαχείριση Φυσικών Καταστροφών BEYOND του Ινστιτούτου Αστρονομίας, Αστροφυσικής, Διαστημικών Εφαρμογών και Τηλεπισκόπησης του Εθνικού Αστεροσκοπείου Αθηνών (ΙΑΑΔΕΤ/ΕΑΑ).
Παρουσίαση 1: To Ευρωπαϊκό Κέντρο Αριστείας Δορυφορικής Τηλεπισκόπησης BEYOND - Διαχείριση Φυσικών Καταστροφών
Παρουσίαση 2: Πλημμύρα στη δυτική Αττική στις 15/11/2017 - Ανάλυση με αξιοποίηση δορυφορικής τηλεπισκόπησης
Η διαδραστική διαδικτυακή εφαρμογή του BEYOND/FloodHub
Η αναλυτική έκθεση του BEYOND/FloodHub
The Hellenic National Sentinel Data Mirror Site is a web based system designed to provide EO data users with Search – Cataloguing – Sorting and Dissemination capabilities for the Sentinel Products. The data that HNSDMS offers to its users are products over the region of South & Southeastern Europe, Middle East & North Africa. The qualified product sets are published for both the Near Real Time and Non Time Critical production following the In-Orbit Commissioning Review of each satellite. The retention period of the Sentinel Products offered in the HNSDMS is set to 30 days.The precise Area of Interest (AOI) that offered products intersect with, can be seen in the map below.
EXCELSIOR organized successfully its first Stakeholder Meeting entitled “Space technologies and Earth observation’s benefits for Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean” in Nicosia on November 23rd, 2017. More than 100 National Stakeholders attended the event which was under the auspices of the Honorable Minister of Transport, Communications and Works, Mr. Marios Demetriades.
The objective of the meeting was to inform National Stakeholders from the Private and Public sector, the Industry and the Academia regarding the benefits arising from the collaboration with EXCELSIOR and its impact in Cyprus and the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean. It also aimed at fostering partnerships and collaborations as well as common actions between the National Stakeholders and the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence.
The Serco Italy space team in Frascati hosted a 2 days International project kick off workshop on the 6th and 7th November to launch EOPEN, the new EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation project led by Serco. Aimed at supporting the expansion and wider use of Copernicus Earth Observation (EO) images, generated from the Sentinel satellites, amongst non-traditional users of EO data, such as the Emergency Services and farmers. The aim of EOPEN is to research and innovate how to make commercial service that is faster, more effective and efficient to how that data is processed and made available to a significantly increased range of those non-traditional users. The EOPEN project team includes partners from Germany, Greece, Finland, Belgium, Italy and South Korea
Further project details can be found at http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/212426_en.html
The Serco Italy space team in Frascati hosted a 2-day International project kick-off workshop on the 6th and 7th November 2017, to launch EOPEN, the new EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation project led by Serco. The aim of EOPEN is to research and innovate how to make commercial service that is faster, more effective and efficient to how that data is processed and made available to a significantly increased range of those non-traditional users. The EOPEN project team includes partners from Germany, Greece, Finland, Belgium, Italy and South Korea.