Monitoring desertification using EO technologies: Experience of the ESA DUE DesertWatch project

Author

Paganini, M. ; Pace, G. ; Castracane, P. ; Del Barrio, G. ; Van Delden, H. ; Iannetta, M. ; Hill, J. ; Zucca, C. ; Fernandez-Prieto, D.

Author_Institution

ESA-ESRIN, Eur. Space Agency, Frascati, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

The DesertWatch ESA DUE project, recently successfully completed, aimed at developing an integrated information system tailored on the specific user needs, built on the technological transfer of the most significant results of the related research projects. The resulting DesertWatch Information System, a user-friendly integrated Software remote sensing tool for monitoring desertification, have being installed and is now used in Italy, Turkey and Portugal.

Keywords

geographic information systems; remote sensing; EO technologies; ESA DUE DesertWatch project; Earth Observation technologies; Italy; Portugal; Turkey; desertification monitoring; integrated information system; remote sensing; technological transfer; Degradation; Information systems; Object oriented modeling; Remote monitoring; Satellites; Software tools; Soil; Space technology; Testing; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417760

Filename

5417760