Remote Sensing

The primary mission of the Remote Sensing group at the ISARS is to collect and fruitfully exploit space derived data and provide information and services to the citizens  and  decision makers, interested  to  know  about the  state of Earth's environment and its dynamics. Parts of the current research relate to the study of natural resources and the development of Remote Sensing systems capable to support water management in the Mediterranean.

Significant research is done on methodological approaches that permit the inte-gration  of the  newly acquired high-resolution satellite imagery in urban  plan-ning   and land  use  mapping. The development  of  advanced  image  analysis techniques to process the next generation of high-resolution satellite  imagery is among the main research tasks at ISARS.

Natural hazards are studied in parallel. The use of Remote Sensing techniques for  risk assessment and mitigation is  evaluated through specific experiments. The  technique  of  radar  interferometry to observe very small changes  of the crust due to volcanic and seismic activity in Hellenic territory is currently tested.

Other research activities at ISARS encompass the use of satellite imagery and in-situ data  for assessing the  degree of atmospheric pollution over  big cities and industrial zones. In the domain of satellite data collection and distribution the ISARS operates two image reception stations for the NOAA and METEOSAT satellites. The collected data are treated and distributed systematically to the user's community by  using commercial but also especially  developed inhouse SW for image processing, archiving and delivery.