Personal Satellite Services. Second International ICST Confernce, PSATS 2010, Rome, Italy, February 2010 Revised Selected Papers

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Interactive Access and Processing of Multispectral Imagery: The User in the Loop

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_29,
        author={Bruno Sim\"{o}es and Stefano Piffer and Angelo Carriero and Giuseppe Conti and Raffaele Amicis},
        title={Interactive Access and Processing of Multispectral Imagery: The User in the Loop},
        proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. Second International ICST Confernce, PSATS 2010, Rome, Italy, February 2010 Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={PSATS},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={environmental planning satellite imaging web-based access 3D GeoVisual analytics},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_29}
    }
    
  • Bruno Simões
    Stefano Piffer
    Angelo Carriero
    Giuseppe Conti
    Raffaele Amicis
    Year: 2012
    Interactive Access and Processing of Multispectral Imagery: The User in the Loop
    PSATS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_29
Bruno Simões1,*, Stefano Piffer1,*, Angelo Carriero2,*, Giuseppe Conti1,*, Raffaele Amicis1,*
  • 1: Fondazione Graphitech
  • 2: Provincia Autonoma di Trento – Servizio Foreste e Fauna
*Contact email: bruno.simoes@graphitech.it, stefano.piffer@graphitech.it, angelo.carriero@provincia.tn.it, giuseppe.conti@graphitech.it, raffaele.de.amicis@graphitech.it

Abstract

Accessing and processing of multispectral imagery in an interactive way is essential to a number of operational scenarios. This paper illustrates their use in the context of forest management and planning, by presenting the results of a system that allows operators to access large repositories of geographical data, including multi-spectral imaging, and to process them in a very user friendly way. The project has seen the involvement of personnel from a local planning authority and it has provided the chance to confront with a number of issues related to today’s large availability of airborne and satellite data. This is challenging current technologies, creating a potential information overload. The paper will illustrate how the use of interactive 3D technologies to access and process multi-spectral data within a comprehensive framework capable to manage a large variety of different geographical information, can be beneficial to reduce access time to information and to improve the entire decision-making process.