Events
As member state of ESA, Romania has now its dedicated place on the ESA portal.
During the training session of the Geospace project at the beginning of February 2012, the ASRC experts introduced to the participants the 4.0 version of the LEOWorks, as one of the interactive teaching instruments for Geography and Geomatics promoted by the project.
The Romanian satellite Goliat was launched with the ESA’s vehicle Vega today, 13th February 2012 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
The law on Romania's Accession Agreement to the European Space Agency (ESA) Convention was officially approved, signed and published on 14th of December.
Eduspace launched the Interactive Meteosat application that started in 2009 as a project conducted by ASRC.
Fire Identification Using Remote Sensing Techniques
Many natural areas can be or have been affected by wildfires that tend to spread at alarming rates, causing enormous economic and possible life losses, especially if the affected area is a forested one. Such a situation can easily become a natural disaster if immediate action is not taken.
In Romania, more that 100 natural fires were identified at the beginning of November 2011 and a great amount of efforts was requested on behalf of local and regional fire stations, military bases, foresters and volunteers in order to prevent disasters.
As provider of monitoring services, ASRC has a wide experience in satellite images processing and can deliver to decision makers customized solutions for fire affected areas: Moneasa forest, Bihor County and Ohaba-Ponor forest, Hunedoara County. ASRC has created these maps using data from MODIS Rapid Response Team.
Remote sensing techniques, combined with GIS knowledge, are able to provide an important support for this kind of crisis management. Satellite images processing techniques offer the possibility for:
- fire identification in the area of interest;
- determine other necessary parameters, such as: spatial extent of the fire, the main spreading directions, possible inhabited areas that might be affected, other outbreak points.
Considering the risks involved, is crucial that the fires are constantly monitored in order to help decision making factors to be able to act in order to effectively manage such a situation. Ground observation is a very important source of information, but very often this is not enough (nor accessible) in order to correctly asses the magnitude and the spatial extent of fires.
For more details, please contact us.
Satellite Wildfire Identification in Moneasa forest, Bihor county (jpg)
Satellite Wildfire Identification in Ohaba-Ponor forest, Hunedoara county (jpg)