Scan Ex capabilities for remote sensing at high

Scan. Ex capabilities for remote sensing at high latitudes – achievements and plans Alexander Barinov, Elena Ash Scan. Ex R&D Center (Moscow, Russia) LAND COVER MAPPING AT HIGH LATITUDES Symposium and GOFC-GOLD Workshop for Northern Eurasia Regional Information Network (NERIN) Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Syktyvkar, Russia, July 9 -11, 2008

RUSSIA IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR Arctic development The World Ocean’s nature research others… “Unified Information System on the World Ocean” (ESIMO)

Mapping with satellite imagery: ü weather forecasts and monitoring of acts of nature; ü ice condition monitoring in Northern Sea Route and in offshore oil production territories; ü ships detection in the water areas; ü coastal areas pollutions monitoring, including oil spills detection; ü license agreements compliance supervision during natural resources fields development; ü nature protection monitoring; ü illegal logging ü land cover change ü other activities in need of near real-time visual geospatial data.

Scan. Ex Research and Development Center Scan. Ex R&D Center has been operating as a private company since 1989 Scan. Ex. R&D Center is the leading Russian company on the remote sensing market that offers a complete set of services ranging from acquisition to thematic processing of Earth observation images from space

The mission of Scan. Ex R&D Center – democratization of access to Earth remote sensing data, which makes them cheaper for the end-user, reduces data acquisition time and streamlines processing of data.

The mission of Scan. Ex R&D Center ü Promotion of the proprietary universal Uni. Scan™ and Alice-SC™ ground stations for real-time data reception based on personal computers and Microsoft Windows operating system ü Application of a comprehensive range of own software for reception, archiving, preliminary processing and in-depth thematic analysis of satellite imagery ü Flexible pricing policy for RS data distribution ü Creation of Internet geoportals based on Earth observation data from space, accessible to unlimited number of users ü Supporting projects of application of Earth satellite imagery both for specialists and novice users of remote sensing data and GIS-technology

L-band multimission Alice-SC™ ground station Wide range of satellites: NOAA, Met. Op, Feng. Yun, NPOESS (2009…) Amount of stations Growth of Alice-SC™ amount Alice-SC™ stations in Ros. Hydro. Met Data rates: up to 4 Mbps Positioner: 2 axis 2005 2006 2007 Years Antenna dish Ǿ: 1. 2 m

X-band multimission Uni. Scan™ ground station Amount of stations Growth of Uni. Scan™ amount Wide range of satellites: Terra, Aqua, IRS-1 D IRS-P 5, IRS-P 6, SPOT 4/5 Landsat 5, EROS A/B Reurs-DK 1, RADARSAT-1/2 ENVISAT-1 Formosat-2 There are 37 Uni. Scan ground stations operational Data rates: up to 320 Mbps Positioner: 2 and 3 axis Antenna dish Ǿ: 2. 4/3. 1 m Uni. Scan™-24 2005 2006 2007 Years Uni. Scan™-36

Uni. Scan™ networks of governmental agencies Uni. Scan™ network of Ros. Hydro. Met Uni. Scan™ network of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia Uni. Scan™ network of EMERCOM of Russia Educational Uni. Scan™ network

Commercial Uni. Scan™ stations network, operated by Scan. Ex The network provides for great RS data archives Magadan Moscow Irkutsk

RS data volumes in the Scan. Ex’s archive in years 2005 -2007 RS data received by commercial network of Uni. Scan™ GB Years http: //catalog. scanex. ru

SPOT 2/4 imagery coverage (2006 -2007) http: //catalog. scanex. ru PAN 10 m MX 20 m

The satellite imagery archives as well as distributing are main fields of Scan. Ex activity IRS 1 C/1 D imagery coverage (2004 -2007) http: //catalog. scanex. ru PAN 5. 8 m LISS 3 23 m

Participation of Scan. Ex in the MDGLS Project In August, 2006 Scan. Ex became a participant of the International Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey (MDGLS) Project, managed by NASA and the USGS. The program objective is updating of the global Earth map of land cover, land use change to support the assessment of the climate change impacts and of human activities on the planet. An international network of stations will be executing a coordinated data reception campaign from the LANDSAT-5 TM sensor supporting the MDGLS program through December 2007. Moscow, Irkutsk and Magadan ground stations for Landsat 5 TM data reception per the Mid. Decadal Global Land Survey (MDGLS) Project, managed by NASA and the USGS http: //catalog. scanex. ru

Commercial and non-commercial RS data archives of Scan. Ex, derived from world archives Terra/ASTER Landsat 7 ! NEW Landsat 4/5 (old archive 1984 -1996) http: //www. transparentworld. ru/bibl … and PRISM from ALOS http: //catalog. scanex. ru

Formosat-2 virtual reception Project in Russia - Real daily revisit - Spectral bands including blue band - Early daily acquisition at 9: 30 am - High spatial resolution (2 m PAN and 8 MX) suitable for applications requiring higher precision Specifics of Formosat-2 orbit Result of imaging for 2 months (Sep. , Oct. , 2007) FORMOSAT-2 initial feasibility study to cover Scan. Ex AOI

Distributor agreements for very-high resolution imagery In year 2007 Scan. Ex signed distributor agreements with leading Operators of VHR Data: European Space Imaging Gmb. H – IKONOS Hitachi Software Engineering Co. , Ltd. – Quick. Bird Info. Terra Gmb. H – Terra. SAR-X

Application projects - B 2 G Monitoring of forestry from space Project of Russian Federal Forestry Agency Stages: 1. Year 2005 – 50 mln hectares 2. Year 2006 – 100 mln hectares 3. Year 2007 – 112 mln hectares Forestry areas for monitoring from space © 2006 Spot Image, Scan. Ex R&D Center

Application projects - B 2 G Monitoring of auto routes construction Project of Ministry of Transport of Russia Development of GIS for “Amur” (Chita-Khabarovsk) auto route - 87 SPOT-2/4 scenes; -12 LANDSAT-7 scenes; - 8 IRS-1 C/-1 D scenes; - 2 EROS-A scenes.

Application projects - B 2 B Caspian Sea oil pollution monitoring Joint project between LUKOIL Company, Scan. Ex and Shirshov Institute of Oceanology.

Uni. Scan™ network of Roshydromet

Advantage of installing several receiving stations is one ground receiving center ? !

RADAR capabilities in bad weather conditions and during the polar night optic RADAR

RADAR vs Optic – more efficiency RADARSAT-1 acquisition processing programming Min. 29 hours (RADARSAT-1) 15 -30 min to days end user Optical satellite programming Min. 6 hours (EROS) performing the order one to several days Min. 48 -60 hours (Quick. Bird) acquisition processing 15 -30 min to days end user

Magadan station – the first remotely controlled station in Russia with web-access Canadian Space Agency and MDA Geospatial Services Inc. certified Magadan station (Far East of Russia) for RADARSAT-1 data reception and processing in January 2007.

Prospective network of Scan. Ex’s Uni. Scan™ stations at high latitudes

Supporting projects of application of space images Ice monitoring in Tartar Strait for Exxon-Mobil – Project provided by AARI (St. -Petersburg) and Scan. Ex EO data receiving Thematic Data Center, Magadan Processing Center, AARI Tartar Strait, Far East. RADARSAT-1, 02/19/2007 Internet End User Image-based Ice Map, AARI

New. kosmosnimki. ru – prototype of regional Geo-portals Coverage of the whole regions with spatial resolution of 5. 8 m from IRS-1 C/1 D, P 6

New. kosmosnimki. ru – prototype of regional Geo-portals Coverage of cities or objects of infrastructure with spatial resolution of 0. 8 m from IKONOS

Ground station – operational component of Geo-portals Ground station Satellites Regular coverage updating RS data archives growth Regional geo-portals for decision making support Mosaics of satellite images Main thematic products

Advantages of Geo-portal as a tool for operative data access q Fast data updating through Uni. Scan™ direct data receiving stations; q User-oriented resolution of tasks and fast response to user needs; q GIS-products compatibility; q Easy accessible and reconfigurable tool for various corporative solutions, informational services, etc. ; q User-friendly and fast decision-making tool.

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