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European Commission - Research - Participants
Proposal Submission Forms
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Horizon 2020
Call: H2020-EO-2015
Topic: EO-2-2015
Type of action: RIA
Proposal number: 687535
Proposal acronym: NEOS
Table of contents
Section Title Action
1 General information
2 Participants & contacts
3 Budget
4 Ethics
5 Call-specific questions
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This proposal version was submitted by Jokin Azpiroz on 08/04/2015 16:47:33 CET. Issued by the Participant Portal Submission Service.
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1 - General information
Topic EO-2-2015 Type of action RIA
Call identifier H2020-EO-2015 Acronym NEOS
Proposal title* NEOS (Nut2 Earth Observation System / Navarre Earth Observation System)
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Duration in months 30
Fixed keyword 1 Earth Observation / Services and applications Add
Free keywords Platform Optimization Hyperspectral Demonstration
Abstract
NEOS project (Navarra Earth Observation System) aims at developing a regional platform on the use of streams of data
coming from Sentinel satellites, the space component of Copernicus, the European earth observation program.
The new expected availability of Sentinel images creates a suitable setting for the hypertemporal analysis and a new type of
services. Efficient management of this enormous stream of data requires technological scenarios based on architectures
HTC (High Throughput Computing) that are able to analyze and operate data automatically, providing the services required
in the standard formats of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Due to its size, competences and long success history in GIS integration, Navarra is an ideal territorial unit to become a
model demonstrator region on the use of Earth observation, showing how innovative, added-value services based on
Sentinel data can support key regional planning and operational processes, scientific research and industry applications.
The specific objective pursuit by this project is the design, develop and test an optimized regional platform (NEOS), which
uses novel “big data” methods, for the storage, processing and remote access of Copernicus Sentinel data and the
development of Earth observation innovative applications in Navarra (emergency, renewable energy, agriculture etc).
To succeed with this ambitious project, we have put together an outstanding consortium of 17 research, industry and
government partners, and coming from 5 member states, each of them European references in their respective fields.
NEOS platform will contribute to the wider use and increased awareness of Copernicus Sentinel programme and will
demonstrate possible models for operational supply of data to users contributing to the definition and adoption of best
practices.
We are convinced that innovative, added-value services based on Sentinel data can contribute to address societal/
environmental challenges in European regions.
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proposals under the 7th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020 or any other EU programme(s)? Yes No
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SEP-210128266 NEOS
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List of participants
# Participant Legal Name Country
1 COMUNIDAD FORAL DE NAVARRA - GOBIERNO DE NAVARRA Spain
2 INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNICA AEROESPACIAL ESTEBAN TERRADAS Spain
3 UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE Netherlands
4 NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS Greece
5 TRABAJOS CATASTRALES SA SOCIEDAD UNIPERSONAL Spain
6 TELESPAZIO IBERICA SL UNIPERSONAL Spain
7 UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA Spain
8 E-GEOS SPA Italy
9 FUNDACION CENER-CIEMAT Spain
10 UNIVERSIDAD PUBLICA DE NAVARRA Spain
11 ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS France
12 INDRA SISTEMAS S.A. Spain
13 INSTITUTO NAVARRO DE TECNOLOGIAS E INFRAESTRUCTURAS AGROALIMENTARIAS SA Spain
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NEOS 1
Section 4: Members of the consortium
4.1. Participants (applicants) named as they appear in the partners list.
COMUNIDAD FORAL DE NAVARRA (NAVARRA GOVERNMENT):
Navarra, a NUTS 2 region (level 2 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics in the
European Union), is an autonomous community in northern Spain of 640,790 habitants (2014), of
which approximately one-half live in the capital's metropolitan area, Pamplona. It has the perfect
size for large scale demonstrators in different topics: it isn’t too small to be representative neither
too large to difficult the project management and testing with tight resources.
Economy
In terms of personal income, Navarra ranks 34th among the 271 regions of the European Union,
surpassing the personal income average by 30.8%. Navarra sits between the richest and more
developed regions in Spain boasts a Human Development Index of 0.972, which is well ahead of all
other countries in the world.
NEOS 2
Government
The Government of Navarra (GN), the coordinator partner of this project (and also the main user
to test models and services), due to its law, is the competent on the management of the Health,
Education, Agricultural, Security, Emergencies, Tourism, Infrastructures, Biodiversity,
Environment, Culture, Treasure of the region.
Sustainability
Navarra features stark contrasts in geography zones, types of climate and biodiversity, enabling
the use of many of the already developed Earth observation applications.
Navarra was one of the first regions in the world to promote renewable energies. At the present
time 65% of the electricity consumed in Navarra is produced with renewable energy: wind
(49.45%), mini-hydraulic (4.27%), biomass (7.09%), hydraulic (4.27%) and solar (0.65%). Of all
the wind energy generated in the EU, 1.62% is produced in Navarra. The three main wind turbine
manufacturers based in Navarra cover 16% of the worldwide market share.
Navarra is pioneer in forestry sustainability with 27% of wooded area, which means 136,384
hectares of pure nature and the rivers in Navarra preserve their natural balance. Navarra purifies
97% of its waste waters.
Innovation
Navarra has 14 Technological Centres. Since 2000 three Technological Plans have been set up in
Navarra in which innovation has become the principal trademark. Navarra dedicates 1.9% of its
GDP to R&D, placing it second in the ranking of Spanish regions. Most notable is the high input of
the business sector, contributing 67.8% of the total investment in R&D. 30.45% of the businesses in
Navarra carry out technological innovation activities.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
Ignacio Moreno Aramburu (male) is a Master degree in Telecomunications with an EMBA by
ESIC, member of GN DGIT in Technical Infrastructures department, and with more than ten
years in project managing of different projects in administrative and technical environments
(Telecomunications, Administrative managing and civil woks). Nearly experience in european
project and with three languages (English, French and Spanish).
Jokin Azpiroz is a Master degree in Telecomunications, master ICT management with over 15
years experience in product marketing, project management in the public sector, private sector
and international cooperation organizations. (English, French and Spanish)
NEOS 3
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. SAFER PYRENEES: Proyecto transfronterizo en colaboración con Pyreneés Atlantics y con
más de 400.000 € de fondos europeos 2013-ongoing. Leaded by this Technical
Infrastructures department.
2. Obtaining the qualification of " Business Case " with the " Connect Navarra 2020 Plan" an
ICT plan to " Connected Communities " Program, and included in Junkers list with more
than 50M€.
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
As was said before, Earth observation systems have a clear linkage with territorial information
systems, area in which there is extensive experience and legacy in Navarra. Since the early 90s,
the GN began the first systematic efforts to design and develop a land information system. These
efforts materialized in the birth of SITNA (Territorial Information System of Navarra) a system
which, from the beginning, put Navarra at the forefront of Europe in this kind of systems.
SITNA (http://sitna.navarra.es) is defined as the set of organizational, human, technological and
financial resources, which integrates updates, manages and disseminates information and
knowledge related to the territory of Navarra, in a collaborative environment. These resources
have been coordinated so that they increase the efficiency of the different participating units so
that both internal and external users receive the information that meets their needs in the most
suitable conditions.
SITNA is a corporate system whose development involved both producers and users of territorial
information of Navarra. Departments of the GN, local institutions, and various public companies
, have given rise to a human group with enough experience, both in their specific areas of work,
and in the procedures for exchanging information.
In 2009, the GN presented IDENA (Spatial Data Infrastructure of Navarra) a milestone in the
history of SITNA and a fundamental pillar for making available to the citizen SITNA data and
services. Integrated since the beginning as the core of SITNA resources, IDENA provides a well-
structured data and metadata catalogue which reinforce the consistency of the system. It adopts,
therefore, the concept of interoperability based on the use and compliance of common standards
and specifications. It represents the GN’s clear intentions for SITNA to incorporate the
requirements defined by the INSPIRE Directive, aiming to establish a European Spatial Data
Infrastructure.
INSPIRE wants to ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of the Member States are
compatible and usable in a Community and transboundary context, the Directive requires that
common Implementing Rules (IR) are adopted in a number of specific areas (metadata, data
specifications, network services, data and service sharing and monitoring and reporting).
Another important aspect IDENA offers is downloading of data and maps, which in line with the
Open Data initiative in Navarra, are provided under free Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY
3.0) In summary, IDENA intends to fulfil in the territory of Navarra the three basic user’
requirements in line with INSPIRE guidelines: Search, View and Download spatial information.
NEOS 4
INTA (INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL, ESTEBAN TERRADAS) Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) (ES) is the Spanish Public Research
Organization specialized in aerospace research and technology development. Its main functions
are:
- The acquisition, maintenance and continuous improvement of all those technologies that can be
applied to the aerospace field.
- To perform all kind of tests to check, approve and certify materials, items, subsystems and
systems that have an aerospace application.
- To provide technical assessment and services to official bodies and agencies, and also to
industrial or technological companies.
INTA’s budget comes from the Spanish General State Budget and from its own commercial
operations. Approximately 60% of the available financial resources are dedicated to R&D
activities, a third of them to applied research, and the remainder to basic research programmes.
The staff is comprised of over 1200 people, with nearly a thousand dedicated directly to R&D
activities.
One of the INTA's fields of expertise is remote sensing. This research and innovation field is
shared by two groups, the Remote Sensing Area (LABTEL) and the Earth Observation Area
(ASO).
LABTEL is dedicated to research and development in acquisition and pre-processing of Earth
Observation images. LABTEL team has scientific and technical capacity to carry out:
- Airborne remote sensing campaigns, from the design and the planning to the execution of the
flight surveys with multi- and hyperspectral electro-optical sensors.
- Image processing projects including data quality evaluation, in-flight calibration and validation
techniques and development of specific image processing tools.
- Simulation of the full remote sensing chain for optical and thermal sensors, from image
generation to ground processing.
ASO is in contact with remote sensing from satellites with an orientation to the defense and
security needs. The main lines of work are as follows:
• “Gestor Unificado de Información Aeroespacial” GUIA (known also as GUIA-
SIGESTREDI): Demand manager for satellite missions; ground segment data
management; data catalogue; and user interface (2D/3D) for search and discover data
and download routines.
• Optical image exploitation system: Integration of different satellite sensors for
exploitation purposes (own development for Helios and Geoeye using the physical
model, and for Pleiades using the RPCs model); integration of developments into
commercial tools (mainly ERDAS); bundle adjustment of large sets of VHR images
with controlled accuracy for cartographic purposes over wide regions (Multinational
Geospatial Co-production Program – MGCP) using very few ground control; DEM
extraction from VHR satellites with high agility; validation of EO products (Accuracy
assessment in localization of VHR images, DEM quality analysis, and definition of
calibration sites and protocols for ground truth generation).
• SAR image exploitation system: DEM extraction using different SAR techniques
(Interferometry, Radargrammetry); SAR processing prototypes development:
Integration of different satellite sensors for exploitation purposes; automatic
Multisensor Co-registration (SAR/Optical) using the state of the art; automatic
Despleckle filtering, automatic Feature extraction from SAR images, automatic Urban
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masking, automatic Target Detection (mainly for maritime areas), automatic Target
Recognition, and validation of the automatic methods.
Due to the expertise of the Area in the management and exploitation of data from VHR satellites
(Helios, Pleiades), and more recently SAR data, ASO-INTA brings some skills of interest for the
NEOS project and the H2020 Space call.
INTA will carry the following tasks in NEOS:
1) Development of advanced algorithms for simulation of Sentinel images.
2) Provision of remote sensing images for development and testing of the NEOS platform and
services.
3) Development and tuning of co-registration and image fusion algorithms in order to generate
advanced products from Sentinels or contributing missions for different types of services.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members
Eduardo de Miguel is the head of the INTA Remote Sensing Laboratory (INTA-LABTEL). He
has worked for 20 years in spaceborne and airborne Remote Sensing projects. Most of his work
has been related to specification, implementation and validation of Processing and Archiving
Facilities, including HW/SW issues, processing algorithms and user services. Through this time
he has received specific formation in many fields, including high level programming languages
(MATLAB, IDL), Linux operating systems, multivariate statistics, project management and
quality assurance. He has a long experience in international R+D projects including coordination
of working teams, quality assurance and project reporting and documentation. He has a deep
knowledge of the remote sensing community in Europe, both in the data providers side (ESA,
EUMETSAT, SPOT Image, CNES, VITO, DLR,...) and the users side.
Elena Prado is an engineer in Image Processing. She has a master degree in Geodesy and
Cartography Engineering and Diploma on Advanced Studies (Ph. D. capacitation) in
Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing. Until 2008 she worked as engineer at the University of
Alcalá and later for INSA. In 2008 she joined INTA. Her work here has focused on
georeferencing of airborne imaging sensors and on the design and implementation of the
processing system for remote sensing images. She has received specific training in programming
languages (MATLAB, IDL, XML). She is currently involved in the EUFAR2 Joint Research
Activity HyLight.
Enrique Nicolás Gesé: Geodesy and Cartography Engineer specialized in geometry of remote
sensing images for Earth Observation (EO) and assistant lecturer in the Geography Dept. at the
University of Alcalá (UAH). He has been working in INTA at the EO Systems Area inside of
exploitation laboratory. He has specialized in the following fields: high resolution (optical and
SAR) image exploitation in 3D using photogrammetry, radargrammetry and interferometry;
surface modelling and thematic classification using topo/bathymetric LiDAR data; and
geometric exploitation of HELIOS I/II images for intelligence purposes.
Patrick Vaughan: MA in Remote Sensing, GIS and Cartography (Univ. of Alcalá), specialised
in spectroscopy and radiometric analysis of multispectral and hyperspectral imagery analysis for
IMINT. Five years experience in training and support tasks for military image analysts in IR,
LWIR and radar applications. He has been involved in the Spanish IR Group for Defence and the
HWG with the Israeli MoD, focusing on hyperspectral studies of CC&D and target detection. He
is recently working for the IMINT programme for Paz, the future high resolution Spanish SAR.
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Relevant publications:
INTA-LABTEL has been a provider of remote sensing images for a number of different projects.
Some of them have been related specifically to simulation of Sentinel misisons imagery:
1. ESA contract 22661/09/I-LG. SEN3EXP 2009 (Sentinel-3 experiment). PI: Carsten
BROCKMAN (Brockmann Consult, Germany). ESA. 2009-2010.
2. ESA contract 21717/08/I-LG. DESIREX2008 (Dual-use European Security IR Experiment
2008). PI: José SOBRINO (Univ. de Valencia, Spain).
3. ESA-ESRIN contract 20801/07/I-LG. CEFLES2 2007 (CarboEurope/FLEx/Sentinel-2
campaign). PI: José MORENO (Univ. de Valencia, Spain). A publication describing the
work performed for CEFLES2 is Sobrino J. A.; Jimenez-Munoz J. C.; Zarco-Tejada P. J.; G.
Sepulcre-Cantó, E. de Miguel, G. Sòria, M. Romaguera, Y. Julien, J. Cuenca, V. Hidalgo,
B. Franch, C. Mattar, L. Morales, A. Gillespie, D. Sabol, L. Balick, Z. Su, L. Jia, A. Gieske,
W. Timmermans, A. Olioso, F. Nerry, L. Guanter, J. Moreno, and Q. Shen. "Thermal
remote sensing from Airborne Hyperspectral Scanner data in the framework of the SPARC
and SEN2FLEX projects: an overview". HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM
SCIENCES Volume: 13 Issue: 11 Pages: 2031-2037, 2009.
4. ESA-ESRIN contract for the SENtinel-2 and FLuorescence EXperiment (SEN2FLEX)
campaign. The SEN2FLEX final report, with contributions from INTA, is available online
at:
https://earth.esa.int/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=21020&name=DLFE-395.pdf
5. INTA-ASO participates in an industrial return project focused in the development of
advanced algorithms for SAR data exploitation in an automatic way (SAR4ip). The three
main activities of the project are: DEM quality analysis, Co-registration of multisensor data,
and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). This project is formed by four institutions, three
of them receivers of the knowledge transfer (INTA, Telespazio Iberica and Indra) an e-Geos
as technological partner. A initial review of this project is described in:
Fernández, S; Díaz, A.; Vaughan, P.; Melgar, M.; Gutiérrez de la Cámara, M.J..
“Problemas y resultados iniciales del corregistro automático de imágenes SAR Y ópticas”,
XV Congreso de la Asociación Española de Teledetección, INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz
(Madrid), 22-24 de octubre de 2013.
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. Under contract with GMV SA, INTA has developed the simulator for the future
SEOSat/Ingenio mission, and has provided simulated images for the validation of all ground
processing algorithms. This activity has required the implementation of models for
atmospheric propagation, radiometric processing and image formation (including all MTF
contributors and noise sources), and the development of orbit propagation and geolocation
algorithms.
2. INTA-ASO participates in an industrial return project focused in the development of
advanced algorithms for SAR data exploitation in an automatic way (SAR4ip). The three
main activities of the project are: DEM quality analysis, Co-registration of multisensor data,
and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). This project is formed by four institutions, three
of them receivers of the knowledge transfer (INTA, Telespazio Iberica and Indra) an e-Geos
as technological partner.
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3. INTA is part of EUFAR2, a project funded under the EC call FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-
2012-1 (grant agreement 312609). EUFAR2 aims at providing researchers in Earth sciences
with Open Access to the airborne facilities the most suited to their needs. More details can
be found on its website (www.eufar.net). EUFAR2 supports two Joint Research Activities.
INTA-LABTEL is contributing to one of them (HYLIGHT), dedicated to the development
of methodologies and tools for the integrated use of airborne hyperspectral images and laser
scanning data. EUFAR2 is a continuation of EUFAR (FP7-Infrastructures grant agreement
227159), where INTA was also partner.
4. EUFAR (FP7-Infrastructures grant agreement 227159), where INTA was also partner.
5. INTA-ASO is the responsible for the permanent technical assistant to the Spanish MoD in
CESAEROB in tasks related to the ground segment maintenance (GUIA) and also in the
imagery exploitation for Helios I and II.
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
INTA-LABTEL operates an airborne hyperspectral service, which is based on the tandem use of
the AHS and CASI-1500i hyperspectral sensors. This service is fully operational since 2009,
having performed over 50 flight campaigns throughout Europe up to the present time. It
produces atmospherically corrected and geolocated images of surface
reflectance/temperature/emissivity (L2c product). These image products are delivered to the
users together with radiometric statistics, metadata and quality descriptors. This airborne system
is supported by a set of ground instrumentation, maintained and operated by INTA. Field
spectroradiometry can also be used to build spectral libraries, which are key elements in many
processing algorithms for images simulation. It is important to note that existing AHS and CASI
images will be provided in kind to the project.
INTA-ASO manages two R+D laboratories, one in relation with the development of algorithms
to automatic processing of Optical/SAR images looking towards the creation of value added
products (SAR4ip project); and the other one in relation with the design of an integrated tool for
dissemination, visualization, cataloging, and demanding of satellite data inside the MoD (GUIA
– Aerospatiale Information Unified Manager).
The following publications give more details in these capabilities:
• De Miguel, E.; Fernández-Renau, A.; Prado, E.; Jiménez, M.; Gutiérrez de la Cámara, O.;
Linés, C.; Gómez, J.A.; Martín, A.I.; Muñoz, F.; A review of INTA AHS PAF. EARSeL
eProceedings 13, 1/2014.
• De Miguel, E.; Fernández-Renau, A.; Prado, E.; Jiménez, M.; Gutiérez de la Cámara, O.;
Linés, C.; Gómez, J.A.; Martín, A.I.; Muñoz, F. The processing of CASI 1500i at INTA
PAF. EARSeL eProceedings 13, 1/2014.
• Jiménez, M.; González, M.; Amaro, A.; Fernández-Renau, A. Field Spectroscopy Metadata
System Based on ISO and OGC Standards. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2014, 3, 1003-1022.
• Fernández, S; Vaughan, P.; Hevia, V.; Melgar, M.; Gutiérrez de la Cámara, M..J.
“Resultados iniciales de los métodos de superresolucion SAR y su contribución a la
interpretación visual”, XV Congreso de la Asociación Española de Teledetección, INTA,
Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), 22-24 de octubre de 2013.
• E. Nicolás, M. Melgar, P. Vaughan, F. Cabello, P. Gómez. “Análisis comparativo de MDES
regionales para la selección de una verdad terreno altimétrica continua en el marco del
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proyecto Validation Studies of TanDEM-X Data for Security and Defense”, XV Congreso
de la Asociación Española de Teledetección, INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), 22-24 de
octubre de 2013.
• E. Nicolás, M. Melgar, P. Vaughan, F. Cabello, P. Gómez. “Análisis de la precisión de
localización de la misión tandem en el marco del proyecto Validation Studies of TanDEM-
X Data for Security and Defense”, XV Congreso de la Asociación Española de
Teledetección, INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), 22-24 de octubre de 2013.
• Jan-Peter Muller, Nevin Bryant, Thomas L. Logan, Enrique Nicolás Gese, John Gallant,
Joao Ricardo de Freitas Oliveira; Sergio Rosim and the TMSG. “CEOS-WGCV Terrain
Mapping from Satellites: Analysis of Recent Global Topography Products over the CEOS-
WGCV-TMSG Test Sites”, IV Symposium on Geospatial Databases and Location Based
Services, International Society for Photgrammetry and Remote Sensing, Suzhou (China),
May 2014.
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UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE
At the University of Twente (UT), some 3,300 scientists and other professionals work together
on cutting-edge research, innovations with real-world relevance and inspiring education for more
than 9,000 students. This university encourages students to develop an entrepreneurial spirit. The
UT is a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities. In 2013, UT had a total
income of € 322 million.
The International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) was
founded as an independent institute in 1950 and became one of the 6 faculties of the UT in 2010.
Its principal mission remains to provide international postgraduate education, research and
project services to developing countries and emerging economies in Geo-Information Science
and Earth Observation, applied to natural resources, water resources, urban and regional
planning and geo-information management and earth systems analysis. ITC's approach is
application-oriented, directed at finding solutions for and strengthening civil society in
addressing issues of local, national and global dimensions such as the multifunctional use of
scarce resources, including space, the effects of climate change and environmental security.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members
Raul Zurita-Milla received in 2003 the M.Sc. degrees in Agricultural Engineering and in
Geoinformation Science (with distinction) from the Universities of Córdoba (Spain) and
Wageningen (The Netherlands). His M.Sc. thesis, done at the INRA Avignon (France), dealt
with the inversion of radiative transfer models to map crop biophysical and biochemical
parameters. This research line has been carried along until today. In 2008 he received the Ph.D.
degree from Wageningen University. His Ph.D. research focused on the use of the fusion of
medium and high spatial resolution satellite data for mapping and monitoring heterogeneous
landscapes. In 2008 he also joined the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth observation
(ITC), University of Twente (The Netherlands), where he is currently an Associate Professor
(tenure track) in spatio-temporal analytics. He is actively involved in teaching (GIS, RS and
programming skills), in national and international projects (e.g. currently coordinating the
algorithms working group of the STARS project) and in research. His current research interests
are on data-intensive spatiotemporal analysis and modeling, with a focus on the application of
machine learning and data mining methods in the fields of agriculture, phenology, and public
health.
Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degrees in remote sensing from the University of Valencia, (Spain). She currently works as a
post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of
the University of Twente (The Netherlands). Her work consists on the implementation of a
phenological model in a cloud computing environment and the use of machine learning applied
to remote sensing-image processing. Her research interests are nonlinear feature extraction based
on kernel methods. Previously she worked on automatic object identification and classification
using multispectral images.
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Relevant publications:
1. Zurita-Milla, R., Laurent, V.C.E. van Gijsel, J.A.E. (2015). Visualizing the ill-posedness of
the inversion of a canopy radiative transfer model: A case study for Sentinel-2. International
journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation. IN PRESS.
2. Wu, Xiaojing, Zurita-Milla, R. and Kraak, M.J. (2015) Co - clustering geo - referenced
time series: exploring spatio - temporal patterns in Dutch temperature data. In: International
journal of geographical information science, IN PRESS.
3. Zurita-Milla, R., van Gijsel, J.A.E., Hamm, N.A.S., Augustijn, P.W.M. and Vrieling,
A. (2013) Exploring spatiotemporal phenological patterns and trajectories using self -
organizing maps. IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 51 (2013)4 pp.
1914-1921.
4. Zurita-Milla, R. et al. (2011) Using MERIS fused images for land - cover mapping and
vegetation status assessment in heterogeneous landscapes. In: International journal of
remote sensing, 32 (2011)4 pp. 973-991
5. Zurita-Milla, R. et al. (2009) Downscaling time series of MERIS full resolution data to
monitor vegetation seasonal dynamics. In: Remote sensing of environment, 113 (2009)9 pp.
1874-1885.
Relevant previous projects or activities
1. Spurring a Transformation for Agriculture through Remote Sensing (STARS). 2014-2016.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2. Stimulating Innovation for global Monitoring of Agriculture and its Impact on the
Environment in Support of GEOGLAM (SIGMA). 2013-2017. European Commission /
FP7.
3. Earth Observation for Economic Empowerment (EOPOWER). 2013-2015. European
Commission / FP7.
4. Developing increased EO capacity for better agriculture and forestry management in Africa
AGRICAB. 2011-2015. European Commission / FP7.
5. GEO Network for Capacity Building (GEONetCab). 2009-2013. European Commission /
FP7.
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
ILWIS open source GIS/RS software:
http://www.itc.nl/Pub/Home/Research/Research_output/ILWIS_-_Remote_Sensing_and_GIS_software.html
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NOA (NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS)
The National Observatory of Athens (NOA) has been historically nominated by the Greek
government as the sole institution in charge of natural disasters monitoring, with a clear mandate
to conduct innovative research for the benefit of the Greek citizens. At global level it hosts, a)
the UNESCO Chair for Natural Disasters, established within the framework of UNESCO-
BRESCE, b) the Secretariat of the South Eastern European (SEE) Disasters Risk Assessment and
Mitigation Network, and c) the Focal Point on the Global Earth Observing System of Systems
(GEOSS), one of the four national GEO Offices in the World.
The Institute for Astronomy Astrophysics Space Applications & Remote Sensing (IAASARS),
of NOA, has achieved a considerable excellence in the area of EO-based environmental and
natural disaster monitoring and management during the last decade. It has been providing
support for Emergency Planning and Emergency Support, and Disaster Recovery to
Environmental Monitoring, Civil Protection and Public Governmental Authorities in Greece,
while it has consistent participation to EC, ESA and GMES/Copernicus projects.
IAASARS has been qualified (through SAFER FP7 project), the GMES Focal Point dealing with
Emergency Response and Emergency Support, and has been partner in the sole GMES
operational project (linkER), for the implementation of an operational concept in GMES,
establishing links with the Institutional Focal Points in EU27 acting in the field of Emergency
Response and Disaster Management.
Within IAASARS, a Center of Excellence has been established, for EO-based Monitoring of
Natural Disasters. In BEYOND innovative integrated observational solutions have been setup: a)
allowing to a multitude of monitoring networks (space borne and ground-based) to operate in a
complementary, unified and coordinated manner, b) creating archives and databases of long
series of observations and derived higher level products, and c) making these observations and
products available for exploitation with the involvement of stakeholders, scientists and/or
institutional users, applicable for down-streaming to their specific needs.
Over the years, through the systematic participation to EC, ESA, GMES (Copernicus) and
national projects, NOA has consolidated state-of-the-art scientific equipment including a satellite
ground station for missions Meteosat, NOAA AVHRR, Terra MODIS, EOS Aqua, Suomi NPP,
FY-3 B/C, MetOP and future JPSS NPOESS, one fixed and one mobile LIDAR, and leading
edge specialized software modules and processing chains, achieving considerable excellence in
the area of Earth Observation-based environmental, climate and natural disaster monitoring and
management. NOA has been providing support for Emergency Planning and Emergency
Support, and Disaster Recovery to Environmental Monitoring, civil protection and public
governmental authorities in Greece.
Finally, IAASARS/NOA systematically generates atmospheric satellite products and
atmospheric models that provide forecasting services related to natural environmental disasters
such as smoke dispersion associated with forest fires, floods monitoring, volcanic ash advection
and desert dust outbreaks.
We provide a global 3-dimensional aerosol and cloud optical climatology and a collection of
case studies focused on atmospheric episodes related to specific aerosol/cloud types (extended
atmospheric scenes, i.e. Saharan dust events, smoke and volcanic eruption events, polar-
stratospheric clouds etc.).
RoleThe role of IAASARS/NOA in the NEOS platform will be twofold: on the one hand provide
seamless access to Sentinel data, through Hellenic National Sentinel Data Mirror Site (Data Hub)
hosted at NOA in WP3, and on the other adapt the FireHub and Floods Observatory services for
the Sentinel data and the region of Navarra and integrate those two services into NEOS platform
in WP8.
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CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
Dr. Charalampos Kontoes (Male) obtained his Diploma in Land Surveying and Rural
Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in 1985, BSc in Informatics from the
Universit� Paris VI Jussieu (France) in 1986, his MSc in Geography from the Universit� Paris VI
Jussieu (France) in 1986 and his PhD in Remote Sensing from the National Technical University
of Athens in 1992. Since 1997 he works at the National Observatory of Athens, currently as
Research Director at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote
Sensing. Since 1992 he has been managing Earth Observation operational & research projects at
national and EU level, focusing on risk assessment and mitigation, risk monitoring and
management, environmental resource management, and land use/land cover mapping in various
territorial contexts and scales. He has been responsible to promote remote sensing services and
develop advanced processing tools in the areas of: a) wildfire management (in the frame of
national, EC and ESA operational projects (e.g. RISK-EOS, SAFER, and LinkER), b)
interferometric processing of SAR data (as ESA’s PI since 1998), c) sea pollution detection
(Greece-ESA collaboration framework), c) sea border monitoring and surveillance (EC-LIMES,
and ESA-MARISS projects), d) urban mapping (Eurostat /ATLAS-MURBANDY projects) and
e) automatic change detection and classification of high and very high spatial resolution satellite
data. He coordinated the implementation of processing facilities and image reception capabilities
inside NOA/IAASARS (ESA Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment, NOAA/AVHRR,
METEOSAT MSG, and SeaWifs stations), meeting the national needs, for satellite data
acquisition, data archiving, data processing and value added product generation. He has been
awarded a grant of 2.3 ME from the EU to coordinate the building and operation of the Center of
Excellence BEYOND (Building a Center of Excellence for Earth Observation based monitoring
of Natural Disasters), in South Eastern Europe with a prospect to extend its activity to the wider
Mediterranean area. Finally, he is author of more than 110 scientific papers published in
international peer reviewed journals, as well as proceedings of international conferences. His
work is cited in a number of scientific publications (400-500). He has received the 2014
Copernicus Masters best service award as the coordinator of the FireHub team of NOA.
Haris Kontoes will coordinate NOA’s activities in WP8 for a) the development of the ingestion
and Sentinel data processors that will be integrated into the FireHub and Floods Observatory
services, b) development of the scientific and operational chains of the adapted services for the
region of Navarra and c) the integration of the services in NEOS platform.
Mr. Vassilis Tsironis (Male) graduated in 2008 from Department of Informatics and
Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with a degree in the
Computer Science. In 2013 he got an M.Sc degree in the "Computer Systems Technology" at the
department of Informatics and Telecommunications. He worked as technical consultant in
banking databases, as well as a self-employed developer of Web applications. He is currently
working as a research associate in the development of digital services and application within the
EU funded programme BEYOND "Building a Centre of Excellence for Earth Observation based
monitoring of Natural Disasters in south-eastern Europe". He has great experience in database
systems (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL) and big data manipulation (e.g. development of the first
collaborative Sentinel data hub), as well as in Earth Observation platforms and software (e.g.
FireHub, ArcGIS) and also in Web Semantics (i.e OWL2, RDF, SPARQL, etc.).
Vassilis Tsironis will coordinate NOA’s activities in WP3 for the development of a data access
API in NOA’s Data Hub that will provide seamless access to Sentinel data from the NEOS
platform.
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Mrs. Alexia Tsouni (Female). is an engineer with 9 years of experience in international EO
activities and specialization in floods. She received her diploma in Civil Engineering (2001)
from the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA),
which is equivalent to Master of Engineering, with specialization in Water Resources, Hydraulic
and Maritime Engineering. She also holds a M.Sc. in Water Resources Science and Technology
(2003) from the School of Civil Engineering of the NTUA. She is now a PhD student in Floods
in the NTUA. She has worked as a member of the research team in the Institute of
Environmental Research and Sustainable Development at the National Observatory of Athens
(NOA) for climate forecasting models (2002-2003), and in the Laboratory of Hydrology and
Water Resources Management at the NTUA for EUROHARP (Towards European Harmonised
Procedures for Quantification of Nutrient Losses from Diffuse
Sources) and HARMONIQUA (Harmonizing quality assurance in model based catchment and
river basin management) projects (2003). Since 2006 she has been working on research projects
in the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing at the
NOA: MARISS (European Maritime Security Services), LIMES (Land and Sea Monitoring for
Environment and Security), RISK-EOS (Geo-information services to support the management of
flood, fire and other risk throughout all the phases), SAFER (Services and Applications For
Emergency Response) and currently BEYOND (Building a South East European Center of
Excellence for Earth Observation Based Monitoring of Natural Disasters).
Alexia Tsouni will contribute in WP8 concerning the development and integration of the Floods
Observatory service into the NEOS platform.
Dr. Ioannis Papoutsis (Male) is an engineer with more than 7 years of experience in
international EO activities, providing technical guidance and undertaking management roles. He
received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical
University of Athens (NTUA) and his M.Sc. in Technologies for Broadband Communication
from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of University College London
(UCL) in 2002 and 2003 respectively. From 2004-2006 he worked in London for British
Aerospace, while since 2007 he has been a research associate in the Institute of Astronomy,
Astrophysics, Space Applications & Remote Sensing in the National Observatory of Athens
(IAASARS-NOA). In 2014 he received his PhD in Monitoring Crustal Deformation with
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, from the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering
of NTUA. His fields of expertise include Earth Observation and image processing, Differential
and Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, space-based geophysical hazards monitoring including
volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides, urban subsidence monitoring, fire detection from
optical satellite sensors, database and semantic technologies for Earth Observation applications.
He has participated as a technical manager to several FP7, ESA, GMES (Copernicus) projects
(linkER, SAFER, TELEIOS, LDA, MASSIVE). He is currently a Project manager for
activations within Copernicus Emergency Management Service, Risk & Recovery action. As a
researcher he has more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and international
conferences and workshops. He has received the 2014 Copernicus Masters best service award as
a member of the FireHub team of NOA.
Ioannis Papoutsis will contribute in WP8 regarding the development of the ingestion and
Sentinel data processors that will be integrated into the FireHub and Floods Observatory
services.
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Mr. Themos Herekakis (Male) graduated in 2003 from the Technological Educational
Institution of Athens, with a degree in Electronic Engineering. In July 2010 he got an M.Sc.
degree in "Advanced Informatics Computing Systems" at the University of Pireaus. He is
working for the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing
of NOA as a research associate on contract, since August 2004. He has actively participated in
many Research Programmes, indicatively, “TELEIOS – Virtual observatory infrastructure for
earth observation data”, “MASSIVE – Mapping Seismic Vulnerability and Risk of Cities”, “TaD
– An improved model for operational specification of the electron density structure up to
geosynchronous heights”, “GMES – Emergency Response Service by SAFER”. He is currently
working as the IT Manager of the EU funded programme BEYOND - ”Building a Centre of
Excellence for Earth Observation based monitoring of Natural Disasters in south-eastern
Europe”. He has received the 2014 Copernicus Masters best service award as a member of the
FireHub team of NOA.
His fields of expertise include Intelligent Technologies in Man-Computer Communications,
Software Development of automated procedures, integrated Web GIS applications and relational
databases, oriented in the process of real-time and archived data and Analysis of High Spatial
Resolution Satellite data. He has in-depth knowledge of RS and GIS used for thematic image
interpretation of relevant sensors used in satellite RS, including SAR, for the emergency
management service and practical experience with both visual and automatic image
interpretation techniques, as well as the ability to program and script in relevant languages to
customize and automatize existing image classification algorithms and map production.
Themos Herekakis will contribute to WP8 concerning the development and integration of the
FireHub service into the NEOS platform.
Relevant publications:
1. Kontoes C., I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, N. Sifakis, (2013), Wildfire Rapid Detection and
Mapping and Post-fire Damage Assessment in Greece, Earthzine.
2. K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, G. Garbis, C. Nikolaou, K. Bereta, I. Papoutsis, T.
Herekakis, D. Michail, M. Koubarakis, and C. Kontoes (2014). Wildfire Monitoring Using
Satellite Images, Ontologies and Linked Geospatial Data. Journal of Web Semantics, 24(0),
18–26.
3. Sifakis N., Iossifidis C., Kontoes C., I. Keramitsoglou, (2009), Wildfire detection and
tracking over Greece using MSG-SEVIRI satellite data, Remote Sens. 2011, 3, 524-538;
doi:10.3390/rs3030524.
4. Hailikas G., Leventakis G., Kontoes C., Tsoulkas V., Dritsas L., and Pantelous A. (2011),
Design Issues of an Operational Fire Detection System Integrated with Observation Sensors,
Book "Satellite Communications", ISBN 978-953-307-338-5, Book Editor: Masoumeh
Karimi, InTech Open Access Publisher, Vienna.
5. Charalampos Kontoes, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Ioannis Papoutsis, Nicolas I. Sifakis and
Panteleimon Xofis 2 (2013), National Scale Operational Mapping of Burnt Areas as a Tool
for the Better Understanding of Contemporary Wildfire Patterns and Regimes, Sensors
2013, 13, 11146-11166; doi:10.3390/s130811146.
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Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. Center of Excellence for EO-based monitoring of natural disasters (BEYOND), funded
by FP7 since 2013 and ongoing. BEYOND is a capacity building project, or establishing a
Centre of Excellence for state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on Earth Observation
based monitoring of Natural Disasters in south-eastern Europe, with a prospect to increase
its access range to the wider Mediterranean region. In BEYOND, NOA has set up
innovative integrated observational solutions to (i) allow to a multitude of monitoring
networks (spaceborne and ground-based) to operate in a complementary, unified and
coordinated manner, (ii) create archives and databases of long series of observations and
derived higher level products, and (iii) make these observations and products available for
exploitation with the involvement of stakeholders, scientists and/or institutional users,
applicable for down-streaming to their specific needs. NOA is the main contractor.
2. Copernicus Emergency Management Service: Risk & Recovery funded by EC/JRC since
2015 and ongoing.Copernicus EMS - Mapping provides all actors involved in the
management of natural disasters, man-made emergency situations and humanitarian crises,
with timely and accurate geospatial information derived from satellite remote sensing and
completed by available in situ or open data sources.
The information generated by the service can be used as supplied (e.g. as digital or printed
map outputs). It may be further combined with other data sources (e.g. as digital feature sets
in a geographic information system). In both cases it may support geospatial analysis and
decision making processes of emergency managers.
Copernicus EMS - Mapping is provided during all phases of the emergency management
cycle, in two temporal modes, and free of charge for the users. It can be activated only by
authorized users.
Risk and Recovery Mapping consists of the on-demand provision of geospatial information
in support of Emergency Management activities not related to immediate response. This
applies in particular to activities dealing with prevention, preparedness, disaster risk
reduction and recovery phases. There are three broad product categories: Reference Maps,
Pre-disaster Situation Maps and Post-disaster Situation Maps.
3. Virtual Observatory Infrastructure for Earth Observation Data (TELEIOS) funded by
FP7-ICT from 2013 to 2016. TELEIOS has designed and implemented technologies for
developing Virtual Earth Observatories. When deployed in an EO data center, Virtual Earth
Observatories enable satellite data together with other kinds of external data (e.g., maps or
information from the Web) to be combined, to extract knowledge that is the basis for the
development of applications targeting EO scientists, decision makers and the general public.
Virtual Earth Observatories are built using the following state of the art technologies
pioneered by the TELEIOS consortium: (I) Ontologies and linked geospatial and temporal
data, ii) array database and data vault technologies, iii) knowledge discovery techniques for
satellite data, and iv) visual user interfaces.
4. Services and Applications for Emergency Response (SAFER) funded by DG
ENTERPRISE from 2009 to 2011. SAFER implements and validates the preoperational
versions of the GMES Emergency Response Service. In first priority, the project
concentrated on rapid mapping during the response phase. SAFER extended the use of its
products to early warning and to reconstruction. SAFER is undertaken by a consortium led
by Astrium Geo-information services and composed of 55 partners. The consortium is built
around a core team of European industry and research institutes. It includes users such as
civil protection authorities from EU Member States as well as users from UN agencies. In
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the framework of SAFER ISARS/NOA undertook the responsibility to generate fire
mapping products providing support during and after the Emergency, and to assess GMES
services offered by other consortium partners. In April 2010 NOA underwent successfully
through a service qualification evaluation procedure, achieving to standardize its service
provision status at European level.
5. linkER funded by FP7-ICT from 2019 to 2011. A Service Contract fully financed by the
EC, linkER is the Preparatory Action intended to support the operational use of GMES
Emergency Response Service products across the whole European Union. This goal is being
reached through developing procedures and customised tools installed within each
national/EC user community, represented by its own National User Focal Point (FP) as well
as the EC User Focal Points in the DG ECHO/MIC (Civil Protection), DG RELEX
(Delegations) and DG ECHO (humanitarian aid). All User Focal Points will have direct
access to GMES ERS products and will be supported to easily integrate them into the
respective operational workflows for disaster management at each participating State. In a
joint approach these necessary procedural and IT interfaces have been developed taking into
account the daily users’ process flows. ISARS/NOA was nominated the Focal Point of
Greece for delivering and disseminating GMES products to the end-user community,
establishing sustainable links with governmental bodies and agencies.
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
Under the umbrella of IAASARS/NOA, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has been
collaborating, steadily building an effective integrated observational and data analysis capacity,
for an EO based environmental monitoring and disaster management. The researchers exploit the
existing space-based observational networks in combination with in-situ ones, comprising the
satellite ground station, the National Seismological Network, the NOANET GPS network for
monitoring crustal deformation in Greece, the HellENIcGeoMagnetic Array (ENIGMA), an
ultra-low frequency (ULF) magnetometer network, and the Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Station.
NOA’s Data Hub (ESA’s Collaborative Data Hub) NOA hosts the first Data Hub for the ESA’s Collaborative Data Hub for the management,
processing and dissemination of data from the Sentinel family of satellites.
VxEos X/L Band Satellite Acquisition Station IAASARS/NOA Ground Segment has been expanded in the framework of the BEYOND project
with the installation of an X-, and L-band satellite acquisition station for reception, acquisition,
and processing of the direct broadcast downlinks from satellite missions including the EOS Aqua
& Terra satellites (MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), the NPP (VIIRS,
ATMS, etc), the future NPOESS, the NOAA, the FYI, and the MetOP satellites.
Meteosat Second Generation SEVIRI Ground Station System Since 2007, the Institute has installed and has been using on a 24/7 operational basis a ground
station for systematically receiving satellite imagery from the MSG-SEVIRI system maintained
by EUMETSAT. The operating agreement for the collection, archiving, and exploitation for
research purposes of MSG images, signed between IAASARS and EUMETSAT, was recently
renewed in 2012.
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High capacity servers
Type of
hardware model Technical description
Server
PowerEdge R620,
Intel Xeon E-26XX
v2 Processors
1
2x Intel Xeon E5-2640v2 2.0GHz, 20M
Cache, 7.2GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT, 8C, 95W,
64GB RDIMM, 1600MHz, 8GB SD Card-
Internal, 4TB, Near-Line SAS 6Gbps, 2.5-in,
7.2K RPM Hard Drive (Hot-plug),
Switches Dell Networking
N2024 1
L2, 24x 1GbE + 2x 10GbE SFP+ fixed ports,
Stacking, IO to PSU airflow, AC
Server
PowerEdge R620,
Intel Xeon E-26XX
v2 Processors
1
2x Intel Xeon E5-2640v2 2.0GHz, 20M
Cache, 7.2GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT, 8C, 95W,
128GB RDIMM, 1600MHz, 4GB SD Card,
Internal, 600GB, SAS 6Gbps, 2.5-in, 10K
RPM Hard Drive (Hot-plug)
Storage
PowerVault
MD3400, 12G SAS,
2U-12 drive
1
24TB, Near-Line SAS 6Gbps, 3.5-in, 7.2K
RPM Hard Drive (Hot-plug), 24GB SAS
HBA, Dual Port
Data
Center
Dell Compellent
SC8000 Controller 1
50 TB, Near-Line SAS 6Gbps, 3.5-in, 7.2K
RPM Hard Drive (Hot-plug)
Hardware
Type of
hardware model Technical description
Workstation I.D.COM 4
-High specification PC I.D. i7-4770:
I7 - 3.40 GHz, 16GB RAM, 6 TB SATAIII,
2048MB graphics, 24” wide flat panel monitor,
Keyboard and mouse
Pc I.D.COM 15
PC I.D. i5-4440:
I7 - 3.10 GHz, 8GB RAM, 2 TB SATAIII, 2048MB
graphics, 24” wide flat panel monitor, Keyboard
and mouse
Printer OKI
MC562W 1
Printer Color/BW, Scanner ,Fax A4, Printing Speed:
25ppm Mono
Printer
EPSON
Stylus Photo
1500
�3/A4, Printing Speed : 180secs/A3+ Full Colour
Page
Printer HP LaserJet
P2055DN 10 �4, Printing Speed: 35ppm
UPS
APC Back-
UPS Pro
1500
3
APC Back-UPS Pro,865 Watts /1500 VA,Input
230V /Output 230V, Interface Port Optional Simple
Signalling RS232 cable, USB, Extended runtime
model
UPS TurnoX2000 1 2000VA Line Interactive
Full HD
Panel LG42 LB56 1
Full HD panel, LED 1920x1080,MCI100/50Hz
Screen Refresh Rate,PVR Compatible,USB Movie
Playback,20W Speaker,2HDMI
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Software
Type of software Software Name No. of Licenses
Desktop GIS ArcGIS For Desktop 10.2 31
Web GIS Server ArcGIS For Server 10.2 Enterprise 1
High-level language and
interactive environment for
numerical computation
MATLAB R2013B
+
Statistics Toolbox
1
Desktop GIS ENVI+IDL 5.0 1
SAR & InSAR processing SARscape 5.0 BASIC & InSAR &
Interferometric Stacking 1
SAR & InSAR processing GlobalSAR 1
SAR & InSAR processing ROI_PAC open source
SAR & InSAR processing DORIS open source
SAR & InSAR processing ESA NEST open source
Desktop GIS Quantum GIS open source
Internet connection Each institute of NOA LAN network is part of the extended NOA network. NOA network is
connected to the internet via the "Greek Research and Technology Network" at a speed of 1
Gbps via fiber optic. NOA LAN operates at 100/1000 Mbps (wireless, fiber optic and UTP
wiring) and uses four CISCO routers and six CISCO switches. It serves about 200 computing
and peripheral units.
Other supporting documentation The National Observatory of Athens participated in the Best Service Challenge of the
Copernicus-masters competition with the operational EO based fire management service, which
was developed in the framework of the BEYOND project. The submitted service is entitled
“FireHub: A Space Based Fire Management Hub“,
(http://ocean.space.noa.gr/BEYONDsite/images/docs/publications/other/NOA-FireHub.pdf and
has been elected as the winner of the Best Service Challenge of the Copernicus Masters 2014
(http://www.copernicus-masters.com/index.php?kat=winners.html&anzeige=winner_bsc2014.html)
by an experts committee. The Copernicus-masters competition was organised by
Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen, aiming to support the development of market-
oriented applications that use data from the European Union's Copernicus programme
(previously known as Global Monitoring of Environment and Security, or GMES).
FireHub (http://ocean.space.noa.gr/FireHub ) is a service platform that consolidates a real-time
fire detection and monitoring application, a large scale Burnt Scar Mapping during and after
wildfires, and a fire smoke dispersion forecasting tool, based on the integration of space
technologies with geospatial information and meteorological data. The service has been qualified
in the framework of several EC, Copernicus/GMES & ESA projects, relying on fully scalable
and transparent automatic processes allowing the transferability of the applications to other
climatic and geographic zones in Europe.
The platform addresses real decision-makers’ needs and has been deployed on an operational
basis to several user stakeholders, including the Greek Forest Fire Management Center of the
Fire Brigade, the Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change, the Hellenic
Telecommunications Organization and other local and regional authorities. The User base is
rapidly expanding with more than 500 independent connections at a daily basis (institutional
users) during the summer.
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FireHub is integrated into the Global Fire Monitoring Center that belongs to the International
Strategy of UN for Disaster Reduction. A patent application has been submitted and is currently
under investigation. For more information on this award can be found in BEYOND site
(http://beyond-eocenter.eu/), in the announcements section.
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TRACASA (TRABAJOS CATASTRALES SA SOCIEDAD UNIPERSONAL)
TRACASA is a public commercial company of computer science, cartographic, cadastral and
location based services founded on April 15, 1982. The company is expert in the management of
geospatial information and providing services based on Information and Communications
Technologies. The main activity lines are based on Spatial data management: production of
Spatial Data Systems and development of Spatial tools. Tracasa has a long experience in the
development of platforms for the exploitation of spatial data.
Tracasa plays a central role as a leading supplier of products and services for the modernization
of the public administrations and its territories.
Our experience in Europe has become stronger by participating in co-funded projects under
various European Union programs
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
María Cabello. European Projects Director. PMP certification. She has more than 25 years
experience in information management systems and more than 20 years involved in GIS projects
and spatial information with TRACASA. The last ten years she has been in charge of the above
mentioned European Projects as participant and /or coordinator, with responsibilities of Task or
WP leadership.
Raúl Orduna. Director of Technological Innovation and Quality area at the Company. He holds
a PhD degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence having large experience in
complex software solutions and information security processing. He also has experience with
integration of heterogeneous systems.
Marcos Iribas. Head of GIS area since 1998. He has been coordinating implementation of
different GIS in urban Planning, Cadastral information, Solar Panel planning. BPP advanced
certified in Geodatabases and ArcObjects developments. Associated lecturer at the Public
University of Navarre.
Lourdes Albizua. Remote Sensing Area. She has deep knowledge of remote sensing principles
and technical characteristics of the satellite images and their applications, participating in several
projects related with remote sensing as project manager and technical manager. She has worked
in production of Digital Maps for various uses and applications (land cover, land use, town
planning, irrigation planning, agricultural statistics) and manages at the company the image
satellite distribution for e_Geos/Eurimage (since 2002), and for AIRBUS (since 2013).
Relevant publications:
1. Cardoso, J.L. INSPIRE Conference. Lisbon (PT). May 2015. Abstract for oral presentation.
“G-NEXT project”.
2. Cabello, M. & Mendive, P. INSPIRE Conference 2014. Aalborg (DK). June 2015.
“Challenges to be INSPIRE compliant: CDDA into Protected Sites”
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3. Cabello, M. & Goñi, I. International Innovation Report, United Kingdom, June 2011. “Open
Access Land Data. HLANDATA project: Bridging Added Value solutions”
4. Albizua, L. ESRI European Conference. Madrid (ES). October 2011. "Monitoring Urban
Development Planning's consolidation using GIS and Remote sensing techniques"
5. Cabello, M. co-author. IALE UK 2010 Annual Conference: Future Landscape Ecology,
September 2010, Conference proceedings. “INSPIRE and Nature-SDIplus: further progress
towards a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for nature conservation in the EU”
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. G-NEXT - GMES pre-operational security services for supporting external actions. FP7-
SPACE-2012-1. Technological partner.
http://copernicus.eu/pages-principales/projects/other-gmes-projects/security/
2. smespire - A European Community of SMEs built on Environmental Digital Content and
Languages. FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL. National Contact Point in Spain.
www.smespire.eu
3. HLANDATA - Creation of value-added services based on Harmonized Land Use and Land
Cover Datasets, within the CIP - ICT PSP, acting as supporting and technical coordinator.
4. BRISEIDE - BRIdging SErvices, Information and Data for Europe. Technical partner. WP
and Task leader. CIP-ICT PSP. Uses the results of EURADIN – European Address
Infrastructure - e-Content plus Program in which Tracasa was Coordinator.
www.briseide.eu
5. NATURE SDIplus – e-Content plus Program 2007 www.nature-sdi.eu
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
Tracasa’s facilities are built on an 8,000 square meter parcel, located in the “Parque de la
Innovación” a research and development park in the Ecocity of Sarriguren. The building is
equipped with energy-saving solutions that cut down its energy consumption between 35% and
65% with respect to a conventional building. (B certified) The façade is covered with 130 meters
of photovoltaic panels, with a combined power rating of 21 kilowatts. A total of more than 550
people work in the building.
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A large equipment is available in Tracasa for the different projects in which we are working, and
will be also available for the project hereby detailed, with more than 100 servers and .
Computer equipment
ALPHA 2100 Server
Digital Image Server "DIGITAL CORP."
2 – GIS Servers
39 - HP Proliant DL380G4 Servers, with RAID 1 and RAID5 volumes, with refrigeration
and back up energy sources
32 - HP Proliant BL460 Servers, with RAID 1 volumes, with refrigeration and back up
energy sources. Card HBA Fibre-Channel. Hardware Monitoring via SNMP with HP
Insight Manager and tools with IPSEntry 4.06.
Windows 2008 Server R2 SP2 and VMware ESXi Enterprise Plus.
9 - HP Proliant DL460 Servers, with RAID 1 volumes, with refrigeration and back up
energy sources. Card HBA Fibre-Channel. Hardware Monitoring via SNMP with HP
Insight Manager and tools with IPSEntry 4.06.
Windows 2008 Server R2 SP2 and VMware ESXi Enterprise Plus..
2 - HP Proliant DL380G7 Servers, with RAID 1 volumes, with refrigeration and back up
energy sources. Card HBA Fibre-Channel. Hardware Monitoring via SNMP with HP
Insight Manager and tools with IPSEntry 4.06.
Windows 2008 Server R2 SP2 and VMware ESXi Enterprise Plus.
Centralized Storage system NAS HP Proliant Storage Server with 2 TB available storage.
HP Proliant DL380G4 Server using Windows 2008 Server 1,8 TB available storage each
2 - HP Proliant DL380G4 Server using Windows 2008 Server 1,8 TB available storage
each
HP Proliant DL380G4 Server using Windows 2008 Server 3,8 TB available storage
Centralized Storage system SAN model Fibrenetix with 120 TB available storage
Centralized Storage system SAN model HP EVA 4000 with 12,5 TB available storage
Centralized Storage system SAN model HP EVA 4000 with 4,4 TB available storage
Centralized Storage system SAN model Fibrenetix with 32 TB available storage
1 - Centralized Storage system SAN model Hitachi AMS2500 with 144 TB available
storage
Backup Centralised Sytem:
HP Proliant BL460c Server with Windows 2008R2 Server & Veritas Backupexec 10 and
Veeam Backup 6.5;
Library HP MSL G3 with 2 units LTO-5 (1600GB)
Backup Centralised Sytem:
HP Proliant DL380G4 Server with Windows 2008R2 Server & Veritas Backupexec 10
Library HP MSL6030 with 2 units LTO-3 (800GB)
Comunications: LAN Ethernet switched Gigabit Ethernet with links to 10 Gbps;
Active Equipments Enterasys N7 & C3;
Palo Alto Firewall & Juniper NetScreen SSG550.
250 - PC computers using Windows XP SP3 & Windows 7 SP1
3 - Plotters Inkjet color HP 1050 C
6 - Printers Inkjet up to DIN A2
25 Printers laser up to 50 p.p.m.
3 Printer Laser color Xerox
6 Terabytes disk storage (on-line) in desktop computers
120 Terabytes disk storage (on-line) in servers.
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Databases: ORACLE, SQL SERVER, INGRES, INFORMIX and ACCESS
Tracasa has developed its own tool: GEOBIDE – GIS TOOL SUITE The functionalities of Universal Geobide Suite, developed by Tracasa, are available on the
following website http://www.geobide.es/
Two of its applications, shown below, can be used in this project.
• Geobide Map http://www.geobide.es/geomap/ : It is the component for visualizing
geographic data. It is characterized by its easy handling and the ability to access multiple
data sources such as vector and raster data, and OGC Services (WMS, WFS).
Geobide builder http://www.geobide.es/geobuilder/ : It is a very powerful tool to perform simple
and complex geoprocessing. With this application different validation geoprocesses of vector
and raster data can be created. Besides, topological errors, MMU, MMW, polygons neighbors
with attributes, etc. can be obtained.
Cad and gis for cartography editing software
Software and task Capacities
(workstations)
MICROSTATION, + multiple MDLs focused on cartography edition. 10
AUTOCAD, cartography edition. 5
GEOBIDE company software, topology and QC assurance process. 20
ARCGIS, cartography edition, QC assurance and QC procedure. 20
Digital photogrammetry, restitution and remote sensing
Software and task Capacities
(workstations)
INPHO: (Macht T, Macht AT, DTMaster,ORTHOMaster,
ORTHOVista)
2
DIGI version 2003/2007 and .NET. http://www.digi21.net/
Full digital photogrammetric stations for restitutions.
10
Seam Editor 4
ERDASIMAGINE 2013, ER MAPPER 7.2 (modules LPS and feature
analyst)
4
MAPREADY 2.3 Remote Sensing Tool Kit 1
PurView for ARCGIS 10
Topography equipment
TYPE Capacities
GPS RECEIVER TRIMBLE 5
GNSS RECEIVER LEICA 1
GEODETIC ANTENNA TRIMBLE 5
TOTAL STATION 3
TEODOLITS 2
ELECTRONIC AND LASER DISTANCE MEASUREMENT 11
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TELESPAZIO IBÉRICA SL UNIPERSONAL
Telespazio Ibérica covers a wide technological range within Territorial Information Systems
market, allowing them to offer independent solutions based on different technological platforms,
as they are partners of main sector’s players, enabling them to suitably advise the customers in
utilities, telecommunications and mapping sectors where traditionally the activity has been
stronger.
It should be highlighted the extensive experience in cartographic production processes where we
have developed a strong know-how for product quality control processes and production
management.
Telespazio Ibérica has a wide experience on cartography and GIS. With roots in cartography and
more than 20 years of experience in providing territorial solutions for large corporations,
Telespazio Ibérica is a European leader in the application of new technologies to territory
management, from the location of natural resources via satellite to managing the
transport/distribution networks of companies in the gas, oil, electricity, water and sanitation
sectors.
Thanks to being part of the Telespazio group, Telespazio Ibérica is more and more absorbed in
SAR projects and in big projects using this technology, as coordinating SAR4ip project.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
Inés Ruiz Master Degree in Geography (Universidad Complutense Madrid and Unversité Libre
de Bruxelles). SAR4ip Project Manager, responsible of R&D SAR for image processing project
for the Spanish MoD that aims to acquire a deeper knowledge in SAR imagery processing in
three main topics: automatic target detection, imagery fusion and co-register and DEM quality
analysis and surface reconstruction. Emergency manager of the 24/7 TPZ IB team for rapid and
thematic mapping. ImINT for geoinformation and Security technical responsible. Several years
of GMES/Copernicus experience in the Emergency and Security domains in both EC and ESA
projects.
Former MGCP Project Manager (Multinational Geospatial Co-Production Program).
Currently, Space industries and agencies responsible, carrying activities of R&D in different
domains.
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. SAR4ip is an R&D Project funded by the Spanish MoD, led by TPZ IB - and in consortium
with e-Geos, INTA and Indra - and aimed at developing new capabilities for SAR Imagery
processing. The main focus of this project is the development of new algorithms oriented to
three main points identified as the main ones for future actions in SAR exploitation:
Automated and semiautomatic target detection and recognition; Multisensor (SAR and
optical) automated precise image registration, for fusion; and DTM quality analysis and
Surface Reconstruction.
2. GNEXT “GMES\COPERNICUS PRE-OPERATIONAL SECURITY SERVICES FOR
SUPPORTING EXTERNAL ACTION” is a Collaborative Project in the GMES/Copernicus
Security context under the Seventh Framework Programme. It provides deeply customized
value added geospatial products supporting the EU External Action Service. Products aim to
fulfil the unique Users’ requests in terms of information content to be provided (including
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the road network status assessment during dry and wet seasons) and basically they consist of
tailored maps derived from both Optical and SAR EO data.
3. SAR PETROBRAS is a R&D project that uses EO sensors as a support for geo-
environmental activities (land uses, soil changes, rivers’ changes, environmental law
protection against illicit crops and logging, urban changes monitoring...). The products
delivered are performed using optical (IKONOS, GeoEye-1,...) and SAR (COSMO-
SkyMed) data for thematic mapping.
4. Panama SAR Cartography cartographic production covering whole national territory at
Panama using airborne SAR imagery. Generated products includes DTM generations,
orthomosaics, optical and SAR flights, different scales’ cartography…
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
1. TPZ IB working procedures are in compliance with the standard ISO 9001:2008
certification, for the following activities: Design and developing of geographic information,
mobility and location systems, data processing, digital mapping generation, remote sensing
and geo-information services, satellite image sales, telecommunication services, personnel
secondment services and software development.
2. This ISO 9001:2008 certification for the above mentioned activities ensures tthe
commitment the company has providing these services to any customer worldwide.
3. TPZ IB is also compliant with the standard ISO 14001: 2004 certification, concerning the
Environmental Management System for the same activities above.
4. TPZ IB has two main facilities in Madrid and Barcelona, with large production areas in both
premises mainly focused on EO and GIS products. Each facility has several workstations,
servers, backup systems and a high speed internal network. Communications via National
MPLS Network (3 Mbps) between both premises is established.
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UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS (LAS PALMAS UNIVERSITY)
The Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), created in the 1989-1990 academic
year, has university institutes, research centres and 164 research groups covering all fields of
knowledge, made up of nearly 1000 researchers and around 1000 PhD students. It also has a
Scientific and Technological Park to help make more dynamic the transfer of R&D results to
society in the Canary Islands and among our neighbours, as well as helping to launch
technology-based companies. In 2010, the ULPGC was evaluated by an International Committee
and earned the qualification of Campus of International Excellence, from the Ministry of
Education of the Government of Spain.
Research activities reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of our 36 Departments: 12 in engineering
and architecture, 11 in science and health sciences, 6 in social and legal sciences and 7 in art and
humanities. ULPGC research includes cutting-edge projects in such wide-ranging subjects as
environment, oceanography, marine science, aquaculture, image processing, computer robotics,
nutrition, cancer, ICT, renewable energies, transport economy, business organization, town
planning, translation and the history of the Canary Islands, among others.
Through these activities, the ULGPC maintains its commitment to collaborating in the economic
development and well-being of the Canary Islands, as well as serving as a platform for
development cooperation for countries with traditional links with the Canary Islands, such as the
countries of Latin America, or those that lie very close to the Canaries, on the African continent.
The ULPGC European Project Office is dedicated to supporting researchers when submitting,
negotiating and managing the European projects of the University.
On the other hand, the Oceanography and Global Change Institute (IOCAG) of the University of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria consists of a consolidated and interdisciplinary research institute
with high excellence and international recognition in different fields, which has allowed to lead
multiple projects in remote sensing image processing, environment, physical oceanography,
marine biology, chemistry, algology, biotechnology, geology and geography.
Researchers of this proposal belong to the Image Processing and Remote Sensing Group (GPIT)
of the IOCAG-ULPGC. They have more than twenty years of expertise in the satellite remote
sensing area and possess skills in advanced multispectral, multitemporal and multiresolution
processing techniques (pansharpening, fusion, geometric and atmospheric corrections, feature
extraction, segmentation, motion estimation, classification etc.) for the generation of high,
medium or low Earth Observation products for climate change, environment preservation,
protection of natural areas, coastal, oceanography or atmospheric applications.
In the field of high resolution remotes sensing image processing and image fusion, our Remote
Sensing & Image Processing Research Group (GPIT) has extensive expertise that is proven
through the publication of scientific papers in very high impact journals (Nature, IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth
Observation and Geoinformation, Sensor, etc.)
In addition, results from works in such satellite remote sensing areas, performed in the frame of
different projects and contracts, have been presented in the most relevant international
congresses around the world. For example, since 2011 a total of 18 works were presented in the
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, SPIE Remote Sensing Europe
Congress, European Signal Processing Conference, International Symposium in Marine
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Sciences, International Astronautical Congress and the Spanish Remote Sensing Society
Congress. During 2015 we have submitted 9 additional abstracts (4 accepted yet and the
remaining 5 still under review).
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
Relevant publications:
In the field of high resolution remotes sensing image processing and image fusion, our Remote
Sensing & Image Processing Research Group (GPIT) has extensive expertise that is proven
through the publication of scientific papers in very high impact journals (Nature, IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth
Observation and Geoinformation, Sensor, etc.). Next, we list 5 publications relevant to the call
content:
1. F. Eugenio, J. Marcello, and J. Martin, “High Resolution Maps of Bathymetry and Benthic
habitats in Shallow-Waters Environments using Multispectral Remote Sensing Imagery,” in
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no 7, pp 3539-3549, 2015.
(Impact factor 2013: 2.93).
2. F. Eugenio, J. Martin, J. Marcello, and E. Fraile-Nuez, “Environmental monitoring of El
Hierro Island submarine volcano, by combining low and high resolution satellite imagery,”
in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, no 29, pp 53–66,
June 2014. (Impact factor 2013: 2.539).
3. J. Marcello, A. Medina, and F. Eugenio, “Evaluation of Spatial and Spectral Effectiveness
of Pixel-Level Techniques,” in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 10, 432-436,
May 2013. (Impact factor: 1.807).
4. F. Calderero, F. Eugenio, J. Marcello, and F. Marqués, “Multispectral Cooperative Partition
Sequence Fusion for Joint Classification and Hierarchical Segmentation,” in IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, no 9, pp 1012-1016, November 2012. (Impact
factor: 1.823).
5. J. Marcello, F. Eugenio, F. Marqués, A. Hernández-Guerra and A. Gasull, “Motion
estimation techniques to automatically track oceanographic thermal structures in multi-
sensor image sequences,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46 (9),
pp 2743-2762, September 2008. (Impact factor: 3.157).
In addition, results from works in such satellite remote sensing areas, performed in the frame of
different projects and contracts, have been presented in the most relevant international
congresses around the world. For example, since 2011 a total of 18 works were presented in the
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, SPIE Remote Sensing Europe
Congress, European Signal Processing Conference, International Symposium in Marine
Sciences, International Astronautical Congress and the Spanish Remote Sensing Society
Congress. During 2015 we have submitted 9 additional abstracts (4 accepted yet and the
remaining 5 still under review).
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Relevant previous projects or activities:
Our group has been involved in many research project and contracts, acting as a research leader
or as part of the consortium. In addition, the Research Agency of Canary Government nominated
our group to manage and coordinate Remote Sensing initiatives for the Autonomic Community
of the Canary Island during 2011 and 2012. We next include 5 projects or research contracts
related to the remote sensing and image processing topic. We have selected the most recent ones
(last five years):
1. Project Title: Analysis of Land and Marine Resources by processing High Resolution
Satellite Images (ARTEMISAT).Reference: CGL2013-46674-R. Funded by Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Participating Entities: Universidad de Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain), Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), Surrey University (United Kingdom) and Universidad de
Concepción (Chile). Funding: 78.650 €. Duration: 2014 to 2016. Principal investigator:
Javier Marcello Ruiz
2. Project Title: Program for the development of technological networks and application of
remote sensing data in West Africa (TELECAN). Reference: MAC/3/C181. Funded by
European Programme of Transnational Cooperation Madeira-Azores-Canarias (MAC 2007-
2013) and FEDER. Participating Entities: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
(Spain), Sociedad de Promoción Económica de Gran Canaria (Cabildo de GC, Spain),
Universidad Ibn Zhor de Agadir (Marroc), Universidad de Nouackchott (Mauritania),
Universidad Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Senegal) and Universidad de Cabo Verde (Cape
Verde). Funding: 700.892,75 €. Duration: 2010 to 2013. Principal investigator: Francisco
Eugenio González and Javier Marcello Ruiz.
3. Project Title: Study of the climatic evolution of the wind characteristics in the region Canary
- Souss Massa Draa. Reference: CT-09/12-142004. Funded by Instituto Tecnológico de
Canarias within the CLIMATIQUE European Programme of Transnational Cooperation
(POCTEFEX 2008-2013) and FEDER project. Participating Entities: Universidad de Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Funding: 48.150 €. Duration: 2012 to 2013. Principal
investigator: Javier Marcello Ruiz
4. Project Title: Development of algorithms to obtain turbidity, chlorophyll concentration,
bathymetry and seafloor mapping using Worldwiew2 satellite images on the coast of
Granadilla in Tenerife. Reference: CN-47/11-142001 and CN-16/12-142003. Funded by
Environmental Observatory of Granadilla Foundation. Participating Entities: Universidad
de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Funding: 43.000 €. Duration: 2011 to 2013.
Principal investigator: Francisco Eugenio González
5. Project Title: Vertical pump study in submesoscale marine eddies (PUMP). Reference: CTM
2012-33355. Funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Participating
Entities: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Instituto de Ciencias Marinas
(ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain), Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics-University of
California Los Angeles (IGPP-UCLA) and Centro de Investigación Científica y de
Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE, Mexico). Funding: 222.300 €. Duration: 2013 to
2015. Principal investigator: Pablo Sangrá Inciarte
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E-GEOS SPA
e-GEOS, an ASI (20%) / Telespazio (80%) company, is a leading international player in the geo-
spatial business. e-GEOS offers a complete range of products and services in the Earth
Observation and in the geo-spatial application domains, based on both optical and radar satellites
as well as on aerial surveys. The company employs more than 300 people and operates through
the Earth Observation centres in Matera (Italy) and Neustrelitz (Germany). As the European hub
for VHR (Very High Resolution) data, e-GEOS grants unique access to the COSMO-SkyMed
and distributes also GeoEye-1, IKONOS, Radarsat, QuickBird and WorldView and IRS
satellites.
COSMO-SkyMed earth observation programme of the Italian Space Agency and the Italian
Ministry of Defence, based on a constellation of four VHR SAR satellites, provides all-weather,
day and night, world-wide radar data acquisitions.
e-GEOS exploits COSMO-SkyMed data to offer near-real-time monitoring services and large-
area mapping capabilities, in combination with its existing product and services portfolio, which
comprises solutions for key vertical markets including emergency management, maritime
surveillance, agriculture & forestry, cadastre, environmental protection, oil & gas, utilities and
industries.
e-GEOS is one of the main industrial players in the European Copernicus Program, and today is
a world leader in environmental and maritime monitoring and in rapid mapping for the
management of natural disasters and humanitarian crises, cooperating with EMSA (European
Maritime Safety Agency), EU SatCen (European Union Satellite Centre) / EUSC (European
Union Satellite Centre), JRC (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission), various UN
Organizations and the Italian Civil Defence.
The company serves national and international clients, in the public and private sectors,
including customers such as the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, the Italian Ministry of the
Environment for the interferometric processing of SAR data, major international oil & gas
companies and railroads.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
Massimo Zavagli is responsible for the Maritime & Recognition Algorithms, within the
Algorithm and Processing-System Engineering at e-GEOS.
Mr. Massimo Zavagli received the Computer engineering degree in 2000 and the PhD degree in
System Engineering in 2005 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy. He has
expertise in SAR and Optical data processing for automatic feature extraction and for maritime
applications. In framework of the EU LIMES, DOLPHIN and SeaU projects has worked on the
analysis and development of algorithms based on SAR and optical data for data fusion,
segmentation and feature extraction aimed to maritime and land applications. He is currently
head of the Maritime and Recognition Unit of e-GEOS (part of the Algorithm Unit) and he is
involved in the supervision of systems and algorithms based on SAR satellite data (ENVISAT
ASAR, Cosmo SkyMed, Radarsat-2 and Sentinel-1) for the e-GEOS Maritime SW platform,
which is used for NRT maritime service. In this platform, he has developed algorithms and sw
for automatic wind field and wave field retrieval from SAR data. These products are
automatically and routinely generated for EMSA CSN services.
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Corrado Avolio is an algorithm developer for remote sensed images elaboration (optical and
SAR [Synthetic Aperture Radar]) working in Algorithm and Processing-System Engineering at
e-GEOS.
Mr. Corrado Avolio received the 3-year Computer Science Engineering degree in 2004 (mark:
110/110 cum Laude; thesis: “Reasoning on actions by mean of relational databases”) and the 5-
year Computer Science Engineering degree in 2008 (mark: 110/110; thesis: “Recognition of
human figures by mean of multiple vision sensors”) from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,”
Rome, Italy. He is a specialist for Image processing and feature extraction on remote sensed
data, Mathematical analysis for problem solving, Software design.
He is been actively working (both from an algorithmic and programming perspective) at the
design and development of complex “cutting edge” software systems for: Automatic Wind and
Swell Fields retrieval from SAR images over sea, Pushbroom Hyperspectral Sensor Simulation,
Automatic Target Recognition on SAR images, Distributed remote sensed images analysis with a
pluggable system for expanding processing functionalities
English (B2) and German (A2/B1); mother tongue Italian.
Relevant publications:
1. Avolio, C., Costantini, M., Di Martino, G., Iodice, A., Macina, F., Ruello, G., ... & Zavagli,
M. (2014, July). A method for the reduction of ship-detection false alarms due to SAR
azimuth ambiguity. In Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE
International (pp. 3694-3697). IEEE.
2. Passerone, C., Sansoe, C., Maggiora, R., Avolio, C., Zavagli, M., Minati, F., & Costantini,
M. (2014, March). Highly parallel image co-registration techniques using GPUs. In
Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE (pp. 1-12). IEEE.
3. Massimo Zavagli, Corrado Avolio, Marco Di Bari, Maria Lucia Magliozzi, Claudio
Mammone, Roberto Rossi, Mario Costantini, Achille Ciappa, Paola Nicolosi , “AN
AUTOMATIC PROCESSING CHAIN FOR WIND AND WAVE FIELDS RETRIEVAL
FROM COSMO-SKYMED DATA”, IGARSS2012, 22-27 July 2012, Munich International
Congress Center.
4. Orsomando, F., Lombardo, P., Zavagli, M., Costantini, M., “SAR and Optical Data Fusion
for Change Detection”, 2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event.
5. Costantini M., Zavagli M., Milillo G.:"A novel approach for image segmentation" IGARSS
2002.
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. SPECIAL PLAN OF REMOTE SENSING (2008-2013 and follow-on)
Project with the objective of mapping and preventing geo-hazards, the Italian Ministry of the
Environment awarded to an industrial team lead by e-GEOS a series of contracts aimed at
realizing a database of surface deformation measurements by PSI (Persistent Scatterers
Interferometry) processing of all the available ERS and Envisat SAR data over Italy, and
then at updating the PSI measurement database based on COSMO-SkyMed data stacks. The
project, referred as PST-A, is the first SAR PSI project at national scale.
The PST-A has been the first and unique project worldwide aiming at the realization of a
complete database of IFSAR-based terrain displacement measurements, taken over the
whole National territory (about 300.000 Km2) in order to monitor the hydrogeological
instability.
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In particular, the main objective of the project was the updating of the National Cartography
Portal through interferometric measurements from the SAR imagery available on the
national territory. The whole ERS (1992-2000) and ENVISAT (2003-2009) archives have
been used to collect images over Italy. In addition, starting from 2011, also the COSMO-
SkyMed data over selected urban areas have been included in the project.
“Preparation and Operations of the Core X-band Acquisition and Near Real Time Facilities
for the COPERNICUS Sentinel Satellites: Matera Ground Station” (ESRIN/Contract
No.4000105829/12/I-AM as amended by CCN No.3, 2012-2016).
e-GEOS, winner of an international competition in 2012, was selected for the activities of
acquisition and data processing of the missions Sentinel-1 and -2 (A/B). The contract with
the European Space Agency, foresees, from the Matera Space Centre, satellite data
acquisition and processing services in support of the operations of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2.
The agreement provides for acquisition services in X-Band as well as the installation and
operation of the Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS). This allows the reception,
processing and archiving of Sentinel satellite data.
Presently, e-GEOS is fully involved in the data acquisition and support to data processing of
the Sentinel-1A satellite, launched in April 2014 and hosts the equipment that will be used
for the acquisition and processing of Sentinel-2A satellite whose launch is expected in June
2015.
During Year 2015 at the Matera Space Centre will be installed the systems for receiving and
processing satellite data of the Sentinel-B mission whose launch is expected within Year
2016.
2. DOLPHIN (2011-2013) FP7 European project for the development of ship detection and
sea monitoring techniques aimed to fill the current user requirement gaps. e-GEOS is
manager and technical coordinator this project and is also involved in several research and
development activities based on the ship detection and sea state monitoring from SAR
sensor satellites.
3. SAR4IP (2014-2016) Research project for the development of advanced processors for
multi-modal coregistration and Automatic Target recognition based on Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) (mainly COSMO SkyMed data) data and multispectral VHR oprical data
(mainly GeoEye data).
4. INSARAP (2014-2015) ESA project aimed to the achievement of a scientific exploitation
and validation of the interferometric TOPS mode implemented on the Sentinel-1 mission.
Algorithms for Sentinel-1 TOPS data exploitation are developed and implemented in order
to:
- Confirm and document Sentinel-1 interferometric performance.
- Assess the synergy between Sentinel-1 and previous C-band SAR missions.
- Adapt already successful DINSAR and PSI techniques to TOPS SAR data.
- Provide the scientific community with the first DINSAR and PSI results over
selected pilot sites.
5. LIMES: (Land and Sea Integrated Monitoring for Environment and Security) Integrated
R&D Project co-funded by EC, under FP6, to define and develop prototype information
services, based on satellite technology, for security management at EU and global level.
Telespazio leads a huge consortium (more than 50 partners), including the main Satellite
Service Providers, Security related Industries, Research Institutes, Reference Users.
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Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
e-GEOS is experienced in all the satellite data processing activities, algorithm development,
Software and IT systems prototyping and development, integration with ancillary data,
validation.
To perform the analysis of remote sensing images and geographic information management, e-
GEOS is equipped with all necessary HW and SW. commercial and OS; e-GEOS personnel
routinely uses standard software products as ESRI/ArcView, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI/SARScape
for EO-data based visualization and production tasks, beside the programming of software
packages as GRASS, e-Cognition, NAG libraries, etc.
Specific SW tools and operational processing chains for dedicated tasks has been developed by
e-GEOS, such as ®TeMAS (Telespazio Maritime Applications from SAR), also integrating
COTS tools.
e-GEOS allocates substantial SW engineering resources to the design and development of
“cutting edge” software for the processing of geo-information; several labs are dedicated to the
development of algorithms and added valued products, to the development of web-based
applications, to the development of Geodatabases applications and products and finally for
productions. With respect to the activities foreseen in this project, is foreseen the employment of
the Alg lab. The e-GEOS Alg lab is equipped with 16 WS available to the researchers and
developers and 3 servers for the managing net, storage and services of the lab.
The Alg lab can access to a High Performance Computing (HPC) dedicated cluster providing
1920 cores distributed in 96 blade nodes with 256GB RAM and connected, by optical fiber to a
600 TB storage. In the following figure is shown the HPC cluster architecture.
Figure: Scheme of the cluster architecture
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CENTRO NACIONAL DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES CENER The National Renewable Energy Centre (CENER) is a technology centre specialized in applied
research, and the development and promotion of renewable energies. It is a nonprofit company,
created by the Science and Technological Ministry of Spain and by Navarre's Government. The
centre employs over 200 people and has 6 departments, all dedicated to different branches of
Renewable Energy: Solar thermal, Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy Grid Integration, Biomass,
Wind power and Energy in Buildings.
The Energy in Buildings Department of CENER has 15 years’ experience in energy efficiency in
buildings, being one of the main working areas of the department. The personnel of the Energy
in Buildings department has a high technical knowledge in projects involving improvements in
energy efficiency in existing buildings, as well as in designing innovative energy concepts based
on energy efficiency and the integration of renewable energies in buildings and cities. The
Energy in Buildings department has a relevant experience in CONCERTO programme (partner
of the projects RENAISSANCE and ECO-CITY) and also in SMART CITIES Programme
(CENER is the coordinator of the EU-GUGLE project), besides other R&D European Projects.
In the context of the NEOS project, CENER will contribute within the WP6 to develop different
urban services making use of the observation satellite data, especially from Sentinel program.
These data and images will be used to provide to the policy makers, industry, researchers and
citizens information to, among others: assessment the potential of installation of solar thermal
and photovoltaics systems in the roofs, qualitative evaluation of energy efficiency of the urban
lighting in the cities (night images), identifying inefficiencies and shortfalls and, by means of
satellite thermographs, develop a urban heat map which allows to identify priorities of urban
regeneration: energy losses in buildings and urban infrastructures (i.e. district heating systems),
low efficient districts, fuel poverty or the heat island effect.
In addition, in the WP11 CENER will contribute to validate the final urban energy services.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members
Florencio Manteca. Master Degree in Architecture from the Madrid School of Architecture
(ETSAM, 1998). He holds a Master in “Environment and Energy in Buildings” from ETSAM,
2000. Since 2003, he is working as the Manager of the Energy in Buildings Department of the
National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain (CENER), where he leads a team which develops
projects and research works focused on energy saving and integration of renewable energy in
buildings. He is a member of several international committees and work groups dealing with
energy and sustainability in architecture, including the Working Group on energy efficiency in
Buildings of the Smart Cities Stakeholders Platform - SCSP, He is Coordinator of EU-GUGLE
project, and also manager of the International Conference on Architecture, Cities and Energy –
CIBARQ.
Sergio Díaz de Garayo. Senior Expert, Project manager of CENER.
Mechanical Engineer (UPV Bilbao, 1998 and Tor Vergata Roma, 1999) specialized in energy
efficiency and renewable energies integrated in buildings. After 4 years as engineer in Asia-
Pasific, he studied the European Master Degree in Renewable Energies (Universidad de
Zaragoza, 2004) and DEA (Pre-PhD Program on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies in
INSA CETHIL of Lyon), becoming project manager of CIRCE Foundation and associate
professor of the University of Zaragoza. He is founder member of PEP (Plataforma Española
Passivhaus) and has several technical publications on the field of EE & RES.
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Francisco Serna Lumbreras. Senior Expert, Project manager of CENER
Civil Engineer. Technical assistance in different projects related to energy refurbishment of
buildings. EU-GUGLE, RENAISSANCE project (CONCERTO I Programme), ECOCITIES
Scandinavia-Spain Project (CONCERTO I Programme), NIRSEPES, a SAVE project for urban
regeneration and environmental retrofitting, or the e-TOOL project.
List of 5 relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of this proposal
1. EU-GUGLE (Coordinator), funded by FP7- Smart Cities call 2013-2018 in Urban
regeneration and energy retrofitting of 226.000 m2 of existing buildings in 6 european smart
district. Transfer of lessons learnt from EU-GUGLE to ACRONYM regarding energy
retrofitting of buildings towards nZEB standards, both technical and non-technical.
2. PDEHU, funded by LCQA Foundation in 2012. Program of energy diagnosis in urban
habitat (Spain). Lessons learned on methodologies for assessing the potential of energy
saving in the refurbishment of buildings.
3. IDAE-RES, funded by IDEA in 2010 and 2011. Consulting services for establishing the
minimum application requirements in the new technical building code in renewable energies
through the prism of cost-effectiveness. Lessons learned in the implementation of renewable
energy sources (photovoltaic and thermal mainly) according to different climatic conditions,
from point of view of cost-effectiveness.
4. RENAISSANCE, funded by FP6 – CONCERTO I 2004 – 2009. Energy retrofitting of a
district in Zaragoza (Spain). Lessons learnt about citizen´s involvement and management of
refurbishment projects.
5. ECOCITY, funded by FP6 – CONCERTO I 2004 – 2009. Energy retrofitting of a district in
Tudela (Spain), including a new district heating network. Lessons learnt about citizen´s
involvement and district heating networks.
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UPNA (UNIVERSIDAD PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA)
The Public University of Navarre (UPNA) is a teaching and research institution officially
founded in 1987, with around 10,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is the only
public university in Navarra, and is located in the Pamplona and Tudela campuses.
It holds agreements with a wide network of international universities, offering annually more
than 500 student positions to foreign students. The teaching and research is organized around
three colleges, three schools and twenty-two Departments. In the human and social sciences,
health sciences and engineering; so, it is a fairly technical university. The UPNA is in the top group of Spanish universities in teaching, research and technology transfer, because, together
with other seven Spanish public universities, is located in the first third with greater overall
productivity (source: Ranking ISSUE 2014, BBVA-IVIE).
Research and technology transfer
Research is conducted by full-time professors, assistants, associate professors and scholars. They
currently total around 900, organised in 106 listed research groups in the following disciplines:
Engineering and Technology, Basic and Science Sciences, Economics Sciences and Laws, and
Social Sciences and Humanities. We have considerable experience of more than 25 years in
successfully running doctoral and postdoctoral programmes, among them doctoral programmes
on “Health Sciences”, on “Biotechnology”, and on “Communications Technologies,
Bioengineering and Renewable Energies”.
The Public University of Navarra is strongly committed to research excellence. It excels at a
high performance and quality of the conducted research, achieving a high position among the
leading research universities in Spain according to a recently published ranking
(http://www.magisnet.com/pdf/RankingEspanyolUniversidades.pdf). Some of the main research
fields are Renewable Energies, Telecommunications and Biotechnology. In 2010, the joint
project by the UPNA and other 3 universities (Zaragoza, La Rioja and Lleida) named "Campus
Iberus" has been granted by the Spanish Government as an "International Excellence Campus", a
very qualified distinction which aims to arise excellent universities in the international relevance.
As regards the research and transfer activity, it is carried out by more than one hundred research groups, of which the 20% have been listed (in the call 2012) by the ANEP, an agency of the
Spanish Government, for excellence international.
The University develops cutting-edge basic research in many fields, serving both the economic
and social development of its immediate environment and facilitating research that is
transformed into innovation. To this end, the UPNA has put in place mechanisms for assessing
research groups seeking continuous improvement, and it has developed instruments to facilitate
the achievement of public and private funding of it. Among them, it is remarkable the Chairs
programme, dedicated to research and funded by private institutions, along with the
commercialization of patents through UNIVALUE (a company of the G9 Group -see below-).
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
José Enrique Armendáriz Íñigo is PhD by the Public University of Navarre (2002). Currently,
he is Associate Professor at the same university. His main research interests are in the topics of
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Distributed Systems, Highly Available Systems, Database Replication, Transactions,
Consistency, and Scalability. He is author of 12 international journal publications, 10 ranked in
JCR-SCI. He has published 70 papers in international and national conference. His research has
been supported by 2 European projects and 4 national projects. In addition, He has collaborated
in technology transference to industry through 2 industrial projects.
José Ramón González de Mendívil Moreno is PhD by the University of the Basque Country
(1993). Currently, he is Professor at the the Public University of Navarre. His main research
interests are in the topics of Distributed Systems, Highly Available Systems, Database
Replication, Transactions, Consistency, and Scalability. He is author of 32 international journal
publications, 21 ranked in JCR-SCI. He has published 85 papers in international conferences.
His research has been supported by 1 European project (local coordinator) and 7 national
projects. In addition, He has directed 8 industrial projects of hardware and software
development.
Relevant publications: With regard to publications, the members of Distributed Systems Group at UPNA have more
than 40 journal and 100 conference publications. The most outstanding ones are:
1. J.R. González de Mendívil, J.R. Garitagoitia. “Fuzzy languages with infinite range accepted
by fuzzy automata: Pumping Lemma and determinization procedure ”, Fuzzy Sets and
Systems, vol. 249, pp. 1-26, Ed. Elsevier, 2014.
2. J.R. González de Mendívil, J.R. Garitagoitia. “Determinization of fuzzy automata via
factorization of fuzzy states ”, Information Sciences, vol. 283, pp. 165-179, Ed. Elsevier,
2014.
3. A. Sancho-Asensio, J. Navarro, I. Arrieta-Salinas, J.E. Armendáriz-Iñigo, V. Jiménez-
Ruano, A. Zaballos, E. Golobardes: Improving data partition schemes in Smart Grids via
clustering data streams. Expert Syst. Appl. 41(13): 5832-5842 (2014).
4. J. Navarro, A. Zaballos, A. Sancho-Asensio, G. Ravera, J.E. Armendáriz-Iñigo: The
Information System of INTEGRIS: INTelligent Electrical GRId Sensor Communications.
IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics 9(3): 1548-1560 (2013).
5. Y. Lin, B. Kemme, R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, J.E. Armendáriz-Iñigo: Snapshot
isolation and integrity constraints in replicated databases. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 34(2)
(2009)
Relevant previous projects or activities:
With regard to our involvement in various research projects, we emphasize that we have
participated in two European projects in seven national projects (SLAP, DynAdds) and three
local as well as eight collaborations with the industry.
1. “INTEGRIS: INTelligent Electrical GRId Sensor communications”. European Union. FP7-
ICT. ICT-2009.6.5-247938. Jan 2011 – July 2011. 3398601 €.
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2. “SLAP: PaaS para la automatización del ciclo de vida de los servicios –UPNA. TIN2012-
37719-C03-02”. CICYT. Dec 2012 – Dec 2015. 33000 €
3. “Sistemas distribuidos fiables, dinámicos y adaptables – UPNA. TIN2009-14460-C03-02”.
CICYT. Dec 2009 – Dec 2012. 102481 €
4. “Análisis, diseño e implantación de técnicas pesimistas para el control de concurrencia en
sistemas distribuidos de objetos replicados y persistentes. TIC2003-09420-C02-02”.
CICYT. Dec 2006 – Dec 2009. 112000 €.
5. “An Efficient Software Tool For Global Data Access. GLOBDATA”. European Union. IST
1999-20997. Nov 2000 – Dec 2002. 106781 €.
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
We have developed all the persistence layer (a tool for matching the object oriented
programaming paradigme to the relational storage model) in the GlobData project.
We have developed and implemented a full replicated database system over PostgreSQL replicas
to perform scalable transactional access in the context of replicated databases as well as inferred
the necessary and sufficient conditions to define a correct replication protocol.
Finally, we have deployed a storage and processing model to efficiently compute data from a
smart grid.
The University also has a research institute in the Arrosadia Campus: the Agrobiotechnology
Institute, joint center with the Spanish National Research Council and the Government of
Navarre, which focuses its work on agricultural research and biotechnology. The UPNA also has
the Jeronimo de Ayanz Electronic & Communication R&D Centre, which operates R&D in
industrial and telecommunication technologies applied to the business world. All of this will be
very useful in WP1 and WP7.
ARMINES (ASSOCIATION POUR LA RESERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS)
ARMINES (www.armines.net) is a private non-profit research and technological organisation
(RTO) funded in 1967 at the instigation of its partner engineering schools, the Ecoles des Mines
network. ARMINES currently shares 48 Joint Research Units (Common Research Centres) with
its partner schools, where each legal entity, either private or public, provides personnel,
investment and operating resources for common research purpose. Under the supervision of the
French Ministry for Productive Recovery, ARMINES is bound by French government-approved
agreements to its partner schools of the Ecoles des Mines network: Paris (Mines ParisTech),
Albi-Carmaux (Mines Albi-Carmaux), Alès (Mines Alès), Douai (Mines Douai), Nantes (Mines
Nantes) and Saint-Etienne (Mines Saint-Etienne). ARMINES also collaborates with ENSTA
ParisTech.
In this specific context, ARMINES operates within the framework of the law of 18 April 2006
which allows public sector higher education or research establishments to entrust private-sector
organisations with their contractual research activities.
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With a total turnover of more than €47 million (2012), ARMINES has held on to the top spot
amongst private contract research institutions affiliated to higher education establishments.
ARMINES is also member of EARTO (European Association of RTOs), EIRMA (European
Industrial Research Association Management) and the Carnot Institute Association.
In terms of European activity, ARMINES and its partner schools are involved in European
projects since 1994 (FP4) and obtained, within FP7, 11 projects as coordinator and 87 as partner.
ARMINES’ Third Party (Article 14) : Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech - www.mines-paristech.eu),
founded in 1783, is one of the oldest French higher education institutions in engineering. The
aim is for academic excellence with 286 research professors, 100 theses and 400 articles or
books in key research fields published every year. The School is a leader in many areas, among
which five major fields: 1/ Earth sciences and the environment, 2/ Energy and process
engineering, 3/ Mechanical engineering and materials, 4/ Mathematics and systems and, 5/
Economics, management and society. With 15 research centres extending over five different
fields, MINES ParisTech is the leading school in France for its volume of contractual research.
Its major research themes are essentially based on problems raised by industry, including
MITAL, EDF, TOTAL, RENAULT, PSA, SNECMA, GDF and SAINT-GOBAIN, as well as
society as a whole. MINES ParisTech is also member of Paris Sciences et Lettres Research
University (PSL - www.univ-psl.fr).
The ARMINES/Mines ParisTech common research centre “Centre de Morphologie Mathématique” (CMM) will be involved in the project.
Since its founding in 1967, CMM has contributed to the growth and spread of the theoretical
corpus and algorithms of mathematical morphology. Its activities hinge on teaching, research
and collaborations with industry. Always motivated by industrial applications, research at CMM
has produced an original and effective expertise in many areas (multimedia, materials science,
electronics, biology, medicine, industrial control). These wide application areas provide a rich
testing ground for the development of new concepts and tools.
CMM has capitalized its expertise through common software libraries to all researchers. These
libraries, providing advanced tools for filtering, segmentation and feature extraction, will provide
the basis for implementing the algorithms required for the project.
ARMINES-CMM has successfully participated to many French and European research projects
See http://www.armines.fr and http://cmm.ensmp.fr
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members
Beatriz MARCOTEGUI (female). Telecommunications Engineer (Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya, 1992), Doctor of Mathematical Morphology (Ecole des Mines de Paris, 1996).
Assistant professor at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (1996-1998). Researcher at the Centre
for Mathematical Morphology since 1998. Currently Senior Research Fellow at the Center for
Mathematical Morphology, MINES ParisTech.
Her main research interests focus on mathematical morphology, image segmentation, scene-text
localization and analysis of urban scenes. She is currently participating in TerraMobilita
consortium, which purpose is the development of innovative approaches to 3D creation and
automatic update of city maps as well as the enrichment of geographic information systems,
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allowing the calculation of itineraries for different mobilities. A special interest is given to soft
mobility, including pedestrians, bicycles, roller blades, or persons with reduced mobility (PRM).
In this context CMM is developing automated methods of interpretation of 3D point clouds,
including methods of segmentation and classification of 3D urban objects and automatic
diagnostic approach to accessibility of sidewalks in urban areas.
Relevant publications, and/or products, services or other achievements
1. Vallet, B., Brédif, M., Serna, A., Marcotegui, B., & Paparoditis, N. TerraMobilita/iQmulus
Urban Point Cloud Analysis Benchmark. Computers & Graphics, 2015.
2. A. Serna, B. Marcotegui, E. Decencière, Th. Baldeweck, A.M. Pena, S. Brizion.
"Segmentation of elongated objects using attribute profiles and area stability: application to
melanocyte segmentation in engineered skin". Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 47, 1
October 2014, Pages 172-182.
3. A. Serna and B. Marcotegui. "Detection, segmentation and classication of 3D urban objects
using morphological and learning techniques". ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing (2014), Volume 93, July 2014, Pages 243-255.
4. A. Serna and B. Marcotegui. "Urban accessibility diagnosis from mobile laser scanning
data". ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Volume 84, October 2013,
Pages 23-32 (2013). Best 2013 ISPRS paper, The U. V. Helava Award.
http://www.isprs.org/society/awards/helava/2013.aspx
5. J. Hernández and B. Marcotegui. Point Cloud Segmentation towards Urban Ground
Modeling. URBAN'09, 5th GRSS/ISPRS Joint workshop on remote sensing and data fusion
over urban areas, Shangai, China. May 2009.
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. For ten years, the CMM has applied filtering and segmentation tools to the analysis of urban
3D point clouds. The performance of the tools developed has demonstrated the effectiveness
of mathematical morphology for the implementation of a complete urban object
segmentation and classification system. In particular, we have developed a curb location
system that leads to more effective results than the state of the art, both in terms of quality
results and algorithmic efficiency. This work was published in the reference journal of the
field, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and received the award "The
UV Helava Award" for the best article in this journal in 2013.
2. Two projects, TerraNumerica, and
3. TerraMobilita have been funded by the French Interministerial funds (FUI) for competitive
clusters. Beatriz Marcotegui was the CMM principal investigator for these projects.
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INDRA (INDRA SISTEMAS SA)
Indra has an acknowledged experience in managing large projects, including multi-million Euro
programmes for Defence and large institutional customers. The company has a large base of
skilled project managers and most of them have achieved the Project Manager Professional
certification from the Project Management Institute. Furthermore, the company is a fully ISO
certified company with strong methodologies and tools to support the management of large
programmes.
Indra is the leading Spanish group in Ground Segment for Space Systems and Earth Observation
Applications. With more than 25 years of specific experience in the space sector and a highly
specialized staff (350 people), the Space business unit at Indra develops its activities in four
major areas of the space-related market: Earth Observation, Satellite Control Systems, Satellite
Communications Systems & Equipment and Satellite Navigation.
The major references in space are the Spanish Ministry of Defence, the Spanish Ministry of
Environment, the European Space Agency, the Spanish National Mapping Institute (IGN), the
Municipality of Madrid, Spanish Civil Protection, the Spanish MOD, the European Union
Satellite Centre, the French DGA, the Belgium MOD, the European Commission, the European
Environmental Agency, Hispasat, Hisdesat, EUTELSAT, EUMETSAT, AENA, INTA, etc. In
addition, many activities have been developed under the prime-contractorship of Thales Alenia
Space or EADS/Astrium, including Ground Segment studies, full user ground segments,
subsystem development, integration and deployments, etc. in programmes like Helios, Pleiades,
Astroterra, EPS CDA in Svalbard, EGNOS and MUSIS.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members:
Ms. Rosana Romero holds a degree in Mathematics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
(1999) and a Master Thesis in “SAR Interferometry applied to volcanic risk monitoring in the
Canary Islands” (2002). She has a strong background in SAR & interferometry applications and
imagery analysis for security/defense applications. She has been working in Indra since 2003
where she has participated in SAR projects as engineer, image analyst, instructor (in several
national and international training programmes) and also as technical manager. She has
participated in 5 SAR projects for the European Space Agency and also in two FP7 security
projects to apply SAR technology in collaboration with EUSC; in the later case she was fully
responsible for the coordination of the corresponding work packages. In addition to all these
technical skills, she has organizational and management capacities and she is a project manager
in the company, where she has managed several projects and participated as controller of large
projects as the Ingenio Ground Segment project for ESA and PAZ ground segment for INTA.
Nowadays she is project manager of the implementation and operation of the Sentinel-2 PAC in
Indra facilities under ESA contract. During the past 5 years she has also been lecturer in the
Remote Sensing Master of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Relevant publications:
1. Prime Contractor for the European Environmental Agency for the GIO-Land project / Lot-6
for the production of the Grassland/Water/Wetland High Resolution Layers over 39
countries in Europe. Total c.a. 6M km2 per each layer.
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2. Prime Contractor for ESA to host and manage the Sentinel-2 Processing and Archiving
Centre, where all the data from the satellite will be stored. The PAC is being deployed in
Indra’s Data Centre in Madrid.
3. Prime Contractor for the design and development of the Ground Segment of the two Spanish
satellite missions: Ingenio and Paz.
4. Coordinator of the G-SEXTANT FP7 project to develop innovative security applications for
Copernicus.
5. Coordinator of DECUMANUS FP7 project to develop innovative Land applications focused
in the urban environment.
Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. Participant in the geoland2 FP7. Responsible to develop concept products for the High
Resolution Layers for the EEA.
2. G-MOSAIC project for GMES security applications over land in close collaboration with
EUSC. Responsible of monitoring of nuclear infrastructures with time series, illicit crop
detection, etc.
3. Prime contractor of DG-ENTERPRISE to generate the EU-DEM and EU-HYDRO reference
data layers for Copernicus.
4. Prime contractor of “CFSP Innovator”, a project from ESA to develop new applications and
systems for the exploitation of SAR data for Security applications.
5. Developer of an operational high level exploitation centre for the SMOS mission (ESA
Earth Explorer mission to extract soil moisture and ocean salinity) to automatically generate
Level-3 and Level-4 advanced products. The contract, 2M€, was awarded by contract the
Spanish Research Institution Centre (CSIC) - Marine Science Institute, Barcelona.
Significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment:
Indra has in-house adequate computing and other IT equipment required for the development of
its activities within this project.
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INTIA (INSTITUTO NAVARRO DE TECNOLOGÍA E INFRAESTRUCTURAS AGROALIMENTARIAS SA)
The Institute for Agrifood Technology and Infrastructures of Navarra (INTIA) is a public
company attached to the Department of Rural Development, Environment and Local
Administration of the Government of Navarra, Spain (http://www.navarra.es/home_en/).
INTIA was born in 2011 integrating already existing public companies related to the agrifood
sector in Navarra such as the Technical Institute for Agricultural Management, the Technical
Institute for Livestock Management and the Institute for Agrifood Certification.
INTIA offers advanced market-oriented services for the development of the agrifood sector
based on quality, efficiency, innovation and sustainability criteria. INTIA includes a section with
qualified staff offering training and technical advice on agriculture and livestock, as well as a
team of technical experts responsible of diverse programs of R&D and on farm experimentation,
with an experience of more than 30 years.
http://www.intiasa.es/
INTIA has specialised staff on Horticulture, Fruit Growing, Extensive Farming and Greenhouse
production with a broad and integrated vision of cropping systems.
INTIA is involved in several projects regarding sustainable agrifood production, including
social, environmental and economic aspects. INTIA collects and analyses indicators at the farm,
product and region level, especially in relation to the Energy, Greenhouse and Water Footprint of
products or services.
One of INTIA’s missions is to bring new technologies and innovations to the farmer, such as
GIS, Remote Sensing, NTIC and automatization of processes. INTIA staff includes two
specialists on the development of web-based decision making tools, support and field models,
applied to the development of Alert and Advice Systems.
INTIA staff includes specialists on agriculture economic analysis, who are responsible for
analysing the economic viability of the alternatives proposed to the farmers. This is the case of
new services, such as WebGis services, in which INTIA is currently involved, and the
introduction of new technologies such as multi spectral images and Precision Agriculture.
CVs of involved key researchers / staff members
Alberto Lafarga Arnal. Project Manager. Cereal specialist, he is in charge of the R&D Area.
He has developed his research activity as an arable crops expert, especially in cereals. He has
actively participated in setting up new agricultural advisory systems “webgis”, the development
of decision making tools and the introduction of new remote sensing technologies. He has also
been involved in the development of indicators for the use of raw materials, carbon footprint of
agricultural products and the polluting effects and environmental impacts of agricultural activity.
Ana Pilar Armesto Andrés. Specialist in GIS and ICT in agriculture, she is in charge of the ICT
Experimentation Programme. She has been involved in the development of a Decision Support
Tools in Nitrogen Use Efficiency, and the Integration of a Decision Support Tools, with optical
tools for improving N fertilization in crops such as Cropcircle, or N-Sensor. She has worked in
the development of fertilization maps at the regional level, climate maps and their integration in
the decision making tools. She is responsible of the “webgis” advisory service
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Luis Orcaray Echeverría. Specialist in crop fertilization, he is in charge of the Fertilization
Experimentation Programme, which includes long terms experiments with N, P, K and organic
fertilizers. His work is related to the improvement of the efficiency of N use and the
development of strategies for decreasing N pollution in water and air. He has developed the use
of N-tester as the tool to improve N fertilization in cereals.
Alberto Alfaro. Specialist in monitoring operations in the Irrigation Area Navarra Canal
(INTIA). Involved in Irrigation Advisory Service Irrigation, working related to the training of
farmers and irrigators assistance to communities.
Jesus Goñi Rípodas. He has developed his research activity as an arable crops expert, especially
in cereals. He has been involved in the development of a Decision Support Tools in Nitrogen
Use Efficiency, integrated in sigAGROasesor platform.
He is responsible of the Research Program in cereals.
Relevant publications:
1. Integration of earth observation technologies in field-crop advisory services provided by
sigAGROasesor platform. F.L.M. Padilla, M.P. González-Dugo, F. De la Cruz, A.P.
Armesto, N. Abdat, J.C. Sillero, H. Lopez-Corcoles, A. Castilla, F. Perea, G.Besga, J. Serra,
M. Jabardo, A. Mestre, M. R. Botey, A. Lafarga. International Symposium on Recent
Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing: RAQRS'IV, 22-26th September 2014
2. La programación de riegos con “sigAGROasesor” (plataforma webgis de asesoramiento
personalizado para la gestión sostenible de cultivos extensivos). Lopez-Córcoles, H., de La
Cruz, F., López-Urrea, R., Lafarga, A., Armesto, A.P., Alfaro, A. , Goñi, J., Serra, J.,
Jabardo, M., Besga, G., Landeras, G., González- Dugo, M.P., Padilla, F.L.M., Mestre, A. ,
Botey, M.R., Romeu, A, Gil, M. 10/06/14. Comunicación-publicación: XXXII Congreso
Nacional de Riegos. Madrid (España)
3. Environmental indicators as a tool for improving soil and crop management in cereal
cropping systems. Oscar del Hierroa, Olatz Unamunzaga, Ana Aizpurua, Roberto Pérez
Parmo, Ana Pilar Armesto, Alberto Lafarga, Gerardo Besga. 08/06/14. Comunicación-
publicación: 20 th World Congress of Soil Science. Jeju (Korea)
4. Integration of a Decision Support Tool (HAD NITRO) with the N-Sensor® for variable rate
nitrogen top-dressing in winter cereals. A.P.Armesto, J. Jasper, L.A. Lopez, L.M. Arregui,
J.Goñi, J.Irañeta1, J.J. Perez de Ciriza. 13/07/13 Publicación de abstract+poster en CD
jornadas ECPA (Artículo en revista técnica) ISBN 978-84-695-8176-6. DL L9616-2013
5. Customized Advanced GIS Advisory Tools for the Sustainable Management of Extensive
Crops. Preliminary results. (Alberto Lafarga, Ana Pilar Armesto, Jesus Goñi, Horacio
Lopez, Fernando de La Cruz, Joan Serra, Gerardo Besga, Mar Cátedra, Antonio Mestre,
Alberto Romeu, Marc Gil). 13/07/13. Publicación de abstract+poster en CD jornadas ECPA
(Artículo en revista técnica) ISBN 978-84-695-8176-6. DL L9616-2013
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Relevant previous projects or activities:
1. AG_UAS, Gestión sostenible del agua a nivel regional mediante teledetección. LIFE 09
ENV/ES/000456. 2010-2012
2. sigAGROasesor,(Coordinator) Customized advanced gis advisory tools for the
sustainable management of extensive crops. LIFE 11 ENV/ES/000641. 2012-2015.
3. NITRATES, Repercusión de las prácticas agrarias en la contaminación por nitratos de
las aguas continentales. LIFE 10 ENV/ES/000478. 2011-2014.
4. FER GIR, Gestión integral de residuos ganaderos como fertilizantes para los cultivos.
EFA79/08. 2010 -2012.
5. REGADIOX, Fixation of atmospheric CO2 and reduction of greenhouse emissions
through a sustainable management of irrigation agriculture. LIFE12 ENV/ES/000426.
2014-2017.
6.