Interactive satellite image server on generation image coding

Objective

The project aims to develop and test an Earth Observation (EO) information access and retrieval system.

The major objective is to allow the demonstration of high-volume, interactive data-access and data-mining services and to offer on-line and thematic data access. The project will address some of the technical constraints to the operational development of EO services. These relate to adequate information extraction tools, data availability and data delivery. In particular, the project will address the improvement of access to products and of their availability and associated delivery times. This will enable users of remote sensing products to have access via computer networks not only to catalogues, but also to the products themselves. The images will be compressed according to individual requirements. To do this the client expresses interactively a priori needs for each requested image. The server selects the appropriate features inside the image, simplifies the information outside those features and compresses the image before sending it to the client. The compressed image is then received and decompressed. The emphasis is on the expansion of the EO market to new users as well as on the improvement of existing capabilities by improving the current level of EO data usage in the supply chain comprising primary data provider, value-added supplier and end user.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › satellite technology
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › remote sensing
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › telecommunications networks

Programme(s)

• FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 6.7 - HPCN Information Management and Decision Support

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Matra Systemes et Information

Address

Rue Dewoitine 6
78142 Velizy Villacoublay
France

Participants (6)

Advanced Computer Systems

Italy

Address

Via Paolo Frisi 1
Roma

Dornier Gmbh

Germany

Address

88039 Friedrichshafen

European Commission, Directorate General Xii-Jrc, Science, Research and Development, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications

Belgium

Address

Rue De La Loi 200
1040 Brussels

International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences

Netherlands

Address

Boulevard 1945 350
7500 AA Enschede

Spot Image

France

Address

Rue Des Satellites 5
31030 Toulouse

Vitec Multimedia

France

Address

Champs Elysees 66
75008 Paris