Remote Sensing from Space: Supporting International Peace and Security

✍ Scribed by Clementine Burnley, Nathalie Stephenne, Dirk Buda, Daniele Ehrlich (auth.), Bhupendra Jasani, Martino Pesaresi, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Gunter Zeug (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides the reader with an overview of the state-of-the-art Earth Observation (EO) related research that deals with national and international security. An interdisciplinary approach was adopted in this book in order to provide the reader with a broad understanding on the uses of remote sensing technologies. The book therefore comprises management aspects (issues and priorities of security research, crisis response), applied methodologies and process chains (treaty monitoring, estimation of population densities and characteristics, border permeability models, damage assessment) and the latest developments in generic tools (feature recognition, change detection and visualization). Moreover, issues of data sharing and standards, as well as new approaches to training security relevant techniques, are addressed. The contributing authors are leading researchers and experts from private companies, national research institutions and international organizations, all of whom were brought together under the aegis of the European research project GMOSS (Global Monitoring for Security and Stability).

This book is tailored for the scientific community that deals with the application of EO data, as well as project managers and decision makers working in the field of security having an interest in technical solutions. The integrative use of many figures and sample images are ideal in enabling the non-technical reader to grasp quickly the modern technologies that are being researched in the area of civil security.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-lii
Definitions, Concepts and Geospatial Dimensions of Security....Pages 3-19
European Security Policy and Earth Observation....Pages 21-31
Satellite Based Information to Support European Crisis Response....Pages 33-45
The Security Dimension of GMES....Pages 49-58
A Novel Approach to Capacity Building for Security Applications....Pages 59-69
Games and Scenarios in the Context of GMOSS....Pages 71-86
GMOSS: Infrastructure and Standards....Pages 87-102
Feature Recognition Techniques....Pages 105-118
Change Detection Tools....Pages 119-140
Data Integration and Visualization for Crisis Applications....Pages 141-160
UNOSAT Grid....Pages 161-164
Treaty Monitoring....Pages 167-188
Early Warnings and Alerts....Pages 189-209
Can Earth Observation Help to Improve Information on Population?....Pages 211-237
From Real Time Border Monitoring to a Permeability Model....Pages 239-259
Rapid Mapping and Damage Assessment....Pages 261-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-297

✦ Subjects

Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography