Remote sensing

The lack of coordination between authorities and the scientific community in dealing with natural disaster risk assessment was raised at the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, which is being held in Greece for the first time (July 7-12), at the Athens Concert Hall.

An intriguing and unique European research initiative, supervised by Greek experts, seeks to develop approaches and methodologies for assessing landscape quality in rural regions in order to safeguard it.

In fact, it employs as its primary tools, on the one hand, citizen engagement and, on the other, the most advanced technologies of geoinformatics and artificial intelligence.

The fire in Evros, located in northeastern Greece, had consumed an area exceeding 82,600 hectares until August 28. This information is based on the latest high-resolution images obtained from the Sentinel-2 satellite and analyzed by the National Observatory of Forest Fires (NOFFi)'s burnt areas mapping service.

Artificial intelligence is being deployed in the battle for the prevention and management of forest fires through innovative programs developed and coordinated by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).

More specifically, forest fire risk is being assessed through the Deep Cube and SeasFire programs, which started in January 2021 and March 2022 respectively.

The German environmental satellite mission Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) has delivered its first images a month after its launch.

As part of the mission, which is managed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), EnMAP has recorded a strip about 30 kilometers wide and 180 kilometers long over Istanbul.

Satellite images provided to The Times by Maxar Technologies show that at least 11 of those had been on the street since March 11

High-resolution photos were taken by the American observation satellite WorldView-2 from Maxar from an altitude of 770 km.

High-resolution satellite images of large-scale forest fires in the Turkish resorts of Bodrum, Manavgat and Marmaris have been published by European Space Imaging.

The Green Card of the largest volunteer initiative in Bulgaria - Let's Clean Bulgaria Together - will become the first assistant and virtual guide to all environmentalists and ambassadors of the good example.

The two Greek micro-satellites, UPSat and DUTHSat, are on route for the International Space Station after being launched into space on Tuesday.

India slowly but steadily becomes an important international player in the space sector. On Wednesday India made yet another important step towards that direction, as the country successfully launched 104 nano-satellites into orbit.

Of the 104 satellites, 96 belong to the USA, one to Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UAE.