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What is IMAA
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The main characteristic of IMAA is the capability of developing and or integrating Earth Observation techniques, both the ground based and airborne and satellite based ones.
By this way we can increase our knowledge of geophysical processes, using all the information that can be achieved by observing techniques, and identify observational gaps so to define strategies able to cover them.
IMAA covers the whole spectrum of satellite based technologies to characterize atmospheric profiling and Earth surface processes, as well as of ground based remote sensing techniques for atmospheric profiling and electromagnetic geophysical techniques for surface and subsurface tomography. In the first decade of new millennium, the development of new generation satellite sensors, which typically produce very high data rates, combined with the development of ICT (technologies for data interoperability, grid technologies, high performance computing) is opening new frontiers to geophysical research. One of the main challenges nowadays is data integration so to study processes that can be characterized by the combination of different measuring techniques.
A big effort has been made by IMAA in order to integrate actual powerful ICT technologies into Earth Observation. In someway the IMAA approach can be considered as a precursor of the GMES (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security) one. In fact IMAA activities combine the three GMES pillars: “Space Measurements”, “In Situ Measurements”, “Data Management”.
Great attention is now devoted to the development of new web based observing techniques such as web sensors and self adapting networks.
Great attention is now devoted to the development of new web based observing techniques such as web sensors and self adapting networks. The main scientific and application issues are forecast, prevention and protection by natural hazards; environmental monitoring; atmospheric physics. The study of natural hazards such as landslides, fires, seismic and volcanic hazard and risk benefits greatly from the integration of satellite airborne measurements with ground based measurements and archived data.
The Civil Protection requirement of integrating in real time very large data flows, which, risk by risk, combine almost all observing techniques, obliges to develop technological platforms that, being compliant to very restrictive requirements, generate fallout in many other scientific fields as e. g. the detection and the monitoring of cultural heritage.
Data Integration of active and passive, satellite and ground based techniques plays a key role in the study of atmospheric processes such as water cycle, radiative transfer, transport and characterization of aerosols, cloud microphysics, air quality.
The integration of ground base electromagnetic geophysical techniques with airborne or satellite based technologies (hyperspectral ones, SAR, radiometric techniques, high and very high imaging techniques and so on) is required in order to adequately characterize surface and sub surface processes, covering a large spectrum of applications that range from landslides to contaminated sites to land degradation to archaeology
Great attention is devoted by IMAA researchers both to the development of new instrumentation
(water vapour and aerosol Raman lidars, Fourier spectrometers) and to the design of new generation satellite sensors, (Fourier spectrometers, hyperspectral sensors, new low cost microsatellites for fire detection and so on) and to the full exploitation of new sensors.
This approach allowed the institute to develop many facilities: the most important ones are the Atmospheric Observatory; the satellite data facility (to receive, process and archive satellite data) which manages on line up to 15 Tbytes of data; the “Hydrogeosite” to perform measurements of hydro geophysical processes in controlled situations; four mobile equipped vans to perform field measurements.
This approach allowed the institute to develop many facilities: the most important ones are the Atmospheric Observatory; the satellite data facility (to receive, process and archive satellite data) which manages on line up to 15 Tbytes of data; the “Hydrogeosite” to perform measurements of hydro geophysical processes in controlled situations; four mobile equipped vans to perform field measurements. Most of these activities were and are performed in the framework of projects funded by the European Commission, ESA (European Space Agency) and EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites). In this framework IMAA is the coordinator of the European Infrastructure Earlinet-Asos.
Great attention was devoted to transfer the results both to national end users (such as the Civil Protection Department), to enterprises (both SMES and national relevance ones as Finmeccanica) and to the regional system.
Major achievements can be summarized as it follows.
IMAA is “Centro di Competenza” (i. e. Centre for scientific and technological support) of the Italian Department of Civil Protection.
IMAA promoted many spin-offs, which nowadays are active.
IMAA is the main partner of TeRN Consortium that is promoting the Technological District on Earth Observation and Natural Hazards
IMAA strongly supported the Basilicata Region in promoting NEREUS “Network of European Regions for Space”.
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