System design for ARTEMIS environmental monitoring

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J. Spaa

Remote sensing Africa Soil moisture Data acquisition Drought Satellite imagery Early warning systems Information systems Environmental monitoring Real time operation Data bases Meteosat satellite Precipitation (meteorology) Locusts NCAA satellites Thematic mapping Vegetative index Weather satellites

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24-03-1992

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NLR Technical Publication TP 92135 U

Abstract

This paper describes aspects of system design applied to the ARTEMIS environmental monitoring system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The design aspects are derived from characteristics of the monitoring function and are based on methods of rainfall and vegetation monitoring from satellite observations which are widely accepted for the user community. The satellites which meet the requirements for large scale monitoring purposes are the METEOSAT geostationary and NOAA polar-orbiting satellites. The thematic data processing is based on the method of ten-day cumulation of METEOSAT IR data for rainfall estimation and the method of ten-day composition of NOAA VIS and NIR data to determine the vegetation index. All processed images and maps are stored in an image database to build a long term archive. The information is used in the FAO monitoring programmes and in regional and national institutes in Africa.

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