System design for ARTEMIS environmental monitoring

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...

Studie naar de opzet van een nationaal ERS-1 datacentrum - Phase-A/B study of a national ERS-1 data centre

Within the framework of the National Remote Sensing Programme and under contract with the Netherlands Remote Sensing Board (BCRS), the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR has carried out a Phase-A/B study of a national ERS-1 data and information centre. The first European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) is due to be launched by the European Space...

Crop identification with microwaves (SLAR-data of 1985)

Microwaves (i.e. X-band SLAR) have been used in The Netherlands for many years within ROVE to identify agricultural crops. This report deals with data acquisition, preprocessing and classification of agricultural crops in The Netherlands using the Dutch Digital SLAR. With internal and external calibration of the instrument satisfactory results...