Processing VHR Satellite Imagery in Tsunami Affected Areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka
The content of this publication forms part of the post-tsunami assistance package financed under the European Commission and which is being implemented by the JRC (Joint Research Centre) on behalf of DG Relex. In this scope the European Commission, together with the Indonesian and Sri Lankan Authorities, had identified earlier the need to provide the above mentioned Authorities with very high resolution satellite imagery of the affected coastline before and after the December 2004 tsunami. The availability of such imagery, transformed to 1/5000 scale baseline image maps will help the authorities in precise damage assessment, elaborating reconstruction plans and risk analysis.
In this context, two times a 2-week mission was carried out in order to deliver the above mentioned imagery and above all to start the ortho-rectification process together with the national authorities of both Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Capacity building of the local staff in processing raw imagery (ortho-rectification), in land surveying using DGPS techniques and in different aspects of GIS guidance the was considered as essential.
SPRUYT Peter;
2006-01-16
JRC31457
EUR 21888 EN,
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