RAPIDS remote sensing receiving station: key of agriculture production machine

Bob Moll; Frank Wouters

doi:10.1117/12.417142

9 February 2001 RAPIDS remote sensing receiving station: key of agriculture production machine

Bob Moll, Frank Wouters

Proceedings Volume 4169, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites IV; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417142
Event: Europto Remote Sensing, 2000, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

12 The Netherlands based National Aerospace laboratory NLR and the co-located Geomatics Business Park use the output of RAPIDS, a small 2.7m dish satellite data receiver system, on a daily basis. The satellite Earth observation data are real time downlinked from the three Spot satellites and the ERS-2 radar satellite and subsequently processed into images. After georeferencing and cutting into mapsheets, the data are sent to a value adding company, which is an expert in image interpretation and classification for e.g. agricultural purposes. The so extracted agricultural information is collected in a database that can be accessed by the subscribers day after day. A semi-automatic georeferencing system has been integrated so the output data of the RAPIDS station can be implemented in, for example, a GIS directly. The database/GIS is a valuable tool for decision making with respect to land use, crop monitoring, flood monitoring, etc.

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Bob Moll and Frank Wouters "RAPIDS remote sensing receiving station: key of agriculture production machine", Proc. SPIE 4169, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites IV, (9 February 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417142

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