copal-polska, january 18, 20081 andrzej filipkowski, krzysztof kulpa, jacek misiurewicz *...

COPAL-Polska, January 18, 2008 1

Andrzej Filipkowski,

Krzysztof Kulpa, Jacek Misiurewicz

*

Politechnika Warszawska

Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)

Institute of Electronic Systems

&

Department of Analytical Chemistry

WARSAW, Poland

http://www.pw.edu.pl [email protected]@elka.pw.edu.pl

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What I want to present:

1. Historical introduction

2. Actual involvement

3. EUFAR and COPAL interest

4. Conclusions

Part I: A. Filipkowski

Environment Monitoring with the aid of COPAL


1. Historical introduction- In the years 2001-2003 co-ordination of FP5 project SEWING: (System for European Water monitorING). Finished with

success. It concerned elaborating equipment for monitoring of water

pollution with chemical non-organic pollutants, using Ion-Sensitive-Field-Effect-Transistors (ISFETs) with electronics, informatics and hydraulics.

- Starting from 2006 the FP6 project WARMER (WAter Risk Management in EuRope). Coordinator SME SYSTEA in Rome, Italy, WUT being non-formal „vice co-ordinator”.

This project is much broader, involves in-situ and remote sensing, with the information network.


2. Actual involvementThe idea of WARMER project:

In WARMER in-situ stations and remote stations on satellites co-operate


The partner responsible for remote monitoring is NERSC (Nansen

Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway).

The following water parameters are to be monitored:

• With visible and near-infrared light sensors colour is monitored

giving information about plankton, secondary organic matter,

dissolved organic matter, suspended matter, oil spill etc.

• With thermal infrared sensors the surface temperature is

monitored.

• With Synthetic Aperture Radar the waves and surface state is

monitored.

• Information from in-situ stations is also collected, processed and

sent to the data centre.


This is an example of satellite colour monitoring of chlorophyll pigment.Blue-purple means low pigment, red – high.


3. EUFAR and COPAL interest

By a general point of view, to test our integrated water monitoring

system we are limited by the actual poor spatial resolution of the

commercial satellites, so we are obliged to work on estuaries or

very large rivers and lakes.

This is why, when the first information about EUFAR project

reached me in January 2006, I wrote a letter of intent.

We planned to propose a more integrated proposal in FP7,

combining the in-situ, satellite and aircraft monitoring of water

quality. Unfortunately this proposal was not accepted (in theme 6 –

ENV.)

We are still interested in the following activities:


• Elaborating a large variety of sensors, suitable for using them in-

situ, in satellites and in aircrafts.

• Integrate all important parameters of water, both surface and sea, in

one software and firmware solution, making the data suitable for use

in controlling the quality of water in Europe.

• The use of aircraft was too expensive so-far, and the economic and

technically satisfactory method to use them in water monitoring was

almost impossible.

• I hope that this can be changed in the near future and that

integrated monitoring will become possible.


4. Conclusions

• The water monitoring group from Politechnika Warszawska is not

yet ready for entering as user and collaborator in COPAL project,

but certainly in the perspective of 10 years our activities and

international co-operation will make entering to the EUFAR and

COPAL family possible.

• We should take into account that water is not the only one

environmental parameter to be remotely monitored. Air pollution,

fires, floods, and even organising of dangerous human

manifestations can be early discovered and monitored.


• SAR sensor in environmental monitoring

• Our experience with SAR

• Possible engagement in COPAL

Part II: K. Kulpa, J. Misiurewicz

SAR radar technology for COPAL


SAR sensor for environmentSAR sensor for environment

• SAR – Synthetic Aperture Radar:SAR – Synthetic Aperture Radar:high resolution imaging of Earth surfacehigh resolution imaging of Earth surface

• Airborne platform SAR advantage:Airborne platform SAR advantage:sub-meter resolution, short revisit time, sub-meter resolution, short revisit time, real-time imaging, rescue assistancereal-time imaging, rescue assistance

• Oil slick detection & tracking, forest Oil slick detection & tracking, forest fire/hurricane damages, ice monitoringfire/hurricane damages, ice monitoring

• Slow motion detectionSlow motion detection


Our experience with SAROur experience with SAR

• Working in the airborne SAR since 2002 Working in the airborne SAR since 2002

• First Polish SAR images (processed First Polish SAR images (processed offline) in 2003offline) in 2003

• Algorithms for real-time airborne SARAlgorithms for real-time airborne SAR

• Cooperation with PIT – implementations:Cooperation with PIT – implementations:– Border Guard airplane (maritime patrol, oil Border Guard airplane (maritime patrol, oil

slick detection mode) slick detection mode) – Reconnaisance airplane (military)Reconnaisance airplane (military)


SAR sensor in COPALSAR sensor in COPAL

• Sea, ice, forest, oil slicks, traffic .....Sea, ice, forest, oil slicks, traffic .....

• Weather-independent sensorWeather-independent sensor

We propose to include SAR in a standard We propose to include SAR in a standard COPAL payload. COPAL payload. – Interferometric SARInterferometric SAR– Polarimetric SARPolarimetric SAR– ISAR - identification of pollution sourcesISAR - identification of pollution sources– Micro-SAR for small aircaftsMicro-SAR for small aircafts


Thank you for your attention

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