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An environmental emergency situations has most of the following characteristics:
  • Potentially serious to people and environment 
It is therefore imperative to take action in order to manage the situation in a way that avoids or minimises the damages. However, up to now no efficient tools for this purpose have been available. 
  • Sudden appearance and geographically extended 
This has until recently made it difficult to efficiently detect and monitor such phenomena. The advent of high spatial resolution satellite remote sensing has made this possible
  • Potential of rapid development 
Therefore, it is necessary also to monitor the phenomenon frequently. The same remote sensing technology makes this possible. However, to make the remote sensing data useful, fast data transfer is needed as well as automatic or semi-automatic processing because of the huge data amounts.

From this brief description of the situation, one can draw the conclusion that remote sensing is a promising approach, however, additional technology is strictly required in order to be able to use the approach. It is necessary to transfer the data fast from the satellite ground station to the emergency monitoring center. Furthermore, the data amounts may be so huge that automatic or semi-automatic processing of the data is necessary. When the emergency situation is detected, it is necessary to combine a lot of data in order for the operator to be able to draw the right conclusions. Note that several data sources may be distributed, and require rapid transfer of data. What is needed are efficient information technology solutions.
 

ENVISYS - The solution for management of different emergency situations

ENVISYS has currently been implemented in a prototype for marine oil spill detection. However, ENVISYS also represents a generic approach to environmental emergency management. Therefore, we foresee several application types in the future.