Title : The expert integrated support system for coastal mixed urban – industrial – critical infrastructure monitoring using combined technologies – the epipelagic project
Abstract:
Today’s Remote sensing data and technologies offer the capability to effectively monitor diverse and challenging environments around the world such as coastal river and riparian zones. Coastal riparian zones and river deltas usually demonstrate extreme coastline changes in terms of water extent to inland territories through flood Coastal, marine and riverine ecosystems benefit society in several ways, providing a range of ‘ecosystem services’ and acting as a buffer between the sea and the land. Conservation and appropriate management of these ecosystems can reduce the risk of coastal flooding, erosion, degradation and subsidence. Nowadays, coastal areas are exposed to multiple hazards of increasing severity, such as coastal floods, erosion, subsidence due to a combination of physical, social and economic factors, including climate change and urbanization. In order to cope with these challenges, new remote sensing monitoring solutions are required that are based on knowledge extraction and state of the art machine learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions that provide insights into the related physical mechanisms and allow the creation of innovative Decision Support Tools for managing authorities. EPIPELAGIC project focuses on coastal and riverine areas monitoring using EU and Chinese space assets, while addressing RIS3 priority for “Centers of excellence for environmental studies-Environment & Sustainable Growth because of the Climate Change” between Greece and China. The main objective is to contribute to “mitigation and adaptation to climate change and natural disasters” by providing methodologies and tools by utilizing Earth Observation and in-situ real time auxiliary data. EPIPELAGIC project, introduces an innovative Decision Support System (DSS) that is based on state of the art approaches for knowledge extraction and change detection is proposed. It uses processes for collecting and analysing data from various heterogeneous sources (satellite, in situ and other auxiliary data) for monitoring land cover and use changes; erosion; coastline changes as well as land deformations. Experimental results using different datasets will be provided to assess the performance of the proposed system, which is implemented within the EPIPELAGIC bilateral Greece-China project and will be applied in two Areas of Interest, namely Thermaic Gulf in Thessaloniki, Greece.
This scientific work is performed in the framework of the EPIPELAGIC project "ExPert Integrated suPport systEm for coastaL mixed urbAn – industrial – critical infrastructure monitorinG usIng Combined technologies", co-financed by Greece and the European Union (EPAnEK 2014-2020 Operational Programme).
