ScanEx capabilities for remote sensing at high latitudes – achievements and plans LAND COVER MAPPING AT HIGH LATITUDES Symposium and GOFC-GOLD Workshop for Northern Eurasia Regional Information Network (NERIN) Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Syktyvkar, Russia, July 9-11, 2008 Alexander Barinov, Elena Ash ScanEx R&D Center (Moscow, Russia)

RUSSIA IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR Arctic development The World Ocean’s nature research others… “Unified Information System on the World Ocean” (ESIMO)

Mapping with satellite imagery: weather forecasts and monitoring of acts of nature; ice condition monitoring in Northern Sea Route and in offshore oil production territories; ships detection in the water areas; coastal areas pollutions monitoring, including oil spills detection; license agreements compliance supervision during natural resources fields development; nature protection monitoring; illegal logging land cover change other activities in need of near real-time visual geospatial data.

ScanEx Research and Development Center ScanEx R&D Center has been operating as a private company since 1989 ScanExR&D Center is the leading Russian company on the remote sensing market that offers a complete set of services ranging from acquisition to thematic processing of Earth observation images from space

The mission of ScanEx R&D Center The mission of ScanEx R&D Center – democratization of access to Earth remote sensing data, which makes them cheaper for the end-user, reduces data acquisition time and streamlines processing of data.

The mission of ScanEx R&D Center Promotion of the proprietary universal UniScan™ and Alice-SC™ ground stations for real-time data reception based on personal computers and Microsoft Windows operating system Application of a comprehensive range of own software for reception, archiving, preliminary processing and in-depth thematic analysis of satellite imagery Flexible pricing policy for RS data distribution Creation of Internet geoportals based on Earth observation data from space, accessible to unlimited number of users Supporting projects of application of Earth satellite imagery both for specialists and novice users of remote sensing data and GIS-technology

L-band multimission Alice-SC™ ground station Alice-SC™ stations in RosHydroMet Growth of Alice-SC™ amount Amount of stations Years Wide range of satellites: NOAA, MetOp, FengYun, NPOESS (2009…) Data rates: up to 4 Mbps Positioner: 2 axis Antenna dish Ǿ: 1.2 m

X-band multimission UniScan™ ground station UniScan™-24 UniScan™-36 Amount of stations Years Growth of UniScan™ amount Wide range of satellites: Terra, Aqua, IRS-1D IRS-P5, IRS-P6, SPOT 4/5 Landsat 5, EROS A/B Reurs-DK1, RADARSAT-1/2 ENVISAT-1 Formosat-2 There are 37 UniScan ground stations operational Data rates: up to 320 Mbps Positioner: 2 and 3 axis Antenna dish Ǿ: 2.4/3.1 m

UniScan™ network of RosHydroMet UniScan™ network of EMERCOM of Russia UniScan™ network of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia Educational UniScan™ network UniScan™ networks of governmental agencies

Commercial UniScan™ stations network, operated by ScanEx The network provides for great RS data archives Moscow Irkutsk Magadan

RS data volumes in the ScanEx’s archive in years GB Years RS data received by commercial network of UniScan™

SPOT 2/4 imagery coverage ( ) PAN 10 m MX 20 m

IRS 1C/1D imagery coverage ( ) PAN 5.8 m LISS 3 23 m The satellite imagery archives as well as distributing are main fields of ScanEx activity

Moscow, Irkutsk and Magadan ground stations for Landsat 5 TM data reception per the Mid- Decadal Global Land Survey (MDGLS) Project, managed by NASA and the USGS Participation of ScanEx in the MDGLS Project In August, 2006 ScanEx became a participant of the International Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey (MDGLS) Project, managed by NASA and the USGS. The program objective is updating of the global Earth map of land cover, land use change to support the assessment of the climate change impacts and of human activities on the planet. An international network of stations will be executing a coordinated data reception campaign from the LANDSAT-5 TM sensor supporting the MDGLS program through December 2007.

Commercial and non-commercial RS data archives of ScanEx, derived from world archives … and PRISM from ALOS Terra/ASTER Landsat 4/5 (old archive ) Landsat 7 NEW!

Formosat-2 virtual reception Project in Russia - Real daily revisit - Spectral bands including blue band - Early daily acquisition at 9:30 am - High spatial resolution (2 m PAN and 8 MX) suitable for applications requiring higher precision FORMOSAT-2 initial feasibility study to cover ScanEx AOI Result of imaging for 2 months (Sep., Oct., 2007) Specifics of Formosat-2 orbit

Distributor agreements for very-high resolution imagery In year 2007 ScanEx signed distributor agreements with leading Operators of VHR Data: European Space Imaging GmbH – IKONOS InfoTerra GmbH – TerraSAR-X Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. – QuickBird

Application projects - B2G Monitoring of forestry from space 2. Year 2006 – 100 mln hectares 3. Year 2007 – 112 mln hectares Project of Russian Federal Forestry Agency © 2006 Spot Image, ScanEx R&D Center Forestry areas for monitoring from space Stages: 1. Year 2005 – 50 mln hectares

Project of Ministry of Transport of Russia Development of GIS for “Amur” (Chita-Khabarovsk) auto route Application projects - B2G Monitoring of auto routes construction - 87 SPOT-2/4 scenes; -12 LANDSAT-7 scenes; - 8 IRS-1C/-1D scenes; - 2 EROS-A scenes.

Application projects - B2B Caspian Sea oil pollution monitoring Joint project between LUKOIL Company, ScanEx and Shirshov Institute of Oceanology.

UniScan™ network of Roshydromet

Advantage of installing several receiving stations is one ground receiving center ? !

RADAR capabilities in bad weather conditions and during the polar night optic RADAR

RADAR vs Optic – more efficiency RADARSAT-1 programming Min. 29 hours (RADARSAT-1) acquisition min to days processing end user Optical satellite processing min to days Min. 6 hours (EROS) Min hours (QuickBird) performing the order acquisition one to several days end user programming

Magadan station – the first remotely controlled station in Russia with web-access Canadian Space Agency and MDA Geospatial Services Inc. certified Magadan station (Far East of Russia) for RADARSAT-1 data reception and processing in January 2007.

Prospective network of ScanEx’s UniScan™ stations at high latitudes

End User EO data receiving Center, Magadan Internet Tartar Strait, Far East. RADARSAT-1, 02/19/2007 Image-based Ice Map, AARI Thematic Data Processing Center, AARI Supporting projects of application of space images Ice monitoring in Tartar Strait for Exxon-Mobil – Project provided by AARI (St.-Petersburg) and ScanEx

Coverage of the whole regions with spatial resolution of 5.8 m from IRS-1C/1D, P6 New.kosmosnimki.ru – prototype of regional Geo-portals

Coverage of cities or objects of infrastructure with spatial resolution of 0.8 m from IKONOS

Regional geo-portals for decision making support Satellites Ground station Mosaics of satellite images Main thematic products Regular coverage updating RS data archives growth Ground station – operational component of Geo-portals

 Fast data updating through UniScan™ direct data receiving stations;  User-oriented resolution of tasks and fast response to user needs;  GIS-products compatibility;  Easy accessible and reconfigurable tool for various corporative solutions, informational services, etc.;  User-friendly and fast decision-making tool. Advantages of Geo-portal as a tool for operative data access

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