On 24 September 2021, the SIMS (Soil
Sealing Identification and Monitoring System) project held its kick-off meeting
at the University of Salzburg with participants from the academic
partner (University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS),
industry partner, Spatial Services GmbH, and Austrian research
promotion agency, FFG. The project is funded through the FFG’s Austrian
Space Application Programme (ASAP) and runs until 2023.
The SIMS project
builds upon the semantic EO
data cube for Austria, called Sen2Cube.at. It aims to
engage users in incorporating information derived from free and open Copernicus
EO data towards a proof-of-concept implementation to detect and monitor soil
sealing in Austria.
The project will implement a prototypical service
in close collaboration with users from local and national authorities
involved in regional planning and the environment.
SIMS aims to:
- Supplement very high
resolution satellite images available to public authorities that are
updated once every couple of years with dynamic information from
Sentinel-2 images, which have alower spatial resolution, but much more
frequent acquisitions every 3-5 days.
- Detect and monitor
sealed soils using prototypical
reproducible and transferable ad-hoc semantic queries of enriched EO
data.
- Enable Austrian
regional and national public authorities to begin using free and open
multi-temporal Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery as analysis-ready-data in
daily workflows
This approach aims to
meet pressing needs for monitoring, reporting, decision making spatial planning
tools. SIMS will provide Web-browser-based access to a graphical user
interface for interested users to monitor land cover changes without
requiring programming skills, focusing first on soil sealing.
Non-EO-experts will be able to develop and conduct custom multi-temporal
(inter-and intra-annual) analyses using user-friendly interfaces. Core users
will be included from the beginning and trained to use the SIMS prototype. The
results will include condensed hot-spot map information products and the
project will provide additional tools for seamless GIS integration, giving
non-EO experts access to thousands of Copernicus data sets to better
inform reporting and decision making.
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Initial ad hoc hot
spot analysis of vegetation loss in Sen2Cube.at for Hallein detecting vegetated
land cover changes between 2019 and 2020 based on over 150 free and open
Sentinel-2 satellite images with a 10m spatial resolution. The right shows very
high resolution commercial Pleiades images validating the hotspot detection
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