tekstThe European Space Agency’s tender approved the project proposal “Automatic urbanisation monitoring for risk assessment by remote sensing and Copernicus data”. This project proposal is the result of many years of interdisciplinary research in the field of geodesy, geoinformatics and civil engineering. The project holder is the Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, with partners from Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Zagreb and the State Geodetic Administration.
Project’s main goals are to development an algorithm and prototype for automatic construction year assessment based on the freely available satellite imagery (e.g., Sentinel 2, SPOT, Landsat) and an algorithm and prototype for automatic building height and area extraction based on Very high-resolution satellite imagery (VHRSI, e.g., WorldView). In addition, the main goals include validating the developed algorithm using LiDAR and aerial photogrammetry data, as well as field measurements, and generating accurate and reliable building inventory information for national registries, improved risk assessment maps, and other visualizations and analyses based on the developed algorithm.
The project is funded by the European Space Agency.
