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Applications

Fugro NPA's image processing team are dedicated to ensuring that each project is tailored to suit the application and requirements laid out by the client by providing independent advice that best fits the specifications. Whether it be to monitor a host of changes in our environment such as subtle vegetation stress in a small but remote field or wide ranging changes at the regional scale. Some example application studies follow.

Monitoring & Change Detection

Satellites provide an ideal platform to enable non intrusive monitoring of locations, regardless of how remote they may be.

Route Planning

Satellite imagery and elevation data can be used effectively together for route planning where minimising gradients and navigating difficult land cover need to be balanced with route length.

Land Cover Classification

Semi automatic land cover classifications are primarily based on the spectral properties of optical satellite data.

Shallow Water Bathymetry

Remote sensing is a non invasive and relatively low cost technique to rapidly obtain shallow water bathymetry results which compliment and provide focus for future survey efforts.

Flood Monitoring

Floods occur throughout the world and often their extents are very difficult to predict even using highly detailed elevation models.

Ice Monitoring

Traditional ice monitoring solutions offer relatively low resolution, generalised data on ice fields, leads and pack ice movements over large regions.

Water Resources

Satellite imagery can aid the monitoring of water resources over large areas, providing a low cost and rapid solution.

Structural Damage Mapping

The Izmit earthquake occurred on 17th August 1999 and was a 7.6 magnitude event, the damage caused was devastating to the city and its neighbouring towns.

Wind Farm Siting

Wind is increasingly being established as an environmentally friendly source of power. This has lead to the development of several onshore and offshore wind farms to supplement the power grid.

Agriculture Monitoring

Monitoring with remotely sensed imagery can provide a wealth of information on the health and condition of crops, particularly those within irrigation schemes.