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Marsop Software

Description

MARSOP Software

GLIMPSE, SPIRITS & TRAINING
Global applications Software & training
Contact  Herman EERENS Start (End) Date  01/04/2008
 (31/03/2014)     
Consortium  1 partner Project Coordination  VITO
Website  www.marsop.info (new window) Related Projects  GMFS, E-AGRI,
 DevCoCast
Keywords   image processing, crop monitoring, food security                 


Project Objectives
GLIMPSE (Global Image Processing Software) is a set of image processing routines, developed over the last fifteen years by the Applications-unit of VITO-TAP. The software is specifically designed for the post-processing of time series of ten-daily or monthly composites, derived from low resolution sensors such as SPOT-VEGETATION, NOAA-AVHRR, METOP-AVHRR, TERRA-MODIS and MSG-SEVIRI. More specifically it allows for many operations such as spatial remapping, spectral rescaling and masking, compositing, time series analysis, and many others. Another important group of applications concerns the hard and soft (fuzzy) classification of any type of multi-temporal/spectral imagery. The GLIMPSE software is permanently used (and adapted or extended) by VITO’s Applications-unit to fulfil the needs of important projects such as MARSOP (for EC-JRC), GMFS (ESA) and many others. This involves the processing of terabytes of data.

SPIRITS is a Windows-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) which includes the following components:

  • Major routines of GLIMPSE
  • Import of many external formats/sensors
  • Database analyses
  • Graphical analyses: quicklooks and charts
  • All tools to generate the necessary information to include in agro-meteorological bulletins for any region in the world.

Methodology
JRC-MARS (see the MARSOP3-project) asked VITO to further develop both softwares, at the levels of further extension (new modules), documentation and provision of training materials. These developments are partly financed by JRC but also by all related VITO-projects, because this initiative is at the heart of all our objectives, under the motto “if it is not in GLIMPSE/SPIRITS, then it does not exist”. 

(Expected) Results

  • GLIMPSE is used since many years in all operational chains (MARSOP, GMFS, etc.).
  • SPIRITS is still in full development, and new functionalities are added every day. Nevertheless, there are already many users all over the world.
  • Training sessions have already been organized this year (2011) in Arlon-Belgium (for Agrhymet), Beijing-China (for CAAS), Gabarone-Botswana and Nairobi-Kenya (for African users).
  • Future:
    • The first official release of SPIRITS is planned for July 2012, including full documentation, help functionalities and tutorials.
    • Enhanced training materials and tutorials are being prepared.
    • New task are waiting:
      o  further extensions for MARSOP
      o  MSG-processing for LAND-SAF in CDOP2 (2012-2018)
      o  FOA asked to participate. 



Illustration

The SPIRITS software provides all tools to analyse time series of remote sensing imagery. The generated graphs and maps can be easily ingested in agro-meteorological bulletins which provide assessments of the current crop conditions and yield forecasts.

Contact:


Herman Eerens
Tel. + 32 14 33 68 72
Fax + 32 14 32 27 95
Mobile + 32 477 41 62 02
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