General information
Environmental monitoring is a fundamental activity for the defence and development of the territory, particularly in the geographical and economic reality of Trentino, characterised by activities in the agricultural, forestry and urban sectors.
Often inefficient monitoring methodologies are employed, because they are based on terrestrial surveys, which are therefore costly and time-consuming, and spatially valid only in the area of measurement, or on images acquired with sensors that allow limited spectral analysis.
Hence the goal, successfully implemented, of setting up a remote monitoring system with hyperspectral sensors from a drone or aircraft.
Unlike conventional sensing systems, hyperspectral cameras record hundreds of bands of the visible and non-visible spectrum of light and allow the biochemical characteristics of soils, crops, vegetation and other elements not visible to the human eye to be analysed accurately and precisely.
The MAPPIS system includes not only the hardware and software instrumentation for surveying, but also the methodologies to process and correctly interpret the remote sensing data and create thematic maps for immediate interpretation.
In addition, an application was developed that allows remote sensing experts and non-experts to visualise the results obtained from the hyperspectral survey, extract information for agricultural, forestry and urban applications, calculate statistics and monitor changes by comparing data acquired at different times.
The MAPPIS project made it possible to develop a complete workflow, ranging from flight planning to the visualisation of results on a user-friendly application, and new innovative remote sensing services to improve environmental land monitoring.
MAPPIS has been successfully tested on agricultural crops, forest areas and urban areas in Trentino, Italy and abroad.
Goals
The project falls under 'Data science, predictive models, artificial intelligence, quantum information and computational sciences', identified as priority 2 in the 16th Legislature's Multiannual Research Programme.
The aim of MAPPIS is to set up a hyperspectral monitoring system from a drone or aircraft, together with the development of software tools to process and correctly interpret remote sensing data.
The MAPPIS project successfully developed and validated the complete workflow, which includes the planning and execution of surveys with the appropriate tools, image processing, information extraction with machine learning algorithms, calculation and interpretation of spectral indices, and preparation of thematic maps.
Start date
01/09/2022
End date
01/09/2024