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URBEX

Urban Expansion Monitoring

EO-based information service to identify the loss of natural landscape due to urban development in the last 15 years over the Italian territory.

URBEX
Urban Expansion Monitoring
DUP (Data User Programme)
Land
€230k
Service Demonstration
Completed
ERS-1/2 : SAR
Landsat 4/5 : TM

URBEX is an ESA-ESRIN DUP project aiming to provide an Earth Observation based information service: the loss of natural landscape due to urban development in the last 15 years over the Italian territory. The targeted end-user for this DUP project was the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

The objectives of the URBEX project were to define and implement, at demonstrator level, a service of monitoring the urban growth, in order to evaluate the landscape reduction and the subsequent impact on natural resources.

URBEX Final Report
Advanced Computer Systems SpA
WWF-Italy
F Iavarone
Via della Bufalotta 378
I-00139 Rome
ITALY
Tel: +39 06-87090.1
Fax: +39 06-87201502
Email: f.iavarone@acsys.it
Diego Fernandez
European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP
Via Galileo Galilei C.P.94
I-00044 Frascati (RM)
ITALY
Tel: +39 06-941.80564
Fax: +39 06-941.80552
Email: diego.fernandez@esa.int