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URBEX
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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.
Project Reference

Name

URBEX

Title
Urban Expansion Monitoring

Programme
DUP 2 (Data User Programme - Phase 2)

Theme
Land Use & Land Cover

Cost
200 - 300 K

Type
Small Scale Service Demonstration

Application
Cartography: Land
Land Use - Land Use Change
Urban Expansion

Status
completed in 2003

Satellites
ERS, LANDSAT 5

Sensors
SAR, TM
 
Project Description

Web Site
http://acsspace.acsys.it/it/espansione.php?attiva=espansione.php

Objectives
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.


Results

URBEX Final Report Open file
 
Project Consortium

Companies
ACS : Advanced Computer Systems SpA, Italy (Prime contractor)
 
User Partnership

Users
WWF-Italy : World Wildlife Fund - Italy, Italy
 
Contact Points

Project Manager
F Iavarone
Via della Bufalotta 378
I-00139 Rome
ITALY
Tel: +39 06-87090.1
Fax: +39 06-87201502
Email: f.iavarone@acsys.it

Technical Officer
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