Aratos Group

21
Jun

Integrated use of Greenhouse Effect related index (Downward Surface Longwave Flux)

ADC now includes a new service: a Greenhouse Effect related index (Downward Surface Longwave Flux) of the Earth's surface as received from Eumetsat satellites. DSLF is the result of atmospheric absorption, emission and scattering within the entire atmospheric column and may be defined as the thermal irradiance reaching the surface in the thermal infrared spectrum (4-100 µm).

05
Jun

Integrated use of Albedo (reflectance / optical brightness) data in the Aratos Disaster Control natural disaster management system

ADC now includes a new service: Daily updates of Albedo (reflectance / optical brightness) of the Earth's surface as received from Eumetsat satellites. Surface Albedo is measured as ratio of radiation reflected to the radiation incident on a surface. Albedo values shown on the ADC’s map interface are normalized between 0 and 1 over areas of 3 square kilometers.

01
Jun

EcoSUSTAIN Project: Ecological sustainable Governance of Mediterranean protected Areas via improved Scientific, Technical and Managerial Knowledge Base

Aratos participates in EcoSUSTAIN project. Its overall objective is to maintain biodiversity and natural ecosystems through strengthening management and networking of protected areas which will be achieved by:

* improvement of management knowledge base,

* improvement of networking and harmonization,

* improvement of water quality monitoring by provision of live, early-warning messages in short-term monitoring (sensor-equipped buoys) and long-term monitoring (satellite imagery processing) means.

20
Mar

Aratos Disaster Control (ADC) South America-Chile Demonstration Use Case

Aratos Disaster Control (ADC) is offering its disaster prediction and monitoring capabilities in a global scale. We have created a specific use case scenario focusing on Chile, South America, implementing a specific subset of our satellite data layers mainly concerning wildfires.