ENVISYS Environmental Monitoring, Warning and Emergency Management System. Final Report

ENVISYS was a CEC R&D project within the Telematics Application Programme’s sector for environment, developed by a team of Greek, Norwegian and Spanish institutes and companies. The project started in 1996 and was finished in 1999.
ENVISYS is a complete, integrated management system concept for environmental emergencies in general (marine oil spills, forest fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions etc.). A prototype for the case of sea monitoring, including fully automatic detection of oil spills using radar satellite images, has been developed and demonstrated. The use of earth observation (satellite remote sensing) data is a central part of the concept. The main capabilities of the system are:
· Automatic transfer of remote sensing images and monitoring.
· Alarm when a possible oil slick is detected.
· Routines for manual verification by the operator.
· Simulation of the behaviour of the oil slick.
· Assistance in the counter-action management (clean-up operations).
The report gives a presentation of the ENVISYS project. The ENVISYS system is described and the results of the evaluation and future plans are commented.