ISOLE

Island Satelitte Observation for Local Exploitation

co-ordinator Vitrociset

The Project is aimed at supporting the local administrations of small/medium size Mediterranean islands in the decision making associated with their daily coastal management tasks. In particular the project is focused on the quantitative assessment of the mutual impacts between human pressure, led by seasonal tourism, and the status and evolution of marine and coastal land resources. ISOLE information is generated by applications, based on satellite remote sensed data and integrating locally collected information, harmonised within a pre-operational environment that will enable quality and benefits evaluation by target end-users within two pilot cases, the islands of Elba and Mykonos. The ISOLE Project has a scheduled duration of 2 years, including an operational period of 3 months. The Project includes specification, design, implementation and transit to operations of the following elements:

• Satellite based applications in the following areas: Marine Pollution Monitoring, Macroscopic Events Detection, Coastal Land Resources Monitoring.
• Local Circulation Models: Short Term Propagation of macroscopic pollutant events distribution, Long Term Propagation of human induced marine pollution monitoring parameters distribution.
• A Tourism Analysis and Modelling Application, based on local data and statistics, for the organisation and analysis of tourism data.
• A set of Adaptive Tourism Impact Assessment Models, based on ISOLE application outcomes and tourism data, to establish functional relationships between environment quality parameters evolution and human pressure on the coast.

Those elements shall be complemented with the required data exchange and user presentation services. All the outcomes of ISOLE elements shall be integrated within GIS environment.

contact :

Gordon W Jolly
Satellite Observing Systems
15 Church Street
Godalming
Surrey GU7 1EL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44(0) 1483 421213
Fax: +44(0) 1483 428691
G.Jolly@satobsys.co.uk

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