GEO-CRADLE Networking Platform
The Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) is one of the three institutes of the National Observatory of Athens, the oldest research institution in Greece. The main activities of the Institute involve basic and applied research in a number of topics in astrophysics, from distant galaxies to the solar neighborhood, as well as ground based and space-borne remote sensing, earth observation and signal processing. The institute is also committed to outreach and science dissemination for the general public and operates two very popular visitor centers at Penteli and Thissio.
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Details
- First NameHaris
- Last NameKontoes
- TitleMr
- PositionResearch Director of National Observatory of Athens (NOA) National Delegate of H2020 SPACE Program Committee - EC DG ENTR
- Email 1kontoes@noa.gr
- Phone 10030-210-8109186
- Phone 230-6932208817
- Fax0030-210-6138343
- Organisation NameNational Observatory of Athens
- DepartmentInstitute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing
- TypeResearch & Academic
- Thematic AreaClimate changeEnergyFood Security
- Website(s)http://www.noa.gr/
- Street NameMetaxa & Vas. Pavlou
- Street No1
- Postal Code15236
- TownAthens
- CountryGreece
Activity Focus
- 1. Which of these statements best describe your Organisation’s role in the value chain?Raw data/providerValue-adder(data process-modelling)GIS/mapping service provider
- 2. What are the main thematic areas of activity of your Organisation?Climate change (e.g. climatology- meteorology atmospheric composition- air quality- radiation)Food security (including agriculture and water extremes i.e. floods and droughts)Energy (including renewables such as solar / wind energy - etc.)Other
- Other Thematic AreasDisaster Risk Reduction, Natural Disaster Monitoring, Atmospheric Quality Monitoring, Urban Environment Monitoring
- 3. Has your organisation participated in EO-related projects?Yes
- Please provide links where applicable (e.g. FP& BEYOND – website URL), or any other information that you find usefulBEYOND (http://beyond-eocenter.eu/), TELEIOS (http://www.earthobservatory.eu/), SAFER (https://earsc-portal.eu/display/EOSTAN/SAFER+Project), LINKER (https://www.zki.dlr.de/project/1394), LDA (http://www.ldathens.eu/), Risk EOS (http://www.copernicus.eu/projects/risk-eos), Copernicus EMS, Risk and Recovery.
- 4. Has your Organisation participated in any Copernicus service provision, Copernicus User requirements definition or Copernicus Research & Innovation action?Yes
- Please provide some additional informationCopernicus EMS, Risk and Recovery. Vasilis Amiridis is a liaison for the Copernicus Work Program.
- 5. Has your Organisation participated in any GEO/GEOSS SBA Tasks, community activities or initiatives?Yes
- Please provide some additional information Global Urban Observations
- 6. How would you rate your Organisation’s level of collaboration with other EO actors in your country or abroad?
- A. In your CountryHigh(>10 actors)
- B. AbroadHigh(>10 Actors)
Capacities
- From the list below, please choose all the domains in which your organisation has capacities. 1) Space-borne capacities (EO satellites- Ground Segment (GS)-EO satellite acquisition stations & antennas- Mirror sites of GSs- Core GSs- etc)2) Ground-based/In-situ monitoring networks/facilities (of active or passive remote sensors- meteo/atmospheric/water sensors- etc)3) Modelling and computing processing capacities4) EO data exploitation for the provision of value-adding services and products
- Do you own/operate EO satellite systems? e.g. Sentinel 1, RASAT No
- Do you own/operate EO Ground Segment facilities, for reception storage and redistribution of satellite data? e.g. ESA Mirror Site Yes
- Satellite Mission/Operator 1
Sentinel/ESA
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/information
http://sentinels.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Hourly
- Data availability/accessReal Time/Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 2
Aqua/NASA
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Other Temporal Resolution4-6 hours
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 3
Terra/NASA
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Other Temporal Resolution4-6 hours
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 4
Suomi NPP/NASA
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Other Temporal Resolution4-6 hours
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 5
Meteop-A/EPS
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Other Temporal Resolution4-6 hours
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 6
Meteop-B/EPS
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Other Temporal Resolution4-6 hours
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 7
NOAA 18/NOAA
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr/
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Other Temporal Resolution4-6 hours
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- Satellite Mission/Operator 8
ΝΟΑΑ19/ΝΟΑΑ
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkans
- Are there data catalogues available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/informationhttp://groundsegment.space.noa.gr
- Start Year2014
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Other
- Data availability/access:Real Time/ Near Real TimeUpon RequestAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and Open
- Contact details of the person in chargekontoes@noa.gr
- 1. What type of ground-based/in-situ networks or facilities do you operate?Atmospheric Composition/Profiling
- Number of stations3 Remote sensing stations: 1 CIMEL CE318-NEDPS9 solar photometer; 1 portable depolarization - Raman lidar (EMORAL); 1 PollyXT portable lidar system
- What is the geographic coverage/extent?Local
- Is your network of stations/facilities registered in some National/Regional/International network(s)?Yes
- Please specify, including web link if possible
AERONET (http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
EARLINET (https://www.earlinet.org/)
PollyNET (http://polly.tropos.de/) - 2. From the list below, please choose all the networks for which you systematically collect and store data. Atmospheric Composition/Profiling
- Which are the measured attributes (e.g. aerosols, clouds, atmospheric pollutants, etc)? Please specify below.
Solar Radiation (including UV)
Aerosols (Saharan dust, smoke, volcanic ash)
Water vapour and clouds - Are METADATA available?Yes
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/information
http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.earlinet.org/
http://polly.tropos.de/ - Contact details of the person in charge. (Please provide name, email and phone number)
Vassilis Amiridis
Senior Researcher
National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS
I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou St., Penteli, GR-15236, GREECE
phone: +30 210 8109116, fax: +30 210 6138343
email: vamoir@noa.gr - Start Year2009
- End YearOn going
- What is the temporal resolution of data acquisition?Hourly
- Data availability/access: (You can choose more than one)Real Time/Near Real TimeAccess to Past Archives
- What is the main data policy applied?Free and OpenOther
- Please specifyFor data use and publication contact PI for proper acknowledgment and authorship
- Model/Algorithm1
WRF (ARW, NMM, CHEM)
- Which of the following application area(s) does the model serve? Meteorologic/ClimaticAtmospheric Composition/ProfilingEnergy/Radiation
- Please specify the source of EO data used in the model.Geospatial data (e.g.DTM)In situ data (e.g. temperature-pressure-humidity)
- Please list the providers of input data for the model
ΝΟΑΑ
- What is the geographic coverage/extent the model applies to?LocalNationalRegionalGlobal
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkansOther
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/information
http://beyond-eocenter.eu/index.php/atmospheric/helmos-forecast
- Contact details of the person in charge
Stavros Solomos, stavros@noa.gr
- Model/Algorithm 2
NMM-DREAM
- Which of the following application area(s) does the model serve? *Meteorological/ClimaticAtmospheric Composition/Profiling
- Please specify the source of EO data used in the model.Geospatial data (e.g. DTM)Remote sensing data (e.g. raw satellite high-level images)In-situ data (e.g. temperature-pressure-humidity)
- Please specify
Assimilation of satellite dust retrievals from MSG/SEVIRI
- Please list the providers of input data for the model
NOAA
ESA
UK Met Office - What is the geographic coverage/extent the model applies to?Regional
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkansOther
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/information
http://beyond-eocenter.eu/scripts/dust_static/dust.html
- Contact details of the person in charge
Stavros Solomos, stavros@noa.gr
- Model/Algorithm 3
FLEXPART
- Which of the following application area(s) does the model serve? *Atmospheric Composition/Profiling
- Please specify the source of EO data used in the model.Remote sensing data (e.g. raw satellite high-level images)In-situ data (e.g. temperature-pressure-humidity)
- Please specify
FIREHUB data (http://ocean.space.noa.gr/FireHub)
- Please list the providers of input data for the model
ESA, ΝΟΑ
- What is the geographic coverage/extent the model applies to?LocalNationalRegionalGlobal
- In which region?North AfricaMiddle EastBalkansOther
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/information
http://beyond-eocenter.eu/index.php/fires/fire-smoke-dispersion,
Computational Capacities: HPC Clusters, 128 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz processors cluster - Contact details of the person in charge
Stavros Solomos, stavros@noa.gr
- Do you deliver services / products that are based on the exploitation of EO data? Yes
- Which of the following areas do your products/services cover? You can choose more than one Floods
- Please provide some additional details and/or give concrete examples of the products/services.
FloodHub: BEYOND’s Floods Monitoring Service. We monitor all the flood events in Arachthos & Acheloos river basins and we publish the flood mapping results produced following the processing of Sentinel-1 images from the Hellenic National Sentinel Data Mirror Site (the first fully automated process). We provide floods mapping and floods extent measuring. We have completed the processing and analysis for the first hydrological year with available Sentinel-1 images (2014-2015). We are now working on the second hydrological year (2015-2016).
DATA RETRIEVAL: The Hellenic SENTINEL Data HUB continuously monitors the ESA Collaborative Data HUB via a dedicated Application Programming Interface (API ). Each time a SENTINEL acquisition is available (Level-1, SLC or GRD) the Hellenic SENTINEL Data HUB extracts and stores the relevant metadata as well as the original acquisition data first at a short-term and finally at a local (NOA premises) long-term storage archive (100 TB volume).
FLOODS MONITORING: The floods monitoring application consists of a number of processing modules: Binary Flood Mask extraction [A], Floods classification algorithm [C], Floods post-processing algorithm [D], Diachronic Overlay analysis algorithm [E], as well as a number of input data layers. - Do you provide these products/services freely or on a commercial basis?All are provided freely
- Are you using open EO data sources (e.g. EOSAT, USGS, NASA, ESA) for providing services and which?
ESA, Sentinel 1, BEYOND/NOA Collaborative Ground Segment, http://groundsegment.space.noa.gr
- Which are your main customers / end-users?
1) The Directorate of Hydroelectrical Production of the Public Power Corporation S.A. Hellas (PPC S.A.). We have established cooperation as there is a mutual interest in the field of studying floods and developing a methodology for monitoring and management of flood risks. We have signed a relevant MoU. (https://www.dei.gr/ecpage.aspx?id=4610&nt=110&lang=1)
2) The Special Secretariat for Water of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. We have established cooperation as this authority is the relevant authority in Greece for the implementation of the European Union Floods Directive 2007/60/EC. (http://www.ypeka.gr/Default.aspx?tabid=246&locale=en-US&language=el-GR) - If applicable, please provide a link(s) where these products/services can be accessed.
http://beyond-eocenter.eu/index.php/floods
National Activities
- 1. Is there funding for EO activities available in your country? No
- 2. Is there a National Space Policy/Strategy? Yes
- Please specify
Space Committee under the supervision of Technology and Research General Directorate
- 3. Is there a Space Agency in your country? No
- 4. Which of the following best describes the level of coordination of EO activities in your country? Scarce
- Please provide examples of collaboration between research and private sector entities in your country.
Examples provided in Corallia sci-cluster (http://www.si-cluster.gr/en/)
- 5. Which of the following best describes the level of interaction between the EO community and decision makers in your country?In specific thematic areas
- Please provide examples of EO-based services and/or products in your country which are operationally used by public sector bodies.
FireHub, FloodHub etc.
Engagement in GEO-CRADLE
- 1. Would your Organisation be interested in contributing with its capacities to a regional initiative of GEO and/or Copernicus, addressing regional needs in the domains of Climate Change, Access to Raw Materials, Energy, Food Security and Water? Yes
- 2. Would you be interested in providing feedback to the GEO-CRADLE consortium for establishing a roadmap for the implementation of GEO and Copernicus in North Africa, Middle East and the Balkans? Yes
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