

2010 to 2013 - not processed, funding source required.2008 - some problems were found in the camera geometry, it is possible 2008 won't be worth the cost/benefit to process.Change detection between annual (or multiple year's) data capturesĭata has been captured since 2007 onwards but at present only a few of those have been processed into products:.Processing costs were largely managed as a research project but are significant. Each year’s worth of UM processing generates nearly 15TB of data and given the substantial size of the processing task, iVEC supercomputing facilities were utilised. A significant challenge to the UM program is processing power and storage for the products. Landgate’s aerial photography program started capturing the 4th band from 2010 onward and the Urban Monitor data has been essentially captured as part of Landgate’s annual program creating an annual saving of around $120,000.ĬSIRO led the research effort into advanced digital processing techniques and product development, and the initial research and UM products derived have proven of interest to the original funders.

This UM consortium subsequently contributed funding for capturing data for 2007, 2008, 2009. Department of Parks and Wildlife (then DEC).The initial contributing partners included: These partners showed a great deal of interest and agreed to contribute finances and or in kind research/processing time to investigate the idea further. In 2007, a dozen agencies and partners came together to discuss using this UM research for long term monitoring of vegetation in and around the Perth Metropolitan Region. Urban Monitor (UM) is an enabling project that began life in 2005 looking at applying broad-scale regional satellite data processing methods (based on Land Monitor) to urban four-band aerial photography.
