European Facility For Airborne Research

Name	Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis
Acronym	CNR-IMAA
Country	Italy
Website	http://www.imaa.cnr.it/index.php?lang=en
Contact	PIGNATTI Stefano

Main activities

TASI-600 hyperspectral data are acquired and processed to:
- Develop agreed standards for pre-processing of airborne thermal infrared data and to identify weak links in current processing chains;
- Improve algorithms for removal of sensor–related data artefacts and noise;
- A better understanding on atmospheric effects on thermal data and thus for a better correction
- Improve accuracy in temperature-emissivity-separation (TES)
- Build up a database of multi- and hyperspectral data sets from different sensors available in TA and from industry partners representing specific environmental conditions.

Main products obtainable from processed TASI-600 imagery are:
- Map of Sea discharges;
- Map of surface brightness temperature (soil and sea);
- Map of thermal anomalies for detecting unloading and leaches;
- Map of soil apparent thermal inertia for buried structures detection in the first 50cm of bare soil (VIS simultaneous data required);
- Map of urban heat islands;
- Map of apparent emissivity;
- Map of water content in bare soil;
- Detection of surface and buried mines in the first 30cm of bare soil;
- Detection of oil pipelines and identification of oil leaks;
- Map of the main mineralogical components in the bare soil surface;
- Map of the asphalt paving status of the main roads and highways;
- Map of the deterioration status of asbestos cement roofs;
- Map of geothermal anomalies (geothermal fields and buried lava rivers).

Facilities