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Accessing and processing of multispectral imagery in an interactive way is essential to a number of operational scenarios. This paper illustrates their use in the context of forest management and planning, by presenting the results of a system that allows operators to access large repositories of geographical data, including multi-spectral imaging, and to process them in a very user friendly way. The project has seen the involvement of personnel from a local planning authority and it has provided the chance to confront with a number of issues related to today’s large availability of airborne and satellite data. This is challenging current technologies, creating a potential information overload. The paper will illustrate how the use of interactive 3D technologies to access and process multi-spectral data within a comprehensive framework capable to manage a large variety of different geographical information, can be beneficial to reduce access time to information and to improve the entire decision-making process.
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Simões, B., Piffer, S., Carriero, A., Conti, G., De Amicis, R. (2010). Interactive Access and Processing of Multispectral Imagery: The User in the Loop. In: Sithamparanathan, K., Marchese, M., Ruggieri, M., Bisio, I. (eds) Personal Satellite Services. PSATS 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13618-4_29
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