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The Gazelle
Project Visit
On 13th july 2009 Mrs.Gemma ventura and
Mr.Marino Palacios of the Gazelle team paid a visit to Global Geobits Company where
they presented the Project to the company top management. |
As a result of this visit, Global Geobits was chosen as
an Egyptian Gis Company to participate in the European space Agency (ESA) Gazelle
Project with a mini-project entitled:
"Production of Urban Atlas (1:10000 scale) for Rosetta City in Egypt using High
Resolution Satellite Imagery."
This project will be executed through joint cooperation between Global Geobits (Egypt),
INDRA (Spain), and General Organization of Physical Planning GOPP (Egypt). |
 The EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) has selected INDRA Espacio,
a spanish company with strong expertise in remote sensing applications and systems,
as a contractor to carry out a study on the characterization of Earth Observation
sector in Mediterranean Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia). the
objective of this study (named Gazelle).
“Production of Urban Atlas (1:10.000 scale) for
Rosetta City
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SERVICE TRIAL CONTEXT The most populated country of Mediterranean Africa is Egypt,
with more than 78 millions of inhabitants living practically in Cairo, Alexandria
and Nile Delta. Egypt is increasing spectacularly their population in the last years
and their cities are experienced various related problems: lack of basic infrastructures;
loss of rich agricultural land due to urban sprawl; development of big informal
settlements, etc. The final user of this project is General Organization of Physical
Planning (GOPP). GOPP is responsible for the implementation of various plans through
cooperation with local authorities, conducting and supervising urban studies (transportation
system, infrastructures, waste handling and treatment plants, land use issues, environment,
etc.). It also controls urban planning in order to stop urban sprawl over agricultural
and environmental sensitive areas and it prepares village municipal planning strategies
and policies all over Egypt. GOPP is demanding information related to urban growth
for urban planning, in this case an area close to Alexandria (Rosetta City).
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PARTNERSHIP
The user partnership is constituted by General Organization of Physical Planning
(GOPP).
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INSTITUTION |
ROLE |
DESCRIPTION |
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End user
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General Organization of Physical Planning (GOPP) is the main national Egyptian
authority responsible for urban planning process.
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Table 3.Description of the
user of Service Trial 2
The following activities shall be
performed by GOPP:
• Supply the information needed for the correct development of the project.
• Evaluate and validate the final products and documents.
• Analyze the continuity of future activities.
The definition of this Service Trial has been supported by the local company
Global Geobits. |
SERVICE: Land Cover Mapping
Objective
There is an opportunity for the development of urban remote sensing products
and services in Egypt, in this case the Urban Atlas developed under GMES initiative.
The authority responsible for planning activities in Egypt is the General Organization
for Physical Planning (GOPP). Currently GOPP is involved in organizing the planning
process at different levels (regional, urban and local) and preparing planning guidelines,
urban development programs and coordination of planning processes all over Egypt.
GOPP is interested in getting Urban Atlas maps for a limited pilot area at 1:10.000
scale using VHRO (Very High Resolution Optical) data. These maps will be useful
for GOPP for their future urban planning.
Content
This service trial has the following
thematic content:
• Production of Urban Atlas map at 1:10.000 scale using VHRO
data.
• Development of spatial indicators based on the Urban Atlas maps.
Spatial resolution
Products
shall be generated according to the Urban Atlas product specification: 0.25 ha.
Time
period
Seasonal products shall be generated to cover preferably
the time
period 2007-2011.
Preferred EO dataset
For this Service the preferred data source is primarily VHRO (Very High Resolution
Optical), such as IKONOS, WorldView-2, etc.
There is archive imagery available for the
me
ntioned period: IKONOS dated on 2007 and WorldView-2 from 2010.
Area Of Interest (AOI)
The AOI selected corresponds to the city of
Rosetta
that lies on the
Mediterranean Sea
along the western River Nile branch of the Delta of Egypt. The General Organization
of Physical Planning (GOPP) has urgent interest to study this area in detail hoping
that the output from this Service would help them in their studies.
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Figure 2.Location of the AOI over Egypt
Figure 3.Detail of the AOI over Egypt |
DELIVERABLES
• D1 - Short Document
(SD) describing the final Service Trial content, after the agreement with the users
and/or stakeholders about the final content of the miniproject.
• D2 - Final Products (FP) to be delivered according to the requirements.
• D3 - Short Technical Report (STR), including the description of products, methodology
followed, results and reliability of this methodology. This report shall be publishable
on the Internet page of the project • D4 - Questionnaire (Q) with lessons learned,
according to a specific template.
• D5 - Final Presentation (FP) in Power Point format. This presentation shall be
publishable on the Internet page of the project
SCHEDULE
The time available
for the development of the mini-project and the delivery of final products and reports
is 3 months, starting the day after the kick-off of the initiative.
BUDGET
The maximum price for this Service Trial is 16.000 Euro. |
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