The Austrian node of the natural resources satellite remote sensing cloud service platform: examples of Sino-Austrian cooperation

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Austrian node of the Natural Resources Satellite Remote Sensing Cloud Service Platform was established in 2016 through a cooperation agreement between the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center (LASAC), Ministry of Natural Resources of the Peoples Republic of China and the University of Vienna, Austria. Under this agreement panchromatic and multispectral data of the Chinese ZY-3 satellite are pushed to the server at the University of Vienna for use in education and research. So far, nearly 500 GB of data have been uploaded to the server. This technical note briefly introduces the ZY-3 system and illustrates the implementation of the agreement by the first China-Sat Workshop and several case studies. Some of them are already completed, others are still ongoing. They include a geometric accuracy validation of ZY-3 data, an animated visualization of image quick views on a spherical display to demonstrate the time series of the image coverage for Austria and Laos, and the use of ZY-3 data to study the spread of bark beetle in the province of Lower Austria. An accuracy study of DTMs from ZY-3 stereo data, as well as a land cover analysis and comparison of Austria with ZY-3 and other sensors are still ongoing.