Infrastructure

Recognizing the necessity of using new technologies and digital convergence in management and protection of natural resources and sustainable development, i-BEC has modern equipment to produce scientific results with maximum accuracy and reliability.

As far as environmental monitoring concerns, i-BEC applies a pioneer multilevel monitoring system, with combined use of geo-referenced data from analyzes in its Chemical Lab, remote sensing satellite, in-situ measurements, unmanned aerial and water robotic vehicle and telemetric network.

i-BEC owns modern equipment for the realization of samplings and field measurements and is completely organized on issues of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems for the collection and evaluation of remotely sensed data. More specifically it possesses:

• Software: image processing software (ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, Definiens eCognition), GIS software (ArcGIS Desktop and Server, Manifold GIS), geodatabase management systems (SQL Server RDBMS).
• Hardware: GPS, modern PCs, plotters.
• Access to Satellite imagery via the gate of the European Space Agency.
• Unmanned Flying Vehicle for environmental monitoring.
• Unmanned Floating Vehicle for environmental monitoring.
• Geodatabases for the management and storage of environmental data.
• On-line systems for the diffusion of environmental information (WEB Internet Map Server)
• A modern Telemetric Network for the monitoring and meteorological parameters and the qualitative monitoring of water reserves. The network consists of by 109 telemetric stations and constitutes the biggest telemetric network in Southern Europe.