ESPRIT Project AZZURRO: Data Fusion for Marine Protection

Abstract

This paper will present the objectives of the AZZURRO project from the application point of view. This project is devoted to the development of advanced software techniques for the fusion of environmental data collected by two different sensors: an active sensor such as a Lidar Time Resolved Laser Fluorosensor (TRLF) and a passive one such as a multispectral scanner (Daedalus).

The main interesting aspects of this work will be:

• to prove if adequate data fusion techniques are able to implement the synergy existing between the measurements of the active and passive sensors;

• to develop data presentation methods acceptable by the final users;

• to demonstrate that the resulting thematic maps increase the knowledge of the marine environment providing also input for intervent actions.

AZZURRO is an Esprit III project (P7207). Agusta Sistemi(I), Onera(F), KUL(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)(B), Piaggio(I) and Steria(F) are the partners involved in it. It will last three years starting from the 1 st of October 1992.