Architecture and services for computational intelligence in remote sensing

Abstract

The Earth is facing unprecedented climatic and environmental changes [1], which require a global monitoring [2] and large scale actions which are addressed by European and world wide programmes of similar wide scale. The overall objective of a sustainable growth demands for a cleaner, safer and healthier global environment. The 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission (EC) assumes that the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may play a role in combating the unsustainable trends that risk undermining the future economic growth and impact on the quality of life in Europe: • environmental degradation and unsustainable use of depleting natural resources; • pollution and waste generation; • increasing exposure and risk to man made and natural disasters. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.