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Remote Sensing
Activities in Slovenia
Žiga Kokalj1,2, dr. Krištof Oštir1,2 and dr. Marko Komac3
1Section for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (SAS)
2Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
3Geological Survey of Slovenia
Introduction
RS activities started in the beginning of 1980s
No space agency, no space office
Not a member of ESA
No dedicated remote sensing centre
Several institutions
Society for Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing Slovene Association of Surveyors
Remote sensing projects are mostly on
individual institution level (both national and
international)
Leading institutions
Environmental Agency
Slovenian Forestry Institute
Geological Survey of Slovenia
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
University of Ljubljana, different faculties
DFG Consulting
Gisdata
Application of remote sensing
Methodological (basic) research
Applied projects
Main competencies
Land use / land cover
Agriculture
Digital elevation modelling
Forestry
Geology
Environmental changes
Disaster management
Mobile telecommunications
Meteorology
Archaeology
Scientific Research Centre
Staff: 6 + 2 researchers
Applications: land cover and change detection, digital
elevation modelling, disaster monitoring, archaeology,
lidar data processing, modelling of temperature from
satellite data, paleoenvironemnt detection, InSAR data
processing
Eurimage Application Provider for Slovenia
Produced one of the first county wide InSAR DEMs from
ERS in 1999
Performed the first project in the frame of “Space and
Major Disasters Charter”
InSAR DEM 25
Paleorelief
Earthquake displacements in
Western Slovenia
0 cm
-1 cm
-2 cm
0
500 m
Space and Major Disasters
Slovenian Forestry Institute
Staff: 2+1 researchers
Applications: forestry, lidar data processing,
habitat and land cover maps, estimation of
forest stand biomass
Lidar data filtering
Geological Survey of Slovenia
Staff: 3 researchers (partly)
Applications: geology, hydrological cycles,
landslide and other mass movements, landslide
susceptibility modelling, active tectonics,
permanent scatterer InSAR
Landslide susceptibility modelling
Permanent scatterer InSAR
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
Staff: 2 researchers (partially)
Applications: high resolution image processing,
georeferencing, ortophoto, lidar,
photogrammetry
Mount Mangart landslide
observation
Statistical Office of the Republic of
Slovenia
Staff: 1 + 1 researchers
Applications: periodical land cover mapping,
change assessment, statistical estimation of
diversity
Land cover map
Potentials of cooperation
Application of EO in the area (local expertise)
Cooperation in the development of methods and
techniques
Exchange of personal
Establishment of national remote sensing centre
Contacts
kristof@zrc-sazu.si
marko.komac@geo-zs.si
ziga.kokalj@zrc-sazu.si
http://iaps.zrc-sazu.si