Geo4IRBM

Geoinformational support for Integrated River Basins Management

The Geo4IRBM project was implemented by a consortium of three institutions (GEOSYSTEMS Polska Sp. z o. o. (leader), Topologic Consulting, Remote Sensing Center of the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and financed by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Polish Industry Incentive Scheme program.

The aim of the project was to quickly develop and deliver specific information products and services that will be further used to support the management of selected river catchments (Cimanuk – Cisanggarung River catchment, East Java, and Jratunseluna River catchment, Central Java). The project’s research area was initially defined as the catchments of selected rivers in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia. The project assumptions were defined in cooperation with the Jakarta branch of the Asian Development Bank and reflect the requirements of the end user of the project results.

The island of Java (Indonesia), due to its location in the tropical zone and within the Pacific ring, is characterized by a very dynamic fire environment. Its variability is manifested, among others, by: by numerous surface deformations of various origins caused by earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides or soil erosion.

The Geo4IRBM project covered four research areas:

development of land use and crop maps,

surface water monitoring,

monitoring of terrain deformations,

environmental impact assessment.

Deformation studies were carried out using radar interferometry based on data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 (ESA) satellite. Multi-time interferometric techniques (MTInSAR) were used, based on connected sets of points that are Persistent Scatterers and Distributed Scatterers.

See the poster with the project results.