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A New Earth Observation Service Based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series for the Monitoring of Redevelopment Sites in Wallonia, Belgium

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  • Sophie Petit

    (Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP), 4000 Liège, Belgium)

  • Mattia Stasolla

    (Signal and Image Centre, Royal Military Academy, 1000 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Coraline Wyard

    (Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP), 4000 Liège, Belgium)

  • Gérard Swinnen

    (Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP), 4000 Liège, Belgium)

  • Xavier Neyt

    (Signal and Image Centre, Royal Military Academy, 1000 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Eric Hallot

    (Remote Sensing and Geodata Unit, Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP), 4000 Liège, Belgium)

Abstract

Urban planning is a challenge, especially when it comes to limiting land take. In former industrial regions such as Wallonia, the presence of a large number of brownfields, here called “redevelopment sites”, opens up new opportunities for sustainable urban planning through their revalorization. The Walloon authorities are currently managing an inventory of more than 2200 sites, which requires a significant amount of time and resources to update. In this context, the Sentinel satellites and the Terrascope platform, the Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment for Belgium, enabled us to deploy SARSAR, an Earth observation service used for the automated monitoring of redevelopment sites that generates regular and automatic change reports that are directly usable by the Walloon authorities. In this paper, we present the methodological aspects and implementation details of the service, which combines two well-known and robust methods: the Pruned Exact Linear Time method for change point detection and threshold-based classification, which assigns the detected changes to three different classes (vegetation, building and soil). The overall accuracy of the system is in the range of 70–90%, depending on the different methods and classes considered. Some remarks on the advantages and possible drawbacks of this approach are also provided.

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  • Sophie Petit & Mattia Stasolla & Coraline Wyard & Gérard Swinnen & Xavier Neyt & Eric Hallot, 2022. "A New Earth Observation Service Based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series for the Monitoring of Redevelopment Sites in Wallonia, Belgium," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-21, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:3:p:360-:d:762031
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    1. Odile Close & Beaumont Benjamin & Sophie Petit & Xavier Fripiat & Eric Hallot, 2018. "Use of Sentinel-2 and LUCAS Database for the Inventory of Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry in Wallonia, Belgium," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-16, December.
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