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The Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI)
and the Remote Sensing as Space Application

Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp
Secretary-general, HUNAGI (1994- )
Desk officer, Remote Sensing and GIS, MoAgriculture (1986-2006)
National Point of Contact to ESA EARTHNET, FÖMI (1982-1990)
Űrtechnológia - a legmagasabb mérce. Magyarország csatlakozik az Európai Űrügynökséghez. Budapest, 2015. február 24.
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Setting the scene: EO Components and Complimentaries
Űrtechnológia - a legmagasabb mérce. Magyarország csatlakozik az Európai Űrügynökséghez. Budapest, 2015. február
ESA EO Missions. Source: ESA Earth Online
Source: Diamond-Sensing
Ground truth (FÖMI)
http://legikep.hu/referenciak
Courtesy: Norbert Sandó, Pazirik Ltd, HU
RS drone (CASM)
Courtesy: Tamás Tomor, Director KRF
Ground truth tools
incl. GNSS, sensors, Smart phones/
tablets, Measuring devices
Communication
Airborne Remote Sensing
inlc. UAS, baloons
RS baloon (MDPI)
Satellite Remote Sensing (active, passive)
(Earth observation, telecom, navigation, positioning and
timing, combined with ICT can assist to monitor global
threats: e.g. pandemic, natural disasters, pirates)
From row data to information
Downlink
Preprocessing
Archiving, Preservation
Analysis, Visualisation
Information, Products and
User service providing,
Data sharing and delivery
Decision support systems
Societal impacts/outcomes

50 Years of EO: Remote Sensing as Space Applications
¡  Satellite remote sensing started: Meteorological and environmental
use (in the 60’s)
¡  Start of the Earth resources-oriented operational satellite remote
sensing in 1972 by Landsat
¡  Driven by the flight of the Hungarian Astronaut Bertalan Farkas, the
Remote Sensing center at FÖMI established and joined to the ESA
Earthnet program orchestrated by ESRIN in 1982
¡  In Hungary, based on 100+ man-years of R+D at FÖMI and its
participating institutions, operational use of EO in environment and
agriculture was introduced in the 90s, Private sector entered in EO.
¡  Inter-governmental Group of Earth Observation established in 2004 to
implement GEOSS. Hungary joined in 2006. Workplans for 2005-2015
implemented and for 2016-2025 approved. ESA PECS started.
¡  ESA – European Commission Common Space Strategy (2010)
¡  The Copernicus European Earth Observation Program launched (2014)
60’s
70’s
80’s
90’s
00’s
10’s

Capabilities of Earth Observation Satellites
Sentinel 1 C-band SAR Sentinel 2 Optical RS
Image source: ESA Earth Online, Astrium GmbH
Satellite Remote Sensing
C-SAR: all-weather, day and night
capabilities, detect small movements
Optical: very high spatial, spectral,
temporal and radiometric resolution
Application tailored constellation
eg. Radarsat Constellation MissionsTarget areas in ESA-EU EO programs
Copernicus:
Land (monitoring forests, water, soil, agriculture)
Marine (monitoring of the maritime environment)
Atmoshpere (with optical RS)
Emergency response (oilspills monitoring)
Climate Change (icecover, iceberg monitoring)
Security (sea vessel detection)
In the chain Data – information – knowledge-based decision – wisdom
the importance of spatial thinking and geospatial intelligence grows rapidly
in all facets of human endavour incl. National security, Civil infrastructure,
Local Government Planning, Emergency Services, Natural Resources,
Natural Disasters, Climate Change.
Radarsat with Vessel
Identification
System
Eric Laliberté, CSA
at DGI 2015
and M3MSat IAS feed

Societal-Economic Benefit Areas of Earth Observation
GEOSS SBAs: Disasters, Health, Energy,
Climate, Water, Weather, Ecosystems,
Agriculture and Biodiversity
Europe’s contribution to the GEOSS is
the Copernicus, earlier GMES program
Target app areas for the Copernicus’
Sentinel 2 optical remote sensing
satellite (as defined by ESA-EC-EEA)
are as follow: land-cover, forestry,
agriculture, mapping of glaciers and
wetlands
Benefit areas in the Australian EO approach include: spatial data
infrastructure, environment, climate, agriculture, mining, natural resources,
utility infrastructure, protection of community, health and urban planning.
In 2014, high level EO programs in USA and China were launched.
UN and OECD declared: EO provides crucial benefits for the Society and
Markets and facilitates to achieve the approved UN SD goals by 2025

Operational EO technologies and services in Hungary
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Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
FÖMI controls the implementation of the EU CAP’s area-
based agricultural subsidies with LPIS and CwRS since over a
decade. New methodology (using photogrammetric block
adjustment for stereo satellite images) was introduced for
CwRS.
Firstly in the EU, FÖMI was ready to use stereo satellite
imageries (GeoEye, WorldView-2 submitted by JRC in 2013
and also in 2014) to make enhanced, 3D analysis for the
control within the prescribed 0.5-1 m positional accuracy.
Advantages of the stereo EO
satellite images vs.traditional
VHR data are:
- Reduce need for field inspection
- Allows to create and use real 3D
model
- Enables more accurate
positioning of the boundaries in
areas covered by e.g. trees
More accurate delineation
of eligible and non eligible areas
Side-looking views
might allow to see
below the clouds

Operational EO technologies and services in Hungary
Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
FÖMI supports complex agricultural risk analysis, manages
disaster response (in case of floods, draught, waterlog).
FÖMI contributes with RS to the detecting, measuring
monitoring and reporting of the ragweed infected areas.
The allergic ragweed is a public health issue and in
Hungary, the ragweed prevention is regulated by Act.
Compliant to EU and Hungarian policies, FÖMI runs a GIS
based Vineyard Registry VINGIS with full country coverage
FÖMI’s Environmental Application Department keeps the
National Corine Land Cover Database, manages national
and pan-European land monitoring and takes part in the
work of the European Topic Centre of the EEA (since 2001).
Involved in Geoland (accomplished) and ETC’s Urban-
Land-Soil program.

Some further EO applications
Institute of Geodesy, Cartography
and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
Deformation analysis by InSAR in
association of the red mood
catastrophe
Image credit: Gyula Grenerczy - Urs
Wegmüller (2012): Deformation analysis
of a burst red mud reservoir using
combined descending and ascending
pass ENVISAT ASAR data

Some further EO applications
Remote Sensing Techniques in Urban Eco-
environmental Monitoring
A vegetation map, noise map, height difference
map (showing the building and vegetation
structure) in a test area of Székesfehérvár was
achieved based on multiplatform approach using
World-View-2 , Landsat, MODIS, Chinese HJ
minisatellites images, topomap, 256 channel
aerial hyperspectral images, DTM, LIDAR datasets
and aerial digital orthophotos. Presented at the
IGIT 2025 by T.Jancsó, P.Udvardy , Prof.M.Qingyan
of the Óbuda University, Technical Faculty, Inst. of
Geoinformatics and RADI Beijing
Óbuda University, Technical Faculty, Institute of Geoinformatics
GeoAdat Ltd with a staff of 20 provides EO services since 1997
mainly related to image interpretation and CwRS for CAP on the
European market, exploitation of EO data and related technologies
The Meteorological Service provides weather forecast using EO data
since decades and recently introduced its high resolution (district level)
forecast service for the wide public using media, telecom and GIS.

HUNAGI: Mission, Competences, Members, Activities in EO
Features and Members (Interdisciplinary, non-profit NGO
with members from Government, NGOs, Academia
Industry and Individuals)
Mission goals (Encourage and facilitate the availability,
accessibility and, usability of spatial data and related
technologies)
Competences are provided by its members (EO and RS, GI/GIS and related
technologies, Products and services, Legal aspects, Education and training,
Value adding and solution provision, plus a wide variety of applications)
Major activities: Awareness raising, Dissemination, Networking, Collaboration.
Policy influencing, Consultancy/Advise, Surveys, Workshops and Conferences
Regional level (EURISY – Urban & Regional Planning) with HUNSPACE, FÖMI,
GeoAdat, Debrecen University, Danube Region Data and Service Infrastructure
National level (Hungarian Space Council, Spatially Enabled Society with NHIT/
Infotér, National Authority of Data Protection and Freedom of Information)
European active in the European Umbrella Org. for Geographical Information
Űrtechnológia - a legmagasabb mérce. Magyarország csatlakozik az Európai
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GovIndustry
Individuals NGOs
Academia

HUNAGI: Domestic and International Institutional links
Domestic:
Hungarian Space Reasearch Council, Hungarian Space Industry Cluster
(HUNSPACE), Hungarian Federation of Agroinformatics, Intelligent Transportation
Systems Hungary, Hungarian Society for Logistics/Purchasing/Inventory, Infotér,
Urban Knowledge Center, National Council of Communication and Informatics
International: HUNAGI is working closely with EUROGI and with three of the 89
participating organizations of the Group of Earth Observations (GEO):
Domain Organisation
Integrated Geo-spatial Information
and Interoperable Services:
Spatial Data Infrastructures and
Services
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
Association (GSDI)
Since 1996
Earth Observation Systems and
Services
CEOS Working Group on
Information Systems and
Services (WGISS) (2006-)
Digital Earth Technologies and
Applications
International Society of
Digital Earth (ISDE)
Since 2003

Publications: key for networking and cooperating
24.
Other publications include:
GIM International
Towards a Spatially Enabled Society
Awareness raising on the Infotér Conference by HUNAGI
Issue December, 2014
GI Micro, Macro and Mezzo
Edited by Prof.B.Idrisi
(EURISY EO/GI WS Debrecen, HU under consideration)
Journal of Agricultural Informatics (JAI)
Edited by Prof.M. Herdon, MAGISZ
Vol.6 No.1: EO by GeoAdat, Interspect, 2015
International Journal of Digital Earth
Edited by Prof. Wang Changlin ISDE, Beijing
Hungarian contribution: MTA TAKI (2013)
GeoCarto International
Issue April, 2013
Special EO/GI Issue on Hungary
Authors from HUNAGI members:
ELTE, BME, FÖMI, MTA TAKI GIS,
Budapest BCE, HUNAGI
Includes: SAR interferometry in
Hungary, Integrated EO: from
data to decision making,
Using radar (ALOS PALSAR) and
optical sat data to monitor
maize field damages
SRTM image on Budapest Courtesy: NASA

Keep on eyes on the technological and associated
challenges and the demand and interests of the users
¡  Delegated by CEOS and GSDI Association, HUNAGI
participated the GEO_OGC Think Tank on the Future GEOSS
(2013) and takes part on the 4th GEOSS Workshop on New
concepts, technologies, services and users of the Next GEOSS
¡  HUNAGI and its members participated the high-level
International Budapest Drones Conference on legal aspects
(organised by the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of
Information. Drones will be integrated part of the national EO programs
worldwide.)
¡  Delegated by GSDI Association, HUNAGI is involved in the work
of the CEOS WG Information Systems and Services since 2006
(hosted two times meetings in Budapest providing opportunity for the
Hungarian EO stakeholders to introduce their achievements and apps.)
¡  HUNAGI contributes to the EUROGI Policy Papers in Big and
Linked Data, IoT, Open Data, SME promotion and Urban and
Regional development (to be published at the 2015 INSPIRE/WGF).

What next? Challenges Earth Observation
Open and Linked Data
US policy (Landstat), ESA-EU Open Data
Strategies (Sentinel) data-driven economy
Internet of Things
impact on ground segment of EO
citizen science (users as contributors)
Cloud services, geoportals
easier access to data and services
Spatial Data Infrastucture
Challenges/opportunities for the
private sector and education
Cooperation, Networking
inter-disciplinary cross-fertilization,
synergies are needed
The Big Data Challenge
ESA ESRIN- EUSatCent – JRC
addressed this since 2013 with
focus on the whole data cycle
Increasing use of
EO data and services
by private sector is
anticipated

Conclusions
¡  The Hungarian EO-related data collection, services and
applications are well established.
¡  The capacity and competitiveness of the EO industry (SMEs)
have to be strengthen
¡  The collaboration of the academic (edu) and private sector
should be encouraged and motivated. Vital role of open
data, open source
¡  In Hungary, an EO strategy, coordination, the cooperation of
stakeholders and supervision is needed. International links are
crucial.
¡  Initiated by the Hungarian Space Office, the MoU-based
cooperation between the Hungarian Space Industry Cluster
HUNSPACE and HUNAGI remains useful with Hungary’s ESA
membership

Thank you!
Some following slides
in the Annex are for
further reading only
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Picture taken at ESA ESRIN in Frascati
Acknowledgements:
Zoltán Zboray Director, FÖMI
Tamás Jancsó Dr., Vice-Dean, ÓE MK GEO
Péter Hargitai, GeoAdat Ltd, HU

Role of the Earth Observation for the Society and Economy
¡  ESA-European Commission: Common Space Strategy (2010, Copernicus, the
European Earth Observation Program (2014) www.copernicus.eu/
¡  OECD: Satellite earth observation (EO) systems are playing an increasingly
important role in the global economy.
OECD: (2014), "Satellite earth observation", in OECD, The Space Economy at a Glance 2014,
¡  USA: National Plan for Civil Earth Observations - The White House Harnessing
Observations and Data about the Earth to Stimulate Scientific. Discovery,
Economic Growth, and Public Services. The White House July 18, 2014.
¡  EO Priorities:◗ Priority 1: Weather and Climate; ◗ Priority 2: Drought; ◗ Priority
3: Water Resources; ◗ Priority 4: The Arctic; and◗ Priority 5: Economic
Competitiveness. Data collection and dissemination is the common
denominator across EO Priorities. Earth Observation Alliance, 2014
¡  China: “the administration will promote the construction of a high-definition
earth observation system and the spatial data infrastructure, Xu Dazhe, head of
the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National
Defence, said.” http://www.un-spider.org/news-and-events/news/china-plans-build-comprehensive-
earth-observation-system
http://hunagi8.blogspot.com

Establishment of the National GI Association HUNAGI in a
emerging Hungarian EO environment
¡  The European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic
Information established in 1994 (by support of the DG XIII)
¡  In the same year, the Hungarian Association for Geo-
information established in (by support of OMFB, the National Committee
for Technological Development)
¡  That time in Hungary EO apps e.g. in agriculture and
environment were scientifically sounded, based on 100+ man-
year R+D investments at FÖMI Remote Sensing Center (Almár,
Büttner, Csató, Csornai, Tarcsai, Winkler et al), ELTE Space Research
Group (Ferencz, Lichtenegger, Hamar et al) and at the Met Service
(Tanczer, Varga-Haszonits, Major, Bozó et al)
¡  That time Hungary had already 12 year-long active
involvement in the ESA Earthnet Program. MoA and FÖMI
hosted the first NPOC Meeting outside the European Economic
Area and organised an ESA Conference on Satellite Remote
Sensing Applications in Agriculture in 1986.

HUNAGI in EU projects and other international collaborations
¡  eSDInet – Setting up a database on INSPIRE compliant
geospatial data services (with Hungarian entries)
¡  SMEsPIRE – Support SMEs of the geospatial market (incl. EO) on
European level (with Hungarian SMEs)
¡  LAPSI – Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information and Re-use
(with Hungarian stakeholders)
¡  EULF – European Location Framework (hosting international workshop
for stakeholders incl. JRC and ESA presence)
¡  ESA- EUROGI Copernicus Market-Pull-Pack. Country Survey (Szabolcs
Mihály) and hosting international workshop with JRC and ESA presence)
¡  NASA World Wind Europa Challenge (think Tank in 2012, Annual
worldwide competition for SMEs and students using the open source apps
development platform of World Wind (since 2013.)
¡  Copernicus Masters Competition 2013 Winner: Györk Fülöp (CBE HU)
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/

Role of the Integrated Geo-spatial Information
and Interoperable Services in GEOSS
Integrated Geo-spatial Information and Interoperable Services: Global Spatial
Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) www.gsdi.org
GSDI nominated its member HUNAGI as Designator in 2007
GSDI delegation (FGDC, CIESIN, Esri, HUNAGI)
active in
Architecture and Data Committee
User Interface Committee
GEO Common Infrastructure
Plenaries
Ministerial Summits
(*)
GIS Open 2008
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS
13/10/2009 HSpaceC
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS
03/10/2012 H SpaceC
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS
28/11/2013
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS
(*) GSDI Statement to
Cape Town Declaration
GSDI Statement to
At GEO V Bucarest
GSDI contribution
at GEO VIII Istanbul
GSDI Statement
at GEO X Foz Do Iguazu
(*) GSDI Statement
at GEO X Geneva
GSDI delegate
at GEO IV 2007
2014 HSC-FÖMI
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS
GSDI delegate
at GEO IX 2012
GSDI delegate
at GEO VIII 2011
GSDI delegate
at GEO VII 2010
GSDI delegate
at GEO X 2014
GSDI delegate
at GEO V 2008
(*) GSDI Statement
at GEO VII Beijing
03/11/2011 MFTTT
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS
18/11/2009 VESTA-GIS
HUNAGI on GEO/GEOSS

31 USGS EROS
HUNAGI in WG on
EO Information Systems and Services:
CEOS WGISS is the satellite arm of GEO http://wgiss.ceos.org
WGISS stimulates, coordinates, monitors, and promotes collaboration on the development
of the systems and services that manage and supply satellite EO data and information.
Working weeks have the aim to address improving the efficiency of operation of the data
providers and maximizing the usefulness and benefit of satellite EO data. Spatial data
infrastructures, geospatial data sharing, services and apps are vital.
As agreed by GSDI and CEOS WGISS Co-Chairs in 2006, HUNAGI serves as liaison between
GSDI and WGISS.
Since 2006 GSDI-WGISS Liaison’s reports are related to
data policy, products, services and promising technologies and apps
incl. relevant regional (EUROGI) and National achievements (HUNAGI)
GSDI decision on
upgrade the
involvement in
WGISS and GEO
in Dec 2009
23 EOGEO HU -
HUNAGI 24 DLR
32 HUNAGI
33 RESTEC/JAXA
34 ISRO
35 INPE
37 NASA
36 ESA
27 CNES
28 NOAA UCAR
29 UN SPIDER
2006
As CEOS Delegate
HUNAGI contributed to
the GEO-OGC Think Tank
in Sept 2013 Frascati
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Downloadable Thematic Presentation
Workshop ‘EO in Hungary’
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31 USGS EROS
Earth Observation Systems and Services:
CEOS WGISS is the satellite arm of GEO http://wgiss.ceos.org
GSDI decision on
upgrade the
involvement in
WGISS and GEO
in Dec 2009
23 EOGEO HU -
HUNAGI 24 DLR
32 HUNAGI
33 RESTEC/JAXA
34 ISRO
35 INPE
37 NASA
36 ESA
27 CNES
28 NOAA UCAR
29 UN SPIDER
2006
As CEOS Delegate
HUNAGI contributed to
the GEO-OGC Think Tank
in Sept 2013 Frascati
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Downloadable Liaison’s Report
Downloadable Thematic Presentation
Workshop ‘EO in Hungary’
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by telecon
38 Roscosmos
by telecon
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Data
Stewardship
preservation
Open
Search
Best
practice
Technology
exploration
NASA Big
Earth Data
Agency
and Partner
Reports
Water Portal
Interopera-
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AUS
Data
Cube
Big
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Digital Earth Technologies and Applications:
HUNAGI is active in the Int’l Symposia of Digital Earth (ISDE) since 2003,
the year when the first intergovernmental EO meeting was held in Washington DC (which
lead later to the establishment of GEO).
HUNAGI is member of the Int’l Society of Digital Earth (ISDE)
since its establishment 2009 with Secretariat hosted by CAS RADI
HUNAGI in Task Force
Next Generation DE
UNESCO ESD
Conference
5. DE Summit
Nagoya
4. DE Summit
Wellington
3. DE Summit
Nessebar
2. DE Summit
Potsdam
ISDE 3 Brno
ISDE 4 Tokyo
ISDE 5 Berkeley
ISDE 6 Beijing
ISDE 7 Perth
ISDE 8 Kuching
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HUNAGI contribution to
Beijing Declaration
HUNAGI in IJDE
HUNAGI in ExCom
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Keynote by GEOSec
Director Barbara Ryan
http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/
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Downloadable presentation
Contribution ISDE- ICSU
CODATA
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Some selected Hungarian EO-related links in the
HUNAGI community
¡  Hungarian Space Office
¡  Meteorological Service www.met.hu
¡  FÖMI www.fomi.hu
¡  GeoAdat www.geoadat.hu
¡  DigiTerra www.digiterra.hu
¡  Károly Róbert College, Gyöngyös
¡  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Dept of Surveying and Geodesy
¡  Eötvös L. University of Science, Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics
¡  Óbuda University, Alba Regia Technical Faculty, Institute of Geoinformatics
¡  Szeged University, Department of Physical Geography
¡  Debrecen University several departments (agriculture, geography and
geoinformatics, water and environmental management)
¡  Data, products and solution providers: Esri, HexagonGeospatial, Kákonyi G.

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