A new architecture for Remote-Sensing Environmental Monitoring System REMS: design and implementation

A new architecture for REMS (Remote-sensing Environmental Monitoring System V1.0) is introduced in this paper. REMS is the first integrated system in China developed to meet the multi-resource, multi-temporal and multi-thematic data processing, analyzing and products distributing, especially to process and monitor inland water resource pollution. The most important components of REMS are presented in this paper including tools for multi-resource data input/output, preprocessing, data visualization and mapping, environment information extraction, conventional image analysis, advanced tools for eco-environment modeling, and integrated interface to connect with general spatial and spectral database and water quality monitoring database. REMS provide professional ability to extract the major characters of water resource such as Chlorophyll content, Total Suspended Matter (TSM), Yellow Substance or CDOM etc. In order to retrieve and predict the blue algae distribution and water quality evolvement, a group of statistical algorithms are also realized to analyses the result and at the same time data assurance measures are also given respectively. Finally, we select the Taihu Lake, JiangShu Province, South China, as the representative research area and some field applications constructed based on REMS are discussed