CENS GIS and Remote Sensing Team together with the Researchers of The Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences are implementing research studies on updating and validating the methodology developed in the framework of the previous de...
GIS and Remote Sensing
Developing a remote sensing method of studying heat islands in Yerevan area
The project goal is developing a high- and ultra high-resolution (<2m) data-supported research method for studying heat islands in Yerevan area. The project tasks to be fulfilled to achieve the stated goal are as follows: (1) Assessing spatio- tem...
Supporting Armenia in Building the Armenian Data Cube: Earth Observation data for sustainable development - ADC4SD
The main objective of ADC4SD will be to transfer the necessary knowledge from Switzerland to Armenia for developing and implementing the first version of an Armenian Data Cube (ADC) with a complete and up-to-date archive of Earth Observations (EO) da...
COproductioN with NaturE for City Transitioning, INnovation and Governance - H2020 CONNECTING
The overarching objective of CONNECTING is to position Europe as a global leader in the innovation and implementation of nature-based solutions. The project partners will form a community of cities fostering peer-to-peer, transdisciplinary capacity-b...
EU IncoNet EaP Twinning project
The central goal of the proposed project is to reinforce partnership between research teams from East European countries (Armenia and Georgia) and from EU member states (Ireland and UK) to join to the new forming research consortium in the field of C...
Developing a remote sensing method for assessing and predicting heavy metal pollution of agricultural crops in mountain regions
Pollution of agricultural crops with heavy metals is a food safety and human health risk factor which needs to be identified, assessed and managed through creation of an early response system. For this purpose the project proposes developing a remote...
Development of the remote monitoring system of the water quality of Lake Sevan
The central goal of the proposed project is to develop the methods of assessing and monitoring the qualitative characteristics of the water of Lake Sevan (blooming, turbidity and temperature) using remote sensing technologies.
EC FP7 “Earth Observation for Economic Empowerment” EOPOWER project
EOPOWER project, coordinated by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) aimed to present Armenia as a pilot study and CENS is central to this pilot. The main goal of this use case is to apply the EGIDA methodology, thus contributing to institutional capacit...
EC FP7 “Transitioning towards urban resilience and sustainability” TURAS project
TURAS project is a strong network of European organizations lead by University College Dublin (http://www.turas-cities.org). In frame of EU-FP7 TURAS project collaboration the new use case approach was agreed to share and present GIS datasets c...
Development of remote sensing methods for the assessment of soil pollution with heavy metals (case study: Kajaran)
The project was aimed at developing spectral signatures related to heavy metal pollution of soils in the region of city of Kajaran. To reach the stated goal, the following tasks were designed and implemented. - Developing approaches to integrat...