remote sensing

IAHS International Commission on Remote Sensing

Mgr. Ondřej Ledvinka – 1/2022

The International Commission on Remote Sensing (ICRS), as one of the current ten scientific commissions under the umbrella of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS; [1]), has emerged as a logical response to the availability of spatial data associated with the launch of the first satellites in the 1970s that were designed to observe the Earth’s landscape sphere from space, providing a completely new perspective in which the spatial extent of the territory under observation played the major role.

Use of Earth remote sensing methods to monitor the condition of bathing sites

Ing. Bc. Václava Maťašovská, Mgr. Filip Kothan, Mgr. Ondřej Ledvinka, Mgr. Petr Pumann, Ing. Tomáš Fojtík, Ing. Marcela Makovcová and Ing. Lenka Bendakovská, Ph.D. – 1/2021

The Ministry of Health in cooperation with other related bodies compiles, on an annual basis, the List of outdoor bathing sites on surface waters where the bathing service is offered by the operator, and other surface waters used for bathing. It is compiled based on the long-term monitoring, performed, exclusively as in-situ measurements, by the regional hygiene stations. With respect to the fact that this way of monitoring is not only time-consuming but also financially demanding, the need for minimizing these expenses naturally arises.