Geodiametris: an integrated geoinformatic approach for monitoring land pollution from the disposal of olive oil mill wastes

Dimitrios D. Alexakis; Apostolos Sarris; Nikos Papadopoulos; Pantelis Soupios; Maria Doula; Victor Cavvadias

doi:10.1117/12.2066335

12 August 2014 Geodiametris: an integrated geoinformatic approach for monitoring land pollution from the disposal of olive oil mill wastes

Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Nikos Papadopoulos, Pantelis Soupios, Maria Doula, Victor Cavvadias

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Proceedings Volume 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014); 92291L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2066335
Event: Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 2014, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

The olive-oil industry is one of the most important sectors of agricultural production in Greece, which is the third in olive-oil production country worldwide. Olive oil mill wastes (OOMW) constitute a major factor in pollution in olivegrowing regions and an important problem to be solved for the agricultural industry. The olive-oil mill wastes are normally deposited at tanks, or directly in the soil or even on adjacent torrents, rivers and lakes posing a high risk to the environmental pollution and the community health. GEODIAMETRIS project aspires to develop integrated geoinformatic methodologies for performing monitoring of land pollution from the disposal of OOMW in the island of Crete -Greece. These methodologies integrate GPS surveys, satellite remote sensing and risk assessment analysis in GIS environment, application of in situ and laboratory geophysical methodologies as well as soil and water physicochemical analysis. Concerning project’s preliminary results, all the operating OOMW areas located in Crete have been already registered through extensive GPS field campaigns. Their spatial and attribute information has been stored in an integrated GIS database and an overall OOMW spectral signature database has been constructed through the analysis of multi-temporal Landsat-8 OLI satellite images. In addition, a specific OOMW area located in Alikianos village (Chania–Crete) has been selected as one of the main case study areas. Various geophysical methodologies, such as Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Induced Polarization, multifrequency electromagnetic, Self Potential measurements and Ground Penetrating Radar have been already implemented. Soil as well as liquid samples have been collected for performing physico-chemical analysis. The preliminary results have already contributed to the gradual development of an integrated environmental monitoring tool for studying and understanding environmental degradation from the disposal of OOMW.

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Dimitrios D. Alexakis, Apostolos Sarris, Nikos Papadopoulos, Pantelis Soupios, Maria Doula, and Victor Cavvadias "Geodiametris: an integrated geoinformatic approach for monitoring land pollution from the disposal of olive oil mill wastes", Proc. SPIE 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 92291L (12 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2066335

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