An Innovative Framework for Integrated Space-Ground Monitoring

The paper presents main results received within the project 'Integrated Intelligent Platform for Monitoring the Cross-Border Natural-Technological systems' (INFROM) in the area of integrated monitoring of complex systems, which contain natural, technological and social elements, based on heterogeneous data received from space and ground-based information sources. An integrated conceptual framework for monitoring as well as technologies supporting information processing, crowd sourcing and integration, process modeling and simulation, and visualization of modeling results are described. Monitoring facilities and support tools are considered as well. The demonstration case and real-time experiments for a short-term flooding forecast are described in the paper.