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URMA Work Plan

URMA is a 2 year project organized around 8 technical work packages as follows


WP1 : Project Control and Reporting

Objectives: Plan, organize and manage resources to achieve all of the project goals and objectives, respecting the constraints as scope, time and budget. Provide management and keep a consolidated view of the actual progress with respect to the reference baseline. Coordinate the data procurement.

Activities:  Financial management and administrative management of the project will permanently envisage:

  • Monitor the project implementation according to the schedule; Monitor and coordinate the technical activities implementation; Monitor the financial aspects of the project.
  • Communication between parties and with ESA
  • Reporting, Risk Management, Documents Management
  • Project Information sharing and Communication Management activities:
  • Elaboration of the web-portal concept, Web-portal design and implementation, System Maintenance, Information update on project development


Deliverables:

  • Project Management Plan (PMP) - first delivery KO, upgrade delivery, CDR
  • Minutes of Meetings (MoMs), Progress Reports (PRs), Configuration Items Data List (CIDL), Review Item Discrepancies (RIDs)
  • Final Presentation (FP), Executive Summary (ES), Contract Closure Summary (CCS)
  • Project Web Information Pages (PWIP)


WP2: Quality Management


Objectives: Ensure that defined requirements (technical and management) are met.


Activities:

  • project quality management planning and reporting
  • assessment of quality of pre-developed items
  • quality assurance for project deliverables and reporting


Deliverables:

  • Quality and Assurance Plan


WP3: Definition of requirements and application scenario


Objectives: Selection of use cases and scenarios.


Activities:

  • Selection of EO data sources (ERS/ASAR/S-1); Selection of additional sources of information (geological)
  • Definition of requirements for
    • Creation of EO collection database; Conversion of EO products into suitable format for PS network computation and scene dynamic and visualization
    • Geocoding; Metadata extraction and temporal indexing and manipulation
    • Integration and organization into database; Information retrieval and fast search
  • Rendering and visualization (geographic positioning and visualization); Requirements for GUI; Requirement for processing chain


Deliverables:

  • Application Scenarios technical note
    • Identified use cases and scenarios
    • Identified EO data sources
    • Identified additional information
  • D10 (Evaluation report) first draft


WP4: Algorithms analysis, concept design


Objectives:

  • Identify the algorithms, methods and tools to be integrated into the application concept
  • Definition of concept application and methodology


Activities:

  • Analysis of SoA methodologies, algorithms and tools for:
    • Geocoding and metadata extraction for EO products and temporal indexing
    • Generation of PS interferograms; Generation of urban dynamics
    • Creation of indexes and implementation of search and retrieval mechanisms
    • Data representation and visualization
  • Define GUI; Define verification plan


Deliverables:

  • Methods and algorithms Technical Note
  •  Critical Design Review


WP5: Algorithms implementation


Objectives:

  • Integration of Application concept


Activities:

  • Design, development and Implementation of software components to be integrated in the final application concept: Geocoding and metadata extraction for EO products and temporal indexing; Generation of PS interferograms; Generation of urban dynamics; Creation of indexes and implementation of search and retrieval mechanisms; Data representation and visualization


Deliverables:

  • Concept definition file
  • Design Justification file
  • Geo-portal published through standard web services


WP6: Application concept integration and verification


Objectives:

  • Integration of Application concept


Activities:

  • System installation;User, software and DB links and interfaces; Integration of all software components and links to open source and third parties software tools (GAMMA).


Deliverables:

  • User manual


WP7: Validation and Evaluation Methodology Definition


Objectives:

  • Define test and validation methodology


Activities:

  • Define testing approach and methodologies
  • Procure additional information (geological)
  • Outline validation test plan; Validation database


Deliverables:

  • Contributions to Design Justification File, upgrade delivery CDR/AR


WP8: Concept Evaluation and Validation


Objectives:

  • Evaluation and validation of concept


Activities:

  • Perform validation on datasets;Analysis of problems and issues identified during tests


Deliverables:

Evaluation report - first delivery AR