Orasis is a Greek word meaning 'vision', and in this case refers to a Coastal Video Monitoring System, developed by Michalis Vousdoukas. The site will try to provide basic information about the principles followed, the field sites and recent developments.
Orasis is not a commercial activity, but a strickly research effort. All video systems installed at different sites have been funded by different research projects. We are completely open for collaboration and exchange of experiences.
Orasis is not hardware, but (i) software developed to acquire and process coastal imagery; and (ii) expertise related to the selection and installation of different camera models and lenses. The existing coastal monitoring systems have been based on different operating systems, computers, as well as different combinations of camera and lens models, depending on the project's budget and specific needs.
Finally, Orasis is part of a general effort to generate quantitative data to assist coastal research using a wide array of techniques like PIV, stereo vision, image segmentation, Fuzzy logic and Artificial Neural Netwroks. As a result, most of the methods, tools and expertise developed Orasis can be applied at other studies (field, lab and even beyond coastal research).
