ESA and GTOS
involvement
&
future perspectives
Olivier Arino
Paris
02/12/2009
– Working by project and with users
– Working with global change communities
– Working with international environmental
conventions
– Some relevant projects to GTOS
– ESA Climate Change Initiative
(GCOS, WCRP, IPCC, JCOMM, ESAC and GTOS are members of the ESA
Climate Science Advisory Board)
Working by projects
With
Users
User Driven Approach
User Groups: National & sub-national
public authorities, European institutions,
International organizations, NGOs
User requirements
consolidation
Ground truthing
In-situ data access
Products validation
Service assessment
Service
Development
Service Demonstration
EO data
Products
User Commitments
To initiate a project, ESA requests to participating user organizations:
 a Letter of Commitment;
 a User Requirements Document (URD);
Letter of Commitment
I will commit X men/month of work to:
User Requirement Document
The Service required include the provision of the
following geo-information products:
 Coordinate the work of local agencies;
•
XXX
 Consolidate the User Requirements;
•
XXX
 Provide access to data and information useful
for the project;
The area of interest is the following: ….
The timeframe of interest in the following ….
 Organize dedicated ground data collection
campaigns for the project;
The format of the products should be the following:
….
 Support the validation of the results;
The National User Network is made of…
 Assess the final service from a user
The User
perspective;
The User
300 New User Organisations
~150 national ministries and agencies
~100 research institutions
~few private companies and non-governmental organisations
~70 new users brought in 2008 and another 70 in 2009
Projects Offices
Funded last 6 years for 500 Keuro
Plan to fund next 3 years
User Consultations in 2008 and 2009
Map in construction
– Urban Heat Island, June 2007, NOA, Athens, 50 participants
– GlobWave, September 2007 , Ifremer, Brest,, 150 participants
– Support to Aviation for Volcanic Ash Avoidance, November 2007,
MeteoFrance, Toulouse, 30 participants
– GlobSnow, February 2008, University of Bern, 30 participants.
– Permafrost, February 2008, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, 40
participants
– GlobAlbedo, September 2008, ESRIN, Frascati, 20 participants
GW II
–starting
PostKyoto, December 2008, Poznan, 10 side events
GTOS link
– GlobVapour, January 2009, DWD, Offenbach, 20 participants
ongoing
– GlobWetland II, March 2009, “La Tour du Valat”, Arles, 50 participants
– CoastColour, March 2009 National Maritime Center, Cork, 50 participants
GTOS link
– GlobCloud, March
2009, FUB, Berlin, 80 participants
ongoing
Working
with
Global Change
Communities
ESA Projects relevant to GTOS
GlobSeries branding
GW II starting
GTOS link
ongoing
Gtos link
done
GTOS link
ongoing
GTOS link
ongoing
PERMAFROST
GTOS link ongoing
Working
with
International Environmental
Conventions
ESA participate to UNFCCC, UNCCD,
UNCBD and Ramsar COPs
Map in construction
–
World Summit, Johannesburg, 2002
–
UNFCCC COP 8, New Delhi, 2002
–
RAMSAR COP 8, Valencia, 2002
–
UNFCCC COP 9, Milan, 2003
–
UNCCD COP 6, La Havana, 2003
–
UNFCCC COP 10, Buenos Aires, 2004
–
UNCCD COP 7, Nairobi, 2005
–
RAMSAR COP 9, Kampala, 2005
–
UNFCCC COP 11, Montreal, 2005
–
UNFCCC COP 12, Nairobi, 2006
–
UNCCD COP 8, Madrid, 2007
–
UNFCCC, COP 13, Bali, 2007
–
RAMSAR COIP 10, Changwon, 2008
–
UNCBD COP 9, Bonn, 2008
–
UNFCCC COP 14, Poznan, 2008
–
UNCCD COP 9, Buenos Aires, 2009
–
UNFCCC COP 15, Copenhagen, 2009
booth
side events
exibition
articles
TV shots
Scientific advisory body:
GTOS link
to be defined
Tracking of Hammerhead sharks
(background SST map)
ATSR World Fire Atlas
ATSR-WFA ALGO1 hot spots
140000
120000
100000
#
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
10
20
09
20
08
20
07
20
06
20
05
20
04
20
03
20
02
20
01
20
00
20
99
19
98
19
97
19
96
19
Time
Arino and Casadio, 2009
Papers related to ATSR-WFA
35
30
25
-
20
15
10
5
0
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Time
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
www.esa.int/due/ionia/wfa/
ATSR-WFA: user trends
ATSR-WFA Users
95000
100000
90000
NRT
80000
Registered
70000
Web-tool
#
60000
1900 x 20
50000
40000
30000
850 x 20
20000
10000
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
New York Time, Liberation, 30 August 2007
Time
NRT on-line
May 2006
Web-Tool
May 2007
Registered before 2006 ~ 70
Fire Greece Web-Tool + GoogleEarth
Aug 2007
May 2009
ESA web story
Carbon cycle
GlobCarbon ‘Champion’ Users
Four key research institutes, one GMES project and one key
programme involved to specify needs and use products.
VITO implemented and operated the processing.
GlobCarbon products & Validation
Brazil
9000
60000
8000
50000
40000
Hot Spots
6000
5000
30000
4000
20000
3000
2000
10000
1000
0
0
J F M A M J J A S ON D J F M A M J J A S ON D J F M A M J J A SO N D J F M AM J J A SO N D J F M AM J J A SO N D J F M A M J J A S ON D J F M A M J J A S ON D J F M A M J J A SO N D J F M AM J J A SO N D J F M AM J J A SO N D
1998
1999
2000
2001
ATSR WFA
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
GlobCarbon Burned Area Estimate
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2007
Burned Area Estimates
7000
GlobCover2009
GLOBCOVER 2009
Data processing to L1b – current status
MERIS FRS data
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
To be completed…
2009 archive so far: 50 LTO3 tapes -> ~ 20 TBs
(compressed)
General archive so far: 200 LTO3 tapes -> ~ 80 TBs
(compressed)
GLOBCOVER 2009
Workplan
–


Current status of the project:
finished ingestion and Amorgos
processing
Planned conclusion of the
processing: March 2010
Processing steps
–
–
Pre-processing (I) (Jan2009-Sep2009)
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
LARS
Ingestion
Amorgos
Reflectance
Projection
BRDF
Composite
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
LARS
Ingestion
Amorgos
Reflectance
Projection
BRDF
Composite
–
–
Classification
Expert Labelling
Pre-processing (II) (Sep2009-Dec2009)
–
Classification
–
–
Validation
Distribution
GLOBCOVER 2009
Validation - the challenge
 Validate the product using a new EO dataset
 Keep the scientific & validation standards high
 Find a cost-effective solution
 Re-use available resources
…using the already-developed infrastructure from
GlobCover V2.2
 A large random sample network has been already developed
 Use of multiple validation resources as website interface, MERIS FRS
data, NDVI dynamics, other high resolution data platforms as Google Earth
etc.
 Use of the previous validation experience and established expert network
 Cost-effective solution
GLOBCOVER 2009
Distribution - News
Newsletter No9 (October 2009) celebrating
1 year from GlobCover ’s release.
Download hits from new users are
continuously increasing on GlobCover Ionia
Website
www.esa.int/due/ionia/globcover
News: GlobCover in the Times Concise Atlas
of the World
Distribution strategy is under investigation.
GlobCorine 2005 & 2009
Land cover/Land use to serve EEA
Climate Change Initiative
CCI’s ECVs: Land Cover & Fire & Glacier


Invitation To Tender closing 29 January 2010
Project (3 years) KO planned April 2010
Land Cover ECV
Data
ESA
Europe
USA
Satellite
Instrument
ENVISAT
MERIS FR
ENVISAT
MERIS
PROBA-V
VEGETATION-3
Sentinel-3
OLCI
SPOT-4
SPOT-5
VEGETATION
VEGETATION-2
METOP
AVHRR-3
NOAA
AVHRR, -2, -3
TERRA
MODIS
AQUA
MODIS
NPP
VIIRS
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Projects
GlobCover
Duration
2000 Time series
2005
2009
MERIS FR
1991
1995
2002
2009
Users
Current Project Users
User Numbers: >8000
Key Partners
FAO, UNEP, EEA, IGBP, JRC, GOFC-GOLD
2012
2015
Future
Perspectives
The next 20 years
– GMES Sentinels free and open data policy
– Doing science with operational observations
– Serve institutional requests (EEA, FAO, UNESCO, …)
– Support GEO communities of practices (FCT…)
– Stimulating exploitation (GMES services)
– Consolidating Climate Change Initiative
– Consolidate institutional relations with International
Environmental Conventions
http://www.esa.int
olivier.arino@esa.int
For more Information
http://www.esa.int
THANK YOU
Olivier Arino
olivier.arino@esa.int
Ionia
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to DUE demonstration products.
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