European Space Agency GlobBiomass User
Consultation Meeting 2012
USER REQUIREMENTS SURVEY
Dear colleagues,
GlobBiomass is a new ESA initiative focussed on strengthening uptake of global-scale
satellite-derived above-ground biomass (AGB) information by the broad research and
operational user communities. The following survey will help us to better prepare the
GlobBiomass conference discussions. Therefore we would like to ask you to fill the
questionnaire as accurately as possible.
Please be free to send this document to any colleagues which might be interested in a
GlobBiomass initiative as well.
Finally, it is of course very important that you help us to be aware of existing activities,
so that GlobBiomass can build synergy rather than needlessly duplicating what already
exists.
Please complete the questionnaire and return it via e-mail (claudia.hilbert@uni-jena.de)
or directly during the conference at the latest on 9 October 2012.
Thank you very much,
The GlobBiomass Meeting Organization Team
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General
Contact name and role/
position
Organization
E-Mail
Type of
branch
organization,
(University/Research, NonGovernmental
Organization,
Space
Agency,
Consultancy,
Public Authority, etc.)
Brief description of your
organization’s activities
Current activities according to above-ground biomass
1. Please briefly describe your current work and the geographic areas where you
are working according to AGB, if you do.
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Requirements overview
2. Please provide a general description of your requirements for above-ground
biomass (AGB) and of areas where you think a GlobBiomass program could help
(Any details can be specified in question 5).
3. Please provide existing activities or biomass products you are already using to
(partly) satisfy your requirements. What more is needed and what existing
activities are you aware of that we should consider in defining the GlobBiomass
work plan?
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Detailed requirements
4. Please specify any details of products or activities you would like to be developed
within the frame of GlobBiomass. Copy/paste the table more than once if you
need to.
Product/ Activity
(brief description of the specific
biomass products or activities
required)
Use and benefit
(Describe the specific use that
will be made of the required
products and the benefit you are
expecting)
Spatial coverage/extent
(geographical
areas,
local/national/continental/global
scale)
Delivery mode
(eg. FTP, web services, delivered
media)
Data format
(e.g. GEOTIFF, NetCDF, HDF)
Cartographic reference system
(e.g. lat/lon grid, UTM)
Temporal resolution
(time periods over which the
product is required, how often
should the product be updated)
Spatial resolution
(as m, km or °)
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Accuracy and precision
(minimal required accuracy and
precision of biomass estimates)
Other
(any other requirements which
do not fit in the categories above)
Additional data
(please
list
any
support,
calibration or validation data
which would be available for this
area)
Comments
5. Please use the text box below if there is anything else you think should be
considered.
Thank you very much!
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