Tag: carbon cycle
BICEP – Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes
Prime company: Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)The ocean carbon cycle is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. It has been estimated that around a quarter of anthropogenically-produced emissions of CO2, caused from the burning of fossil fuels and land use change, have been absorbed by the ocean. On the other hand, significant advances have been made recently to expand …
Performance evaluation for the QAA algorithm to retrieve particulate backscattering
The Quasi-Analytical Algorithm was developed to derive inherent optical properties by analytically inverting the spectral remote-sensing reflectance. It is the algorithm used in the ESA Ocean-colour CCI project to retrieve particulate optical backscattering (bbp). Due to the high uncertainties still associated to QAA global retrievals of bbp, reliable accuracy estimates of the QAA are essential …
ALBIOM (ALtimetry for BIOMass)
Prime company: DEIMOS SPACE UK LTD (GB)The ALBIOM project (ALtimetry for BIOMass) proposes to derive forest biomass using SAR Altimetry Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 (S3) Mission. Biomass is at present monitored globally using optical satellites, SAR and LiDAR technology, but it is still poorly quantified in most parts of the world, and the satellite data currently exploited for this purpose …
SAR4Wildfire
Prime company: KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN (SE)The objective of tge SAR4Wildfire project is to develop a novel and automatic method, using Sentinel-1 SAR time series and a deep learning framework, for near real-time wildfire progression monitoring and burn severity mapping in preselected wildfire sites in Sweden and British Columbia, Canada. Whenever available, Sentinel-2 MSI data will be incorporated in the framework …
PHOTOPROXY: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC-PROXY EXPERIMENT
Prime company: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH (DE)In few years from now, ESA’s BIOMASS and FLEX Earth Explorers satellite missions will open a new opportunity to enhance our knowledge of the global carbon cycle. In particular, the scientific exploitation of BIOMASS and FLEX in synergy with the Sentinel satellite series and other existing and future missions (e.g. CMOS, GEDI, NISAR, Tandem-X/L) will …
SENTINEL-5P+ INNOVATION SOLAR INDUCED CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE (SIF)
Prime company: NOVELTIS SAS (FR)The ESA –TROPOSIF project is one of the seven themes from the Sentinel-5p+ Innovation (S5p+I) activity funded by ESA, which aims at developing novel scientific products / retrieval methods from the data acquired by the TROPOMI (TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument) instrument aboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor mission launched in October 2017. Although the Sentinel-5P mission was designed …
SENTINEL-5P+ INNOVATION OCEAN COLOUR (S5P+-I-OC)
Prime company: ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE (DE)The S5P+I-OC project will explore the capacity of the Sentinel-5p TROPOMI data to provide novel Ocean Colour (OC) products. More specifically, the objectives of this S5P+ Innovation activity are to: develop a solid scientific basis for the application of S5P data within the context of novel scientific and operational OC products applications; assess existing algorithms …
SMOS+ VEGETATION
Prime company: THE INVERSION LAB THOMAS KAMINSKI CONSULTING (DE)ESA’s SMOS mission is part of ESA’s Living Planet Programme and carries the first-ever, polar-orbiting, space-borne, 2-D interferometric radiometer providing observations at 1.4 GHz. From the Level 1 brightness temperatures we derive the Level-2 data products, namely surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth (VOD) (over land) and sea surface salinity (over oceans). SMOS not …
Tropical Peat View
Prime company: SARVISION BV (NL)Indonesia counts more than 16 million ha of peatland, and a substantial part of these have been converted into plantations (in particular oil palm and acacia) or have been degraded. Both plantations and degraded peatlands are generally drained, primarily through networks of canals. The Indonesian government is committed to improve peatland management and has established …