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Invitation to Tender: “Generation of methods for exploiting the Copernicus Sentinel fleet (Sentinels -1, -2, -3 and -5P) to estimate GPP and impacts of fire disturbance (SENTINELS4CARBON)”

October 6, 2020

This activity is part of the Carbon Science Cluster of ESAs Scientific Data Exploitation element of the Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP-5). This activity targets the urgent need to unlock the full potential offered by the synergistic capabilities of Sentinel missions, in particular those of Sentinels 2, 3 and 5P, to develop the next generation …

Invitation to Tender: “Forest carbon monitoring”

September 3, 2020

Accumulation of carbon in forests, either by natural growth or by reforestation in non-forested areas has a great potential to support mitigation of climate change. The political framework is set by policy needs as expressed in the Paris Agreement, where parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse …

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A NASA and ESA collaborative community initiative on Arctic methane and permafrost

September 1, 2020

The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in Changing Climate (2019) includes “permafrost carbon and greenhouse gas emissions” as one of the cases characterised by deep uncertainty. The report states that even if there is a very high confidence that “permafrost temperatures have increased to record high levels including the recent increase by …

HR-AlbedoMap: Generation of high-resolution spectral and broadband surface albedo products based on Sentinel-2 MSI measurements

Prime company: UCL CONSULTANTS LTD (GB)

The project aims at improving a current surface albedo generation system by adapting and integrating a deep learning system for cloud detection, an advanced atmospheric correction model which considers the surface BRDF effects, and a new technology allowing to retrieve high-resolution albedo from high-resolution reflectance by combining with downscaled MODIS BRDF climatology

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METHANE+

Prime company: Netherlands Institute for Space Research (NWO-I SRON) (NL)

The ESA Methane+ project aims at exploiting the SWIR and TIR CH4 observations from different satellites in order to better differentiate between sources and sinks of CH4 on the regional and global scale. For this we will use the CH4 observations of TROPOMI on Copernicus Sentinel-5p, IASI on MetOp-B, and CrIS on Suomi NPP in combination with atmospheric inversion models. OBJECTIVES: Given the identified opportunities and challenges of …

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20-year time-series of global primary production in the oceans

May 6, 2020

In a recent paper published in Remote Sensing, scientists used data from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative to study the long-term patterns of primary production and its interannual variability. Combining long-term satellite data with in situ measurements, they assessed global annual primary productivity from 1998-2018. Being able to observe and quantify primary production over …

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 …

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A collaboration on Carbon science just kicked-off

January 31, 2020

The carbon cycle is central to the Earth system, being inextricably coupled with climate, the water cycle, nutrient cycles and the production of biomass by photosynthesis on land and in the oceans. In the natural system the balance among carbon in the atmosphere, land and ocean is regulated through fluxes between these three main reservoirs. …

Atmospheric Data Lab (TOP)

TOP is a web-based platform offering users from the atmospheric sciences domain a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) to exploit Copernicus atmospheric and climate data products, such as COPERNICUS Sentinel-5 Precursor data and CAMS products. Deployed on the MUNDI DIAS, it is the first operational platform implementing the data triangle (EO, model and in-situ data) and …

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Earth System Data Lab

The Earth System Data Lab is meant to offer a service to Earth System scientists: the provision of a versatile and simple-to-use online laboratory, i.e. infrastructure and tools, to analyse the various data sets in the cube. With this at hand, users may tackle a great variety of questions and come up with innovative applications. …

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Invitation to Tender: “Generation of methods for exploiting the Copernicus Sentinel fleet (Sentinels -1, -2, -3 and -5P) to estimate GPP and impacts of fire disturbance (SENTINELS4CARBON)”

Invitation to Tender: “Forest carbon monitoring”

A NASA and ESA collaborative community initiative on Arctic methane and permafrost

HR-AlbedoMap: Generation of high-resolution spectral and broadband surface albedo products based on Sentinel-2 MSI measurements

METHANE+

20-year time-series of global primary production in the oceans

BICEP (Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes)

A collaboration on Carbon science just kicked-off

Atmospheric Data Lab (TOP)

Earth System Data Lab