Added Value Products Derived from a MERIS Near Real Time Processing Line
Abstract
The geoland2 project funded by EU intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). Three components (local, continental, global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate products and demonstrate pre-operational services chains that will consolidate the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional organisation of the LMCS. The architecture of geoland2 is made of two different layers, the Core Mapping Service (CMS) and the Core Information Service (CIS). The 'basic' land cover, land cover change, and land state products which are of broad generic use are built through the CMS. They can be directly used for deriving more elaborated products. The CMS products cover a wide variety of thematic content, spatial scales from local to global, and update frequency, from 1 day to several years. Then, the 7 CIS are a set of thematic elements that start from CMS products and other data sources producing 'elaborated' information products addressing specific European policies. They are in direct contact with institutional end-users in charge of European policies which have a generic pan-European character. Answering to this end users requirement, Infoterra- France is developing an end to end service starting from Earth observations at medium and high spatial resolution until added value services for thematic applications relative to agriculture, water and environment over France and Europe. This strategy leads to the involvement within 2 CMS named 'Biogeophysical Parameter' (BioPar) and 'Seasonal & Annual Change Monitoring' (SATChMo) as well as the coordination of the CIS Agri-Environment. More specifically, Infoterra-France produces in near real time and off-line a series of biophysical parameters as well as land cover maps using MERIS FRS. These basic products are relevant for the setting up of agri- environmental indicators. The presentation will describe the processing line, the first results in application cases over Europe.
- Publication:
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ESA Living Planet Symposium
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010ESASP.686E.250P