Eufar
Description
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EUFAR (HYRESSA-2) |
| European Facility for Airborne Research in Environmental and Geo-sciences |
| Contact |
Ils Reusen |
Start (End) Date |
01/10/2008 (30/09/2012) |
| Consortium |
32 partners |
Project Coordination |
Météo France |
| Website |
www.eufar.net (new window) |
Related Projects |
Airborne campaigns,
APEX, CVB,CDPC, MICAS |
| Keywords |
hyperspectral remote sensing, training, networking,
transnational access, quality measures, water products |
Project Objectives
The EUFAR objective is to integrate through Networking Activities (NA), Transnational Access (TA), Joint Research Activities (JRA) the European actors involved in airborne research for environmental and Geo-science, to ensure that European researchers have access to the most suited infrastructure (aircrafts, sensors, data processing centers).
The NA Education and Training will provide training to new users and academic teachers.
TA will provide access to aircrafts/sensors to the scientific community.
JRA2 HYQUAPRO will :
- develop quality indicators and quality layers for airborne hyperspectral imagery and higher level data products
- implement/test quality layers in existing processing chains of airborne hyperspectral imagery
- develop higher performing water and soil algorithms as demonstrators for end-to-end processing chains with harmonized quality measures.
Methodology
NA: N4-EWG: Expert Working Groups; N5-ET: Education and Training; N6-SP: Standards and Protocols.
Five training courses will be organised within N5-ET
TA will be available to 14 infrastructures, 26 installations, for 63 projects, 187 users, and 520 flight hours.
JRA2 (10 partners) on the development of quality layers for airborne hyperspectral imagery and data products (HYQUAPRO).
Uncertainty propagation analysis (UPA) is applied to hyperspectral images to develop quality layers at various processing levels. Starting from generic quality indicators and quality layers, quality layers are implemented/tested in existing processing chains. The most robust and accurate methodologies for high-performing water and soil algorithms for information extraction from hyperspectral images are determined and implemented in existing PAFs.
(Expected) Results
Within N5-ET four training courses are organized (ADDRESSS, August 2010 Hungary; TETRAD, September 2010 France; QAD, October-November 2010 France; SONATA, August 2011, Italy).
TA to APEX data will result in the use of APEX data by the scientific research community and related scientific publications.
For VITO, the JRA2 HYQUAPRO will result in:
1) APEX quality layers tested and implemented in the CDPC
2) water algorithms tested and implemented in the CDPC
VITO Contribution
Lead JRA2; uncertainty Propagation Analysis (following CEOS endorsed QA4EO guidelines), upgrade CDPC with quality layers and data descriptors (metadata, INSPIRE compliant); implementation water algorithms in CDPC.
Lead N5-ET.
VITO offers APEX flight hours and processing of APEX data (e.g. HABLAKES, HYPERSTRESS).
Member of the User Group Selection Panel of N2-TAC for the selection of TA proposals.
Lead the Expert Working Group (EWG) on "Imaging sensors". Co-organization of the Joint EWG on imaging sensors, data processing and cal/val.
Partners
- Atmosphere: MF-CNRM (France)
Illustration
CHL-a map based on the Gitelson algorithm (Gitelson et al., 2007) (a) and OC4V6 algorithm (O'Reilly, et al., 2000) (b) for one of the 64 AISA Eagle flight lines of Lake Balaton, Hungary, August 2010 processed at VITO. Validation phase is ongoing.
Contact:
Ils Reusen
Tel. + 32 14 33 68 62
Fax + 32 14 32 27 95
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