GlobCarbon
Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation
Development and demonstration of a service for the production of multi-year global Level 3 Land Products derived from ATSR-2, AATSR, MERIS, and VEGETATION instruments data, to be used as input for Carbon Assimilation Models .
GlobCarbon | |
Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation | |
DUP (Data User Programme) | |
Land | |
€1,000k | |
Service Demonstration | |
Completed | |
SPOT 4/5 : Vegetation ERS-2 : ATSR-2 ENVISAT : MERIS ENVISAT : AATSR |
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GlobCarbon developed a service for the generation of fully calibrated estimates of land products, quasi-independent of the original Earth Observation source. Data coming from ESA Earth Observation satellites and other sensors have been synergistically utilised in the production. The service focused on the development of a system able to generate global estimates of the following information:
The system focused initially on six complete years, from 1998 to 2003 and was expanded to provide a complete 10-year set of land products from 1998 to 2007. The main data sources are ATSR-2 (ERS-2), AATSR and MERIS (ENVISAT) and VEGETATION (SPOT), which have been used synergistically. The objective was to develop a flexible service that is not dependent on any single satellite system. Therefore data from other sensor systems can be also introduced and the processing system can be retrospectively applied to existing archives and used with future satellite systems as well. The project was implemented by a large consortium led by VITO, with the partnership of many organisations and research centres: JRC, CESBIO, CTCD, IGBP and others. |
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Presentation in ENVISAT Symposium 2007 Demonstration Products and Qualification Report Product Description Manual Product Validation Plan |
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Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) - Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Processes (TAP) | |
GIM DATAMAT TRASYS LaMMA - Toscana Univ. Leicester |
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University of Toronto PIK MPI-Met Medias-France LSCE JRC IGBP CTCD CESBIO ESSP - Earth System Science Partnership : Global Carbon Project |
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Beert Bortslap VITO TAP Boeretang 200 B-2400 Mol BELGIUM Tel: + 32 14 33 68 39 Fax: + 32 14 32 27 95 Email: geert.borstlap@vito.be |
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Olivier Arino European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP Via Galileo Galilei C.P.94 I-00044 Frascati (RM) ITALY Tel: +39 06-941.80564 Fax: +39 06-941.80552 Email: olivier.arino@esa.int |