1. school of geography, university of southampton, uk 2. unité mixte de recherche environnement...
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1. School of Geography, University of Southampton, UK2. Unité Mixte de Recherche Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes, INRA, France3. Exploitation & Services Division, Industry Section, ESA-ESRIN
PHAVEOS - the PHenology And Vegetation EO Service.
Presented by: Thomas Lankester
18th June 2010
Lankester, T., Dash, J.1, Baret, F.2, Koetz, B.3 & Hubbard, S.
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Objectives
Provide time series of a range of vegetation parameters, utilising the unique spectral, spatial and temporal resolution of the MERIS instrument
Make spatially and temporally continuous time series available through visualisation and download of maps and phenology curves for individual locations
Support the development of a validated baseline time series (2005 - ) in advance of the launch of Sentinels 2 and 3
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Level 1b to Level 3 processing approach
Convert MERIS Level 1b data to Level 3 gridded maps, on a daily basis
geometric correction
radiometric correction
atmospheric correction
derive biophysical variable(s)
resample direct to target map grid (latlong, OSGB36, Irish Grid…)
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Level 1b geometric accuracy issues
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Level 1b geometric accuracy issues
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Level 3 geometric accuracy
To preserve geometric fidelity, resampling into the target map grid is carried out in a single step
To conserve the scene statistics area weighted (flux-conserving) resampling is used
The blue grid represents the input (swath) data grid and the yellow grid the target map grid
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Step 1 apply a cubic spline interpolation of the raw data to generate a continuous time series
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Level 4 processing - interpolation
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Level 4 processing - smoothing
Step 2 smooth using a local weighted least squares regression (if no negative noise bias)
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Level 4 processing – interpolation metrics
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Level 4 processing – smoothing metric
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Level 3 validation
Moving from Stage 1 to Stage 2(+) validation requires considerable product generation
PHAVEOS is utilising the ESA Grid Processing On-Demand (G-POD) environmentBased on MERIS FRS data from 2005 – present, will deliver a range of Level 3 and Level 4 time seriesLAI, fAPAR, fCover, MTCI, NDVI, 2G_RBi, ….
Provision of Level 3 products for MODIS match up sites (N. America)
Coverage of PAR@METER sites
OnLine Interactive Validation Exercise (OLIVE)
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Level 4 validation
Land Surface Phenology product validation methods TBD.
issues of spatial disparity where Sentinel 2 could bridge the gap.
Access to Forestry Commission intense monitoring sites (leaf litter collections, phenocams)
Access to UK Phenology Network
Access to tropical (DRC) deforestation ground truth
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Web Map Service dissemination concept
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Phenology metrics – what is the point?
Why use, and validate / inter-compare, basic phenology statistics?
Loss of information from a continuous time series (are we hiding intra-annular information)
Why inter-compare on a handful of measures when full time series are available?
Extraction of metrics is sensitive to interaction of smoothing and metric extraction methods
Different users are interested in different aspects of time series (phenology curves)
Are simple metrics capturing a relevant reality?
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Any questionsPhenological beauty is in the eye of the
beholder