Mauro FiorentinoUniversity of Basilicata

The University of Basilicata Research Activities on Earth Observation and

Natural Risk Mitigation and Prevention

CHARACTERIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SATELLITE SENSORS

INSTRUMENT

IASI SWIFT AGIRS IMG MTG AIRS GERB REFIR

FUNDING AGENCY

CNES/EUMETSAT

ESA

ESA/EUMETSAT

NASDA (JAXA)

ESA/EUMETSAT

NASA

NERC-UK/OSTC-BE/ASI-IT

EU-ASI

PERIOD

'89-Present

‘99-Present

‘95-98

‘95-Present

‘01-Present

89-Present

'00-present

‘97-Present

Projects leaded by DIFA (responsible C. Serio)

IASI is a Michelson Interferometer measuring the spectral distribution of the atmospheric radiation covering the Spectral range 15.5 to 3.62 µm with a sampling rate of 0.25 cm-1

developed at CNES/EUMESAT IASI has been designed for operational meteorological

soundings with a very high level of accuracy (specifications on Temperature accuracy: 1K for 1 km and 10 % for humidity) being devoted to improved medium range weather forecast.

It was successful launched on board of EUMETSAT METOP-A on 19 October 2006 and it is in the operational status since 30 November 2006

AMATO et al. ENSO, 17/7 2002 MASIELLO and SERIO, GRL, 31/11 2004 CARISSIMO et al. ENSO, 20/9 2005. GRIECO et al. QJRMS, 133/s3 2007

Opening the new era of Infrared Sounders on Geostationary Platforms:

MTG IRS Mission

Planned for 2016 and beyond and focusing on water vapour vertical structures

from WALES (Water Vapour Lidar Experiment in Space)to SPACE WAVES

CORE ELEMENT: Nadir-viewing water vapour DIfferential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) System

First active humidity profiler in space

Mission goal: To determine profiles of water vapour accurately and at high vertical resolution from space with global coverage

Recently SPACE WAVES a satellite DIAL experiment similar to WALES (not admitted to phase B) has been recommended for further technological studies in the context of the Earth Observation Envelope Programme 3

Characterization and Development of new satellite sensors

Projects participated by DIFA (SPG P. Di Girolamo)

ESA Earth ExplorerCore Mission

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SATELLITE DATA ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

EO-1 CAL/VAL (NRA-99-0ES-01)

GMOSS Network of Excellence (Global Monitoring for Security and Stability)

GRIDCC (GRID enabled remote instrumentation with distributed Control and Computation)

G-MOSAIC (GMES services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises)

FUNDING AGENCY OR PROGRAM

NASA

EC-FP6/GMES-ESA

EC-FP6/IST

EC-FP7/GMES-ESA

Main projects leaded or participated by DIFA (responsible V. Tramutoli)

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SATELLITE DATA ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS

INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL PROJECTS MUDVOLCANOE

S (Monitoring short term fluctuations in mud volcanoes methane emissions)

STREGEOS (Stress related geohazards in South Caucasus)

AVVISA (Forest Fires Detection by Satellite)

AVVISTA (Fire Hotbed Detection by Satellite)

FUNDING AGENCY OR PROGRAM

NATO Science for Peace

EC-FP6/INTAS

Lombardia Region Civil Protection Office

Palermo Province Civil Protection Office

TARGET REGIONS

SOUTH CAUCASUS (Azerbaijan)

SOUTH CAUCASUS

(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia)

Lombardia

Region (Italy)

Palermo Province (Sicily-Italy)

INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL PROJECTS

Earthquakese.g. 7 September 1999 Athens Earthquake

Soil wetnesse.g. Carpathian Basin, April 2000

Volcanic eruptions

Flooded areas

Floods

TISZASZOLNOK

TISZAVARKONY

VEZSENYTISZAJENE

TISZASASTISZA

TISZASZOLNOK

TISZAVARKONY

VEZSENYTISZAJENE

TISZASASTISZA

TISZASZOLNOK

TISZAVARKONY

VEZSENYTISZAJENE

TISZASASTISZA

TISZASZOLNOK

TISZAVARKONY

VEZSENYTISZAJENE

TISZASASTISZA

TISZASZOLNOK

TISZAVARKONY

VEZSENYTISZAJENE

TISZASASTISZA

e.g. Ungary flood, April 2002

Erli

Carpasio

Casanova Lerrone

Voltri

fires

Forest firese.g. Fires in Italy, February 2005

Oil spill

Sea pollutione.g. Oil spill in the Persic Gulf, January 1991

Moderately wet

Raining Clouds

Weakly wet

Extremely wet

Hot spot

e.g. 2004-2005 Etna eruption (Italy)

Thermal anomalies

3 days before EQ

Robust Satellite Techniques (RST)

0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000

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D-DREAM monitoring stations -- "Relative soil moisture"

Soil Moisture Simulation DREAM 1.1 (Manfreda et al., 2005)

Time Domain Reflectometer.

Uso del suolo.shparbustiboscobosco alterbaseminativsuolo spo

N

EW

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LanduseShrubForestTall Forest Herbaceous CropBare soil

0.50.5-2 -2

cmcm30 cm30 cm

An intensive monitoring campaign has been carried out over an experimental area of Southern Italy. The Surface Wetness Index SWI (x,y,t) = BT89 – BT23 (AMSU-based) with the help of Exponential filter by Wagner et al. (1999) has been compared with the direct measurements and spatial simulated soil moisture obtained with the physically based model DREAM.

y = 10.289x - 6.361R² = 0.6762

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0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2

AM

SU

_SW

I*

simulated relative saturation

0

0,2

0,4

0,6

0,8

1

1,2

1 59 117 175 233 291 349 407 465 523 581 639 697 755 813 871 929 987

-25

-20

-15

-10

-5

0

5

10

15

20

25

saturation degree AMSU_SWI

-30

-25

-20

-15

-10

-5

0

5

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25

30

0 0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1 1,2

saturation degree

AM

SU

_S

WI

0

0,2

0,4

0,6

0,8

1

1,2

1 59 117 175 233 291 349 407 465 523 581 639 697 755 813 871 929 987

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saturation degree AMSU_SWI* T=58

R=0.21

R=0.61

T=58

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After the application of the exponential filter