LSA SAF 2nd User Training Workshop
IPMA, Lisbon
8-10 March 2006
The 2nd LSA SAF User Training Workshop will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 8 to 10 March 2006 at the headquarters of Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Index
- Introduction
- The LSA SAF
- Programme
- Proceedings
- SESSION 1: CURRENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES
- SESSION 2: THE LAND SAF ASSETS FOR GMES
- SESSION 3: INTERFACES WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS
- SESSION 4: APPLICATIONS OF LSA SAF PRODUCTS
Introduction
The aim of the workshop is
- to gather feedback from the user community on specific applications of products disseminated by the LSA SAF;
- to re-evaluate the adequacy of product specifications, as stated in the User Requirement Document;
- to assess the potential usage of existing products in new applications, as well as to extend the set of products to be delivered.
The LSA SAF
The main purpose of the LSA SAF is to develop techniques to retrieve parameters related with land, land-atmosphere interactions, and biospheric applications, using data from satellites, with special emphasis on Meteosat and Metop series. The LSA SAF system is currently generating, archiving and disseminating a set of (pre-)operational products, including:
- Land Surface Temperature
- Albedo
- Down-welling Surface Short and Long Wave Fluxes
- Snow Cover
- Vegetation parameters (FVC, LAI)
- Other products, related to soil moisture and evapotranspiration, are under development
Programme
The first 2 days will be used for presentations, while the last day will be devoted to working group discussions. The working groups are expected to come up with a series of recommendations or guidelines for future research. These will be included in the report of the workshop, to be published by EUMETSAT shortly after the meeting. For guidance the presentations will be associated with the session categories listed below:
- Current and future activities
- Scientific validation of products
- Archiving and dissemination (e.g. EumetCast, GTS, Internet)
- Performance and quality control
- The Land SAF assets for GMES
- Geoland
- GEMS
- Interfaces with other programmes and projects
- with National Weather Services (NWP, Climate, Extreme events)
- within the SAF Network (e.g. OSI, Climate, Nowcasting, Hydrology)
- with other satellite programmes (e.g. MODIS, NOAA, SMOS, VEGETATION)
- with WMO programmes (e.g. GCOS)
- Applications of LSA SAF products
- Agriculture and forestry (e.g. crops, wildfires, frost)
- Hydrology (e.g. floods, droughts)
- Vector diseases
- Other
- Applications of LSA SAF products
Proceedings
SESSION 1: CURRENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES
| Title | Author/Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| The EUMETSAT SAF Network and its evolution | Lorenzo Sarlo | |
| Overview of the LSA SAF development & initial operations phases | Carlos daCamara | |
| The LSA SAF long-wave radiation products | I.F. Trigo | |
| The LAND-SAF surface albedo and downwelling shortwave radiation flux products | B. Geiger | |
| Current status and further developments of the vegetation products | F. J. García-Haro | |
| Validation of the LSA-SAF snow cover product | Niilo Siljamo | |
| Status of development of the LSA-SAF evapogtranspiration product | F. Meulenberghs |
SESSION 2: THE LAND SAF ASSETS FOR GMES
| Title | Author/Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| GMES AND GLOBAL LAND ISSUES | E. Bartholomé | |
| THE GEOLAND INTEGRATED GMES PROJECT AND ITS BIOGEOPHYSICAL PARAMETER CORE SERVICE COMPONENT (abstract) | Marc Leroy | |
| INTERACTIONS AND MUTUAL SUPPORT OF THE EUMETSAT SAFS AND THE GMES PROJECT | Anthony Hollingsworth | |
| LSA SAF AND THE FUTURE GMES SERVICE ELEMENT | Pedro Viterbo | |
| THE WMO SPACE PROGRAMME AND ITS RELATIONS TO GCOS AND GEO | J. Lafeuille |
SESSION 3: INTERFACES WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS
| Title | Author/Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| SPATIALLY COMPLETE GLOBAL SURFACE ALBEDOS DERIVED FROM TERRA/MODIS DATA (abstract) | F. Meulenberghs | |
| EUMETSAT METEOROLOGICAL PRODUCTS RELEVANT TO THE LSA SAF | J.-C. Calvet | |
| THE AATSR LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE (LST) PRODUCT: COMPARISON WITH LSTS FROM SEVIRI | R. Sorani | |
| THE EUMETSAT SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITY ON SUPPORT TO OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY AND WATER MANAGEMENT | C. Jimenez / C. Prigent / F. Aires | |
| LAND SAF AND H-SAF PRODUCTS AS COMPLIMENTARY SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGY | R. de Lange | |
| THE SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET FROM THE CMSAF: ALGORITHMS AND VALIDATION RESULTSINTEGRATED SAF PRODUCT (abstract) | N. Siljamo, O. Hyvärinen |
SESSION 4: APPLICATIONS OF LSA SAF PRODUCTS
| Title | Author/Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| OPERATIONAL SNOW MAPPING WITH METEOSAT-8 SEVIRI AT METEOSWISS | Jean Quiby | |
| SOIL MOISTURE FROM THERMAL INFRARED SATELLITE DATA: ENVISAGED SYNERGIES WITH METOP ASCAT DATA | W.Wagner | |
| ACTUAL EVAPORATION, SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX AND REFERENCE CROP EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AS POTENTIAL NEW LAND SAF PRODUCTS | H.de Bruin | |
| THE USE OF MSG LAND SAF PRODUCTS IN THE FRAME OF THE MARS CROP YIELD FORECASTING ACTIVITIES - FIRST RESULTS | Bettina Baruth | |
| INVESTIGATIONS OF LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS IN THE WEST AFRICAN MONSOON USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING | Phil Harris | |
| APPLICATIONS OF THE LAND-SAF DOWNWELLING RADIATIVE FLUX PRODUCTS WITHIN AMMA | Aaron Boone | |
| MAPPING SURFACE COMPONENTS OF THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE THROUGH SEQUENTIAL ASSIMILATION OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE | Fabio Castelli |