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| 7th Sentinel-3 Validation Team Meeting | ||||||
| Tuesday, 18 October 2022 | ||||||
| 13:00-13:05 | Welcome and Introductions | |||||
| 13:05-13:15 | Copernicus Programme Status | |||||
| 13:15-13:30 | Sentinel-3 Mission Status Anja Strømme, Hilary Wilson - ESA & EUMETSAT Sentinel-3 Mission Managers | |||||
| 13:30-13:45 | SLSTR A‐B Instruments and Products status Steffen Dransfeld, ESA & Anne O'Carroll, EUMETSAT | |||||
| 13:45-14:00 | OLCI A‐B Instruments and Products status Steffen Dransfeld, ESA & Ewa Kwiatkowska, EUMETSAT | |||||
| 14:00-14:15 | SRAL/MWR A‐B Instruments and Products status Pierre Féménias, ESA & Bruno Lucas, EUMETSAT | |||||
| 14:15-14:25 | Atmospheric Products status Christian Retscher, ESA & Julien Chimot, EUMETSAT | |||||
| 14:25-14:35 | ESA Data Access Jolyon Martin, ESA | |||||
| 14:35-14:45 | EUMETSAT Data Acces Hayley Evers-King, EUMETSAT | |||||
| 14:45-15:15 | Break | |||||
| 15:15-17:00 | Altimetry Session Chairs: Pierre Féménias & Bruno Lucas | Joint Optical Session Chairs: Steffen Dransfeld, Tim Hewison | ||||
| Review of past ALT-S3VT Action Items and Recommendations Pierre Féménias, ESA & Bruno Lucas, EUMETSAT (20') | SLSTR – On-Orbit Performance and Calibration Status Dave Smith, STFC (15') | |||||
| S3 STM Marine center status Bruno Lucas, EUMETSAT (20') | Copernicus Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument Calibration Ludovic Bourg, ACRI-ST (15') | |||||
| Introduction of the new Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Cluster for Land Surface Topography Mission Ghita Jettou, CLS (20') | Validation of the SLSTR & OLCI Sentinel-3 calibration/radiometry using natural targets Camille Desjardins, CNES (15') | |||||
| Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission status and performance over ocean Francesco Nencioli, CLS (20') | Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-1 radiometric uncertainties validation Alexis Deru, ACRI-ST (15') | |||||
| Sentinel-3 Land STM: The new thematic level-2 products over hydrology, sea ice and land ice Giovanni D'Apice, CLS (20') | http://dummyComparison of level 1 B data from OLCI-A and OLCI-B in FLEX configuration during Sentinel 3 tandem mission using a transfer function for quality control Lena Jänicke, FU Berlin (15') | |||||
| Calibration of S3-OLCI over Deep Convective Clouds with the help of geostationary data Dominique Jolivet, Hygeos (15') | ||||||
| Analysis of global cloud shadow occurrence in OLCI FR products and estimation of impact on current OLCI FR L2 products Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult GmbH (15') | ||||||
| 17:00-17:30 | Break | |||||
| 17:30-19:00 | Altimetry Session Chairs: Pierre Féménias & Bruno Lucas | SLSTR L1 & specificities for L2 applications Chairs: Anne O'Carroll + Steffen Dransfeld | Ocean Colour Session Chairs: Tania Casal & Ewa Kwiatkowska | |||
| Sentinel-3 performance and thematic product for land ice Sebatian B. Simonsen, DTU Space (20') | SLSTR Radiometric Uncertainty Analysis Dave Smith, STFC (15') | Updates on the operational Sentinel 3A and 3B OLCI datasets in the Copernicus Marine Service Vittorio Brando, CMEMS (15') | ||||
| Sentinel-3 Land STM MPC: Performance of the S3A and S3B Surface Topography Mission over sea-ice Sara Fleury, LEGOS (20') | The “Copernicus Space Component Validation for Land Surface Temperature, Aerosol Optical Depth and Water Vapor Sentinel-3 Products (LAW)” Project : Overview and Main achievements regarding S3 validation Claire Henocq, ACRI-ST (15') | NOAA Ocean Color Team Validation Activity Updates Menghua Wang, NOAA (15') | ||||
| Sentinel-3 Land STM: New Hydrology Thematic Products performances over Inland Waters Nicolas Taburet, CLS (20') | Validation of the new SLSTR basic cloud mask prototype Jan Wevers, Brockmann Consult GmbH (15') | Radiometric Validation of Sentinel-3AB by the WATERHYPERNET Kevin Ruddick, RBINS (15') | ||||
| Poster presentation (2 min) + Discussion (15') | Obstruction - an all-purpose cloud masking concept in response to manifold user requirements Ralf Quast, Brockmann Consult (15') | Recent measurements of marine optical properties in the Eastern Mediterranean and the potential Copernicus Ocean Colour System Vicarious Calibration (OC-SVC) site of Crete Andrew Banks, HCMR (5') | ||||
| Calibration monitoring of SLSTR IR channels based on comparisons with IASI Tim Hewison, EUMETSAT (10') | Ocean Colour Database OCDB – Evolution within the FRM4SOC Project Carsten Brockmann, Brockmann Consult GmbH (5') | |||||
| Poster Presentation: An improved surface classification algorithm for SLSTR Level 1 to determine mixed land-water pixels Caroline Cox, RAL Space (5') | Access to EUMETSAT OC products via EDB and ThoMaS – a Tool to generate Matchups of OC products with Sentinel-3/OLCI Juan Ignacio Gossn, EUMETSAT (15') | |||||
| Discussion | ||||||
| 19:00-20:30 | S3VT#7 Ice Breaker @ ESA ESRIN | |||||
| Wednesday, 19 October 2022 | ||||||
| 09:00-10:30 | Altimetry Session Chairs: Pierre Féménias & Bruno Lucas | Landcover & Temperature Session Chairs: Steffen Dransfeld & Igor Tomazic | Ocean Colour Session Chairs: Tania Casal & Ewa Kwiatkowska | Sea & Icesurface Temperature Session` Chairs: Craig Donlon & Anne Ocarrol | Atmosphere Session Chairs: Christian Retscher & Julien Chimot | |
| Latest improvement and Performance assessment of the Sentinel-3A STM Microwave Radiometer ML. Denneulin, CLS (20') | Validation of Sentinel-3 Land Surface Temperature datasets against ground-based measurements in support of the Copernicus LAW project Jasdeep Anand, University Of Leicester (15') | Radiometric qualification of OLCI at Italian automated radiometry sites in diverse optical regimes Vittorio Brando, CNR ISMAR (15') | Status of Copernicus Sea-Surface Temperature products Gary Corlett, EUMETSAT (20') | Welcome - Short introduction ESA/EUM (5 min) H2O Validation, evolution and application of OLCIs total column water vapor product Rene Preusker, FU-Berlin | ||
| Sentinel-3A/B instrument calibration monitoring and absolute calibration assessment Pablo Garcia, isardSAT (20') | Sentinel 3 SLSTR images for infrared remote sensing of volcanic activity Malvina Silvestri, Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (15') | Validation of L2 Products of OLCIs around coastal waters in the Yellow and East China Sea Bing Han, National Ocean Technology Center (15') | Felyx new release of the distributed and cloud-ready multi-matchup dataset production framework Igor Tomazic - EUMETSAT (20') | Results of the validation of the AIRWAVE-SLSTR TCWV product and follow-on study Massimo Valeri | ||
| Copernicus Sentinel-3 Precise Orbit Determination – performance of operational products Jaime Fernández Sánchez, GMV (15') | Intensive validation of new XBAER snow products derived SLSTR/ Sentinel-3 Linlu Mei, University Of Bremen, Germany (15') | Comparison of in-situ and Sentinel 3 OLCI radiometric measurements in Lake Balaton, Katalin Blix, UiT The Arctic University of Norway (15') | Sentinel-3 SLSTR validation using in-situ data collected by the MONIZEE system Portugal Luisa Lamas, Instituto Hidrográfico (on -site) (20') | Performances and benefits of a 1D-variational approach applied to the water vapour and wet tropospheric correction for the Sentinel 3A and 3B topography missions Bruno Picard | ||
| Copernicus Sentinel-3 Precise Orbit Determination using the COST-G fitted signal models Jaime Fernández Sánchez, GMV (15') | Discussion on SLSTR L2 product evolution All | Validation of Sentinel-3/OLCI water reflectance using automatic hyperspectral in-situ observations in the turbid waters of Río de la Plata, Argentina (HYPERNETS Site) Ana Dogliotti, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio Iafe (CONICET/UBA)) (15') | Evaluation of the potential of Sentinel-3 SLSTR data for bias correction of NOAA's high-resolution global sea surface temperature analysis Andrew Harris - University of Maryland (on-site) (20') | Discussion H2O (All) - Recommendations / Feedbacks to Agencies All | ||
| Sentinel-3 calibration and validation using Fiducial Reference Measurements and diverse Cal/Val techniques at the ESA Permanent Facility for Altimetry Calibration in west Crete, Greece Stelios Mertikas, Technical University Of Crete (20') | Sentinel 3a and 3b: four years of high-resolution ferry-based in situ reflectance validation data and bioregionalization of the British Columbia coastal waters Maycira Costa, University of Victoria, Canada (15') | Discussion on SST validation and in-situ data (10') All | Aerosols, Clouds and Surface Extended validation and evaluation of the OLCI-SLSTR Synergy aerosol product (SY_2_AOD) on Sentinel-3 Larisa Sogacheva, FMI | |||
| Discussion: OLCI validation results All | OSSAR-CS3 - Two years of (pre)operational NRT (Near Real Time) Copernicus Sentinel-3 aerosols - Lessons learned & new developments for the next 2 years Julien Chimot, EUMETSAT | |||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |||||
| 11:00-13:00 | Sentinel-3 Topography mission Assessment through Reference Techniques – The ESA St3TART project Elodie Da Silva, Noveltis (20') | A new (validation) approach for systematic monitoring of the Sentinel-3 OLCI cloud mask using low-cost sky cameras Jan Wevers, Brockmann Consult GmbH, Germany (15') | Spectral features of ocean colour radiometric products in the presence of cyanobacteria blooms in the Baltic Sea from in situ and OLCI data Ilaria Cazzaniga, JRC (15') | Copernicus demonstrational SLSTR sea ice surface temperature Igor Tomazic - EUMETSAT (20') | Implementation and benefits of a new cloud mask for operational retrieval of aerosols properties over oceans: the Naïve Probabilistic Cloud and Aerosol Mask Edouard Martins - Rhea/EUMETSAT | |
| GPD+ wet tropospheric corrections for the Sentinel-3 SRAL/MWR BC 004 and BC 005 collections Joana Fernandes, CIIMAR (20') | Toward a Fiducial OLCI Green-Instantaneous FAPAR product Nadine Gobron, JRC European Commission (15') | How good are the chlorophyll-a products for the Baltic Sea? Tuuli Soomets, Estonian Marine Institute (15') | Development of a reference instrument for sea ice surface temperature Gorm Dybkjaer - Danish Meteorological Institute (20') | Evaluation of the Copernicus Aerosol Optical Depth from SLSTR in the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) data assimilation system Sebastien Garrigues, ECMWF/CAMS | ||
| Sentinel-3 SRAL/MWR and SLSTR Sensors Synergy for the Retrieval of the Wet Tropospheric Correction Pedro Aguiar, University of Porto (20') | Intercomparison of OLCI’s essential vegetation variables retrieved with Gaussian Processes using Google Earth Engine Dávid Kovács, University of Valencia-Image Processing Laboratory (15') | Validation of OLCI remote sensing reflectance and chlorophyll-a data in the Baltic Sea Copernicus Marine Service products Luis Gonzalez Vilas, CNR ISMAR (15') | Fiducial Reference Measurement drifting buoy data for Sentinel-3 SLSTR validation: progress and future steps Marc Lucas - CLS (20') | Fiducial Reference Measurement needs to support Cal/Val activities for EUMETSAT operated Copernicus missions: Example for Aerosol Products Thierry Marbach, EUMETSAT | ||
| Performances and benefits of a 1D-variational approach applied to the wet tropospheric correction for the Sentinel 3A and 3B topography missions Bruno Picard, Fluctus Sas (20') | Discussion
on OLCI L2 product evolution - All | Validation of OLCI Level-2 collection 3 water products and comparison with C2RCC over coastal and inland waters Carole Lebreton, Brockmann Consult GmbH (15') | Thermal infrared product inter-comparison and validation with FRM radiometers Frank Goettsche - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (20') | Retrieval of aerosol and surface properties from OLCI/Sentinel-3A based on GRASP algorithm: development and validation Cheng Chen, GRASP S.A.S. | ||
| Updated altimeter validation results for Sentinel-3A/3B from Bass Strait, Australia Christopher Watson, University Of Tasmania (20') | Intercomparisons of SYNERGY surface directional reflectance – methodology and plans for the OPT-MPC routine service validation Naga Suman Moparthy, ACRI-ST (15') | Validation of OLCI and CMEMS total chlorophyll a and phytoplankton group products in the Atlantic-Arctic Ocean Hongyan Xi, Alfred Wegener Institute (15') | Poster presentation: Scientific Service Framework for Copernicus Sea and Sea-ice Surface Temperature Product Improvement and Cal/Val Tool Development and Evolution Elodie Da Silva, Noveltis | Validation of Advanced Synergy Aerosol Product from MERIS and AATSR provided by GRASP algorithm in the frame of CAWA-2 project Anton Lopatin, GRASP S.A.S. | ||
| Discussion (ocean) All (20') | Evaluation of the Sentinel 3 Synergy Surface Reflectance Product Eric Vermote, NASA/GSFC (15') | Comparisons between official OLCI L2 Marine collection 2 and 3 cloud detection over water using the PixBox approach Carole Lebreton, Brockmann Consult GmbH (15') | Discussion on validation, sea-ice and high-latitudes All (35') | Investigation and application of machine learning to enhance the performance of SLSTR aerosol retrieval Pekka Kolmonen, FMI | ||
| Consistency Between Sentinel-3 SYN VGT Products and PROBA-V Carolien Toté, VITO Remote Sensing (15') | Atmospheric corrections in view of diverse optical water types Martin Hieronymi, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (15') | Towards harmonization of the ATSR and SLSTR AOD CDRs Larisa Sogacheva, FMI | ||||
| Discussion on SYN product evolution - All
(20') | Discussion: OLCI validation results All | Extending XBAER algorithm for volcanic eruptions Linlu Mei, IUP Bremen | ||||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | |||||
| 14:00-15:30 | Water level and sea state retrieval from the Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B missions Luciana Fenoglio, University of Bonn (20') | Use the European Research Infrastructure networks for validation of Sentinel products: the ICOS example Bert Gielen, University of Antwerp (15') | Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour (FRM4SOC) Phase 2 – introduction Juan Ignacio Gossn, EUMETSAT (5') | Comparison of SLSTR Clear-Sky infrared measurements with those of geostationary imagers, and skin SST accuracy assessment using ship radiometers Peter Minnett, University of Miami (20') | OLCI surface retrieval validation using GROSAT/GRASP surface reference dataset Pavel Litvinov, GRASP S.A.S. | |
| Evaluation of results from Fully Focused processing of Sentinel 3 SAR Altimeter Data as a potential contribution to Coastal Monitoring – the FFSAR-Coastal Project David Cotton, SATOC (15') | Conversion of ForWarn National Vegetation Disturbance Monitoring System from MODIS to Sentinel-3 OLCI: Comparison with existing MODIS NDVI vegetation disturbance products, and forward conversion of MODIS NDVI maps to synthetic S3 OLCI-like NDVI maps. William Hargrove, Usda Forest Service (15') | Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour (FRM4SOC) Phase 2 – an update Riho Vendt, University of Tartu (15') | Sentinel-3 SLSTR SST validation using a Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) service Werenfrid Wimmer, University of Southampton (20') | Discussion Aerosols / Clouds / Surfaces (All) - Recommendations / Feedbacks to Agencies All | ||
| Evaluating new SAR Altimeter processing algorithms over the coastal zone and inland waters- the ESA HYDROCOASTAL project David Cotton, SATOC (15') | Discussion: main Land cover and Temperature group meeting findings, conclusions and recommendations - All | Complete characterisation and calibration of Ocean Colour Radiometers for Ocean Colour Validation Viktor Vabson, University Of Tartu (15') | The feasbility of using radiometers on Saildrones for the validation of satellite-derived skin SST Chong Jia, University of Miami (20') | |||
| New sea level polar maps combining Sentinel-3A, SARAL/AltiKa and Crysosat-2 Pierre Veillard, CLS (20') | Uncertainty evaluation for FRM in-situ Ocean Colour measurements Agnieszka Białek, National Physical Laboratory (15') | Discussion of FRM All (30') | ||||
| Discussion (20') | HyperInSPACE:A Community Processor for Above-Water Radiometry with FRM standards Alexis Deru, ACRI-ST (15') | Fires & all Thermal hot-spots OFRaP-CS3 - Two years of (pre)operational NRT (Near Real Time) Copernicus Sentinel-3 fires - Lessons learned & new developments for operational and climate users Julien Chimot, EUMETSAT | ||||
| Overview of two High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Inter-comparison exercises on Chlorophyll a and Marine Pigments organized to support the validation of data products from Copernicus Sentinel-3 Elisabetta Canuti, JRC (15') | Daytime Non Time Critical (NTC) Sentinel-3 SLSTR Active Fire Detection and FRP Retrieval Algorithm Enhancements Weidong Xu, King's College London | |||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |||||
| 16:00-18:00 | NOAA Sentinel-3 Ocean and Sea-ice Cal/val Activities Eric Leuliette, NASA/GSFC (20') | Activities towards improving Ocean Colour OLCI algorithms and products and facilitating validations Ewa Kwiatkowska, EUMETSAT (5') | An Inter-comparison framework to assess the spatial and temporal consistency of the Sentinel-3 Level 2 Fire Radiative Power (FRP) products Bernado Mota, NPL | |||
| Assessement of using Sentinel-3 wave data in coastal area and Marginal Ice Zone Lotfi Aouf, Meteo-France (20') | Revisiting Sentinel-3 OLCI Ocean Colour Standard Atmospheric Correction: the EUMETSAT OC-SAC study Constant Mazeran, Solvo (15') | Evaluation of Sentinel 3 fire radiative power (FRP) for monitoring of gas flaring at natural gas liquefaction (LNG) plants Kerstin Stebel, NILU | ||||
| Vertical and Horizontal Wave Velocities and Their Impact on Sentinel-3 Measurements – An Overview Christopher Buchhaupt, ESSIC/UMD (20') | BRDF correction of S3 OLCI water reflectance products Davide D'alimonte, Aequora (15') | Discussion Fires & all Hot-SPots - Recommendations / Feedbacks to Agencies All | ||||
| Comparison of PLRM and SAR icebergs detection for S3A and S3B Jean Tournadre, Ifremer (20') | Discussion on Matchup Protocols for Sentinel-3 Ocean Colour Product Validations in Comparison with in situ Measurements Juan Ignacio Gossn, EUMETSAT (15') | All - Summary recommendations / Feedbacks and wrap up for plenarys ession on All Atmosphere topics All | ||||
| Comparison of Sentinel-3, Jason-3, and Sentinel-6 altimetric and radiometric measurements over freshwater ice: Case study of Great Slave Lake (Canada) and Lake Oulujärvi (Finland) Claude Duguay, University of Waterloo (15') | Discussion: community sharing of in situ datasets, All | |||||
| Sensitivity of Sentinel-3 and Jason-2/3 radar altimetry and microwave radiometry measurements to variable ice and snow properties on large northern lakes Claude Duguay, University of Waterloo (15') | Discussion: OLCI Ocean Colour meeting findings, conclusions and recommendations, All | |||||
| Sentinel-3 altimetry data quality over Antarctica, and on-going studies to improve the mission performances over land ice Jérémie Aublanc, CLS (20') | ||||||
| Discussion (15') | ||||||
| 19:30-21:00 | Hosted dinner at Villa Grazioli | |||||
| Thursday, 20 October 2022 | ||||||
| 09:00-10:30 | Altimetry Session Chairs: Pierre Féménias & Bruno Lucas | Landcover & Temperature Session Chairs: Steffen Dransfeld & Igor Tomazic | Ocean Colour Session Chairs: Tania Casal & Ewa Kwiatkowska | Sea & Icesurface Temperature Session Chairs: Craig Donlon & Anne Ocarrol | Atmosphere Session Chairs: Christian Retscher & Julien Chimot | |
| Reconstructing river water level time series from multi-mission satellite altimetry – reach based methods Karina Nielsen (20') | Discussion: main OLCI Ocean Colour meeting findings, conclusions and recommendations All | |||||
| Sentinel-3A satellite altimetry data to monitor water level changes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Yanhan Lou, Chinese Academy of Sciences (20') | ||||||
| Proia A waveform simulator for Sentinel-3 SAR Altimeter over land Giuseppina De Felice, University of Rome Tor Vergata (20') | ||||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |||||
| 11:00-13:00 | Wrap-up Altimetry | |||||
| Wrap-up Landcover & Temperature | ||||||
| Wrap-up Ocean Colour | ||||||
| Wrap-up Sea & Icesurface Temperature | ||||||
| Wrap-up Atmosphere | ||||||
| Plenary Wrap-up | ||||||