LOTUS
Preparing Land and Ocean Take Up from Sentinel-3
| Coordinatore | DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Denmark [DK] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.fp7-lotus.eu/ |
| Totale costo | 2˙912˙780 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙994˙162 € |
| Programma | FP7-SPACE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space |
| Code Call | FP7-SPACE-2012-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-01-01 - 2015-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Anker Engelundsvej 1, Building 101A contact info |
DK (KONGENS LYNGBY) | coordinator | 557˙202.00 |
| 2 |
DHI INSTITUT FOR VAND OG MILJO FORENING
Organization address
address: AGERN ALLE 5 contact info |
DK (HOERSHOLM) | participant | 449˙282.00 |
| 3 |
COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES SA
Organization address
address: RUE HERMES 8 contact info |
FR (RAMONVILLE ST AGNE) | participant | 416˙634.40 |
| 4 |
STARLAB BARCELONA SL
Organization address
address: AVENIEDA TIBIDABO 47 BIS contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 371˙700.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Organization address
address: Kensington Terrace 6 contact info |
UK (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) | participant | 199˙343.60 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The objective of the LOTUS project is to support the development of GMES by developing applications of Sentinel-3 to complete the space observation infrastructure that are designed for land and ocean monitoring for GMES. Sentinel-3 is the GMES space component for monitoring the oceans. The SRAL instrument onboard Sentinel-3 is a radar altimeter that will provide observations of sea-surface and land-ice topography, in continuation of altimeter missions such as ENVISAT, Jason-1 and Jason-2. Furthermore, the SRAL instrument will operate in a SAR mode and provide along-track high-resolution heights of the sea surface in the open oceans, in the coastal seas, in-land water and sea ice areas. The SAR capability is a new feature and no data products based on this SAR mode data are provided or used operationally. New methodologies and new data processing chains need to be developed to prepare the take-up of the GMES Sentinel-3 data.
The LOTUS project will develop new methodologies, data processing chains, and applications of the SAR mode data for the high resolution sea surface heights, wave heights and wind speeds in the open oceans, coastal seas as well as in sea ice covered regions for operational marine services. For the operational land services, the LOTUS project will develop new methodologies, data processing chains, and applications of the SAR mode data for the in-land water levels in rivers and lakes, soil moisture, and snow depths. In turn, the new products based on the SAR mode data will support operational services for emergency response and security in the events of, e.g., storm surges and flooding. The new land products will provide valuable information about the hydrological cycle and support services on monitoring hydrological parameters for climate change. Through a strong involvement of innovative companies and SMEs the LOTUS project will stimulate new commercial activities in the value-adding sectors.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
An EU-funded project is providing support to Copernicus by preparing the take up of Sentinel-3 satellite data to complete the Earth observation services for land and ocean monitoring.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Following the altimeter missions of the Environmental satellite (ENVISAT), Jason-1 and Jason-2, Sentinel-3 will amass observations of the Earth's surface topography. The radar altimeter onboard Sentinel-3 will provide high-resolution height data of the sea surface in open oceans, coastal seas, inland water and sea ice areas.
Its synthetic aperture radar altimeter (SRAL) capability is a new feature, and similar data have not been used in operational marine services until today. Therefore, new methodologies and tools are needed for the data streams expected from this new instrument.
The objective of the EU-funded project http://www.fp7-lotus.eu/ (LOTUS) (Preparing land and ocean take up from Sentinel-3) is to build up the infrastructure to take up and process the large quantities of data to a higher level. In addition, searching and mining techniques will be developed for accessing the data.
LOTUS partners have already designed a data processing scheme for extracting high-resolution sea surface height, wave height and wind speed information from the new SRAL data. For its validation, data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Cryosat-2 satellite carrying a similar instrument were used as a reference.
For the operational land services, the LOTUS project team is exploiting the high resolution of SRAL data and assimilating these with complementary data from ocean modelling and ground-based sensors. The developed services will have global applicability that will be demonstrated in selected case study regions.
The new land data products will provide valuable information about the hydrological cycle and support the monitoring of hydrological parameters of importance in the study of climate changes. Through industry involvement, the LOTUS project will encourage commercial activities and investments, supporting the operational services for emergency response and security.