Post on 31-May-2020
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through a European Commission contractCOST is supported
by the EU Framework Programme
COST Action ES1309 OPTIMISE
Management Evaluation Group
ES1309 OPTIMISE 2017 meeting, 22-24 February, Cyprus
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Management Evaluation Group and Core Group
Management Evaluation Group and Core Group
We are here
A good COST Action …
• Has a high number of active participants
• Is carrying out a high number of fruitful STSMs
• Is involving industries and other stakeholders
• Is including researchers from less research-intensive
countries across Europe
• Is writing many (good) Joint Publications
• Good Gender Balance and lots of ESR
• Is developing further research proposals (H2020)
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COST Action ES1309 (ES0903)• Participants increase in 3rd year: 78 to 127 (ES0903: 83)
Members increase: WG1: 21 to 37; WG2: 29 to 44; WG3: 29 to 46
• 29 EU Countries (ES0903: 21)
• Ukraine, USA, Canada, Australia (ES0903: 4)
• + ESA FLEX
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Successful support of OPTIMISE network:
European Space Agency that the Fluorescence
Explorer (FLEX) concept has been selected as the
next Earth Explorer mission, with a launch
scheduled for 2022
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COST Action ES1309
STSMs: 17+ (ES0903: 12)
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COST Action ES1309
• Involvement of Industries…
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The advantage of combining GPS and GLONASS has been tested in
cooperation with UAV producers (e.g. www.soleon.it). During the Bozen UAV
workshop, tests for comparing multiple on-board GPS instruments have
been executed.
Further tests were made during Michal Chilinski STSM.
SAL Engineering (Marco Dubbini, MAIA camera)
… and stakeholders (ESA)
COST Action ES1309
Inclusiveness towards less research-intensive
countries across Europe
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•ES1309: Cyprus; Czech Republic; Estonia, Croatia; Hungary; Portugal; Bulgaria; Turkey; and Estonia
• Activities are held in inclusiveness countries
where possible and a recent ESR organised
workshop was held in Estonia
• Collaborative work between U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Life Science, Poznan and DLR to establish a
Sentinel-2 mission cal/val field site in Poland
•Dubrovnik 2016 meeting (Croatia)
•Today’s meeting
COST Action ES1309 (ES0903)Joint Publications: 11; ...? funded by COST (ES0903: 4 funded)
Gitelson, A. A., Peng, Y., Vina, A., Arkebauer, T., Schepers, J. S. (2016). Efficiency of chlorophyll in gross primary
productivity: A proof of concept and application in crops. Journal of Plant Physiology, 201, 101–110,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2016.05.019
Hueni, A., Damm, A., Kneubuehler, M., Schläpfer, D. and Schaepman, M. (2016). "Field and Airborne Spectroscopy
Cross-Validation - Some Considerations." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and
Remote Sensing PP(99): 1 - 19.Cendrero-Mateo, M.P., Carmo-Silva AE, Porcar-Castell A, Hamerlynck EP,
Papuga SA, Moran MS. (2015a). Dynamic response of plant chlorophyll fluorescence to light, water and nutrient
availability. Functional Plant Biology 42, 746–757.
Cerasoli, S., F. C. Silva and J. M. N. Silva (2016). Temporal dynamics of spectral bioindicators evidence biological and
ecological differences among functional types in a cork oak open woodland. International Journal of
Biometeorology, 60(6): 813-825, DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-1075-xCogliati S., Rossini M. Julitta T.; Meroni, M.
Schickling A., Burkart A., Pinto F., Rascher U. & Colombo R. (2015) Continuous and long-term measurements of
reflectance and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by using novel automated field spectroscopy systems.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 164, 270-281.
Van der Tol, C., Rossini, M., Cogliati, S., Verhoef, W., Colombo, R., Rascher, U., & Mohammed, G. (2016). A model
and measurement comparison of diurnal cycles of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence of crops. Remote
Sensing of Environment, 186, 663-677.
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Final special issue? (10K)
COST Action ES1309 (ES0903)
Gender Balance and Early Stage Researchers
(ESRs)Vice Chair plus new female researchers involved...
ESRs have been actively encouraged to participate in the Action management, five
of the eleven core group members are ESRs, many ESR STMSs
Training Schools: 3 (ES0903: 2)
• ABEL Training School on UAVs and Biogeochemical cycling (Spain)
• Joint OPTIMISE / EUFAR Training Course: SWAMP
• Training Course on “Safe operations and Health and Safety in deployment of
unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs) for environmental science”, April 2016,
University of Exeter in the UK (Karen Anderson)
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GROUNDSPEC H2020 proposal
Proposal full title:
SENTBOX: a new system for integrating in situ
spectral observations and COPERNICUS data to
upscale vegetation carbon fluxes
Proposal acronym:
GroundSpec
Type of funding scheme: RIA
Work programme topics addressed:
SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems.
Coordinating person:
Loris Vescovo - FEM, e-mail: loris.vescovo@fmach.it
8 out of 9 academic participants are OPTIMISE
members
S2 Spatial
Resolution
(m)
S2 Band
Number
Central
Wavelength
(nm)
Bandwid
th
(nm)
10 2 490 65
3 560 35
4 665 30
8 842 115
20 5 705 15
6 740 15
7 783 20
8a 865 20
11 1 610 90
12 2 190 180
• Develop a new cost-efficient multispectral sensor simulating
Sentinel 2 bands (SentBox)
• Test SentBox prototype at 15 Eddy Covariance sites in
Europe and Africa
• Carry out sensor characterisation and intercalibration
activities (lab and field)
• Develop new algorithms and products for vegetation
structure and function monitoring (C fluxes) for Sentinel 2
• Apply the ground-truthed algorithms to case studies on the
impact of climate anomalies on ecosystems ranging from the
Equator to the the Sub Artic regions
• Manufacture 60-100 sensors to be adopted within relevant
global in-situ monitoring networks (Fluxnet, ICOS, S2
validation sites, SpecNet, CarboAfrica, etc.)
GROUNDSPEC H2020 proposal
GI-05 Global Carbon Observation and
Analysis System
SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems
S2 validation
activities
PROJECT BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT
13.12.2016
Università degli Studi di Milano-
Bicocca
Micol Rossini
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TRUSTEE: TRAINING ON REMOTE SENSING FOR ECOSYSTEM MODELING
- Call: MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS
- Call identifier: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016
Starting date: 1 October 2016
Duration: 48 months
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Fluosynthesis campaign
MoU deliverables
WG1:
Definition of a mandatory metadata set, aligned with current international efforts
in the spectroscopy community (EcoSYS and SPECNET collaborations ongoing)
Develop an on-line instance of a spectral information database to serve as
demonstration and testing platform for data sharing and information building
Develop a wireless automated dataflow from in-situ and UAV sensor for the
database system
Definition and implementation of data pre-processing and metadata augmentation
algorithms and routines including quality checks and flagging and data
assimilation
Definition and implementation of system interfaces and algorithms for data
retrieval allowing the building of products using sources such as biogeochemical
modelling, flux data specialisation and space-sensed data
MoU deliverables
WG2
Review and report on the challenges for optical sensing in up-scaling biophysical
properties of vegetation and test different UAV platform/measurement
instruments setups
Development of a footprint tool for optimal placement of fixed spectrometers
and for combination of EC measurements with UAV-based spectral data(An experts workshop has been planned for integrating the footprint tool by
Prof. N. Kljun with Remote Sensing data. February 2017?)
Liaise with industry representatives to improve accuracy of GPS
Definition of new methods for scaling up functional relationships between
optical properties and ecosystem processes from in-situ to landscape scale by
means of UAVs, including identification of adequate radiative transfer models to
be coupled with biogeochemical models for linking biogeophysical properties of
vegetation with its optical properties
MoU deliverables
WG3
Review and report on the methods and instruments used to estimate the solar-
induced fluorescence from passive remote measurements
Definition of the technical requirements and acquisition protocols for reflectance
and fluorescence measurements from UAV and ground-based instruments
(Tartu think tank workshop + Romanian proposal Sporea MacArthur)
Database of reflectance, fluorescence and productivity data for later use in
models and applications (SWAMP database included, deliverable completed)
Integration of ground and UAV measurements with biochemical model outputs
to better understand the links between photosynthesis, plant stress, growth and
physiology with the temporal dynamics of reflectance and fluorescence