PROBA-V : New operational mission

PROBA-V : New operational mission
Wouter Dierckx, VITO Proba-V team
» Successful IOCR on November 27, 2013
» Transferred to the Geodata team and in operations since beginning of
December, see http://www.vito-eodata.be
» Some figures since October 16 (properly calibrated data) to March 25
» 2.317
Calibration images
» 12.185 L1C images
» 640
160 S1 TOC, 160 S1 TOA for both 1 km and 1/3 km
» 64
16 S10 TOC and 16 S10 NDVI for both 1 km and 1/3 km
6 months of operational data!
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What went before…
Platform commissioning
Instrument commissioning
User segment commissioning
CAL/VAL commissioning
IOCR 12/2013
Start Calibration campaigns 08/2013
First image 15/05/2013
Launch 6/05/2013
Hand over to
EOP EarthWatch
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SPOT- VGT
Proba-V first image
15 May 2013
1km projected
15 May 2013
100m unprojected
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Synthesis products (S10 at 333M)
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VITO role in Proba-V
» User Segment development / operations
» Processing up to Level 3 products
» 10-day synthesis products
» Daily synthesis products
» Level 1C Segments
» Radiometric and Geometric Calibration
» Product distribution
» End-to-end image quality follow-up: platform, instrument, processing
» Liaison with the Users (IUC)
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Redu
Kiruna
Data Ingestion
(Decoding Raw Data)
Processing Data
(Generate Images)
Image Quality
Calibration
Instrument
Programming
Automation
Product Distribution
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RC – IQC: Vicarious Calibration Concept
Absolute
• Dark (night)
• Linearity (deserts)
• Cross-camera (any)
Oceans
Antarctica
Greenland
Multi Angular
Deserts
Temporal
Sun
Glint
DC Clouds
Interband
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*Sterckx et al. IJRS, 2014; Sterckx et al. , TGARS,
8 2013;
Govaerts et al., RSL, 2013
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Thank you!
The VITO PROBA-V team
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Questions?
IQC: Sindy Sterckx & Iskander Benhadj
Sindy.sterckx@vito.be (radiometry)
Iskander.benhadj@vito.be (geometry)
Other :
bart.deronde@vito.be (operations)
Wouter.dierckx@vito.be (Mission PI)
VITO – Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium
Access the PROBA-V data on:
http://proba-v.vgt.vito.be/
https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/
data-access
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Future?
» Slides van Bart
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