28102020 Remote sensing activities VITO Is a nonprofit

28/10/2020 Remote sensing activities

VITO? » Is a non-profit organization established by the Flemish Government to: » Stimulate a positive, innovative climate to strenghten SME’s » Put Flanders on the “European & global” map (including it’s international commitments) » Bridge scientific & operational communities » Modes of operation: » Through 5 -year framework contracts with the Flemish Gov: » At least 50% income from contract research (relevance!) » Publish SCI papers » Create spin-offs (+ patents) » Energy, industrial materials, environmental modelling, remote sensing, … » 600+employees 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 2

VITO & remote sensing » About 70 employees organized in 3 research teams: » Technology development (APEX, UAV, PROBA-V, . . ) » Operational services / GEODATA (CTIV, . . ) » Remote sensing Applications 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 4

Technology development Simulate and develop remote sensing sensors, systems and missions » VGT follow-on: PROBA-V » APEX: hyperspectral camera » UAV – Unmanned Areal Vehicles / MEDUSA » Automated change detection 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 5

GEODATA & operational services Secure availability of qualitative data » SPOT – VEGETATION processing & archiving facility » ISO certified » APEX – airborne campaigns » Spatial Data Infrastructure » GRID-technology » Visualization techniques 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 6

Applications data to information » Airborne / Local applications » Hyperspectral applications » Water, Coastal mapping » Habitat (quality) mapping » Global activities » “Global” vegetation indicators – production » Agriculture and crop monitoring » Food Security & development » Data integration & dissemination 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 7

Water quality 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 8

Biodiversity mapping » Develop an operation-oriented method to map, monitor and evaluate Natura 2000 habitats in W-Europe, using hyperspectral RS and advanced analysis techniques al ity ? Polygon-based habitat map ? H ab ita t qu he t er Hig og hl en y eo us RS Images 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 9

Global activities » Within an international research network » European & global scale » Activties » Production of time series of vegetation indicators » Area & yield estimations » Food security & development applications » Data dissemination 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 10

JRC-MARS & VITO: 30 YEARS of NOAA-AVHRR over EUROPE FAPAR LST NDVI Long Term Averages (1981 -2011 for 3 Variables in 4 Months February May 28/10/2020 August Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved November 11

METOP-AVHRR: examples of global products September 2010 Dekad 1 LST NDVI Clear Observations Total Observations 12 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved

AVHRR-Processing: Interactive Quality Control Radiometric Errors Geometric Shifts 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 13

SPIRITS Software for the Processing and Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Image Time Series » Time series can » select a scenario via its name » create a new scenario » view the selected scenario » edit the selected scenario (formerly known as Mars-Food Application) Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved

EUMETCast - concept » What is EUMETCast? » A multi-service dissemination system based on standard Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-S) technology, using commercial telecommunication satellites to multicast files (data and products) to a wide user community » Off-the shelf, standard, low cost, commercially available reception equipment (comparable to household satellite TV) » Operated by EUMETSAT » Fast (12 -14 Mbps in EU) & reliable Image courtesy of EUMETSAT 15 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved

Food security monitoring in Africa » Main constraints in Africa » Less information on Agriculture, subsistence agriculture, highly fragmented » Vulnerable to climate events (drought, floods, . . . ) with potentially high human impact » Limited capacity locally » VITO works together with » FAO, WFP, local ministries » Partnership in Europe through GMFS (Global monitoring for Food Security project) » To strengthen capacity » To assess the agricultural season (anomalies, yield, area) 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved VITO: 16 remote

Usage VECMAP Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved

Training » Training session in the following domains: » Imaging spectroscopy » Low resolution imagery processing » Low resolution applications » Training sessions held in: » Europe » Indonesia » Africa 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved

Thank you! Flemish Institute for Technological Research Remote sensing department - Applications unit Boeretang 200 2400 B-Mol Belgium applications@vito. be Tel: +32 14 336807 Fax: +32 14 32 2795 28/10/2020 Confidential – © 2009, VITO NV – All rights reserved 19