geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service

01.09.2008 - 31.10.2012
Research funding project
geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional organisation of the LMCS. The geoland2 deliverables are : (i) the organisation of a production network, (ii) the building of operational processing lines, (iii), the demonstration of services and products, (iv), the set up of a land user platform. TU Wien is a research partner with the task to develop a method for freeze/thaw detection and profile soil moisture (SWI) estimation based on C-band scatterometer data. TU Wien is also responsible for coordinating the scientific activities related to the generation of land hydrological parameters.

People

Project leader

Project personnel

Institute

Grant funds

  • European Commission (EU) FP7 I.9 COOPERATION Space 7.Rahmenprogramm für Forschung European Commission - Framework Programme European Commission Call identifier FP7-SPACE-2007-1 Application number 218795

Research focus

  • Environmental Monitoring and Climate Adaptation: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
BodenfeuchtigkeitSoil Moisture
ScatterometerScatterometer
Frost-Tau ZyklenFreeze/thaw cycles
KopernikusKopernikus

External partner

  • Institut National de la Recherche Agronomoique, CR INRA TOULOUSE
  • Meteo France
  • Infoterra France
  • University of Leicester
  • Centre national d¿études spatiales
  • ZZZU_European Centre for Medium-Ran Weather Forecasts

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