New sensors benchmark report on Sentinel-2A

Geometric benchmarking for Sentinel-A2 sensor over Maussane test site for CAP purposesJRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat

VHR Image Specifications for the CwRS Programme Campaign 2009

This document constitutes the specifications for VHR imagery to be used within the CwRS Programme. Its objective is to give the stakeholders in the image acquisition management chain clarity in the technical details of the process and describes the process flow starting from zone definition, through the image use, reaching image return and possible re-use of imagery at end of CampaignJRC.G.3-Monitoring agricultural resource

HR Image Specifications for the CwRS Programme Campaign 2009

This document constitutes the specifications for HR imagery to be used within the CwRS Programme. Its objective is to give the stakeholders1 in the image acquisition management chain clarity in the technical details of the process.JRC.G.3-Monitoring agricultural resource

HR Image Specifications for the CwRS Programme

This document constitutes the specifications for HR imagery to be used within the CwRS Programme. Its objective is to give the stakeholders in the image acquisition management chain clarity in the technical details of the processJRC.G.3-Agricultur

VHR Image Specifications for the CwRS Programme

This document constitutes the specifications for VHR imagery to be used within the CwRS Programme. Its objective is to give the stakeholders in the image acquisition management chain clarity in the technical details of the process and describes the process flow starting from zone definition, through the image use, reaching image return and possible re-use of imagery at end of Campaign.JRC.G.3-Agricultur

EULA - End-User Licence Agreement - Satellite Remote Sensing Data

Completion of the INSPIRE compliant JRC “End User Licence Agreement (EULA) for the use of satellite remote sensing data products and services” Completion of the JRC “End User Licence Agreement (EULA) for the use of satellite remote sensing data products and services”. On the 8th of June 2011 this EULA was proposed to ESTAT to be included in the INSPIRE guidance documentation, where it was accepted on 12/12/2011. It forms part of the new “Good practice in data and service sharing” of the INSPIRE working team and is available at http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Data_and_Service_Sharing/GoodPractice_%20DataService%20Sharing_v2.pdf on page 39, under Topic Licenses. The EULA is a translation of the Licensing Terms & Conditions ruling between the EC Services and the Satellite Data Suppliers and is now a legally valid document to be “click-to-accepted” as end user (or Licensee) requests data access through the CID portal http://cidportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/home/idp . The EULA has been achieved in collaboration with the JRC Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Unit (A02) of the JRC. It presents a topic particularly critical to a successful data and service sharing management in line with INSPIRE and GEO/GEOSS nomenclature and going further than the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 268/2010 of the 29/03/2010 on ‘access to spatial data sets and services’. The EULA is available for reading to any user, either registered to the CID portal or not, at http://cidportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/home/sites/default/files/user/documents/EULA.pdf (ref. JRC IES/H04/C/PAR/par D(2011)(13408)), and bases itself on giving the Licensee access rights to products through Discovery, View and/or Download Services. Search and preview (Discovery) is open to the public. Access (View, Download) to the product is limited to authorized and registered users. The CID action of the JRC is responsible for the CID portal and provides a technical infrastructure composed of a frontend (data access, data dissemination), and a backend (data loading, data preparation and data production routines) and an underlying IT infrastructure (image and image metadata storage) held centrally at the JRC guaranteeing High Availability. Category: 2.2a Scientific and policy reports.JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat

Specifications of view services for GMES Core_003 VHR2 coverage

For the so-called DataWareHouse concept (DWH) within the GMES Initial Operations period 2011-2014, data access management is funded through a Delegation Agreement between the EC and ESA. The Core_003 VHR2 dataset is one of the satellite coverages that are defined as CORE datasets within the DWH with fixed specifications which will be of-fered to a broad range of users and activities. JRC was asked by DG Enterprise to provide technical specifications for the implementation of a view service for the Core_003 datasets as part of the Administrative Arrangement n. 5 between DG Enterprise and JRC. This report provides an overview about different view service types with their specific characteristics and use cases. Since compliance with INSPIRE implementing rules is a goal to be achieved by GMES services, the spe-cific requirements of INSPIRE for view services have been taken into account. The Core_003 datasets have been ana-lysed with regard to their parameters that are important for the inclusion in view services. Based on the results of the analyses, recommendations are given for the implementation of the view services as well as for the data processing and configuration of the Core_003 datasets.JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat

New sensors benchmark report on SPOT7

The main objective of the present study is to assess whether SPOT7 sensor can be qualified for Control with Remote Sensing program (CwRS), in Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). The benchmarking presented herein aims at evaluating the usability of SPOT7 for the CAP checks through an estimation of its geometric (positional) accuracy, as well as measuring the influence of different factors (viewing angle, number of GCPs, software implementation) on this accuracy. For that purpose, the External Quality Control of SPOT7 orthoimagery conforms to the standard method developed by JRC and follows a procedure already adopted in the validation of previous high (HR) and very-high resolution (VHR) products.JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat

CID Survey Report Satellite Imagery and Associated Services used by the JRC. Current Status and Future Needs

The Agriculture and Fisheries Unit (IPSC) together with the Informatics, Networks and Library Unit (ISD) has performed this inventory called the Community Image Data portal Survey (the CID Survey); 20 Actions from 4 different Institutes (ISD, IPSC, IES, and IHCP) were interviewed. The objectives of the survey were to make an inventory of existing satellite data and future requirements; to obtain an overview of how data is acquired, used and stored; to quantify human and financial resources engaged in this process; to quantify storage needs and to query the staff involved in image acquisition and management on their needs and ideas for improvements in view of defining a single JRC portal through which imaging requests could be addressed. Within the JRC there are (including 2006) more than 700 000 low resolution (LR) and 50 000 medium resolution (MR) images, with time series as far back as 1981 for the LR data. There are more than 10 000 high resolution (HR) images and over 500 000 km2 of very high resolution (VHR) images. For the LR and MR data, cyclic global or continental coverage dominates, while the majority of HR and VHR data is acquired over Europe. The expected data purchase in the future (2007, 2008) known which enables good planning. Most purchases of VHR and HR data are made using the established FCs with common licensing terms. Otherwise multiple types of licensing govern data usage which emphasizes the need for CID to establish adequate means of data access. The total amount of image data stored (2006 inclusive) is 55 TB, with an expected increase of 80% in 2 years. Most of the image data is stored on internal network storage inside the corporate network which implies that the data is accessible from JRC, but difficulties arise when access is to be made by external users via Internet. In principle current storage capacity in the JRC could be enough, but available space is fragmented between Actions which therefore implies that a deficit in storage could arise. One solution to this issue is the sharing of a central storage service. Data reception is dominated by FTP data transfer which therefore requires reliable and fast Internet transfer bandwidth. High total volume for backup requires thorough definition of backup strategy. The user groups at JRC are heterogeneous which places requirements on CID to provide flexible authentication mechanisms. There is a requirement for a detailed analysis of all metadata standards needed for reference in a catalogue. There is a priority interest for such Catalogue Service and also for a centralized storage. The services to implement for data hosted on central storage should be WCS, WMS, file system access. During the analysis of the results mentioned above, some major areas could be identified as a base for common services to be provided to interested Actions, such as: provision of a centralized data storage facility with file serving functionality including authentication service, image catalogue services, data visualization and dissemination services. Specialized data services that require highly customized functionality with respect to certain properties of the different image types will usually remain the sole responsibility of the individual Actions. An orthorectification service for semi-automated orthorectification of HR and VHR data will be provided to certain Actions. At the end of the report some priorities and an implementation schedule for the Community Image Data portal (CID) are given.JRC.G.3-Agricultur

New sensors benchmark report on Kompsat-3

The following document has been drawn up as a follow up to the Quality Control Record L [i] on the commissioning phase of the Kompsat-3 imagery, planned benchmarking tests as well as the methodology used in the tests. Benchmarking is necessary to be performed in order to estimate the usability of the imagery collected by particular sensor in The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) image acquisition Campaign. The main requirement that should be fulfilled concerns the planimetric accuracy of the orthoimagery which should not exceed particular thresholds given in VHR Specifications [iii]. The methodologies used in the benchmarking tests were performed based on Guidelines for Best Practice and Quality Checking of Ortho Imagery [ii]. However, in addition the tests were performed according to alternative methodology, described in [i], which differs from the standard one, the GCPs selection/measurement phase i.e. image to image correlation techniques are used.JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat