DEMMIN – Teststandort zur Kalibrierung und Validierung von Fernerkundungsmissionen

Abstract

With the "Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)" initiative the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have established an ambitious program for using space borne remote sensing together with additional data sources and monitoring systems to provide innovative services for various environmental, economic, and security aspects in the context to the European market. To realize this objective, automated near real-time and real-time infrastructure has to be implemented for automated data processing of remote sensing data. The necessary development and implementation of the space segment and the ground segment is already well advanced. In contrast to this, the development of automated processing chains and processors for deriving value added products and especially the development of test sites for calibration and validation of remote sensing missions is in development. In our presentation we will present the DLR test site DEMMIN (Durable Environmental Multidisciplinary Monitoring Information Network) as a prerequisite for calibrating and validating e.g. remote sensing missions and sensors, data processing modules and processing chains, as well as remote sensing based value added data products on regional scale. For this background, the presentation gives an introduction to DLR’s test site DEMMIN with its specific regional characteristics, its in-situ measuring instrumentation and existing data base. Due to the cooperation of DLR with IG Demmin, the scientists receive support by the farmers and important information for their investigations. These are e.g. digital quasi-static data as soil maps, land parcel maps or digital dynamic data as yield maps, and application maps. Additional to the data base, an agro-meteorological weather network is installed in DEMMIN, which allows the automated measurement of all agro-meteorological parameters affecting the imaging process parallel to space borne or airborne remote sensing