Operational ice charting using Sentinel-1A for the European Arctic and for the Antarctic Frode Dinessen, Nick Hughes 21.04.15 Overview · Example products – Arctic – Antarctic · Future plans · Experinence with Sentinel-1 in first 6 months · Copernicus Sea Ice services. Operational ice charts ● ● ● ● Utilising MyOcean datasets ● Sentinel-1 / Radarsat-2 SAR ● Sea surface temperatures (SST) SAR data most important source of information for sea ice mapping due to: ● Weather independence ● high spatial resolution Used in validation of sea ice models Clear indication of where SAR data has been used Operational ice charts ● ● ● Produced once each week in the Antarctic summer (October – May) Collaboration with USA and Russia (share production) Clear indication of where SAR data has been used IceChart /Sentinel-1 in WMS Automatic ice concentration from Radarsat-2 ● ● ● ● Utilize dual polarization (HH/HV) data from Radarsat-2 HV polarization important for separation of ice/water Number of available RS2 scenes has reduced since launch of Sentinel-1 Calibration problem of S1 (HV) makes it difficult to make concentration from S1 (see next slide) Sentinel-1 taken into use calibration problem HV band Sentinel-1 to support operations in sea ice infested waters Multisensor assimilation Analysis Passive microwave SAR Optical radiometry Satellite products Assimilation Each satellite product associated with a cost functions: 1 J ( x)obs= (x obs− x)T R−1 ( x obs− x) 2 Background cost functions: 1 J ( x)b= ( x b− x)T B−1 ( x b − x) 2 Minimizing a total cost functions: J ' ( x)= J ( x)b + J (x) SAR + J ( x) AVHRR + J ( x)SSMI + J (x) AMSR2 Background state Multisensor assimilation SSMI Radarsat-2 → Sentinel-1 Combined product AMSR2 AVHRR → Sentinel-3 (SLSTR) Experience with Sentinel-1 in first 6 Months ● ● Good ● High resolution ● Much easier to identify ice types and deformation features ● Large coverage ● Multiple repeat acquisitions (4x daily north of Svalbard) Potential of improvement after rampup ● Latency (timeliness) from acquisition to data delivery is longer ● Radarsat-2 scenes typically delivered in under 1 hour ● Sentinel-1 takes 2-4 hours (or more) ● Notification of scheduled/unplanned downtime could improve ● HV channel calibration still to be completed? Latency – All Scenes Acquisition to Download Sentinel-1 - All Scenes 50 45 2014-11 2014-12 2015-01 2015-02 2015-03 2015-04 40 Percent % 35 30 25 20 15 10 2015-03 5 2015-01 2014-11 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Hours Month Latency – Morning (hrs 04-09) Acquisition to Download Sentinel-1 - Scenes Hour 04:00 to 09:00 50 45 2014-11 2014-12 2015-01 2015-02 2015-03 2015-04 40 Percent % 35 30 25 20 15 10 2015-03 5 2015-01 2014-11 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Hours Month Copernicus Marine Service, Ocean and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Centre OSI TAC and the use of Sentinel 1 data Haaland, Lauritz (1855-1938) Gjøa i ishavet 1928 14 Background · In the MyOcean project (FP7 and later H2020) satellite derived sea ice products has been developed, facilitated and distributed to users in six years as a part of the Ocean and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Centre, OSI TAC · A focus has all the time been utilization of SAR data. · Sea Ice satellite product providers are: MET Norway, DMI, FMI, DTU, IFREMER, NERSC, BAS · This service will be continued in Copernicus Core Marine Service, CMS, from May 2015 17 Sea Ice satellite products on the MyOcean Catalogue Wind, Ice and Temperature at the Sea Surface (WITS) Ocean and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Centre The WITS products and service will be fully integrated into the CMS Organization of WITS System Evolution ● ● ● ● ● All products established in MyOcean OSI-TAC will be continued in WITS OSI-TAC portfolio shall be critically reviewed with the aim of optimizing the service based on user needs User consultation exercise New scientific and technical development to ensure operational product is state of the art Evolution require external cooperation and involvement in projects funding outside the framework of CMS (EU, ESA,....) Product delivery • All Production Unit are responsible for delivering the products within a specific delivering time • • • For all products the availability will be at least 97%, on a yearly basis. SAR provided by ESA as a part of the space segment of Copernicus is key input data to many of the Sea Ice products NRT access to SAR data are important to meet delivering time Product Quality ● Regular product validation activities will be performed ● Few In-Situ observations for Sea Ice concentration and Iceberg validation ● ● Product inter-comparison is a key element in assessing the consistency across products Additional validation data: ● Sentinel-2 high resolution optical data and other optical data ● High resolution radar data from TerraSAR-X and/or Cosmo Skymed Thank you
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