The SUP initiative aims at ensuring that European entities are optimally placed to exploit the unique opportunities offered by the future Copernicus Sentinel Expansion and Next Generation missions and therefore are expected to:
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Consolidate the scientific basis for key algorithms, methods and products addressing aspects beyond the single primary mission objectives and especially focusing on synergistic aspects.
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Generate recommendations with respect to the future Sentinel satellite fleet as a system-of-systems and the development of multi-mission retrieval algorithms and products.
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Build the necessary expertise in both the European science community and downstream industry sectors with respect to the new instruments and their exploitation.
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Construct a portfolio of novel methods, innovative products, new scientific results, and benchmarking datasets to speed up the exploitation of the upcoming missions as these become available.
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Support and stimulate scientists, users' and stakeholders' readiness to rapidly uptake derived information products within their operational activities.
ESA Technical Officer
Anke Schickling, Anke.Schickling@esa.int
CHILL-Y
Synergistic use of
CHIME, LSTM, and ROSE-L data
for the assessment of yield quantity and quality
About CHILL-Y
Within project CHILL-Y a novel service for improved wheat and sugar beet yield quantity and quality assessment is demonstrated by using following three upcoming Sentinel Expansion missions.
These missions are currently under development, meaning that no measured data is available yet. Therefore, corresponding satellite data is simulated and representative data sets generated:
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hyperspectral data, as will be available in the future via CHIME,
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land surface temperature data, as will be provided by LSTM in the future, and
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L-band radar data, as will be delivered by ROSE-L.
Agricultural parameters will be derived from the representative datasets. These parameters will then be assimilated into a physiological crop growth in combination with an AI model to estimate and map yield quantity and quality.
The novel datasets and methods will be tested and evaluated in several test areas in Europe in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, so-called Champion Users. This ensures knowledge transfer and future benefit of the developed solution for the users by considering their requirement in the co-development process.
Team
VISTA was founded in 1995. Vista’s team of 30 experts has ever been working with optical and radar remote sensing data, combined with scientific models, machine learning and AI to provide sophisticated solutions to customers in over 25 countries.
The focus of VISTA’s work is in the fields of Agricultural Monitoring, Smart Farming, Sustainability and Climate. Moreover, VISTA offers Individual Solutions for specific questions of customers concerning the water-energy-food nexus. VISTA’s proprietary crop growth model and own IT solutions for processing the large amounts of data are a central component.
Responsible for:
Hyperspectral domain
& Fusion Product
KappaZeta is a science-driven radar remote sensing company that specializes in providing AI-driven satellite solutions to assist governments and businesses in making fact-based decisions and save time on analyzing vast amounts of data globally. The company offers ready-to-use high quality radar timeseries and change detection services. Their services encompass various sectors, including agriculture, defense and intelligence, and forestry.
Responsible for:
Radar domain
Contact:
Catherine Akinyi Odera
Catherine.Odera@kappazeta.ee
VITO Remote Sensing develops state-of-the-art space and airborne EO systems (sensors & platforms, processing & distribution) that enable end-users to use reliable geo-information for Environment, Agriculture, Water & Coast, Infrastructure, Security & Climate.
Responsible for:
Thermal domain
Contact:
Astrid Vannoppen
astrid.vannoppen@vito.be
EurA is an international consulting company specialised in innovation and technology. EurA is experienced in brokering between players of different sectors which provides the basis for involving stakeholders and consider their requirements.
Responsible for:
Stakeholder engagement & Dissemination
Background
CHILL-Y is funded as part of the Sentinel Users Preparation (SUP) initiative within the FutureEO programme of the ESA Earth Observation Programmes Directorate.
The objective of the initiative is to develop and test novel methodologies to exploit Copernicus Expansion missions class datasets in existing application domains to develop innovative products, and to gain relevant experience and expertise on both the supply and demand side.
