Copernicus - contribution to land cover mapping in Africa Andreas Brink Senior Scientist Joint Research Centre – European Commission AfriGEOSS 13-15 June 2017, Sunyani, Ghana

Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry 2014 Sentinel 2 – Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of LANDSAT, SPOT, … 2015 Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoring : ocean color, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry 2016 Sentinel 4 – Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary pollution 2017 Sentinel 5 – Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring (S5 Precursor launch in 2014) 2014, 2019+

COPERNICUS Core Services Services monitoring Earth systems Global Land Marine Atmosphere More applied in their title, nothing clear on Atmosphere Climate Change Emergency Security

Data Policy Value added of an Operational Core Services Long term and reliable provision of products and services for downstream applications Delivery of fully validated products and services COPERNICUS: a public good. • free and open access (Security restrictions may apply)

Land Service - Global VEGETATION ENERGY WATER CRYOSPHERE Leaf Area Index Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) Fraction of vegetation cover (FCOVER) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Vegetation Condition Index Vegetation Productivity Index Dry Matter Productivity (~ biomass) Burnt Area Greenness Evolution Index Moderate Yearly Land Cover Top-of-Canopy reflectance Surface Albedo Land Surface Temperature Radiation Fluxes Evapotranspiration Active Fires Surface soil moisture Soil Water Index WATER CRYOSPHERE Water Bodies Coastal Erosion Lake surface water temperature Lake and river water level Lake surface reflectance Lake turbidity Lake trophic state Lake ice coverage Snow extent Snow water equivalent Lake Ice Extent Why EU interested outside Europe One important aspect is the users, as we are EU, the main users are EU bodies

Proba-V & Sentinel 3 yearly 100m global land cover map

Copernicus High resolution Hot Spot Monitoring Objective To produce land cover and land cover change maps and related indicators over specific Areas of Interest (AOI) using medium to high resolution satellite data (from 1 to 30m pixel size)

Copernicus High resolution Hot Spot Monitoring Aim – Hot Spot Monitoring Service To support development projects and specific monitoring To provide detailed land information on specific areas of interest globally To answer to ad-hoc requests within the domain of the sustainable management of natural resources complement the near real time global monitoring service at low resolution Support projects such as BIOPAMA and activities as GMES&Africa, AfriGEOSS…

Statistics and Indicators cropland expansion and change Loss / gain of natural vegetation % and ha LC per class Artificial and build up surfaces Pressure Index – change in the Natural Vegetation Intactness Index over time Natural Vegetation Intactness Index – level of disturbance given by absence / presence of human activities

Preliminary Results COMOE-MOLE http://rris.biopama.org/lcc Burkina Faso Ghana Ivory Coast http://rris.biopama.org/lcc

VIRUNGA Democratic Republic of Congo Uganda Tanzania Rwanda

Distribution

Hot Spot Monitoring Web Site

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