FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Examples of Spot 5 and Formosat data use : Arcachon data set Virginie Lafon, Jean-Marie Froidefond
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Intertidal seagrass meadows monitoring Interannual variation Monthly variation Ecological cycle (annual basis) Impact of meadows extent on sediment resupension processes and feedback on meadows spatial extent (PhD EPOC) VEN S : 2-day revisit better adapted to low tide imagery The Water Framework Directive (WFD) : Implementation of operational monitoring tools to quantify the abundance and spatial extent of aquatic vegetation, identify and explain observed changes Lafon et al., 1997; Marieu et al., 2004; De Montaudouin, 2007 ; Lafon et al., 2008, 2009
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Lagoon water turbidity monitoring Shallow water turbidity over intertidal areas Lafon et al., 1997; Marieu et al., 2004; De Montaudouin, 2007 ; Lafon et al., 2008, 2009
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Lagoon water turbidity monitoring Fetch-limited wind waves and sand / mud resuspension modelling
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Shallow water morphology survey Annual 3D mapping Navigation channel monitoring Coastline erosion survey Medium- to long-term processes
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Shallow water morphology survey VEN S : 2-day revisit better adapted to illustrate storm impact, study and understand short event hydro-sedimentary processes + forecast: effect on human activities / security 2009/10/ /12/22
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Shallow water morphology survey VEN S : more bands (blue -green) better adapted to shallow water morphology retrieval based on optic models (Dehouck et al., ICS 2009)
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Nearshore vortex structure observation & modelling Rip currents The wave breaking generates seawards current that transport SPM offshore Rip currents are characterised on SP-05 / F2 imagery VEN S : 2-day revisit better adapted to estimate sediment resuspension + acrosshore supended loads due to rip currents (we need a quantification algorithm) + shallow water sand transport processes + modelling
FormoSat-2/VENμS Users meeting CESBIO, January 12th 2010 Nearshore vortex structure observation & modelling Inlet Water mixture processes Impact on harmfull algae blooming and / or their propagation inside the Bay??