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

2. 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+

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

4. 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)

5. 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

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

8. 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)

9. 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…

10. 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

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

12. VIRUNGA
Democratic Republic
of Congo
Uganda
Tanzania
Rwanda

13. Distribution

14. Hot Spot Monitoring Web Site

17. Thank you!