1. 11 Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 1 1 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer Overall project organisation and achievements after one year Odile Fanton dAndon ACRI-ST

2. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 2 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 2 Objectives Satisfy emerging demand for validated merged ocean colour derived information Demonstrate the current state of the art in merging together data streams from different ocean-colour sensors: MERIS, SeaWifs, MODIS-AQUA, POLDER-Parasol Provide a long time-series (10 years) of ocean-colour information Put in place the capacity to continue production of such time series in the future Demonstrate a global NRT ocean-colour service based on merged satellite data Context ESA DUE project i.e. driven by end users: IOCCG, IOCCP, UK Met-Office Background

3. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 3 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 3 CONSORTIUM ACRI-ST (France) Prime contractor / management Processor / Production University of Plymouth (UK) User requirements follow up/ design justification / merging NIVA (Norway) Validation (DDS) Brockman Consult (Germany) Tools development / Web server ICESS (USA), DLR (Germany) & LOV(France) Scientific support

4. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 4 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 4 Project Organisation ESA GlobCOLOUR Simon Pinnock ACRI- ST Project Management O. Fanton dAndon UoP Quality Assurance S. Lavender System Development Team Management N. Fomferra (BC) Validation Coordination D. Durand (NIVA) DLR A. Neumann GC- merging group Coordination S. Lavender (UoP) LOV D. Antoine ICESS S. Maritorena LOV A. Morel ICESS D. Siegel UoP S. Lavender (UoP) NIVA K. Sørensen Web Development M. Paperin (BC) ACRI- ST FPS/DDS production P. Garnesson ACRI- ST NRT demonstration P. Garnesson GlobCOLOUR Service P. Garnesson UoP PPS production S. Lavender GlobCOLOUR Processor J. Demaria GlobCOLOUR Tools R. Quast (BC) ACRI- ST A. Mangin

5. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 5 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 5 3 years DUE project; 3 phases Start of GlobCOLOUR 15 Nov 2005 Users meeting at UNESCO Requirement baseline 3-4 Jan 2006 Web site www.globcolour.info Validation protocol 15 Jan 2006 MERIS/MODIS/SeaWiFS/POLDER Characterisation 10 July 2006 Availability of two 4-month comparable data sets (PPS) 15 Oct. 2006 First users workshop at LOV Final selection of the merging method 4-6 Dec. 2006 End of phase 1 Phase 1 : Demonstration of feasibility

6. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 6 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 6 15 May 2007 Delivery of Data Processing system 15 Aug 2007 Full validation report 15 Nov 2007 2nd users workshop at NIVA Final validation presentation ~15 Nov 2007 End of phase 2 Phase 2 Start of phase 2 Availability of full product set FPS 1997-2006 & Diagnostic Data Set and Tools 15 Mar 2007 Progress meeting at User premises Progress meeting at User premises 15 July 2007 3 years DUE project; 3 phases

7. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 7 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 7 15 Jan 2008 3rd users workshop at ESRIN Final results presentation ~15 Nov 2008 End of phase 3 Phase 3 Start of phase 3 Delivery of the FPS 2007 NRT demonstration Delivery to operational oceanography 3 years DUE project; 3 phases

8. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 8 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 8 Users always involved during the project for consultation, advice and final assessment KO+2: Jan. 2006 Generation and review of Requirements Baseline Document, Design Justification File, and Validation Protocol KO+8: July 2006Participation in the Critical Design Review KO+13: Dec. 2006 User assessment of the Preliminary Product Sets (radiance and biophysical) and selection of final product Participation in the end of phase 1 review (advisors to ESA) and GlobCOLOUR User Workshop 1 (LOV) KO+23: Oct. 2007 User assessment of the Final Product Set (10 years) &Full Validation Report KO+24: Nov. 2007Participation in the end of phase 2 review as advisors to ESA KO+24: Nov. 2007Participation in the GlobCOLOUR User Workshop 2 (NIVA) KO+36: Nov. 2008Participation in the GlobCOLOUR User Workshop 3 (ESRIN) Users involvement

9. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 9 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 9 Main achievements of phase 1 Initial merging candidates and products selection according to users requirements Characterisation Cross characterisation Characterisation against in situ data System Globcolour processor Globcolour tools Web Service/production Diagnostic Data Set Preliminary Products Set Validation Trade-off assessment and merging method selection Achievements today

10. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 10 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 10 Analyse user requirements & scope of L3 products: climatological trends, variability studies, operational monitoring, assimilation into models Select two (three) methods considering: 1) One method at normalised water leaving radiances level 2) One method at derived ocean colour parameters level Select 4 months of global observations to build up the PPS Select best merging technique for the FPS Initial merging candidates and products selection

11. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 11 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 11 GlobCOLOUR products Global ocean colour data set at 4.6 km resolution covering 1997-2006 daily, weekly, monthly products: Chlorophyll-a concentration (Chla) Diffuse attenuation coefficient (in-water) (Kd) Fully normalised water leaving radiances (available bands) Coloured dissolved and detrital organic materials (CDM) Total suspended matter (TSM) or particulate backscattering coefficient (b bp ) Aerosol optical thickness (AOT@865nm) AOT@865nm Data quality flags Cloud fraction Excess of radiance at ~ 555 nm (turbidity index) (EL555) Error estimates per pixel for each layer all of these data layers are available for both case 1 & case 2 waters; some of them are not official New potential : PAR, euphotic layer, Secchi disk depth, heated layer..

12. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 12 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 12 Analyse user requirements & scope of L3 products: climatological trends, variability studies, operational monitoring, assimilation into models Select two (three) methods considering: 1) One method at normalised water leaving radiances level 2) One method at derived ocean colour parameters level Averaging / Weighted Averaging / GSM Select 4 months of global observations to built up the PPS Select best merging technique for the FPS Initial merging candidates and products selection

13. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 13 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 13 Analyse user requirements & scope of L3 products: climatological trends, variability studies, operational monitoring, assimilation into models Select two (three) methods considering: 1) One method at normalised water leaving radiances level 2) One method at derived ocean colour parameters level Averaging / Weighted Averaging / GSM Select 4 months of global observations to built up the PPS July 2002; October 2002; January 2003; April 2003 Select best merging technique for the FPS Initial merging candidates and products selection

14. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 14 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 14 Analyse user requirements & scope of L3 products: climatological trends, variability studies, operational monitoring, assimilation into models Select two (three) methods considering: 1) One method at normalised water leaving radiances level 2) One method at derived ocean colour parameters level Averaging / Weighted Averaging / GSM Select 4 months of global observations to built up the PPS July 2002; October 2002; January 2003; April 2003 Select best merging technique for the FPS Weighted Averaging / GSM - see David Antoines presentation Initial merging candidates and products selection

15. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 15 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 15 Characterisation Sensors cross characterisation see Samantha Lavenders presentation

16. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 16 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 16 Characterisation against in situ data (Chla, nLw, Kd) Characterisation see Samantha Lavenders presentation Achievement: Statistical uncertainties have been derived and are used for merging

17. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 17 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 17 Globcolour processor System Main modules: Pre-processing Spatial binning Temporal binning Merging QC System is ready for systematic production

18. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 18 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 18 Globcolour tools Two tools are required: Visualisation and pixel-wise analysis with Beam Support to validation activities System First release – v1.3 In progress see Ralf Quasts presentation

19. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 19 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 19 GlobCOLOUR Project European Node for global Ocean Colour Data access Data products Methods Data tools Calendar About the Project Workshops and forum WWW.globcolour.info The European Service for Ocean Colour GlobCOLOUR is an ESA Data User Element Project The GlobCOLOUR project is demonstrating an EO based service supporting global ocean carbon cycle research. Through this web portal, the project provides scientists with a long time series of consistently calibrated global ocean colour information.

20. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 20 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 20 For methods selection : PPS: Preliminary Products Set 4 months Service and production For validation / characterisation: DDS: Diagnostic Data Set 1997-2006 For final users : FPS: Final Products Set see Gilbert Barrots presentation

21. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 21 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 21 Diagnostic Data Set and Preliminary Products Set Service/production see Gilbert Barrots presentation

22. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 22 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 22 Validation protocol: to define validation process; based on SIMBIOS validation protocol Validation of level 2 and level 3 products: Focus on chlorophyll-a, diffuse attenuation coefficient, normalised water-leaving radiances (LwN). Perspectives on CDM and TSM Validation of the PPS and FPS: daily, weekly, monthly products using: punctual in situ measurements and (for PPS) time series obtained from long-term buoy measurements or from regular/ continuous cruises (e.g. ferrybox datasets) (for PPS) See S. Lavender, D. Antoine, S.Maritorena s presentation Validation (1/2)

23. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 23 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 23 Inter-comparison with other similar initiatives e.g. NASA REASoN project (preliminary for PPS) Diagnostic Data Sets: selected from existing validation sites, e.g. IOCCG/SIMBIOS DDS, AMT, ESA MAVT validation sites, Aeronet (for PPS and for characterisation) Validation (2/2) First validation effort is done – need to be pursued all along the project More in David Antoines presentation In situ Average Weighted average GSM01

24. Overall project organisation and achievements after one year - 24 Globcolour / Medspiration user consultation, Dec 4-6, 2006, Villefranche/mer 24 Thank you for your attention