1. Report on Canadian Activities
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Report on Canadian Activities
LSI-VC and SARCUBE
Feb 2019
Paul Briand
Yves Crevier

2. Topics SAR ARD activities (Government and industry)
EO Data exploitation platform
Radarsat Datasets

3. Work Within GoC Support the development of SAR ARD
Government-wide consultation to be conducted
All 3 SAR ARD products are suitable
Specific work done by CCMEO on Normalized Covariance Matrix
Evaluation of R1 and R2 archives for potential Analysis Ready Data
Assessment and Validation of SAR ARD products for different applications:
Agricultural applications
Wetland monitoring
Ecosystem monitoring
Sea Ice mapping and monitoring
Urban monitoring
Permafrost, lakes and coastal areas
Flood monitoring
Report users feedback (next year)

4. On going SAR ARD Evaluation Mini-Cubes
Four ARD mini-cubes will be build for validation and performance assessment of the three NCM-Can scenarios
Time series analytics tool assessment and demo products
Begin with Radarsat-2 ( )
Then RCM
Sites
# R2 Scenes
# Pol. Config.
# Beam Modes
Features
A-MacKenzie Delta
3010 4 7
Wetland, low vegetation, permafrost, lakes, coastal
B-Prairies Oil Field
583 3 5
Pt. Targets, agriculture, Flat terrain, lakes
C- Vancouver
809 13
Urban, agriculture, costal, ship, topography
D- Ottawa
1289 15
Urban, agriculture, forest, wetland

5. Environment Canada and Climate Change - Landscape Science and Technology, Geomatics – Data Cube status

6. Work With the Canadian Industry
Enabler and support roles
Development of solutions/systems enabling the use of SAR ARD product for Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
Flood Management
Sea Ice mapping and monitoring
Normalized Radar Backscatter currently under evaluation in one projects
Development of EO data ingestion tools and front-end analysis algorithms
Planning product development around ARD for ODC and MTA (Analysis-Ready Data for Open Data Cube and MultiTemporal Analytics).

7. Activities Integrating ARD (Optical and SAR) and EO Data Cubes
Development of collaborative, virtual work environment for all federal partners and the communities :
Environment providing access to EO data + storage + HPC processing capabilities + analytical tools;
Interoperable environment, adopting international standard, and interfacing with external infrastructures;
Development of Thematic platform:
Thematic and/or applications focus:
Northern ecosystem;
Sustainable Land and Resource Development;
Crop land monitoring;
Flood management;
National, regional or local scale
Integration of other geospatial information and non-EO data
Tools for Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning)

8. Open SAR Datasets
Radarsat-1 – World-wide Archive ( ) in Cnd stations
Status – open and free
Radarsat 2 – thematic archive
Status - to be negotiated with MDA
Includes long-term coherent time series acquired under the background missions
i.e. Polar, high-res Circum-tropic forest, IM, etc.

9. Radarsat-1 Archive Processed Data Currently Residing in Canada

10. Radarsat-1 Archive Unprocessed Data Currently Residing in Canada

11. Radarsat-1 Archive Unprocessed Data Currently Residing in Foreign Stations

12. Radarsat-2 Archive - +30 to -30 Wide Fine and Extra-wide Fine 2011-2018

13. Radarsat-2 Archive - +30 to -30 Wide Fine and Extra-wide Fine 2011-2018

14. Thank You!

15. Planche finale
Fond noir