THE MERIS USER WORKSHOP - ALL CONTRIBUTORS

Status of Envisat, Data Distribution, Calibration, Processing, Validation 

Chair: P. Lecomte/P. Goryl

Envisat/MERIS mission status

Henri Laur

Envisat user services and MERIS data distribution

Simon Jutz

MERIS calibration

Steven Delwart

MERIS Level 1b and Level 2 Processing

Ludovic Bourg 

The MERIS Cal/Val program and the level 2 products quality

Philippe Goryl/C Brockmann 

Atmospheric Products Validation 

Chair: R. Santer/J. Fischer

Validation of MERIS atmospheric products: an overview

Jurgen Fischer 

Validation of MERIS water vapour measurements

Peter Albert 

Cross-validation of MERIS water vapor and InSAR wet delay observations

Joaquin Munoz Sabater 

CWAVE 03: Validation of MERIS Near IR water vapour retrievals using MWR and GPS

Jan-Peter Muller 

Inter-comparison of MERIS, MODIS and MISR Cloud Top Heights

Catherine Naud 

MERIS Cloud Masks: Exploration and Visualisation of Meris Spectra

Dan Cornford 

MERIS Water Products Validation

Chair: A. Morel/J.-P. Huot

The MERIS Water products

Jean-Paul Huot 

Scope of Water Products - The Quality and Science Flags

Carsten Brockmann 

Validation of MERIS Case 1 water products

David Antoine 

Validation of MERIS Coastal Products

Roland Doerffer 

Intercomparisons of MERIS and SeaWiFS ocean products

Vincent Fournier-Sicre 

An evaluation of the accuracy of MERIS radiometric and geophysical products for a northern Adriatic coastal site

Giuseppe Zibordi 

Validation of MERIS ocean color algorithms in the Mediterranean Sea

Salvatore Marullo 

MERIS imagery of Belgian coastal waters

Kevin Ruddick 

MERIS validation activities at Lake Constance

Peter Gege 

MERIS Land Products Validation

Chair: J. Moreno/M. Rast

First results of ESA's MERIS for Land and Environmental applications

Michael Rast

Validation of MERIS products over land

Richard Santer 

MERIS Global Vegetation Index: evaluation and performance.

Nadine Gobron 

The SPARC campaign for validation of MERIS biophysical retrievals

Jose Moreno 

Coastal and Inland Waters

Chair: R. Doerffer/K. Ruddick

Detection of Algae-blooms in the Baltic Sea with MERIS-data

Harald Krawczyk 

CHL-mapping in Dutch coastal waters using MERIS

Steef Peters 

Validation of Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Coastal Waters Derived from MERIS

Jim Gower 

Use of MERIS data within the ESA GSE COASTWATCH service : a demonstration case

Antoine Mangin 

Operational coastal water quality monitoring: are space borne products an alternative to in-situ measurements - Where are we now?

Carsten Brockmann 

Mapping of Photosynthetic Pigments in Spanish Reservoirs

Ramon Pena-Martinez 

Water quality monitoring of Lake Garda using multi-temporal MERIS data

Niklas Strömbeck 

Ecosystem monitoring of the fresh water lake IJsselmeer

Hans Van der woerd 

Aerosol retrieval and atmospheric correction for MERIS data over lakes

Dana Floricioiu 

Land Cover Monitoring

Chair: F. Baret/M. Verstraete

Monitoring Landcover Changes Of The Niger Inland Delta (Mali) By Means Of ENVISAT-MERIS Data

Elmar Csaplovics 

Deriving Landcover Information over Siberia using MERIS and MODIS data

Laine Skinner 

Use of MERIS data for Land Cover Mapping in the Netherlands

Jan Clevers 

Baltic region land information database through use of MERIS

Birgitta Olsson 

Monitoring snow cover in Alpine regions through the integration of MERIS and AATSR Envisat satellite observations

Maria Lucia Tampellini 

Vegetation Monitoring

Chair: J. Privette/J. Curran

MTCI: a new MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index

Jadunandan Dash 

Assessing Vegetation Classification Using Multiple MERIS Scenes

Jennifer Busler 

On the possibility to retrieve land vegetation fluorescence from MERIS

Jose Moreno 

Artificial Neural Networks for Estimating Biophysical Products from MERIS

Cédric Bacour 

New Methods

Chair: P. Curran/J. Gower

A Method for Atmospheric Correction based on Spectral and Spatial Observation

:David Béal 

Automatic Clustering and Classification of MERIS TOA Spectra

Sylvie Thiria 

Atmospheric correction of MERIS imagery above case-2 waters

Jürgen Fischer 

A technique for Aerosol retrieval over land from MERIS data

Luis Guanter 

Use of the 709 nm band of MERIS to detect red tide and other conditions in coastal areas

Jim Gower 

Demonstrations and Tools

Neural Algorithms for Ocean Color (NAOC) project : Hands-on demonstration with MERIS data

Antoine Mangin 

Hands-on Demonstration and field experimentation of MERIS images for fishing support

Gil Denis 

Demonstration of the MERISDOC software

Vincent Fournier-Sicre 

Demonstration of the BEAM software

Carsten Brockmann 

Poster and Demo Session

Chair: M. Rast/G. Zibordi

Ongoing and planned MERIS exploitation projects: Globcarbon, Contrail, Desertification, Globcover,GMES

Olivier Arino 

Validation of MERIS Biophysical Products Estimated by Artificial Neural Networks

Cédric Bacour 

Retrieval of the aerosol optical depth from MERIS and ground-based radiometers

Irina Behnert 

Demonstration of the BEAM software - A Tutorial for making best use of VISAT

Carsten Brockmann 

Development of Algorithms for the Exploitation of Meris Data over Land

Véronique Bruniquel-Pinel 

MERIS O2 Calibration using SCIAMACHY measurements

Stefano Casadio 

MERIS IPWV Validation: a Multisensor Experimental Campaign in Central Italy

Piero Ciotti 

Application development for the utilization of ENVISAT data (2000-2003)

Gábor Csornai 

Synergy of MERIS/ASAR for observing marine film slicks and small scale processes

Jose Da Silva 

Demonstration and Field experimentation of MERIS images for fishing support

Gil Denis 

CYTTARES: a global database for inter-comparison of biophysical products

Gael Derive 

Coastwatch WFD Service - Demonstration cases of use of MERIS data

Odile Fanton d'Andon 

SISCAL: Satellite-based Information System on Coastal Areas and Lakes

Frank Fell 

Demonstration of the MERISDOC software

Vincent Fournier-Sicre 

Integrated Watershed modeling

Pedro Galvão 

Deriving Surface Albedo from Coupled MERIS and MODIS Products

Feng Gao 

NorSatVal - a new high-latitude marine and terrestrial validation network

Georg Hansen 

The potential of Red Edge Index derived from ENVISAT MERIS data in East Africa

Doris Klein 

HiProGen - A System to Generate High Level Products

Thomas Lankester 

Neural Algorithms for Ocean Color (NAOC) project : demonstration with MERIS data

Antoine Mangin 

RealCup - near Real time Customized Products

Stéphane Mbaye 

MERIS SPM mapping over the Belgian waters- Hydro-optical model calibration

Bouchra Nechad 

Development of an integrated system for coastal waters

Pedro Pina 

Determination of fine particulate matter from MERIS and SeaWiFS aerosol data

Didier Ramon 

MERIS Temporal Synthesis

Serge Riazanoff 

New methodologies in the XTH Region of Chile to determine phytoplankton blooms

Cristina Rodríguez-Benito 

Monitoring Landcover Changes in Subsaharian Wetlands - The Niger Inland Delta

Ralf Seiler 

Remote Sensing of virally induced mass mortality of cyanobacteria

Stefan Simis 

Upscaling hyperspectral imagery for biodiversity assessment in coastal wetlands

Andrew Skidmore 

State in Aerosol Remote Sensing for Atmospheric Correction of MERIS Land Surface Products

Wolfgang Von Hoyningen-Huene