| Day 1, Monday 26 September 2005 |
| Opening Session |
| Official Welcome |
ESA |
| Workshop Objectives and Organisation |
P. Regner |
| Opening Session | Chair: |
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| MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop Objectives and Organisation | Peter Regner (ESA) |
| Envisat Mission, Ground Segment, Meris and (A)ATSR Instrument Status | Chair: P. Lecomte/P. Goryl |
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| Status of the Envisat Mission | Henri Laur (ESA ESRIN) |
| Envisat user services and data distribution | Simon Jutz (ESA ESRIN) |
| AATSR/MERIS processor history and reprocessing | Philippe Goryl (ESA ESRIN) |
| MERIS L1 and L2 processing | Ludovic Bourg (ACRI-ST) |
| The MERIS Instrument and its Performance | Steven Delwart (ESA-ESTEC) |
| The AATSR Sensor and its Performance | Chris Mutlow (CCLRC/RAL) |
| Science with (A)ATSR and MERIS | Chair: M. Doherty/M. Rast |
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| InterCalibration of AATSR and MERIS reflectances | David Smith (CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) |
| Recent and potential scientific achievements of the (A)ATSR Series | David Llewellyn-Jones (University of Leicester) |
| Open Ocean Monitoring with MERIS | Andre Morel (Observatoire oceanologique de Villefranche) |
| MERIS for coastal zone applications: past achievements, future prospects. | Jim Aiken (CASIX) |
| MERIS for land applications | Nadine Gobron (JRC) |
| MERIS for atmospheric applications | Jurgen Fischer (FUB) |
| Day 2, Tuesday 27 September 2005 |
| Clouds and aerosols | Chair: J. Fischer/J-P. Muller |
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| Cloud parameter retrievals from ATSR-2 | Caroline Poulsen (Rutherford Appleton laboratory) |
| Evaluation of MERIS aerosol products for national and regional air quality in Austria | Robert Höller (Federal Environment Agency) |
| Establishing the GLOBCARBON cloud detection system over land for the second Along Track Scanning Radiometer | Stephen Plummer (IGBP) |
| An intercomparison of cloud-top heights and amounts from ATSR2 from stereo photogrammetric and the radiative transfer Optimal Estimation algorithms | Jan-Peter Muller (University College London) |
| Synergy of AATSR and SCIAMACHY for cloud thermodynamic phase determination | Alexander Kokhanovsky (University of Bremen) |
| Contrails from (A)ATSR data | Hermann Mannstein (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) |
| Clouds and aerosol, continued |
Chair: J. Fischer/J-P. Muller |
| Intercomparison of Nadir and Limb Cirrus Properties Retrieved from Coincident AATSR and MIPAS Data | Graham Ewen (University of Oxford) |
| Cloud detection with MERIS using oxygen absorption measurements | Rene Preusker (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Retrieval of Aerosol Properties over Land and Water using (A)ATSR | Gerrit de Leeuw (TNO) |
| Aerosol over land with MERIS, present and future | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| GlobAEROSOL - A unified, global aerosol dataset from MERIS, (A)ATSR and MSG SEVIRI | Gareth Thomas (University of Oxford) |
| Tools and Services | Chair: G. Corlett/P. Regner |
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| (A)ATSR series archive at the NEODC | Matt Pritchard (CCLRC/RAL) |
| Delivering AATSR data to Australian users | Matt Paget (CSIRO) |
| DISMAR: Data Integration System for Marine Pollution and Water Quality | Torill Hamre (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center) |
| GRID on-Demand Services for MERIS and AATSR | Pedro Goncalves (ESA ESRIN) |
| The Use of Knowledge-Driven Information Mining to Provide New Services for Enhanced Use of MERIS Data | Mihai Datcu (DLR - German Aerospace Center) |
| Beam - the ENVISAT MERIS and AATSR Toolbox | Norman Fomferra (Brockmann Consult) |
| Poster Session |
| Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces |
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| The relationship between snow cover and climatic parameters at Mt Hermon, Israel | Michal Sherman (Ben Gurion University) |
| Dynamics of the Ashdod-Nizzanim Coastal dunes from ERS imagery, aerial photographs, and ground measurements | Karin Ardon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) |
| Forest Biomass Estimation Using Satellite Data | Federico González-Alonso (INIA) |
| Use of MERIS Data for Land Cover and Sea Phenomenon Mapping in the North of Algeria: First Results | Youcef Smara (Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science/USTHB) |
| Land use classification in the Argentinean Pampas from Meris-Envisat imagery | Carlos Marcelo Di Bella (INTA) |
| Vegetation assessment in East Africa using MGVI and Red Edge Position from ENVISAT MERIS data | Doris Klein (University of Bonn) |
| Atmospheric correction of MERIS data over perialpine regions | Dana Floricioiu (University of Innsbruck) |
| The potential of the MERIS sensor for soil organic matter estimation of arable agricultural land in Mediterranean Europe | Kristin Boettcher (Joint Research Centre Ispra) |
| GLOBCOVER Processing Chain | Marc Leroy (Medias-France) |
| Calibration and filtering of ATSR-2 and AATSR World Fire Atlas data | Diane Defrenne (Serco) |
| The GLOBCARBON Initiative: Massive Multi-Sensor, Multi-Year, Multi-Product Processing | Geert Borstlap (VITO) |
| Volcanoes Monitoring by Infra-Red | Olivier Colin (ESA/ESRIN) |
| Application of MERIS Data for Agriculture and Marshland Area | Katarzyna Dabrowska - Zielinska (Institute of Geodesy and Cartography) |
| Deriving Land Cover Information over Siberia: Comparing Results from MERIS and MODIS | Roman Gerlach (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) |
| Analysis of AATSR sensor to fire parameterisation: an application in China | Cristina Moclán (University of Valladolid) |
| Remote Sensing of Open Ocean and Coastal Waters |
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| A new aerosol climatology for MERIS atmospheric correction over water using ground based measurements of the solar extinction and of the sky radiances | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| Mapping and Comparison of Different Sensors' Geophysical Products in the Eastern Black Sea Region | Abdulaziz Guneroglu (Karadeniz Technical University) |
| Synergetic use of ocean colour (MERIS) and sea surface temperature (AATSR) for a study of variations in total and new primary production in upwelling areas: Application to the Benguela ecosystem | Ana Silió (Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV)) |
| Operational use of MERIS data for the French naval forces | Stéphanie Vrac (SHOM) |
| Inter-comparison of MERIS, POLDER 2,3 and SeaWIFS ocean colour products using same match-ups with SIMBADA radiometers | Didier Ramon (HYGEOS) |
| Suspended matter and gelbstoff in the Wadden Sea investigated with optical remote sensing and in situ methods | Nina Gemein (Universitaet Oldenburg) |
| Cold Water Run-off along the Primorye Coast in the East (Japan) Sea and Relation to Sea Ices | Kyung-Ae Park (Research Institute of Oceanography) |
| Comparisons of Phytoplankton Concentrations from MERIS and SCIAMACHY Measurements | Astrid Bracher (University of Bremen) |
| Application of Clustering Techniques to Multispectral Optical Data Over the Ocean | Margaret Joseph (University College London) |
| Determination of parameters which control the primary production by phytoplankton in the German Bight using MERIS and AATSR data | Roland Doerffer (GKSS Research Center) |
| International application of AATSR data within the GHRSST-PP | Craig Donlon (GHRSST-PP/Met Office) |
| Representation of climatically important current boundaries in satellite datasets | Simon Good (University of Leicester) |
| Evaluation of the potentialities of the TSM concentration calibrated data from MERIS for coastal protection studies | Ana Teodoro (Faculty of Science University of Porto) |
| A history of remotely sensed and insitu measurements of chlorophyll in the Gulf of Aqaba | Alexander Dadashev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) |
| Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) on a Regional Scale (Tuscan Archipelago) from AVHRR and MERIS Data | Maurizio Tommasini (University of Florence) |
| Remote sensing of Coast of Maharashtra State(West coast of India) | Balasaheb Kulkarni (The Institute of Science) |
| Optical and biogeochemical measurements in support of MERIS instrument in open ocean ultra-oligotrophic waters | Hervé Claustre (Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche) |
| Environmental Information System for Harmful Agal Bloom Monitoring in Chile, using Earth Observation, Hydrodynamic Model and In Situ Monitoring Data | Cristian Puga (Hatfield Consultants Ltd.) |
| Remote Sensing of Clouds and Atmosphere |
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| A semiparametric approach for particule matter prediction | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| Envisat: Taking a good look at Atlantic storms | Graham Quartly (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) |
| Spectral index and band setting for aerosol remote sensing over land | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| Derive aerosol phase functions from sky radiance measurements in the frame of MERIS aerosol remote sensing validation | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| GRAPE Cloud Parameters used for Climate Model Validation | Samuel Dean (University of Oxford) |
| Inter-comparison of MERIS and GOME atmospheric products: preliminary results. | Stefano Casadio (SERCO) |
| Cloud detection for MERIS multispectral images | Luis Gomez-Chova (University of Valencia, GPDS) |
| A pragmatic solution for cloud detection and removal in MERIS Reduced Resolution data | Franck Ranera (SERCO) |
| An operational algorithm and processing system for the retrieval of stereo-ATSR2 derived cloud-top heights and cloud amount | Jan-Peter Muller (University College London) |
| Retrieval of atmospheric parameters from MERIS data over land | Luis Guanter (University of Valencia) |
| Validation of Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieved by BAER in the Mediterranean Area | Wolfgang von Hoyningen-Huene (University of Bremen) |
| A generic procedure to develop cloud screening algorithms for land products. Application to the MERIS sensor | Marie Weiss (Noveltis-INRA) |
| Standard aerosol model families used for atmospheric correction: How comparable are they? How valid are they? | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| Estimation of FINE and COARSE Aerosols from MERIS/ECMWF data | Bernd Piesik (German Aerospace Center) |
| Products, Tools, Services |
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| Level 3 Products using MERIS land products: Implementation and Production in Grid On-Demand project | Nadine Gobron (EC-JRC) |
| Comparison of vegetation photosynthetic activity estimated from MERIS FR data using the FAPAR-BEAM processor, in-situ measurements and a 3-D radiation transfer model: Case of a poplar site in Northern Italy | Nadine Gobron (EC-JRC) |
| Observing the Ocean from Envisat: A UNESCO-Bilko teaching module demonstrating the synergistic use of data from Envisat sensors to study oceanographic phenomena. | Valborg Byfield (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) |
| Calibration and Validation Support System | Carsten Brockmann (Brockmann Consult) |
| The ENVISAT MERIS 'Image of the Day' Visual Archive | Michael Paperin (Brockmann Consult ) |
| Using (A)ATSR in cross-calibrating other sensors for GHRSST-PP | Christopher Merchant (University of Edinburgh) |
| MERCI - MERIS Catalogue and Inventory | Carsten Brockmann (Brockmann Consult) |
| The Current Status of the AATSR Processing Algorithms and Data Products | Andrew R. Birks (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) |
| MERIS Level 3 Value Added Product Production Line for Regional Full Resolution Products of Europe. CAT1 project 1413 - GEMEL3 | Carsten Brockmann (Brockmann Consult) |
| Evaluation of the Performance of MERIS Spectrometer Data in Snow Cover Monitoring in the Boreal Forest Belt | Miia Eskelinen (Helsinki University of Technology/TKK) |
| DUP-DUE projects as an incentive to use MERIS ands AATSR | Olivier Arino (ESA ESRIN) |
| HiProGen Pilot - a Level 3 product generation service from the UK-PAC | Thomas Lankester (Infoterra Ltd.) |
| DISPRO - a portal for integrating EO products in a distributed GIS. | Éamonn Ó Tuama (University College Cork) |
| Estimating Aerosol parameters from MERIS ocean colour sensor observations by using topological maps | Julien Brajard (LOCEAN) |
| Use of ENVISAT Multi-Sensor Data for Global Land Cover Determination. | Hervé Trebossen (ESA ESRIN) |
| Day 3, Wednesday 28 September 2005 |
| Ocean Sea Surface Temperature |
Chair: D. Llewellyn-Jones/A. Morel |
| The measurement of climate change using data from the Along-track Scanning and Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometers | Simon Good (University of Leicester) |
| Validation of ENVISAT AATSR using the ISAR radiometer in Biscay and Western Approaches | Craig Donlon (Met Office) |
| Sea surface temperature for climate from the ATSRs | Christopher Merchant (University of Edinburgh) |
| Diurnal variability of the sea surface temperatures measured by AATSR and MTSAT in the Australian region. | Ian Barton (CSIRO) |
| Validation of (A)ATSR sea surface temperature observations | Anne O'Carroll (Met Office) |
| MEDSPIRATION : A European Contribution to the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project (GODAE/GHRSST) | Jean-Francois Piolle (IFREMER) |
| Ocean Colour I |
Chair: A. Morel/D. Llewellyn-Jones |
| MERIS for Case 2 Waters | Roland Doerffer (GKSS-Research Centre) |
| Status of MERIS Validation Activities at BOUSSOLE | David Antoine (CNRS) |
| An evaluation of MERIS primary products at a coastal site in the northern Adriatic Sea | Giuseppe Zibordi (Joint Research Centre) |
| Performance of the atmospheric correction of MERIS data over northern European waters | Carsten Brockmann (Brockmann Consult) |
| Validation of the MERIS atmospheric correction over water using ground based measurements of the solar extinction and of the sky radiances | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| Ocean Colour I, continued |
Chair: A. Morel/D. Llewellyn-Jones |
| Regional chlorophyll retrieval algorithms for North Sea waters: intercomparison and validation | Steef Peters (IVM) |
| New Fluorescence algorithms for the MERIS sensor | Yannick Huot (Laboratoire d'oceanographie de Villefranche) |
| Extraction of the chlorophyll-a in vivo fluorescence signal from the remotely sensed reflectance spectrum measured in coastal waters | Marcel Babin (CNRS / UPMC) |
| Spectra of Intense Plankton Blooms Detected by MERIS | Jim Gower (Institute of Ocean Sciences) |
| Land Products |
Chair: M. Rast/J. Moreno |
| The new AATSR LST Product: Status and Future Developments | Jose Sobrino (University of Valencia) |
| Validation of FAPAR products derived from MERIS data | Nadine Gobron (EC-JRC) |
| Evaluation and applications of the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index (MTCI) | Jadunandan Dash (University of Southampton) |
| MERIS land products: principles and evaluation of performances | Frédéric Baret (INRA-CSE) |
| Day 4, Thursday 29 September 2005 - Building 14 |
| Ocean Colour II |
Chair: J. Aiken/J. Gower |
| Atmospheric correction over coastal and inland waters: Doing better with MERIS? | Richard Santer (Université du Littoral) |
| Algorithms for the atmospheric correction and the retrieval of constituents in case 2 waters with MERIS-BEAM | Roland Doerffer (GKSS Research Center) |
| Regional MERIS Level 2 Algal Products Developed and Validated in the Skagerrak Sea and Norwegian Coastal Waters | Kai Sorensen (Norwegian Institute for Water Research) |
| Mapping water constituents concentrations in estuaries using MERIS full resolution satellite data | David Doxaran (Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche) |
| Retrieval of the penetration of light, horizontal and vertical visibility in coastal waters from ocean color remote sensing data | Maéva Doron (ACRI-ST/LOV) |
| Ocean Colour II, continued |
Chair: J. Gower/J. Aiken |
| Use of ocean colour observations to support the Water Framework Directive implementation | Odile Fanton d'Andon (ACRI-ST) |
| Automatic near-real time mapping of MERIS data as input to a phytoplankton classifier | Jamie Shutler (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) |
| An early warning algal bloom system combining remote sensing and in situ data is developed for coastal waters off Norway through the DISMAR project | Kai Sørensen (Norwegian Institute for Water Research) |
| MERIS monitors algae blooms to early detect possible harmful blooms | Lasse H. Pettersson (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center) |
| Coral Reef Habitat Mapping with MERIS and Hyperion | Arnold Dekker (CSIRO) |
| Lakes |
Chair: R. Doerffer/K. Sorensen |
| Advances in phytoplankton mapping in inland waters using MERIS | Ramón Peña-Martínez (Centre for Hydrographic Studies - CEDEX) |
| Monitoring water quality of the perialpine Italian Lake Garda through multi-temporal MERIS data | Gabriele Candiani (National Research Council) |
| Using MERIS data for the retrieval of Chl-a, CDOM and TSS values in the Gulf of Finland and Lake Lohjanjärvi | Sampsa Koponen (Helsinki University of Technology)
presented by Timo Pyhälahti (Finnish Environment Institute) |
| An inverse Case 2 water algorithm applied to the North Sea and Lake Ladoga. | Are Folkestad (NERSC) |
| Ocean Colour III | Chair: K. Sorensen/R. Doerffer |
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| Temporal Development of Water Constituents in the Baltic Sea during 2004 | Harald Krawczyk (German Aerospace Center) |
| Ocean Color remote sensing in high latitudes: sensitivity study of the effects of sea ice on the retrieval of bio-optical properties | Simon Bélanger (Lab. Oceano. Villefranche-sur-mer) |
| The Use of MERIS for Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring in the Southern Benguela | Stewart Bernard (University of Cape Town) |
| Atmospheric Internal Solitary Waves Observed by MERIS/ASAR Over the Mozambique Channel, East Africa. | Jose da Silva (University of Lisbon)
presented by Mr. Jorge Magalhães, University of Lisbon |
| Day 4, Thursday 29 September 2005 - Building 1 Room Magellan |
| (A)ATSR Land Surface Temperature |
Chair: J. Moreno/J. Sobrino |
| Validation of Land Surface Temperatures derived from AATSR data at the Valencia test site | Cesar Coll (University of Valencia) |
| Satellite retrievals of land surface temperature from AATSR, SEVIRI and MODIS | Elizabeth Noyes (University of Leicester) |
| ATSR-2 and AATSR World Fire Atlas products, validation, consistency and statistics | Olivier Arino (ESA ESRIN) |
| Cross-Correlation between World Fire Atlas and environmental classifications | Diane Defrenne (SERCO) |
| AATSR derived Land Surface Temperature over heterogeneous areas | Gillem Soria (University of Valencia) |
| An experimental study of angular variations of brightness surface temperature for some natural surfaces | Juan Cuenca (University of Valencia) |
| Land Atmospheric Correction |
Chair: J. Sobrino/J. Moreno |
| AATSR Atmospheric Corrections over Land | Peter North (University of Wales) |
| Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval Over Land: the Atmospheric Correction Based on the MERIS L2 Reflectance | Wolfgang von Hoyningen-Huene (University of Bremen) |
| An autonomous method for MERIS aerosol correction from the spatial and the spectral variation in the visible and near infrared: inversion based on artificial neural networks | David Béal (INRA-CSE) |
| Retrieval of surface reflectances in the framework of the MERIS GLOBAL LAND SURFACE ALBEDO MAPS project | Thomas Schroeder (Free University of Berlin)
presented by Prof. Juergen Fischer (FUB) |
| Algorithm for MERIS land surface BRDF/albedo retrieval and its validation using contemporaneous EO data products | Jan-Peter Muller (University College London) |
| Land Cover Mapping |
Chair: F. Baret/R. Santer |
| GLOBCOVER | Olivier Arino (ESA ESRIN) |
| Tracking land cover change in the Motueka catchment using ENVISAT | David Pairman (Landcare Research) |
| Landcover Dynamics in the Niger Inland Delta (Mali) - A Classification Approach for MERIS Data | Ralf Seiler (TU Dresden) |
| Sub-pixel regional land cover mapping with MERIS imagery | Raul Zurita Milla (Wageningen University) |
| Land Biophysical Products |
Chair: R. Santer/F. Baret |
| Improved estimates of vegetation biophysical variables from MERIS TOA images. | Claire Lauvernet (INRA-CSE) |
| The GLOBCARBON Initiative: Multi-sensor estimation of global biophysical products for global terrestrial carbon studies | Stephen Plummer (IGBP) |
| Estimation of vegetation fluorescence from MERIS data | Luis Guanter (University of Valencia) |
| Multi-temporal Biophysical Parameters Retrieval from MERIS-FR Data in Agricultural Areas | M. Carmen Gonzalez (CESBIO) |
| Urban Monitoring at a Regional Scale Based on MERIS and ASAR data | Luis Gomez-Chova (University of Valencia, GPDS) |
| Day 5, Friday 30 September 2005 |
| Session 11: Closing session | Chair: Y.-L. Desnos/P. Regner |
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| Report from opening session | M. Rast (ESA) |
| Report on Clouds and Aerosols session | J.-P. Muller (Chair) |
| Report from 'Land' session | J. Moreno (Chair) |
| Report from Ocean Colour Sessions I, II and III | J. Aiken (Chair) |
| Future Prospects for EO Exploitation in ESA | M. Doherty (ESA) |
| ESA's Sentinel-3: An Operational Oceanography and Land Surface Mission for GMES | M. R. Drinkwater (ESA ESTEC) |
| Closing | P. Regner (ESA) |
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