ESF provides the COST Office

through a European Commission contractCOST is supported

by the EU Framework Programme

COST Action ES1309 OPTIMISE

Management Evaluation Group

ES1309 OPTIMISE 2017 meeting, 22-24 February, Cyprus

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Management Evaluation Group and Core Group

Management Evaluation Group and Core Group

We are here

A good COST Action …

• Has a high number of active participants

• Is carrying out a high number of fruitful STSMs

• Is involving industries and other stakeholders

• Is including researchers from less research-intensive

countries across Europe

• Is writing many (good) Joint Publications

• Good Gender Balance and lots of ESR

• Is developing further research proposals (H2020)

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COST Action ES1309 (ES0903)• Participants increase in 3rd year: 78 to 127 (ES0903: 83)

Members increase: WG1: 21 to 37; WG2: 29 to 44; WG3: 29 to 46

• 29 EU Countries (ES0903: 21)

• Ukraine, USA, Canada, Australia (ES0903: 4)

• + ESA FLEX

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Successful support of OPTIMISE network:

European Space Agency that the Fluorescence

Explorer (FLEX) concept has been selected as the

next Earth Explorer mission, with a launch

scheduled for 2022

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COST Action ES1309

STSMs: 17+ (ES0903: 12)

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COST Action ES1309

• Involvement of Industries…

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The advantage of combining GPS and GLONASS has been tested in

cooperation with UAV producers (e.g. www.soleon.it). During the Bozen UAV

workshop, tests for comparing multiple on-board GPS instruments have

been executed.

Further tests were made during Michal Chilinski STSM.

SAL Engineering (Marco Dubbini, MAIA camera)

… and stakeholders (ESA)

COST Action ES1309

Inclusiveness towards less research-intensive

countries across Europe

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•ES1309: Cyprus; Czech Republic; Estonia, Croatia; Hungary; Portugal; Bulgaria; Turkey; and Estonia

• Activities are held in inclusiveness countries

where possible and a recent ESR organised

workshop was held in Estonia

• Collaborative work between U. of Edinburgh, U.

of Life Science, Poznan and DLR to establish a

Sentinel-2 mission cal/val field site in Poland

•Dubrovnik 2016 meeting (Croatia)

•Today’s meeting

COST Action ES1309 (ES0903)Joint Publications: 11; ...? funded by COST (ES0903: 4 funded)

Gitelson, A. A., Peng, Y., Vina, A., Arkebauer, T., Schepers, J. S. (2016). Efficiency of chlorophyll in gross primary

productivity: A proof of concept and application in crops. Journal of Plant Physiology, 201, 101–110,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2016.05.019

Hueni, A., Damm, A., Kneubuehler, M., Schläpfer, D. and Schaepman, M. (2016). "Field and Airborne Spectroscopy

Cross-Validation - Some Considerations." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and

Remote Sensing PP(99): 1 - 19.Cendrero-Mateo, M.P., Carmo-Silva AE, Porcar-Castell A, Hamerlynck EP,

Papuga SA, Moran MS. (2015a). Dynamic response of plant chlorophyll fluorescence to light, water and nutrient

availability. Functional Plant Biology 42, 746–757.

Cerasoli, S., F. C. Silva and J. M. N. Silva (2016). Temporal dynamics of spectral bioindicators evidence biological and

ecological differences among functional types in a cork oak open woodland. International Journal of

Biometeorology, 60(6): 813-825, DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-1075-xCogliati S., Rossini M. Julitta T.; Meroni, M.

Schickling A., Burkart A., Pinto F., Rascher U. & Colombo R. (2015) Continuous and long-term measurements of

reflectance and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by using novel automated field spectroscopy systems.

Remote Sensing of Environment, 164, 270-281.

Van der Tol, C., Rossini, M., Cogliati, S., Verhoef, W., Colombo, R., Rascher, U., & Mohammed, G. (2016). A model

and measurement comparison of diurnal cycles of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence of crops. Remote

Sensing of Environment, 186, 663-677.

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Final special issue? (10K)

COST Action ES1309 (ES0903)

Gender Balance and Early Stage Researchers

(ESRs)Vice Chair plus new female researchers involved...

ESRs have been actively encouraged to participate in the Action management, five

of the eleven core group members are ESRs, many ESR STMSs

Training Schools: 3 (ES0903: 2)

• ABEL Training School on UAVs and Biogeochemical cycling (Spain)

• Joint OPTIMISE / EUFAR Training Course: SWAMP

• Training Course on “Safe operations and Health and Safety in deployment of

unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs) for environmental science”, April 2016,

University of Exeter in the UK (Karen Anderson)

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GROUNDSPEC H2020 proposal

Proposal full title:

SENTBOX: a new system for integrating in situ

spectral observations and COPERNICUS data to

upscale vegetation carbon fluxes

Proposal acronym:

GroundSpec

Type of funding scheme: RIA

Work programme topics addressed:

SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems.

Coordinating person:

Loris Vescovo - FEM, e-mail: loris.vescovo@fmach.it

8 out of 9 academic participants are OPTIMISE

members

S2 Spatial

Resolution

(m)

S2 Band

Number

Central

Wavelength

(nm)

Bandwid

th

(nm)

10 2 490 65

3 560 35

4 665 30

8 842 115

20 5 705 15

6 740 15

7 783 20

8a 865 20

11 1 610 90

12 2 190 180

• Develop a new cost-efficient multispectral sensor simulating

Sentinel 2 bands (SentBox)

• Test SentBox prototype at 15 Eddy Covariance sites in

Europe and Africa

• Carry out sensor characterisation and intercalibration

activities (lab and field)

• Develop new algorithms and products for vegetation

structure and function monitoring (C fluxes) for Sentinel 2

• Apply the ground-truthed algorithms to case studies on the

impact of climate anomalies on ecosystems ranging from the

Equator to the the Sub Artic regions

• Manufacture 60-100 sensors to be adopted within relevant

global in-situ monitoring networks (Fluxnet, ICOS, S2

validation sites, SpecNet, CarboAfrica, etc.)

GROUNDSPEC H2020 proposal

GI-05 Global Carbon Observation and

Analysis System

SC5-18-2017: Novel in-situ observation systems

S2 validation

activities

PROJECT BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT

13.12.2016

Università degli Studi di Milano-

Bicocca

Micol Rossini

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TRUSTEE: TRAINING ON REMOTE SENSING FOR ECOSYSTEM MODELING

- Call: MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS

- Call identifier: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016

Starting date: 1 October 2016

Duration: 48 months

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Fluosynthesis campaign

MoU deliverables

WG1:

Definition of a mandatory metadata set, aligned with current international efforts

in the spectroscopy community (EcoSYS and SPECNET collaborations ongoing)

Develop an on-line instance of a spectral information database to serve as

demonstration and testing platform for data sharing and information building

Develop a wireless automated dataflow from in-situ and UAV sensor for the

database system

Definition and implementation of data pre-processing and metadata augmentation

algorithms and routines including quality checks and flagging and data

assimilation

Definition and implementation of system interfaces and algorithms for data

retrieval allowing the building of products using sources such as biogeochemical

modelling, flux data specialisation and space-sensed data

MoU deliverables

WG2

Review and report on the challenges for optical sensing in up-scaling biophysical

properties of vegetation and test different UAV platform/measurement

instruments setups

Development of a footprint tool for optimal placement of fixed spectrometers

and for combination of EC measurements with UAV-based spectral data(An experts workshop has been planned for integrating the footprint tool by

Prof. N. Kljun with Remote Sensing data. February 2017?)

Liaise with industry representatives to improve accuracy of GPS

Definition of new methods for scaling up functional relationships between

optical properties and ecosystem processes from in-situ to landscape scale by

means of UAVs, including identification of adequate radiative transfer models to

be coupled with biogeochemical models for linking biogeophysical properties of

vegetation with its optical properties

MoU deliverables

WG3

Review and report on the methods and instruments used to estimate the solar-

induced fluorescence from passive remote measurements

Definition of the technical requirements and acquisition protocols for reflectance

and fluorescence measurements from UAV and ground-based instruments

(Tartu think tank workshop + Romanian proposal Sporea MacArthur)

Database of reflectance, fluorescence and productivity data for later use in

models and applications (SWAMP database included, deliverable completed)

Integration of ground and UAV measurements with biochemical model outputs

to better understand the links between photosynthesis, plant stress, growth and

physiology with the temporal dynamics of reflectance and fluorescence