Climateurope Festival 2017

The Market Place: Climate Services Landscape

Valencia, ADEIT, 5-7 April 2017

The Valencia Anchor Station, an Experienced (15 years, 2001-2017) and Reliable
(CERES - EPS/MetOp - GERB - GNSSR - OLCI - SMAP - SMOS Missions)
Validation Site for Earth Observation Data and Products
Ernesto Lopez-Baeza & The Climatology from Satellites Group
University of Valencia, Faculty of Physics Earth Physics & Thermodynamics Department
Ernesto.Lopez@uv.es

SUMMARY
The Climatology from Satellites Group is a small but fairly active and productive research group. Besides conventional
pure and applied research, we also develop innovative activities mainly related to the use of Earth Observation data
and Remote Sensing Techniques which may well be opportunity for business within a climate change
environment. A suitable example is the complementary poster on the RESEWAM-O EIP Water Action Group in this
Market Place. Our underlying application topic is validation of Earth Observation data and products at the
Valencia Anchor Station and the development of an Experimental Observatory of the Water Cycle, and this
is the basis for many challenging business applications such as Water Management Optimisation, Smart
Agriculture, Carbon Footprint and LCA analysis, etc. We have the instrumental means, optimum site conditions,
long-term knowledge experience and mind openness that could serve business as a “test laboratory field for
developing new ideas and products”. Our current research topics are:
•Validation of ESA SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and NASA SMAP (Soil Moisture Active and Pasive) land products
•Intercomparison of SMOS, SMAP and Aquarius level 1 brightness temperatures
•Validation of Copernicus Sentinel-3 OLCI (Ocean and Land Colour Instrument) land products
•Validation of EUMETSAT IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) ozone profiles
•Application of Earth Observation data and Remote Sensing Techniques to Water Management Optimisation
•Estimation of surface energy balance and carbon and water vapour fluxes over vineyards
•Urban adaptation to climate change
•We are recently introducing ourselves in coastal water quality studies with OLCI and Sentinel-1 radar data

Valencia & Alacant

Anchor Stations
(Most?) suitable area in
Europe for validation of low
spatial resolution remote
sensing data and products

Valencia Anchor
Station

Alacant Anchor
HR MERIS, 23 March 2002 Station
The VAS site, SMAP Candidate Pixel
for the Passive configuration
A n d re a s C o llia n d e r e t a l.

vine 1 vine 2 vine 3

Earth Observation missions

where we are involved

CERES (Clouds and the Earth’s

Radiant Energy System) NASA

GERB (Geostationary Earth

radiation Budget) EUMETSAT 15
18

12
Te 5 9
am
1

EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Tea

Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) 6
m2

ESA/JAXA Te
16
19

13 am
10 3
7

SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Te

am 20
4
Salinity) ESA 14
17

11
8
SMAP (Soil Moisture Active and
Passive) NASA

EPS/MetOp (EUMETSAT
System) EUMETSAT/ESA
Sentinel-3 ESA
PARIS (Passive Reflectometry and
Interferometry System).
Now GEROS GNSS-R (Global Navigation
Satellite System - Reflectometry) ESA à
GEROS-ISS: GNSS Reflectometry, Radio
Occultation and Scatterometry Onboard the
International Space Station
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding
Interferometer (IASI) EUMETSAT
Acknowledgment
Polar
• Spanish Research Programme on Space, Ministry for Education & Science
• General Directorate for Climate Change, Dept. for Environment. Regional Gov. of the Valencian
Autonomous Community
• ESA: European Space Agency (EarthCARE) (EPS/MetOp) (OLCI) (GERB) (SMOS)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration: (NASA) (CERES) (SMAP)
•• EUMETSAT: (EPS/MetOp) (GERB) (IASI)
CNES (Centre National des Etudes Spatiales) – TOSCA Program
• China Meteorological Administration
• European Innovation Partnership on Water (EIP Water)
• Irrigation Technology Service, Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA)
• Jucar River Basin Authority. Office for Hydrological Planning (CHJ)
• Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMet)
• Bodegas IRANZO, Caudete de las Fuentes
• Bodegas y Viñedos de Utiel
• Bodega La Cubera , Utiel
• Nicolas Guaita, Caudete de las Fuentes
• Rafael Giménez, Caudete de las Fuentes