GMES Fast Track Service Land

NARMA
(Natural Resource Monitoring in Africa)
E. Bartholome. M. Clerici, JRC EUMETSAT African User Forum Ouagadougou - 2010

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European Commission Fast Track Service Land within the GMES initiative in FP-7

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Overview of Geoland2 Project NARMA Project description Relationship with AMESD Project

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Land Monitoring Core Service - 1 of 3 Fast Track Services, implementing GMES, contributing to GEO, interacting with INSPIRE & SEIS 50 partners 171 collaborating user organisations (81 directly committed to geoland2) 32.5 Mio. volume 4 years duration 22.4 Mio. European Commission grant (FP7) 11 thematic tasks 1 coordination office 3 stakeholder platforms (users, science, service providers) 3 core mapping services (land use/land cover, bio-physical vegetation parameters (BIOPAR) (BIOPAR), annual monitoring), monitoring) 7 core information services (Water, Agri-Env., Spatial Dev., Forest, Land Carbon, Global Crop Mon., African Sustainable D l Development t)
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Downstream D t Services

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geoland NARMA areas of intervention

Performance indicators of human impact Land surface indicators of sensitivity/response to climate variability and scenarios for climate change Rangeland monitoring
Pastureland and non agricultural domain in arid to sub-humid regions (complete co coverage, erage and foc focus s areas) env. Monitoring of protected areas and neighbouring territories Land degradation in large watersheds environmental monitoring g & water resources Small water body monitoring in arid to sub-humid regions

Land surface monitoring for water resource management

Land cover change monitoring, w. r. to forest and agric.

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EC services i (DG DEV, DEV AIDCO & RELEX)

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African users
identification by AMESD preparatory mission

Geographical coverage
Africa South of Sahara (Cotonou agreement partners/EDF) Focus regions according to products Need for information at national level (decision making level for strategic choices & EC funding)

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Data storage

EUMETCAST receiver

Post-processing Storage and Web access

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Report production NARMA JRC

D i i makers Decision k

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Products continuity from core service

(SPOT/Vegetation: e.g.NDVI, LAI, FAPAR, SWB, FCover) Originally designed and tested by Geoland Operational production for Africa through VGT4Africa project BIOPAR (Geoland2 CMS) currently guarantee the generation BIOPAR will ill produce d i improved d algorithms l ith ( (under d validation) lid ti ) GIO (GMES Interim Operations) expected to continue operational production as from 2012 (under discussion).

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Training component
A key component for African users BioPar Bi P and d similar i il products d t are new Need to learn how to use NARMA Training programme in Africa: joint effort with AMESD (common interest co-funding!), belongs to the AMESD training plan. Four training sessions on the products and their use to support THEMAs are foreseen in 2011 - 2012

NB: Completed with own JRC effort for on-the-job training (2-3 months secondment periods at JRC for mastering the eStation)

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10 yr Trend in rainfall

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10 relationship p NDVI-P

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JRC/IES/GEM/MONDE: Task coordination, Interface with users (focus on EC and AUC), System integration
Andreas Brink ( (task manage g since 08/2010, , HR + MR / land cover, , permanent JRC staff) Marco Clerici (informatics, permanent JRC staff, 09/09 |>), (informatics, , >| | 04/10), ), Bruno Combal ( Jean-Francois Pekel (Low Res monitoring thematic applications, 02/10 |> temporary staff) Juur van tKlooster ( (informatics, temporary p y staff) ) E. Bartholom (task manager until 08/2010, permanent JRC staff),

CNR/IREA (IT): Testing / validation of indicators (focus on short term monitoring)

P. A. Sandro Brivio (permanent CNR senior staff), Mirco Boschetti; Paola Carrara (permanent CNR staff)

Leicester U. (UK): Testing /validation of indicators (focus on trend analysis)

H. Balzter (permanent ULeic. Staff), Agata Hoscilo (02/09 |>, post doc)

Geosat Technology (FR) Interface with users (regional centres in Africa)

E. Barisano (SMI)
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION !

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