Area B - Board 206

Validation of Vegetation Biophysical Parameters at the

Valencia Anchor Station in the Framework of Copernicus Sentinel-3 OLCI
Erika Albero Peralta ,
1 Inmaculada Bautista ,
2 Cristina Lull ,
2 Antonio Lidon ,
2 Ernesto Lopez-Baeza 1
1University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, 2Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Erika.Albero@uv.es, ibautista@qim.upv.es, clull@upvnet.upv.es, alidon@qim.upv.es, Ernesto.Lopez@uv.es

INTRODUCTION
• The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) onboard Copernicus Sentinel-3A & -3B satellites primary objective is screening the ocean and land surface to harvest
information related to biology, the atmosphere and climate. OLCI's spectral definition permits a fine characterisation of vegetation with the three parameters: OGVI (OLCI
Global Vegetation Index) –FAPAR-, LAI and OTCI (OLCI Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index).
• FAPAR (Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation) (0.40 - 0.70 μm) directly relates to the state and evolution of vegetation and, thus, to primary production.

Representativity of Laboratory calibration of

the 10:00 – 10:30 h chlorophyll content from field
average with respect
SPAD measurements
to the daily average
2017
S-3A, S-3B

Bare soil correction 2018

300m_drone 300m_campaign 900m_campaign

CLASSIFICATION VEGETATION (%) SOIL (%)

300m x 300m_170617 (campaign) 37.02 62.98
900m x 900m_170617 (campaign) 31.07 68.93
300m x 300m_080718 (drone) 48.63 51.57

Acknowledgement
•VARIETAL (VAlidation of EaRth ObservatIon Data and Products at the ValEncia and The ALacant Anchor Stations) Project
•OLCI-Land-Val S3VT Project (AO #13767)
• ESA & EU JRC
•Copernicus Global Land Service <https://land.copernicus.eu/global/>
•University of Southampton & NERC
•Iranzo’s Winery & NODUS’ Winery, Caudete de las Fuentes, Valencia, Spain
•Erika acknowledges Generalitat Valenciana, Regional Government of the Valencian Autonomous Community, and for her Doctorate
Fellowship Grant