Publication Date
4-1-2020
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Remote Sensing
Volume
12
Issue
7
DOI
10.3390/rs12071178
Abstract
In the context of the Copernicus Program, EUMETSAT prioritizes the creation of an ocean color infrastructure for system vicarious calibration (OC-SVC). This work aims to reply to this need by proposing the European Radiometry Buoy and Infrastructure (EURYBIA). EURYBIA is designed as an autonomous European infrastructure operating within the Marine Optical Network (MarONet) established by University of Miami (Miami, FL, USA) based on the Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) experience and NASA support. MarONet addresses SVC requirements in different sites, consistently and in a traceable way. The selected EURYBIA installation is close to the Lampedusa Island in the central Mediterranean Sea. This area is widely studied and hosts an Atmospheric and Oceanographic Observatory for long-term climate monitoring. The EURYBIA field segment comprises off-shore and on-shore infrastructures to manage the observation system and perform routine sensors calibrations. The ground segment includes the telemetry center for data communication and the processing center to compute data products and uncertainty budgets. The study shows that the overall uncertainty of EURYBIA SVC gains computed for the Sentinel-3 OLCI mission under EUMETSAT protocols is of about 0.05% in the blue-green wavelengths after a decade of measurements, similar to that of the reference site in Hawaii and in compliance with requirements for climate studies.
Funding Number
EUM/CO/18/4600002161/EJK
Funding Sponsor
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Keywords
Copernicus, Fiducial reference measurement, Lampedusa, MarONet, MOBY, Ocean colour, Radiometry, Research infrastructure, System vicarious calibration, Uncertainty budget
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Recommended Citation
Gian Luigi Liberti, Davide D'Alimonte, Alcide di Sarra, Constant Mazeran, Kenneth Voss, Mark Yarbrough, Roberto Bozzano, Luigi Cavaleri, Simone Colella, Claudia Cesarini, Tamito Kajiyama, Daniela Meloni, Angela Pomaro, Gianluca Volpe, Chunxue Yang, Francis Zagolski, and Rosalia Santoleri. "European radiometry buoy and infrastructure (EURYBIA): A contribution to the design of the European copernicus infrastructure for ocean colour system vicarious calibration" Remote Sensing (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071178
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