Project description
Two satellites are better than one: higher resolution Earth imaging for crop and forest monitoring
Imaging satellites for Earth observation provide important spatial and temporal information of relevance to numerous fields including meteorology, oceanography, agriculture, conservation, regional planning, intelligence and defence. When it comes to crop and forest management, higher resolution is urgently needed to monitor biophysical variables including leaf area index and the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation. Current technologies fall short when trying to balance spatial versus temporal resolution. The EU-funded MOVES project is developing an operational algorithm to retrieve the necessary information at required resolution harnessing Sentinel-2 satellites, a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit, with a spatial resolution of 10–20 metres and 5-day temporal sampling.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinator
08193 Bellaterra
Spain
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