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DAR All-Chapters-Fin [文書のタイトル] Applications of Satellite Earth Observations: Serving Society, Science, & Industry [ FULL REPORT] 2015 edition Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Applications of Satellite Earth Observations i Contents Message from the CEOS Chair _____________________________________________________________________ iii Chapter 1: About CEOS A Brief History of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) ____________________________________________ 2 Evolution in capabilities _________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Earth Observation Data Policy __________________________________________________________________________________ 6 Coordination Framework _______________________________________________________________________________________ 8 Future possibilities via new technologies and services ____________________________________________________________ 10 Chapter 2: Applications Analysis of Data Applications Articles ___________________________________________________________________________ 16 Asia/Oceania Monitoring Sea Ice to Provide Support for the Safe Travel of Ships ________________________________________________ 20 Use of SAR data to map and quantify eruptive deposits for lahar assessment ______________________________________ 23 Applying Remote Sensing Technology in River Basin Management _______________________________________________ 27 Sentinel Asia Success Story _____________________________________________________________________________________ 30 Living in a land prone to fire: supporting early response, and the coordination of firefighting assets, across a continent ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 34 Great Flood Monitoring with Fengyun 3A Satellite data __________________________________________________________ 38 Global Mapping of the Earth’s Land Surface Composition _______________________________________________________ 41 Enhancing the national carbon accounting and reporting capability using remote sensing data ___________________ 46 Detection and monitoring water resources across a continent ___________________________________________________ 50 Collaborative EO Application Development for Understanding and Managing Australia's Environment _____________ 56 Monitoring changes in Australia's ecosystems to support government monitoring and management _______________ 60 Sentinel-1 SAR data for operational rice monitoring system _______________________________________________________ 64 Americas Disasters and Earth Observation Applications: The Richelieu River Flood Management (Quebec, Canada) _________ 68 Energy and Earth Observation Applications: Assessment and Mitigation of Geohazard Sites Along Strategic Transportation and Energy Corridors in Canada _________________________________________________________________ 73 Supporting Early Warnings of Infectious Diseases with New Global Risk Maps ______________________________________ 79 Public Health and Earth Observation Applications: Risk Assessment of Infectious Diseases in Canada _______________ 82 Improving Air Quality Information with Satellite Data _____________________________________________________________ 88 Use of AW3D within Mineral Exploration _________________________________________________________________________ 92 ASTER Data Used to Identify Copper Potential Regions ___________________________________________________________ 96 ii Applications of Satellite Earth Observations [文書のタイトル] Monitoring of water quality and water level of rivers and lakes in Brazil: towards a remote sensing-based operational monitoring application at the Brazilian National Water Agency _________________________________________________ 100 Earth Observations to Advance Wildlife Habitat Conservation and Management ________________________________ 104 Advancing Marine Mammal and Protected Species Management Through Earth Observations ___________________ 108 Improving Ecosystem Monitoring and Management of Coral Reefs with Satellite Observations ____________________ 112 Enhancing Drought Monitoring in North America through Earth Observations ____________________________________ 116 Prevention of Illegal Logging in Amazon Forest using ALOS/PALSAR ______________________________________________ 119 Europe The Copernicus Sentinels Benefitting Society and Environment: first examples using Sentinel-1A ____________________ 124 Satellite based maritime surveillance to increase safety, security and efficiency of ship traffic _____________________ 128 Radar Satellite based sea ice and iceberg monitoring __________________________________________________________ 131 Use of Earth Observations satellites for maritime downstream applications _______________________________________ 135 The Challenge to Use EO Products for Earthquake-related Civil Protection Activities in Italy ________________________ 138 GDM: the Ground Deformation Monitoring French infrastructure for scientific applications ________________________ 142 The crucial and unique role of Earth Observation data within the 2014 Cephalonia (Greece) seismic crisis _________ 146 Using SPOT and Pléiades Data To Plan a Pipeline Settlement ____________________________________________________ 150 Earth Observation for Mine Waste Characterization from Multispectral and Hyperspectral Spaceborne Sensors. ____ 154 Terra Aster data for urban energy efficiency monitoring ________________________________________________________ 159 Ocean fronts helping to define marine protected areas ________________________________________________________ 163 Satellite monitoring of harmful algal blooms (HABs) to protect the aquaculture industry ___________________________ 166 Earth Observation for Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture ________________________________________________ 169 Africa Use of Satellites for Disasters in Southern Africa _________________________________________________________________ 176 Entomological Rift valley fever risk in Senegal: a high spatio-temporal resolution risk mapping from remote sensing _ 179 Mapping and Forecasting Frost in Kenya with Satellite Observations _____________________________________________ 183 SPOT monitors the evolution of the Serbian territory _____________________________________________________________ 187 Global GOSAT data since 2009 and its application ____________________________________________________________________ 192 Applications of future EUMETSAT geostationary programme (MTG) ______________________________________________ 195 Applications of future EUMETSAT polar programme (EPS-SG) ____________________________________________________ 200 Earth Observations Aid Tracking of Global Crop Conditions for Improved Production Assessments _________________ 205 Forest biomass and change in forest cover using SAR data for forest monitoring systems. __________________________ 209 NEODAAS: Providing satellite data for efficient research ________________________________________________________ 212 EarthLab Galaxy: towards a worldwide cluster of environment monitoring centers ________________________________ 215 Appendix: List of satellites referenced in this report _______________________________________________________________________ 222 List of organizations referenced in this report ___________________________________________________________________ 225 Applications of Satellite Earth Observations iii Message from the CEOS Chair The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) represents the civil Earth-observing (EO) programmes of more than 30 of the world’s leading space agencies. These CEOS Agencies are collectively investing billions of dollars in space infrastructure with the capability to provide sophisticated, continuous, and sustained observations of the entire planet. The CEOS Missions, Instruments, and Measurements Database shows that dozens of countries have active civil EO satellite missions, with around 130 individual missions of CEOS Agencies estimated to be active in 2015. Greater technical capacity worldwide, improved international cooperation, and reduced size and costs of EO satellites have all contributed to the number and diversity of countries with active EO space infrastructure. These satellites carry many different types of instruments – from high-resolution imagers to atmospheric chemistry monitors, rain radars, and lightning sensors. We all benefit from an extremely wide range of technologies and capabilities on EO satellites working in service of society today. World leaders recognise that mankind faces some pressing challenges related to a sustainable future as the human population explodes and basic needs for food, water and shelter must be met by finite resources of the planet. Climate change and environmental degradation are complicating the already substantial challenges of food security, water resource management, and clean energy policies. A number of important inter-governmental processes aimed at ensuring a sustainable and prosperous path for mankind are underway, including (amongst many): the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR). Satellite Earth observation data provides a reliable and scientific information base for definition of global goals and frameworks and will contribute to monitoring of progress in their implementation in the years ahead.
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