View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by JRC Publications Repository Summary Report on the 2008 Image Acquisition Campaign for CwRS Maria Erlandsson Mihaela Fotin Cherith Aspinall Yannian Zhu Pär Johan Åstrand EUR 23827 EN - 2009 The mission of the JRC-IPSC is to provide research results and to support EU policy-makers in their effort towards global security and towards protection of European citizens from accidents, deliberate attacks, fraud and illegal actions against EU policies. European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Contact information Address: Pär-Johan Åstrand E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +39-0332-786215 Fax: +39-0332-786369 http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ Legal Notice Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this publication. 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It can be accessed through the Europa server http://europa.eu/ JRC 50045 EUR 23827 EN ISSN 1018-5593 Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities © European Communities, 2009 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged Printed in Italy EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Agriculture Unit JRC IPSC/G03/C/PAR/mer D(2008)(9914) / Report Summary Report on the 2008 Image Acquisition Campaign for CwRS Author: Maria Erlandsson Status: v1.1 Co-author: Mihaela Fotin, Cherith Circulation: Aspinall, Yannian Zhu Approved: Pär Johan Åstrand Date: 22/12/2008 V1.0, Int. ref: File://S:\FMPArchive\C\9914.doc 22/01/2009 V1.1 Post: Joint Research Centre, IPSC- AGRICULTURE, TP 266, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy Telephone: direct line +39 0332 78 6215 Facsimile: +39 0332 78 6369 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://mars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ EC-DG-JRC-IPSC-AGRICULTURE Unit Summary Report on the 2008 Image Acquisition for CwRS Contents: Executive Summary ..........................................................................................................3 1. Introduction...............................................................................................................4 2. The image acquisition campaign 2008 - overview.................................................6 3. The HR data acquisition...........................................................................................8 4. The VHR data acquisition ......................................................................................11 5. Human resources ...................................................................................................20 6. Conclusions and Outlook to 2009 Campaign.......................................................21 List of Figures: Figure 1. Ikonos upload of zone LUNE in FR in CID Quicklook Browser and the modified IDQA structure.....4 Figure 2. Overview of the 2008 CwRS Campaign control zones......................................................................7 Figure 3. The respective shares of the HR sensors........................................................................................10 Figure 4. CwRS zone HARN in DK, acquired by Ikonos 7 May 2008.............................................................13 Figure 5. Worldview 1 over Mausanne test zone, FR. 15/01/2008. ................................................................16 Figure 6. Schematics of the backup work-flow................................................................................................17 Figure 7. VHR expenditure 2008.....................................................................................................................19 Figure 8. GeoEye-1, Ljubljana. © Telespazio..................................................................................................21 List of Tables: Table 1. Total expenditure for CwRS Campaigns 2008-2007-2006. ................................................................7 Table 2. Success rates for the total HR campaign and per acquisition period.. ...............................................9 Table 3. Area planned and success rates VHR prime. ...................................................................................12 Table 4. Number of zones planned and success rates VHR prime. ...............................................................12 Table 5. Zones where the prime sensor failed to acquire imagery, and backup solution ...............................13 Table 6. Backup planned and acquired area (in km2) per sensor...................................................................14 Table 7. Backup planned and acquired number of zones per sensor.............................................................15 JRC IPSC/G03/C/PAR/mer D(2008)(9914) 2 EC-DG-JRC-IPSC-AGRICULTURE Unit Summary Report on the 2008 Image Acquisition for CwRS Executive Summary In 2008, the number of farm applications received by MS administrations totalled just over 8,0 M for the 24 MS that use the possibility of EU-financed satellite imagery (all MS except AT, FI, LU). This is a decrease of 6% compared to 2007 (8,5 M applications). The total number of On the Spot controls (OTS) was 612.000, on average 7,6% (c.f. 6,8% in 2007). 338.000 applications (55% of OTS) were controlled using Remote Sensing (c.f. 52% in 2007). The number of zones requested by the Member States continues to increase. The 2008 Campaign totalled 244 High Resolution (HR) control zones and 264 Very High Resolution (VHR) control zones. Almost 170.000 km2 were programmed for the prime VHR sensors Ikonos and Quickbird and 535 HR images were acquired. The bad weather over Europe had a significant impact: the VHR success rate was 94% and the HR success rate 91%. The major changes seen during the Campaign were the following: the number of HR images per control zone continues to decrease from 3,9 in 2005 to 2,3 in 2008. No overlapping windows between HR and VHR were allowed in order to avoid the purchase of duplicate imagery. A change was made during this campaign in that the backup opened 10 days after prime, and like last campaign it was closed in the case of successful acquisition of prime sensor. This more efficient way of programming backup allowed the EC Services to program additional zones, so called “dynamic backup” where the window was coming close to an end without a successful acquisition of the prime sensor. Image providers were requested to “warn” the EC Services concerning the zones in danger of not being acquired. This means an increased efficiency both of the budget use and the backup programming. The total expenditure for the 2008 Campaign was 5,4 M Euro divided into 3,8 M Euro for VHR imagery and 1,6 M Euro for HR imagery. The total budget available for the 2009 Campaign shall amount to 7,6 M Euro: 6,5 M Euro from the 2009 budget to be made available by DG AGRI and the remaining 1,1 M Euro of the 2008 budget. Two bulk orders have been prepared for the image providers Eurimage and SPOTImage for imagery to be acquired in 2009. In total this will be enough to cover all MS requests for imagery: in total more than 300 control zones covering 187.000 km2 and 260 HR zones / 750 HR images. JRC IPSC/G03/C/PAR/mer D(2008)(9914) 3 EC-DG-JRC-IPSC-AGRICULTURE Unit Summary Report on the 2008 Image Acquisition for CwRS 1. Introduction 1.1. The objective of the document is to summarise the results of the image acquisition campaign carried out by the JRC (IPSC, G03 (Agriculture Unit), CID Action) within the framework of the Control with Remote Sensing 2008. 1.2. The LIODOTNET (Live Image Ordering) system was developed for the 2005 campaign for image acquisition and ordering and has been further developed during the following Campaigns. The main improvement in 2008 was made to the IDQA (Input Data Quality Assessment) structure: instead of filling and uploading an excel file, the IDQA parameters can now be filled in directly. The CID Quicklook Browser, linked to LIODOTNET, allows the viewing and downloading of georeferenced quicklooks (all VHR data and SPOT HR data). Figure 1. Ikonos upload of zone LUNE in FR in CID Quicklook Browser and the modified IDQA structure. 1.3. All orders have been made using JIPSY, the JRC financial software which interfaces to ABAC. The LIODOTNET/JIPSY interface automatically retrieves the JIPSY order number and transfers technical and pricing information from LIODOTNET to the financial database of JIPSY. 1.4. The 14 Framework contracts (FCs) that were signed in 2006 with concerned image providers were renewed for another year. They can be renewed up to three times i.e. the maximum validity is 4 years. The FCs used in the CwRS campaign are with SPOTImage (SPOT and Formosat2 sensor data), Eurimage (Quickbird and Landsat5 data), Euromap JRC IPSC/G03/C/PAR/mer D(2008)(9914) 4 EC-DG-JRC-IPSC-AGRICULTURE Unit Summary Report on the 2008 Image Acquisition for CwRS (IRS sensor data), European Space Imaging (EUSI) (Ikonos sensor data), ImageSat International (EROS A and EROS B sensor data), DMC International Imaging (DMC sensor data), Infoterra (TerraSAR-X sensor data). 1.5. During the year several meetings