Yearly Archive: 2017

      Remote sensing of inland waters is a challenging task

Inter-comparison of measurements between laboratories, who work on the accuracy of Copernicus Sentinel Ocean Colour and Sea Surface Temperature products, are an important component of quality checks of data collected in the field. Last year on the AMT4SentinelFRM Research Voyage,…
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ESA FRM4SOC project (Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Colour), led by Tartu Observatory and involving ACRI-ST, RBINS (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), NPL (National Physical Laboratory), and PML (Plymouth Marine Laboratory), has organized an SI-traceable laboratory inter-comparison experiment…
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The FRM4SOC project will organize a seminar for manufacturers of Ocean Colour Radiometers. The seminar will take place at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC building in Noordwijk, Netherlands on 6 September 2017. The objective of this meeting is to present…
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The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System’s Radiometry Task Team

World class experts gathered in ESRIN to make the best of Ocean Colour data from Sentinel era

FRM4SOC brochure and poster about the scientific background of fiducial reference measurements, their relationship with SI-traceability and uncertainty budgets is now available on frm4soc.org webpage. The A4 format booklet contains also schedule of project activities and overview about consortium partners….
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European Space Agency is organizing Fiducial Inter-Comparison Experiment for Sentinel-3 at the Acqua Atla Oceanographic Tower off the Gulf of Venice, Italy, in the northern Adriatic Sea now rescheduled to July 2018   Following recent discussions at the FRM4SOC project…
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Monitoring Ocean Change using Copernicus satellites