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The HIGHROC project is funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 606797.
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Developing the next generation of
coastal water quality products and services
- the FP7/HIGHROC project
Presented at the Copernicus Workshop for coastal zone monitoring and management, Brussels, 29 June 2017
K. Ruddick, C. Brockmann, E. Capuzzo, K. Collingridge, S. Constantin,
V. Créach, L. De Keukelaere, D. Doxaran, R. Forster, N. Greenwood,
P. Jaccard, E. Knaeps, H. Lavigne, C. Lebreton, A. Ledang, S. Marty,
G. Morin, B. Nechad, M. Norli, S. Novoa, A. Ody, T. Silva, K. Sorensen,
K. Stelzer, D. Van der Zande, Q. Vanhellemont
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Remote Sensing: What is ocean colour?
[R. Mendes]
Chaetoceros spp.
[J-P. Vogt]
Suspended Particulate Matter
MERIS 2003ave
Chlorophyll a
Algal particles (phytoplankton)
Non-Algal particles
(suspended sediments)
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Pre-HIGHROC OSPAR/EU-WFD Eutrophication monitoring product
• Water quality monitoring (EU Water Framework Directive)
CHLa 90 percentile (MERIS,2005)
OSPAR(2006):
Spatially extensive
Cross-boundary
Neutral
Belgian CHLa 90% Mar-Oct 2005-2010, WFD product
[Processing: D. Vanderzande (RBINS), L2data: ACRI-ST]
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HIGHROC
HIGHROC
GMES Downstream
Services
e.g. MARCOAST
End-Users:
EU Water + Marine Strategy
Framework Directives
Medium resolution
Ocean Colour
MERIS, MODIS … Sentinel-3/OCLI
300m, 1day
HIGHROC
High temporal
resolution
MSG/SEVIRI
15mins
High spatial
resolution
Sentinel-2, Landsat-8
New applications:
Windfarms, dredging,
etc.
10m
“High spatial and temporal resolution ocean colour products and services”
▪ EU/FP7 funded: 2014-2017
▪ Consortium: RBINS, UPMC/LOV, NIVA, BC, VITO, CEFAS, UHULL + Users
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Landsat-8
(30m…15m)
around port of
Zeebrugge
▪ Many coastal/inland apps are very nearshore: EU WFDirective 1 n. mile
▪ New sediment transport features become visible at high spatial resolution,
e.g. Sentinel-2 10m (ports, estuaries, dredging plumes, windmill wakes, ...)
Spatial resolution improvements
5km
Vanhellemont Q. & Ruddick K. (2014). Landsat-8 as a Precursor to Sentinel-2: Observations of Human
Impacts in Coastal Waters. In: Submitted for the proceedings of the Sentinel-2 for Science Workshop
held in Frascati, Italy, 20-23 May 2014, ESA Special Publication SP-726.
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Landsat-8/OLI 2013-10-30 Rayleigh corrected RGB
dumped dredged
sediments
port discharge
Oostende
Spuikom
ship
Vanhellemont, Q., Ruddick, K., 2014b. Landsat-8 as a Precursor to Sentinel-2: Observations
of Human Impacts in Coastal Waters., in: ESA Special Pub SP-726.
J.P. Vogt (RBINS) 2014-01-24
How to detect these black sediments automatically?
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Landsat-8/OLI 2013-10-30
low VIS, background NIR
dredger plume
Vanhellemont, Q., Ruddick, K., (2015a). Advantages of high quality SWIR bands for ocean colour
processing: examples from Landsat-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.007
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New App: Offshore Environmental Impact Assessment
Sediment wakes in
direction of tidal
current [(c) RBINS, J-
P. Vogt]
Environmental Impacts
Assessment
legal obligation for offshore
wind farm construction
LANDSAT-8 … Sentinel-2 and high spatial resolution
=> new Environmental Impacts visible
[Vanhellemont Q & Ruddick K (2014). Turbid wakes associated with offshore wind turbines observed
with Landsat 8. Remote Sensing of Environment, 145, pp. 105–115. Open Access]
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Intense near-shore bloom observed by Sentinel-2A/MSI in Belgian waters
(red-edge Chl-a absorption – see Vanhellemont & Ruddick, 2017)
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BCRBINSVITO
S2 pre-
processing
GEO pre-
processing
S3 plus pre-
processing
S2 processing GEO processing S3 plus
processing
L2W
products
L2W
products
L2W
products
Multmission
processor
Synergy
products
Individual
Partners
End-Users
Data Flow from Processing Centres to Service
Providers to End-UsersProcessing Centre Partners
1. ALL Partners
have a vested
interest in Overall
Project Success
2. Partners retain
their important link
with end-users.
RBINS
UPMC/LOV
NIVA
BC
VITO
CEFAS
UHULL
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In Situ measurements for Validation
Significant contribution to Validation of Sentinel-3, Sentinel-2
(and Landsat-8, MODIS, PROBA-V, etc.) How to sustain?
Ferryboxes
R/V Belgica
Smartbuoy
network
Mesurho
Buoy
AERONET-OC
(Thornton)
AERONET-OC
(Zeebrugge)
AERONET-OC
(Blyth)
Reflectance Validation
Reflectance, CHL-F, etc.
Cruises/Experiments:
AOP+IOP
Turbidity
Kd
CHL-F
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• Satellites used for monitoring of Chlorophyll a (EU Water Framework
Directive) and sediment transport
– Mature pre-HIGHROC services based on MERIS/MODIS (~300m,
1/day)
• HIGHROC project has developed new products and services:
– High spatial resolution, ~10-30m (Sentinel-2, Landsat-7/8)
– High temporal resolution, ~15mins (METEOSAT Second Gen.)
• ... and is busy validating and having these tested by Users
BUT what happens after HIGHROC? (Jan 2018...)
• For more info and publications: www.highroc.eu
• Or join our HIGHROC Science Conference, 7-9 Nov 2017, Brussels
CONCLUSIONS
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THE END
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Acknowledgements and References
• EU FP7 Grant Agreement n° 606797 (“HIGHROC”)
• ESA, EUMETSAT, USGS, NASA for satellite imagery
• Afdeling Kust, CPOWER, Ifremer, ORE Catapult for platform support
• SAVE THE DATE: 7-9 Nov 2017
HIGHROC Science Conference,
Brussels
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• HIGHROC R&D: developing the next generation of coastal water products & services
The HIGHROC Consortium and Copernicus
EU/FP7 R&D project: HIGHROC Consortium (2014-17)
•Sentinel 3 acquisition
•First level of data processing
•Data “corrections”
Core Ground segment
•Physical variables observed in real time
•Long time series
•Forecasts
Copernicus services
•Data transformation
•Data fusion with thematic data
•Modelling
•Ad-hoc Visualization & dissemination
•Expertise
Copernicus added value
services
•Analytics•Ingestion in decision-support tools•Thematic exploitation
Final user
Copernicus satellites
(Sentinel-3, Sentinel-2)
Other European/US satellites
(MSG, Landsat-8, MODIS, etc)
HIGHROC Project HIGHROC Users
future upgrade? future upgrade? future upgrade?
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Monthly
averages
per year
OSPAR
boxes
0.1
5.0
20
mg/m³
Ch
loro
ph
yll C
on
cen
trat
ion
(mg
/m³)
UKC4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 3.1 2.0 1.4 1.3 1.4 1.2 1.8 3.0
2007 3.5 2.1 1.8 1.9 1.7 2.1 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.2 1.9
2008 2.5 1.6 1.6 1.2 2.4 1.1 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.8 3.7
2009 3.7 1.9 1.7 2.2 3.1 1.6 1.3 1.5 1.3 1.3 1.5
2010 2.5 1.6 1.6 3.6 3.7 2.2 1.1 1.3 1.3 1.2 2.0 2.3
2011 1.9 1.5 2.2 3.9 3.4 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.7 1.4
NO2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 0.8 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.5 0.8
2007 1.1 1.0 1.3 1.0 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.6 1.0 0.6 0.7
2008 1.0 0.6 0.9 1.5 1.3 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.8 0.5
2009 1.3 0.9 0.7 1.2 1.0 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5
2010 1.0 0.5 1.2 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.8 1.0 0.7 1.1
2011 0.8 0.5 0.7 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6
DC1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 5.1 6.1 5.0 4.8 4.7 4.6 5.0
2007 2.8 3.5 3.7 4.6 5.5 4.6 4.6 4.5 3.6 4.6 4.2
2008 3.7 2.2 2.9 6.4 6.5 4.5 4.8 4.2 3.8 4.0 3.2
2009 3.1 3.5 3.9 12.0 6.0 3.6 3.0 3.5 3.3 4.0 3.5
2010 3.4 2.1 6.7 4.3 3.7 3.8 4.1 4.2 3.8 5.4 4.8 1.5
2011 4.4 4.0 6.5 4.4 4.0 4.8 4.0 3.5 3.3 4.2
NLC2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 9.5 4.5 10.5 3.5 4.1 4.0 3.7 3.9
2007 3.0 2.3 4.0 16.1 9.9 7.6 4.6 5.4 2.9 3.6 3.6
2008 1.1 2.7 5.6 12.8 12.9 8.2 7.4 5.2 4.9 3.8 2.9 3.6
2009 2.9 3.2 6.1 8.8 11.0 5.1 4.0 4.4 2.8 1.7 2.9
2010 3.0 2.0 6.2 11.3 4.6 11.0 8.5 5.8 5.0 4.4 3.7 5.6
2011 3.8 2.1 2.8 13.0 13.7 6.3 6.6 4.6 3.5 3.5
FC1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.4 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1
2007 1.0 0.8 0.5 0.9 1.4 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.0 0.9
2008 0.7 0.8 0.4 0.7 1.2 1.6 1.5 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.1
2009 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.3 1.3 1.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1
2010 0.7 0.6 0.5 1.2 1.3 1.3 2.2 1.1 0.9 0.7 0.8 1.0
2011 0.9 0.7 0.7 0.8 1.6 1.3 1.2 1.0 0.7 0.6
UKO1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 2.3 1.2 1.5 1.4 1.1 1.4 1.6 2.8
2007 0.8 0.9 1.1 2.9 6.2 1.7 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.8 1.9
2008 0.4 0.8 1.0 5.8 3.7 1.3 1.5 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.5 2.3
2009 2.3 1.1 1.6 4.4 2.7 1.1 0.8 0.7 0.8 1.3 2.4
2010 2.2 0.8 1.4 4.9 3.4 1.4 2.0 1.3 1.0 1.7 1.6 4.3
2011 2.2 0.6 1.2 4.3 6.1 1.7 1.4 0.9 1.1 1.2
Pre-HIGHROC OSPAR Eutrophication product
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Test regions
• User Service Trials will be carried out in the test regions for Oct 2016-Sep 2017:
– Belgian North Sea
– Port of Zeebrugge and Scheldt
– UK North Sea waters
– German coastal waters
– Norwegian waters
– French river plumes/estuaries
– + many more sites, inc generic
and worldwide
• Until then:
– Algorithm development/validation
– Image processing
– In situ measurements for cal/val