Land Cover ECV
Submitted by dlederer on Sun, 2011-08-28 22:06As part of the ESA Climate Change Inititiave (CCI), the Land_Cover_cci project is concerned with the generation of the land cover ECV. Land cover is defined as the physical material at the surface of the earth. Land covers include grass, asphalt, trees, bare groung, water, etc. Read more »
ESA Climate Change Initiative
Submitted by schapelier on Wed, 2010-09-01 12:03Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing mankind in the twenty-first century. Its importance has been recognised in recent reports from the IPCC and from UNFCCC, and the overwhelming economic consequences are set out in the Stern Report. Read more »
The Land_Cover_cci project is now officially into Phase 2
Submitted by dlederer on Mon, 2012-01-23 22:25By closing the round robin activity and delivering all required documents, the Land_Cover_cci consortium ended Phase 1 and has now officially entered into Phase 2. To recall, the timeline of this three-year long project is divided into three distinct phases, each corresponding to specific activities in the development cycle of the land cover product prototype : Read more »
November 2011 - 3rd Newsletter of the Land_Cover_cci project
Submitted by dlederer on Tue, 2011-11-29 22:37The 3rd Newsletter of the Land_cover_cci consortium is now available. It summarizes key results achieved during the project Phase 1, discloses the preparation of an ENVISAT ASAR data-based global water body product, and informs on preliminary results from the Round Robin. The Round Robin is now officially closed. Read more »
New deliverables updloaded!
Submitted by dlederer on Thu, 2011-09-08 23:10Two main deliverables of the project, i.e. the Product Validation Plan (PVP) and the Product Specifications Document (PSD) have been uploaded on the website and can be accessed here.
Annual Review
Submitted by dlederer on Sun, 2011-08-28 21:44 2011-08-30 10:00
2011-08-31 19:00
Europe/Rome
The fist Annual Review of the Land_Cover_cci project will be held at the Met Office-Hadley Center, Exeter, UK on 30-31/08/2011. The major achievements of the project obtained during Phase 1 (August 2010-July 2011) will be reviewed and discussed. Interactions with climate modelers of the Met Office (potential users of the land cover product) will also take place.
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The Round Robin phase of the Land_Cover_cci project is now officially open
Submitted by dlederer on Sun, 2011-04-03 21:21The Round Robin phase of the Land_Cover_cci has officially kicked-off on April 1st 2011 and will last several months. This exercise aims at identifying the best pre-processing and classification algorithms for the production of a global satellite data-based land cover product. Interested parties are encouraged to test and propose their own algorithms on a set of data that are made available to the external community. Read more »
April 2011 - 2nd Newsletter of the Land_Cover_cci project
Submitted by dlederer on Sun, 2011-04-03 21:13The 2nd Newsletter of the Land_cover_cci consortium is now available. It addresses key results from the project URD and announces the official launch of the Round Robin. Please feel free to download it here.
The User Requirements Document and the Data Access Requirements Document of the Land_Cover_cci project team are now publically available
Submitted by dlederer on Mon, 2011-03-07 16:25The first two deliverables of the Land_Cover_cci project are now publically available on the project website. Read more »
Successful Land Cover CCI Kick-Off meeting
Submitted by dlederer on Wed, 2011-02-09 17:50A successful kick-off meeting was held at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) on August 24-25. The meeting enabled to establish a first dialog between the climate modellers and the EO communities in order to assess the key requirements of the land cover product users. The meeting also helped to prepare the consortium for the co-location meeting that would take place at ESRIN on 15-17 September with the other ECV projects.
