Project title:

SaTellite pRoducts vAlidaTion USing ground based lidar stations
 

General description:

The main goal of the project is to offer the means to validate and calibrate satellite observations by offering a wide range of ground based unbiased atmospheric products over extended time scales and monitor the stability of satellite products over the envisaged locations. Calibration-validation (CAL-VAL) activities are provisioned for the future ESA Earth Observation missions (Sentinel 5, 5P, ADM-AEOLUS).

Duration of the project: 

• 2017-2019

Funding: 

• Romanian Space Agency – STAR Programme – Earth Observation

Partners:

•     INOE 2000 – N. I. of R&D for Optoelectronics, Magurele, Romania (CO)
•     Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (P1)

Results:

•     Satellite and their products description;
•     Ground based lidar stations and associated products description;
•     Data-base containing correlative measurements;
•     Evolution and stability in time of satellites products.