News and Events

Mar 08 2018
ImagineS ground measurements database used for MODIS and VIIRS LAI/FPAR analysis

The ground measurements collected in ImagineS are used as reference for the uncertainty analysis of global LAI/FPAR products from MODIS and VIIRS sensors.

The Copernicus Global Land Service starts the dissemination of global LAI, FAPAR, FCover derived from PROBA-V 300m resolution data.

The ground measurement dataset collected over Collelongo in 2015 has been updated, as well as the ImagineS 3kmx3km mean value database.

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Jan 19 2017
ImagineS successfully closed!

HYGEOS has received the final payment and distributed it to the partners. Thus, the project is closed. The exploitation of project achievements continue in other initiatives, in particular in the Copernicus Global Land Service.

Jul 13 2016
ImagineS final review held on 7th July 2016 in Brussels

After the end of the project on 30th June 2016, the ImagineS final review held on 7th of July in Brussels at the REA premises.

The ground measurements of LAI, FAPAR and FCover collected during all the field campaigns conducted from 2013 to 2016, and upscaled in the ImagineS project, are averaged at 3kmx3km and gathered in an unique database now available.

Multi-temporal field campaigns have been conducted over agricultural site in Capitanata, Italy, in 2014 and 2015, in the framework of JECAM program. Another field campaign has been conducted in 2016 over the cropland region of Maragua, located in the upper Tana reiver basin, in Kenya. In-situ fields measurements and resulting up-scaled high resolution maps are now available.

Multi-temporal field campaigns have been conducted over a forest site in Collelongo, Italy, and over the cropland area of Pshenichne, Ukraine during 2015. In-situ fields measurements and resulting up-scaled high resolution maps are now available.

The dekadal maps of FAPAR per crop types of the South-West area have been generated from high resolution FAPAR maps averaged per each crop type of a classification map of the area.

The crop maps over the Free State Province, South Africa, derived using a combination of medium and high resolution optical images and radar acquisitions are now available.

OMSZ has produced the Version 2 of LDAS products over straw cereals in Hungary using bias-corrected ASCAT surface soil moisture information.

OMSZ has organized a user workshop about the ImagineS biophysical products on 4^th of May in Budapest.

The reference maps and the in-situ measurements collected during the AHSPECT field campaign over 6 sites in the South West of France in July 2015 are now available.

The reference maps and the in-situ datasets collected over Ottawa in 2014 and over Barrax in 2015 are now available.

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Dec 08 2015
Crop maps over Tula available

The crop maps over the Tula area derived using a combination of medium and high resolution optical images and radar acquisitions are now available.

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Nov 12 2015
LDAS products now available

Above ground biomass estimates, drought indicators, carbon and water fluxes simulated by regional and global Land Data Assimilation Systems are provided over a series of cropland and grassland areas located in France, Hungary and around the globe.

ImagineS provides time series of Landsat-8 biophysical products (LAI, FAPAR, FCover) over 8 demonstration sites across the world.

The HR maps derived from the measurements collected over Barrax site during the 2014 field campaign have been updated to correct some inconsistencies.

The fourth Progress Meeting has been held on 22^nd of June in Toulouse, hosted by Meteo-France.

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Jun 17 2015
3 new in-situ datasets available

Imagines makes available high resolution maps generated from ground measurements collected over Barrax, Spain, and Pshenichne, Ukraine in 2014, and over San Fernando, Chile, in 2015. They are essential reference for the validation of 1km and 300m resolution satellite-derived biophysical products.

Achievements of ImagineS were presented by ECMWF at the 6^th LSA-SAF workshop organized by Eumetsat at Reading on 8^th - 10^th of June 2015.

The Fourth ImagineS Progress Meeting will be organized on June 22^nd 2015 in Toulouse, hosted by Meteo-France.

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May 26 2015
ImagineS at ISRSE 2015

ImagineS achievements were presented at the 36^th Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment that took place in Berlin, Germany, from 10^th to 15^th May 2015.

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Apr 30 2015
ImagineS at EGU 2015

ImagineS achievements were presented in 2 talks and 1 poster at the EGU General Assembly 2015 that took place in Vienna, Austria, from 12^th to 17^th April 2015.

Based upon its experience in the ground measurements collection, ImagineS project provides an updated release of the guidelines for field campaigns.

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Feb 18 2015
3 new in-situ datasets available

Imagines makes available high resolution maps generated from ground measurements collected over Guangdong, China, in 2013, over La Albufera, Spain, and over Rosasco, Italy, in 2014. They are essential reference for the validation of 1km and 300m resolution satellite-derived biophysical products.

After 26 months of ImagineS project, the second annual review meeting with REA was held on 12^th February 2015 in Brussels.

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Nov 24 2014
Ground data available

Imagines makes available the ground measurements of LAI, FAPAR, and FCOVER collected in 2013 and 2014 over demonstration sites. Resulting high resolution maps are essential reference for the validation of 1km and 300m resolution satellite-derived biophysical products.

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Oct 08 2014
ImagineS at the RAQRS 2014

ImagineS achievements were presented in 6 talks and many posters at the 4^th Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing (RAQRS) international symposium that took place in Torrent, Spain, from 22^nd to 26^th September 2014.

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Oct 07 2014
Second Advisory Board Meeting

The second Advisory Board Meeting of ImagineS project held in Valencia on 24^th September 2014.

The 3^rdProgress Meeting was held on 23^rd September 2014 in Valencia, Spain.

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Aug 14 2014
ImagineS at the IGARSS 2014

ImagineS has been presented at the 2014 IEEE Interantional Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) organized in Québec city, Canada, from 14th to 18th July.

After more than one year of participation to the consortium, CNES decided to terminate its activities on the ImagineS project. This decision has been announced during the 2^nd Progress Meeting in March 2014 and the withdrawn of CNES from the consortium is effective since March 17^th 2014.

ImagineS has been presented at the 8^thGEO European Project Workshop organized at Athens on 12^th -13^th June 2014.

The third ImagineS Progress Meeting will take place in Valencia, Spain, on 23^rd September 2014.

The Acceptance Review of the GEOV3 processing chain (LAI/FAPAR/FCover derived from 333m PROBA-V data) has been held on May, 14^th at VITO, Belgium.

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Mar 20 2014
Second ImagineS Progress Meeting

The 2^nd Progress Meeting has been held on 13^th and 14^th March 2014, at INRA headquarters, in Paris.

Achievements of ImagineS have been presented in 4 talks and 3 posters at the Global Vegetation Monitoring and Modelling international conference held in Avignon, France, from 3^rd to 7^th of February 2014.

After one year of ImagineS project, the first annual review meeting with REA was held on 4^th December in Brussels.

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Dec 03 2013
PROBA-V in operations

After 6 months commissioning phase, the PROBA-V data products are distributed via an user-friendly portal developed and operated by VITO (http://www.vito-eodata.be)

After one year of ImagineS project, the first annual review meeting with REA will be held on 4^th December in Brussels.

ImagineS developments towards an operational exploitation of Sentinel-1, 2 and 3 for crop classification along the season presented at the ESA Living Planet Symposium.

ImagineS developments on PROBA-V 300m biophysical products presented at the Probing Vegetation Conference.

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Jul 11 2013
First Progress Meeting

The first ImagineS Progress Meeting held on 3^rd July in Antwerp, hosted by VITO.

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May 08 2013
Proba-V launched with success

Proba-V has been launched successfully from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 6 May at 23:06 local time.

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Mar 05 2013
Advisory Board Meeting

The first Advisory Board Meeting of ImagineS project held in Lille on 22^nd February.