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ECVs /
Global Products requiring Satellite Observations
Fundamental Climate Data Records
required for Product Generation
(from past, current and future missions)
• Technical support for “Reducing Emissions
from Deforestation (REDD)
fAPAR
Maps of fAPAR
VIS/NIR Imagery
Sentlnel-2
LAI
Maps of LAI
VIS/NIR Imagery
Sentlnel-2
Biomass
Research towards global, above ground forest biomass
and forest biomass change
L band/ P band SAR;
Laser altimetry
University Jena:
• Regional biomass classification products In
boreal areas (Siberia, China), derived from
ERS Interferometry and of hyper-temporal
analysis of ENVISAT-ASAR time series
Fire Disturbance
Burnt area, supplemented by active fire maps and fire
radiated power
VIS/NIR/SWIR/TIR moderate-resolution multi-spectral
Imagery
Sentlnel-2 and Sentlnel-3
Soil Moisture 3
Research towards global near-surface soil moisture
map (up to 10cm soil depth)
Active and passive microwave
ESA’s SMOS mission is scheduled for launch in November
2009, starting observations of this emerging
ECV.
a Soil moisture is not listed as an ECV, but has been recognized in the GCOS implementation plan as
an emerging ECV.
4.7.1 Contributions of the GOFC-GOLD land cover project office
The activities of Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD 22 ), a
technical panel of the GTOS aim towards an operational terrestrial observation system with
the key issues being the continuity and consistency in observations within an integrated
framework, combining in situ measurements with fine and coarse resolution satellite data.
These efforts go along with standardizing land cover characterization and validation, and end
to end international coordination.
The GOFC-GOLD land cover project office hosted at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
Germany 23 (funded by ESA) supports UNFCCC activities in different areas concerning forest
and land cover observations:
22 http://www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/
23 http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de
