Descripción del proyecto
EODIX IS A FOLLOW-UP TO DATASAT, AN INTEGRATED PROJECT SPONSORED BY THE PLAN NACIONAL I+D+I 2004-2007, THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF EODIX IS BUILD UPON THE EXPERIENCED ACQUIRED IN DATASAT WITH THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING HIGHLY INNOVATIVE GROUND SEGMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED CALIBRATION OF OPTICAL DATA AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM A BROAD FAMILY OF IMAGING RADIOMETERS CURRENTLY IN ORBIT (INCLUDING LAST-GENERATION INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS NOAA, ENVISAT, METOP, MSG, TERRA, AQUA, CHRIS/PROBA, ETC,) AND ALSO FOR INSTRUMENTS WHOSE DEPLOYMENT IS PLANNED ¿FOR THE TIME FRAME 2010 TO 2020¿ AT DIFFERENT SCALES, INCLUDING SENTINEL-2 AND 3 FOR GMES, MTG, SMOS, SEOSAT/INGENIO, ETC,) THIS WILL ENTAIL CALIBRATION, DATA VALIDATION AND FUSION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR THE ASSIMILATION OF SPECTRO-RADIOMETRIC DATA INTO PROCESS MODELS, SUPPORTED BY VALIDATION OF SPACE DERIVED PRODUCTS BY MEANS OF IN-SITU DATA ACQUIRED DURING DEDICATED FIELD CAMPAIGNS, ALL THE ACTIVITIES PROPOSED HEREIN ARE UNDER THE SCOPE AND FRAMEWORK OF RELEVANT ON-GOING ESA MISSIONS PLANNED FOR THE NEXT YEARS, EODIX ALSO INTENDS TO CREATE STRONG INTERFACES WITH OPERATIONAL PRODUCTION SERVICES TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN EUROPE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF GMES, THIS OBJECTIVE WILL SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SPANISH INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPACITY FOR DATA CALIBRATION AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION WHICH WILL BE HIGHLY RELEVANT FOR FUTURE SPANISH AND EUROPEAN MISSIONS (ESPECIALLY, ESA MISSIONS), ANOTHER RELEVANT GOAL OF EODIX WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDIZED TECHNIQUES AND PRODUCTS FOR REMOTE SENSING DATA EXPLOITATION, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO ON-GOING EFFORTS AT THE GMES LEVEL AND WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL TO SUPPORT FUTURE SPANISH AND ESA MISSIONS, TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS, NEW DEVELOPMENTS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF DESIGNING INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR DATA ANALYSIS AND EXPLOITATION, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION APPROACHES FOR THE ADVANCED CALIBRATION AND DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES RESULTING FROM THIS PROPOSAL, ARE ALSO ENVISAGED,IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE RELEVANT OBJECTIVES ABOVE, EODIX SPECIFICALLY PROPOSES THE INTEGRATION OF FOUR HIGHLY EXPERIENCED RESEARCH TEAMS THAT WILL ENSURE INTER-DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE TO COVER ALL PLANNED ACTIONS, AND WILL ALSO FOSTER INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROPOSED RESEARCH AREAS, THE APPLICANTS TAKE PART IN DIFFERENT MISSION TEAMS, AND ARE CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN SEVERAL PROGRAMMED CAMPAIGNS FOR DATA ACQUISITION AND HIGH-LEVEL TRAINING, AS A RESULT, ALL THE GROUPS INVOLVED IN THIS PROPOSAL WILL INCORPORATE YOUNG RESEARCHERS TO RECEIVE TRAINING ON DATA ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, BEING THIS A FUNDAMENTAL ASPECT IN THE PROJECT, SPECIFICALLY, WE EXPECT THAT RESEARCHERS SUCCESSFULLY TRAINED THROUGH THIS PROPOSAL WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES AND THE POTENTIAL TO LEAD THE FUTURE EXPANSION IN THE USE OF THIS TECHNOLOGY, ANOTHER IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE IS THE FULL INCORPORATION OF SPANISH RESEARCH TEAMS TO THE START-UP DESIGN STAGES OF FUTURE ESA MISSIONS, FINALLY EODIX WILL ALSO PROPOSE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A DEDICATED CALIBRATION PIXEL IN SPAIN, BEING THIS A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION WITH REGARDS TO PREVIOUS RELATED ACTIVITIES IN OUR COUNTRY, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS EFFORT, GROUND-BASED AND SIMULTANEOUS AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS WILL BE INTEGRATED FOR SEOSAT/INGENIO AND SENTINEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION (CAL/VAL)-RELATED ACTIVITIES, monitorización remota\observación de la tierra\imágenes hiperespectrales\explotación de datos de satélite