Grace Su ( grace@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9494
Applicant's Name: Michael Schultz Rasmussen Institution: GRAS A/S, c/o Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen Address: Oster Voldgade 10 DK-1350, Copenhagen K, Denmark Telephone: +45 35 32 25 78 Fax Number: +45 35 32 25 01 E-mail Address: msr@geogr.ku.dk Type of Temporary Agreement requested: An agreement that temporarily enables a non-real time SeaWiFS HRPT station to decrypt real-time data and release it to the Authorized Users list. Time period of temporary agreement (3 months maximum). Start Date (month/day/year): 06/23/2004 End Date (month/day/year): 08/31/2004 SeaWiFS HRPT Station to provide data: HDEN List of Authorized Users to access real-time data. 1. Karl Iver Dahl Madsen (DHI - Water & Environment) 2. Michael Schultz Rasmussen Project Title: Improved Waterforecast by integrating EO products Principal Investigator(s): Karl Iver Dahl Madsen, DHI - Water & Environment Funding Agency(s) : European Space Agency Description of the Research Project and Justification for Real-time SeaWiFS Data:The project is part of the Earth Observation Envelope Program - Market Development Element Earth Observation Services Market Development Activities under the EOMD programme funded by ESA.
The scope of the service is to provide detailed information on wind & waves, currents as well
as biological and/or chemical statistics through the use of the existing Waterforecast run by
DHI - Water & Environment. The water information can be provided as nowcast, forecast or
hindcast, which all are essential to support different kinds of offshore and coastal activities.
The goal of the current project is to improve the quality of the Waterforecast by assimilating
the best environmental information based on EO data and services.
One of the goals of the project is to develop an operational improved water information portal
by improving the existing and operational DHI www.waterforecast.com
regional services by use of thermal infrared (TIR) and ocean colour (OC) satellite observation
to retrieve SST, Chlorophyll-a concentrations (Chl) as well as suspended sediment concentrations (SSC)
on a regional scale to improve transport modelling and eco-systems modelling through EO data
assimilation.
The near real time (NRT) SeaWiFS data will be used to:
1) test the effect of NRT data assimilation into the operational water information portal,
2) provide valuable input on OC parameters used in the modelling phase, and
3) help demonstrate the possibilities that come with NRT OC information.