Yves crevier SDCG-10 Session #4 Canadian Space Agency contributions to R&D Support strategy (Element 3) – Status update Yves crevier SDCG-10 Session #4 SDCG-10 Reading, U.K. Sept 7-9, 2016

CSA RADARSAT 2 GFOi R&D group satellite data requirements (El-3 v2.1)

CSA

CSA RADARSAT 2 Requested support: Tanzania – U of Tromso – Complementary Mexico – VTT Finland – Available through other sources Australia – CSIRO – Minimum required Canada – CFS – Available through other sources Brazil – U Humboltd – Available through other sources Indonesia – RSS – Minimum required Mexico – U Jena – Complementary South Africa – U Jena – Complimentary

CSA RADARSAT 2 Requested support: Tanzania – U of Tromso – Complementary Mexico – VTT Finland – Available through other sources Australia – CSIRO – Minimum required Canada – CFS – Available through other sources Brazil – U Humboltd – Available through other sources Indonesia – RSS – Minimum required Mexico – U Jena – Complementary South Africa – U Jena – Complimentary

Agency name and mission Data provision procedures Data to be made available through a collaborative sharing procedure (Multi-User Request Format) Requires a thorough a priori identification of image products and certification of data user organizations and individuals; Number of scenes and access is project dependant and is to be determined; Operating under background mission framework; As a counterpart, we are assuming open sharing of ground data, methods, and derived results; No cost to users – all processing and data costs will be covered by CSA; Data products and processing level to be agreed with Pis.

CSA RADARSAT 2 Call for Interest Assess the information content of C-Band high-density data stacks for forest attributes Background: Since SDCG 1 MDA and CSA has programed a coherent monitoring plan with high resolution data over the circum-tropical forest belt Images are composed of multilook fine, wide multilook fine and extrafine Need to move from a qualitative to a quantitative information content assessment method Intention: To engage 1-2 GFOI stakeholders to work with MDA under a pilot project framework Process similar to SOAR - only contributing datasets Partnership details with MDA to be defined, but Expect open partnership and sharing of ground data, methods and results among project partners

CSA RADARSAT 2 SHOW DENSITY INFORMATION GFOI R&D satellite data requests according to El-3 plan