1. 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

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

3. CSA

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

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