Programme: H2020-EU.3.5.5. – Developing comprehensive and sustained global environmental observation and information systems
Project title: A new hyperspectral radiometer integrated in automated networks of water and land bidirectional reflectance measurements for satellite validation
Acronym: HyperNets
Duration: 1/02/2018 – 31/01/2022
EU contribution: EUR 4.500.000
ISMAR budget: EUR 450.000
Web site: http://hypernets.eu/from_cms/summary
Summary:
The objective of the HYPERNETS project is to develop a new lower cost hyperspectral radiometer and associated pointing system and embedded calibration device for automated measurement of water and land bidirectional reflectance and, subsequently, for validation of all optical bands on all satellite missions. The instrument will be tested in a prototype network covering a wide range of water and land types and operating conditions. Quality controlled data with associated uncertainty estimates will be provided automatically for the validation of all optical satellite missions. Preparations will be made a) for the new instrument design (and associated calibration service) to be commercialized with an expected lifetime of at least 10 years and b) for the networks to be further expanded to fill the very important gap in the current Sentinel-3&2 Validation plans and the in situ component of the Copernicus programme and become the main source of surface reflectance validation data for all spectral bands of all optical missions for at least the next 10 years.
Contact person in ISMAR: vittorioernesto.brando@cnr.it
Partnership:
- Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Belgium)
- Tartu Ulikool (Estonia)
- Sorbonne Université (France)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
- NPL Management Limited (UK)
- Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutschesgeoforschungszentrum GFZ (Germany)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) (Argentina)
