LSA SAF 6th User Training Workshop
University of Reading, Reading, UK
08-10 June 2015

The 6th User Training Workshop took place in Reading, UK from 8 to 10 June 2015 at the University of Reading.

Oral Presentations

Program

	Title	Author/Presenter
	6th LSA SAF User Workshop	University of Reading

Introduction

	Title	Author/Presenter
	The EUMETSAT Network of Satellite Application Facilities	Lothar Schüller
	The EUMETSAT LSA SAF	Isabel Trigo

Session 1 - Monitoring Land Surfaces from Space: Vegetation, Wild Fires and Drought

	Title	Author/Presenter
	The LSA-SAF Albedo Products	Grégoire Jacob
	Annual Land Cover change using MODIS time series to improve emission inventories	Gerardo López-Saldaña
	A Generic Retrieval Package for Land Parameters applied to Surface Albedo Products	Thomas Kaminski
	Use of Airborne Multiangle and Multispectral Data to Assess Reflectance and Albedo Products of Geostationary Satellites	Said Kharbouche
	A new aerosol product based on MSG geostationary satellite observations	Dominique Carrer
	LSA SAF training activities in collaboration with EUMETSAT	Jose Prieto
	Current status and potential applications of the LSA SAF vegetation products	Javier García-Haro
	Monitoring variation in onset, cessation and length of season using rainfall and normalised difference vegetation index in Zimbabwe	Raymond Mugandani
	Exploring the potential use of vegetation related satellite products within an NWP framework	Souhail Boussetta
	Overview of the Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre	Jerome Bruniquel

Session 2 - Monitoring Land Surfaces from Space: Surface Radiation

	Title	Author/Presenter
	Use of Satellite Data for Wild Fire Monitoring at INPE	Alberto Setzer
	Performance evaluation of the Meteosat SEVIRI FRP-PIXEL product from the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility	Weidong Xu
	A temporal active fire detection algorithm applied to geostationary satellite observations	Gareth Roberts
	Tailoring the Fire Risk Mapping product to forest managers	Carlos DaCamara
	MSG Toolbox: a new tool to facilitate the use of operational LSA-SAF products	Tim Jacobs

Session 3 - Evapotranspiration / Drought Monitoring

	Title	Author/Presenter
	Monitoring Evapotranspiration and Drought using Thermal Remote Sensing	Chris Hain
	The LSA-SAF evapotranspiration products	Nicolas Ghilain
	A thermodynamic method to estimate actual evapotranspiration of a grass field resembling closely the FAO reference grass, suitable for remote sensing applications: advection-free case	Henk de Bruin
	Long term global scale root zone soil moisture monitoring at ECMWF using a surface-only land data assimilation system	Clement Albergel
	ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission - contributing to land surface analysis	Susanne Mecklenburg
	A Near-Real-Time soil moisture product from SMOS observations	Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez
	Monitoring the state of vegetation over Slovenia using LSA SAF products	Mateja Irsic Zibert
	Evaluation of observation-driven evaporation algorithms: results of the WACMOS-ET project	Carlos Jimenez
	Irrigation assessment via remote sensing evapotranspiration and land surface model data	Mireia Romaguera
	Advanced Biogeophysical Indices for Land Surface State Analyses and Drought Related Applications	Julia Stoyanova
	Validation of MSG-2 SEVIRI Operational Evapotranspiration Product at Selected European Sites	George Petropoulos

Session 4 - Land Surface Temperature

	Title	Author/Presenter
	Status of Land Surface Temperature production from the JPSS Mission	Yunyue Yu
	Towards a Harmonized LST Product - the problem of angular anisotropy of LST	Sofia Ermida
	Suitability of Meteosat satellite data for climatological LST retrieval	Anke Tetzlaff
	A simple and accurate algorithm to estimate land surface temperature from microwave satellite observations	Catherine Prigent
	Radiometric in-situ measurements over European & African sites for validating LSA SAF's land surface temperature product	Frank Göttsche
	Comparison of diurnal heating rate estimates derived from SEVIRI and MODIS (Terra and Aqua) for use in estimation of evaporative fraction for a case study in Amhara region, Ethiopia	Nathan Forsythe
	Comparison of ECMWF model skin Temperature with SEVIRI LST	Isabel Trigo
	Maximising the benefits of satellite LST within the user community: ESA DUE GlobTemperature	Darren Ghent
	LSA SAF User Survey	Carla Barroso

Posters Presentations

	Title	Author/Presenter
	DownWelling ShortWave Radiation from MSG Geostationary Satellite for LSA SAF: accuracy assessment of the diffuse component using SIRAMix method and input aerosol load and type	Jean-Louis Roujean
	Prototyping of LSA SAF AVHRR/Metop vegetation products with VEGETATION and SEVIRI data	Javier García-Haro
	Algorithm development for gross primary production (GPP) in LSA-SAF	Álvaro Moreno Martínez
	Prospective changes in the LSA-SAF evapotranspiration products	Alirio Arboleda
	Potential for gas flare characterisation using the SEVIRI 1.6 micron channel	Daniel Fisher
	Land Surface Temperature Validation Against In Situ Station Data	Maria Martin
	Near-real time estimation and broadcasting of biophysical parameters from SEVIRI at the University of Valencia	Jose Sobrino
	Geostationary and Polar-Orbiting Satellite-Based Global Clear-Sky Surface Skin Temperature Using a Single-Channel Algorithm With Viewing Zenith Angle Correction	Benjamin Scarino
	Comparing satellite-derived and WRF-modeled Land Surface Temperatures for monitoring extremes over Iran	Efthymia Pavlidou
	Algorithm improvement for correcting biases in LSA SAF FVC and LAI operational products	Javier García-Haro
	Towards evapotranspiration products with increased spatial resolution	Françoise Meulenberghs
	Geothermal activity assessment via remote sensing land surface temperature and simulated data	Mireia Romaguera
	A new approach to fire detection by geostationary sensors based on temporal background	Sofia Ermida
	Radiative forcing from fire-induced shortwave albedo change at global scale	Gerardo Lopez-Saldana
	Prototype of LSA SAF Burnt Area Product	Carlos DaCamara
	The WACMOS-ET LST Dataset	João Paulo Martins
	Land Surface Temperature LSA SAF Operational Products	Isabel Trigo

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