2nd CoastColour User Consultation Meeting

Program and presentations

2nd CoastColour User Consultation Meeting

Frascati, Italy on 16 – 17 November, 2010

Program and presentations

Tuesday 16 November 2010

08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome & Project Objectives	S. Pinnock

CoastColour Approach and first Achievements

09:15 – 09:45	CoastColour project: overview and status	C. Brockmann
09:45 – 10:00	User requirements	C. Sá
10:00 – 10:30	Level 1P and L2 processing	R. Doerffer
10:30 – 10:50	In-situ data for algorithm calibration and validation	C. Sá / V. Brotas
10:50 – 11:20	*Refreshment Break*
11:20 – 11:50	Round Robin	K. Ruddick
11:50 – 12:10	International cooperation	S. Sathyendranath
12:10 – 12:20	CoastColour 2nd year plans	C. Brockmann
12:20 – 12:35	Discussion
12:35 – 14:00	*Lunch Break*

Coastal Ocean Optics Applications and Tools

	Policy, Management and International Cooperation
14:00 – 14:20	Uptake of ocean colour products in applied marine science and marine policy: a UK user perspective	R. Forster, CEFAS
14:20 – 14:40	Bio-optical monitoring of coastal Baltic Sea waters - from research to applications	S. Kratzer et al.
14:40 – 15:00	A possible global partnership between ESA CoastColour project and JAXA Global Climate Observation Mission	H. Murakami et al.
15:00 – 15:10	Gulf of Mexico Monitoring in Support of Oil Spill Efforts (NOAA)	J. Angel Triñanes
15:10 – 15:20	NOAA Champion User Report 2010	K. Hughes
15:20 – 15:50	*Refreshment Break*
15:50 – 16:10	GMES in-situ data coordination for Pan European ocean colour products	Henrik Steen Andersen
	Algorithms and Processing Tools
16:10 – 16:30	Inversion of a semi-analytical reflectance model to retrieve inherent optical properties of the marine environment	E. Devred et al.
16:30 – 16:50	In-situ evidence of non-zero SWIR reflectances in moderately turbid estuarine waters	E. Knaep et al.
16:50 – 17:10	ODESA as a tool to support CoastColour validation	C. Mazeran et al.
17:10 – 17:40	Discussion
18:00	Bus to Park Hotel Villa Grazioli
18:30	*Reception at Park Hotel Villa Grazioli* (bus transfer from ESRIN to Villa Grazioli and back to hotels)

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Demonstration of CoastColour Products

09:00 – 09:40	Demonstration of CoastColour Products	CoastColour team
09:40 - 09:50	A case for FLH in coastal waters: monitoring the spring bloom in British Columbia, Canada	J. Gower
09:50 - 10:00	GOCI Status and Cooperation with CoastColour Project	J.-H. Ryu
	Regional Perspectives
10:00 – 10:15	Variations of inherent optical properties in case of harbor dredging operations in Estonian coastal sea	L. Sipelgas
10:15 – 10:30	Egyptian case study	W. Moufaddal
10:30 – 11:45	GBR and Tasman ESA -CoastColour developments and end-user requirements	A. Dekker
10:45 – 11:15	*Refreshment Break*
11:15 – 11:30	Ocean colour observation systems for harmful algal blooms in the southern Benguela	M. Matthews
11:30 – 11:45	Comparison of algorithms to estimate chlorophyll-a in inland and coastal waters of Brazil	M. Kampel
11:45 – 12:00	La Plata River plume, challenging waters for atmospheric correction and TSM algorithms	A. Dogliotti et al.
12:00 – 12:15	Validation of in-situ chlorophyll fluorescence in ferrybox system against laboratory analysis	S. Kaitala et al.
12:15 – 12:30	Discussion
12:30 – 14:00	*Lunch Break*

Discussions

14:00 – 14:35	Products: sites, parameters and regional calibration
14:35 – 15:10	In-situ data: quality and validation
15:10 – 15:45	Applications: requirements to take-up CoastColour products
15:45 – 16:00	Meeting conclusion