VH-RODA 2024 Workshop by VH-RODA Organizing Committee

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vhrodaesa — 2024-10-29 14:35:26 UTC

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Workshop

vhrodaesa — 2024-10-29 14:35:35 UTC

The 2024 VH-RODA workshop provides an open forum (for the new space, commercial and institutional space sectors) for presenting and discussing the current status and future developments related to Earth Observation data quality, calibration and validation of space-borne very high-resolution SAR and Optical sensors and data products.

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What role will the Emerging Commercial Data Providers play in the Earth Observation ecosystem in the next 5 years?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-05 15:01:23 UTC

What and how can the EDAP+/ESA-NASA framework and collaboration improve to further support Commercial Data Providers?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 10:58:05 UTC

How to improve harmonization between Commercial and Institutional Missions?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 10:58:26 UTC

What improvements would a potential (Product/Performance) Certification framework bring?

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Does New Space agree with the certification approach?

In what ways can International Cooperation bring innovation and improvements to New Space? Specifically, what for Data Quality and Cal/Val?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 10:58:47 UTC

Would New Space Missions be trusted without gold standard/reference missions from Institutional Space Agencies?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 10:58:57 UTC

What are the main challenges to Data Quality and Cal/Val of ATM/HYP missions?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 10:59:43 UTC

How to improve the EDAP+/ESA-NASA Atmospheric guidelines?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 10:59:55 UTC

What improvements can be made to the use of reference missions for ATM/HYP New Space Cal/Val?

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In what ways can the Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) (e.g., for GHG) further support Commercial Missions Cal/Val?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:00:19 UTC

What will be the role of CHIME and other Institutional Missions for ATM/HYP New Space Cal/Val?

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What are some innovative solutions to support ATM/HYP Cal/Val activities?

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Would you like to see more training sessions at VH-RODA?

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What kind of training sessions are you interested in?

Is the UAV support for Cal/Val of EO Satellite missions considered as mature? Is it trusted and how can we fill any gaps?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:01:29 UTC

What is needed to support the assessment of the Image Quality Parameters?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:01:38 UTC

How do commercial data providers view uncertainty and its importance for end users? (Towards Certification)

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:01:48 UTC

What are the biggest challenges in the use of SAR data from different platforms? (e.g., from the same constellation or different missions)

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What are some innovative solutions to support SAR Cal/Val activities?

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In what ways can the data quality of specific SAR products be improved? (e.g. InSAR) How can the current infrastructures be improved in this regard?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:05:49 UTC

How can CEOS agencies improve existing Cal/Val Sites and Reference Networks?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:06:07 UTC

What are the current barriers to perform vicarious Cal/Val for TIR?

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Would you propose innovative solutions to improve existing SAR and OPT Cal/Val sites?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:06:19 UTC

How can the ESA Cal/Val Park further support New Space Missions? Is the current design good enough to accommodate your needs?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:06:25 UTC

What are the main limitations of existing vicarious Cal/Val Networks for ATM?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:06:32 UTC

How would commercial data providers provide free and open data over a limited and defined set of Cal/Val sites?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:06:39 UTC

What innovative solutions would you suggest to improve the use of reference missions e.g., Sentinels, Landsat , for New Space Cal/Val and Data Quality?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:06:54 UTC

What are the main difficulties to clearly define accurate Target Mission Requirements?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:07:01 UTC

What are the the biggest barriers to perform more thorough pre-launch calibration activities?

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What are the biggest challenges in performing Cal/Val for constellations?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:07:15 UTC

Should further studies be supported on TIR characteristic effects? (e.g., Multitemporal-Multiangular, polarization,..)

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:07:37 UTC

What can be improved within the EDAP+/ESA-NASA framework to better address TIR missions?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:07:45 UTC

How can the existing and upcoming TIR Institutional Missions further support New Space TIR Cal/Val?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:07:55 UTC

What is missing in terms of open-source solutions to further support New Space Cal/Val?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:08:08 UTC

How can the support to Atmospheric Correction algorithms be improved?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:08:14 UTC

Is AI trusted at a sufficient level for operational processors? What’s missing?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:08:29 UTC

Is AI trusted at a sufficient level for operational quality control and Cal/Val activities? What’s missing?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:08:34 UTC

What are the biggest challenges to cloud detection/cloud masking?

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Is the current scenario in terms of open dataset considered as adequate?

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How can Institutional Agencies help improving the current scenario?

What is GCPIX missing to be useful for New Space Cal/Val?

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Is the current scenario in terms of open DEM dataset considered as adequate?

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How can Institutional Agencies help improving the current scenario?

What can be improved in terms of DEM accuracy and availability?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:09:23 UTC

Would you propose innovative solutions to improve existing DEM tools?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:09:29 UTC

How to harmonize different DEM sources?

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What are the biggest barriers to start using new products or to declare products as Application-Ready Data vs Analysis-Ready Data?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:10:06 UTC

What is ARD missing with respect to “New Space integration”? How should It be modified?

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Are the current gold standard/reference missions enough and adequate to support Cross-Calibration activities for all domains (Multi/Hyper, TIR, SAR, ATM,..)?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:10:25 UTC

Is a “Certification” Framework really needed? Why is it needed?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:10:33 UTC

Is the term “Certification” appropriate?

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Do you have a better alternative?

What should be “Certified” and why?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:10:49 UTC

Should the Certification topic be addressed at CEOS-level?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-18 11:10:56 UTC

Is Moon Calibration considered within the New Space Cal/Val plans? What are the current gaps?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-19 08:53:22 UTC

How to improve coordinated (independent!) Cal/Val of New Space missions?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-19 15:25:26 UTC

Would it be useful to have a free service that offers extracts of DEM, surface models (DSM) or terrain models (DTM) at different ground sampling distances (GSD)?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-20 08:38:53 UTC

Since land use/land cover (LU/LC) is included in many models, would it be useful to launch an intercomparison project of LU/LC (aka LUCIX)?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-20 08:39:01 UTC

How can international cooperation further improve the coordination of existing evaluation and assessment frameworks? (EDAP, JACIE, etc.)

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-22 14:13:48 UTC

What additional resources are needed by commercial data providers to improve data quality? (in-situ networks, field measurements, reference missions, etc.)

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-22 14:14:03 UTC

“What do commercial data providers need from government agencies for references? (GCPs, radiometry, etc.)

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How can the Global Reference Image (GRI) be further improved to increasingly support New Space Cal/Val activities?

What is the level of your satisfaction with government support for commercial SAR?

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How can it be improved?

Would you like to see more SAR data quality training sessions at VH-RODA/JACIE?

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What are the main difficulties when cross calibrating a new mission with an existing reference mission?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-22 14:21:49 UTC

What is needed to be considered a “gold standard” reference mission?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-22 14:21:58 UTC

How important is the reflective spectrum to TIR missions?

vhrodaesa — 2024-11-22 14:22:13 UTC

EDAP+ Best Practices Guidelines

vhrodaesa — 2024-12-03 09:02:57 UTC

Hypernets exercises

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Water exercise 1: https://shorturl.at/M2Cjq

Water exercise 2: https://shorturl.at/J1QFP

Land exercise: https://shorturl.at/8HtX1