The 9th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium
Towards the Next Decade of GEOSS inthe Asia-Pacific Region
11-13 January 2017
Tokyo , JapanThe Israel (GEO) Activities
Pro. Eyal Ben DorThe Israel Principle for GEO
Head of the RSL laboratory
Tel Aviv UniversityTAU

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TAU-RSLThe group is leaded by :Prof. Eyal Ben Dor – Remote Sensing of the Earth Solis and Liquid Phase
GEO principle of Israel (ISA)
2 PhD Employees, 2 Post DOC, 5 PhD, 4 MSc.
All activities are conducting by international collaboration (Europe,US, South America and Australia) using state of the art sensors,
platform and selected state-of-the optical technologies.
Recent activity:•Enlarging the Hyperspectral remote sensing to the ThermalRegion by opening a “knowledge HSR national center” underISA•Building Soil Spectral Libraries for Mediterranean, North Africaand Balkan countries

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GEO Direct• GEO principle of Israel• Energy and Mineral SBA•GEOGLAMGEO Indirect•EO-MINERS FP-7 project (with BRDM)•CAL/VAL initiative TAU and BGU (within CEOS)• WG 7/III Information extracted from hyperspectral sensor (withISPRS)•EWG 8 Hyperspectral Applications of Soils (with EUFAR)•EO-CRADEL H202 project (with NOA)•GSSL-Global Soil Spectral Library

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Part of EO-Miners – FP7“Integrate new and existing Earth Observation tools toimprove best practice in mining activities and to reduce themining related environmental and social footprint”
2010-2014

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Standard and Protocol + QA/QI•••••••••••••••

Mapping indicators for EO tools
Mission planning protocol (airborne, space borne)
Geo-rectification protocol
Geo-rectification quality indicators
Field spectral measurements protocol
HRS atmospheric correction protocol
HRS atmospheric correction quality indicators
HRS atmospheric correction comparison
New innovative HRS change detection approach (spectral based) – Protocol
Thermal atmospheric correction protocol and TES
Emissivity field measurement protocol
New digital field archiving tool (CSIRO has requested a copy)
Spectral of dust components -protocol
Reflectance measurement of soils in the laboratory protocol
Reflectance measurement of soils in the field protocol

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EO - CRADEL

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Thematic Areas

Adaptation toClimate
Change(ACC)

Improved
Food Security– WaterExtremes
Management(IFS)

Protocol , SSL

Access toRaw
Materials(ARM)

Access toEnergy(SENSE)

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Regional Data Hub – Connection with GEOSS & Regional Portals
 The GEO CRADLE Regional
Data Hub (GC-RDH) is going
to provide its users with atransparent discovery andaccess mechanism of theGEOSS portal’s resources,and other regional portals!
 This mechanism will heavily rely on the GEO
Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) APIs
which is a middleware component in chargeof interconnecting the heterogeneous anddistributed capacities contributing
to GEOSS; part of the GEOSS Common
Infrastructure (GCI) since November 2011.

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EWG 8 Hyper spectral Applications of Soils with EUFAR (2)Four Protocols:
two are well recommended
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Lucky Bay

Two Standards

Wiely Bay

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In 2015 Raphael effort yield the first GSSL> 2009Soil VNIR-SWIR Spectra
VNIR-SWIR

provided by Viscorra
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GSSL
Continent

Positionprovided by Viscorra Rossel

Attributes

Description

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Chemomtric (non linear spectral data mining) from the GSSL

Viscorra Rossel 2015

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National Soil Spectral library
Aeronet Stations
National CAL/VAL (vicariuse) sites for EO
Super site calibration area for EO
Notional Center for HSR (under construction)
Comprehensive research (in GEOSS related issues)is conducted at all Universities (6) and NationalInstitutes (5)• Eros satellite• Venus satellite• SHALOM satellite• National vicarious calibration (CAL/VAL) sites for EO

The Israel ( GEOSS) Activity• Aeronet Stations

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CAL/VAL initiative

The Israel ( GEOSS) Activity• Eros satellite
Data(commercially)
available

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Jerusalem at night: EROS-B night-lights image, 12/2/2014(ImageSat).

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Venus satellite

Venμs: Vegetation and Environment New μSatellite
Technology Mission – Electric Propulsion

Scientific Mission – Super spectral camera

12 bands
VNIR21

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SHALOM: SPACEBORNE
HYPERSPECTRAL APPLICATIVE LANDAND OCEAN MISSION:A JOINT PROJECT OF ASI-ISA
Data Characteristics•Panchromatic camera to acquire a GSD of 2.5 m•

Swath width : 10Km for VNIR/SWIR.

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GSD of 10 m for VNIR/SWIR•The spectral bands for instruments will be comprised between:•VNIR = 400-1010nm.

•SWIR = 920-2500nm.

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PAN = 400-700nm.

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with a spectral resolution and spectral
sampling interval equal to 10nm.

•LTAN, between 10:00 and 11.30,.

Thank you
for your attention

Point of contact:
Prof Eyal Ben Dor
bendor@post.tau.ac.il

Laboratory webpage: http://www.rslab.co,