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Brian A. O'Connor

at Univ College Cork

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Proceedings Article | 2 October 2008 Paper

Satellite remote sensing as a tool for monitoring vegetation seasonality

Brian O'Connor, Ned Dwyer, Fiona Cawkwell

Proceedings Volume 7104, 71040A (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.799725

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Vegetation, Composites, Satellites, Satellite imaging, Remote sensing, Near infrared, Environmental sensing, Reflectivity, Observatories

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An increase in average air temperature across the island of Ireland has resulted in a change in the seasonality of vegetation. Current ground-based methods of monitoring seasonality are species-specific and limited to a few point locations across the country. Medium resolution satellite data, e.g. MERIS, provide a means of acquiring multi-year time series of imagery that can be used to capture the spatio-temporal dynamics in vegetation seasonality over the whole island. For this study, a geophysical measure of vegetation growth, the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), derived from MERIS Global Vegetation Index (MGVI) data is being used to determine seasonality. Tiles, extracted from a rectangular global grid, covering the island of Ireland have been processed through the European Space Agency's (ESA) Grid Processing on Demand (GPOD) service. Initial analysis of the imagery has consisted of defining an optimal time composite period in order to minimise cloud effects for daily MGVI values using ancillary cloud data from a meteorological observatory. Methods of in-situ observation of seasonality in mixed woodland have also been explored. Initial findings suggest that a 10-day composite period should be optimal for Ireland given the high occurrence of cloud cover.

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