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| BEAM is a toolbox for viewing, analysing and processing of optical remote sensing data.
It was originally developed to facilitate the utilisation of image data from Envisat's optical instruments MERIS and AATSR. Today, BEAM supports a growing number of other sensors such as MODIS, AVHRR, AVNIR, PRISM and CHRIS/Proba. BEAM is an open source project, comprising a collection of executable tools and an application programming interface (API). |
from 2003 to 2010
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| Contact Person: Norman Fomferra | |
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Brockmann Consult is supporting scientific laboratories and ESA in developing processors for BEAM. A processor is generating new products from Earth Observation input data:
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from 2003 to 2009
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| Contact Person: Norman Fomferra | |
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Brockmann Consult is developing toolboxes supporting specific earth observation instruments. The toolboxes are based on BEAM technology and implement specific processing functions based on user requirements.
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from 2006 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Norman Fomferra | |
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| The COASTCOLOUR project is developing, demonstrating, validating and intercomparing different Case 2 algorithms over a global range of coastal water types, identifying best practices, and promoting discussion of the results in an open, public form. The European Space Agency has launched the COASTCOLOUR project to fully exploit the potential of the MERIS instrument for remote sensing of the coastal zone. ESA designed the MERIS instrument specifically to provide measurements for coastal zone management and research. In space for 7 years, MERIS has delivered a unique global dataset of coastal zones at 300m spatial resolution, which deserves dedicated processing with internationally agreed algorithms, and provision of specific user products, properly docu-men--ted and easily accessible. This dataset will become an important contribution to further understanding of the coastal zone in climate change. |
from 2009
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| Contact Person: Dr. Carsten Brockmann | |
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MERCI| MERCI has been developed to manage and process MERIS data regardless of the data volume and regardless of the storage media. The specific strength of MERCI is the support of online storage, either partly or for the complete archive to be managed. MERCI provides all functions for data acquisition, product registration quality control, product query, child product generation and dissemination. The web interface of MERCI makes your data accessible from any place in the world. |
from 2004
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| Contact Person: Tom Block | |
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| The main objectives of the BC-WAQS System are to provide products supporting an assessment of water quality in coastal areas. The products are tailored especially to the requirements each individual customer. |
from 2004 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Kerstin Stelzer | |
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| Brockmann Consult acts as Service Provider and is leading the Validation Bureau of the GMES project MarCoast (Marine & Coastal Environmental Information Services) delivers satellite-based services in the field of marine and coastal applications. Services integrate detection and monitoring technologies involved in water quality, oil spill and meteorological information into a durable network. | from 2007 to 2009
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| Contact Person: Dr. Carsten Brockmann | |
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| The Value Adding Element Programme of the European Space Agency focuses on the needs of the
Earth Observation service industry to address new and evolving market opportunities. The "VAE - Monitoring Of Intertidal Flats" project - running under the ESA-VAE programme - investigates the international market for the potential of remote sensing techniques for monitoring of intertidal flats and implements a classification method based on optical and radar Earth Observation data to the Portuguese Tagus Estuary. |
10/2009 - 12/2010
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| Contact Person: Kerstin Stelzer | |
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| Within the Ballastwater Project a Risk Index Map is developed indicating high and low risk for ballast water exchange in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The risk index integrates the most important recommendations made by the IMO Ballast Water Convention including distance to coast, water depth, clarity of water or currents away from land. This leads to a changing risk index map depending on the specific conditions of a respective date. |
01/2009 - 06/2010
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| Contact Person: Kerstin Stelzer | |
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Snow Radiance| Over land, permanent snow pack / sea ice is found mainly in the Northern hemisphere high altitude areas, the Arctic regions and Antarctica.
An understanding of the interaction of light with snow / ice is an essential element to a diverse set of research areas, such as, investigations on climate feedbacks, ecology, atmospheric chemistry or hydrology. The Global Climate Observation System (GCOS) group working in partnership with the other global observing systems as identified Essential Climate Variables. Among these variables, one finds: snow cover, glaciers / ice caps extent and albedo. The monitoring of these variables using a global system of satellite observations and the establishment of requirement for remote sensing products is discussed in a dedicated GCOS report. In the frame of the Data User Programme, ESA is addressing user communities requesting snow and ice products. As such, the GlobSnow and GlobIce projects, are attempting to demonstrate that operational processing chains can be built to serve user communities with simple and robust snow and ice products. More complex product developments require detailed spectro-directional models of snow / ice covered surfaces to be developed. The project is lead by Brockmann Consult with subcontracts to University Bremen, Finish Meteorological Institute and Freie Universität Berlin. |
from 2008 to 2009
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| Contact Person: Olaf Krüger | |
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| The CEOS/GEO Cal/Val Portal is an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Committee on Earth Observation Systems (CEOS) and the Group on Earth Observation (GEO). ESA has awarded the contract to develop and maintain the portal to Brockmann Consult. The overall objective of the portal is the provision of satellite and correlative data over selected and agreed international sites, used for calibration and validation. This is accompanied by relevant methodological and instrument documentation. The portal comprises infrared and visible optical sensors (IVOS) as well as SAR, microwave and other GEO relevant instruments. The latter group of sensors will be expanded significantly in the near future, e.g. through the ESA SMOS mission. |
from 2005
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| Contact Person: Dr. Olaf Danne (content), Tom Block (development) | |
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| ESOV-NG is an orbit determination and visualisation software which provides users of various satellites and instruments with all information required for identification of overpasses over a specific area, coincidence of different satellites, information on viewing geometry and which supports generally campaign planning where satellite overpasses are important. ESOV-NG is provided by ESA free of charge. Brockmann Consult is developing and maintaining the software under ESA contract. | from 2006 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Norman Fomferra | |
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| Respond is an alliance of European and International organisations working with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information. Brockmann Consult is member of the consortium and consultant on medium resolution satellite images. | from 2007 to 2009
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| Contact Person: Dr. Desmond Murphy | |
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| Brockmann Consult produces high-quality mosaics of satellite images. An example of our expertise was realized in cooperation with the Common Wadden Sea Secretary (CWSS). The satellite mosaic, composed of Landsat 7 ETM, covers the whole trilateral Wadden Sea of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands and illustrates the entire coastal area at low tide. | from 2003
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| Contact Person: Kerstin Stelzer | |
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| Brockmann Consult under ESA contract has taken the initiative to generate a global land surface albedo product. The objective of the project is to derive monthly and 16-days averaged maps of spectral and broadband albedos from data acquired by the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) at a spatial resolution of 0.05° x 0.05°. The surface albedo, as derived from MERIS data, will significantly improve the estimation of MERIS atmospheric products and will be used as auxiliary parameters in the ENVISAT Ground Segment for the generation of standard MERIS Level2 products, as well as in climate and environmental studies. | from 2004 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Marco Zühlke | |
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| Monitoring of the coastal zone requires a proper data management. In particular the reporting requirements for the EU Water Framework Directive and the Natura2000 directives can only be fulfilled if data quality control, archiving and retrieval and interfacing with other databases is ensured. Brockmann Consult is supporting monitoring agencies along the German coast in re-organising their data management. This includes concept development and implementation of a database layer, import and quality control routines, Web interface and data export / interface routines. | from 2004 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Eugen Faber | |
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| Nuclear power reactors are technically and politically highly sensitive and monitoring of the system as well as the environment is essential. The documentation of the reactor and its maintenance is critical as well. Brockmann Consult has developed a data management system for some of the monitoring and documentation requirements for a nuclear power reactor and is providing operational maintenance of the system. | from 2000 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Eugen Faber | |
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| The GlobColour project is demonstrating an EO based service supporting global ocean carbon cycle research and operational oceanography. It is has been initiated and funded by the ESA Data User Element. In order to cover the long time span necessary for climate monitoring purposes, the required ocean colour data set can only be built by merging together observations made with different satellite systems Brockmann Consult is responsible for the a Software development plan, architecture and detailed design of the processor, coordination of software verification activities as well as for the website design and development. | from 2005 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Dr. Ralf Quast | |
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| The objecive of BLMP+ was to define a cost effective reorganisation of the German "Bund-Länder-Messprogramm" (BLMP) for the marine environment. This was necessary in order to fulfil the changing requirements coming from directives and reporting duties. One of the results is a comprehensive so called Methodenhandbuch, which defines the methods, time frames and deliverable of the different monitoring programmes. This has been realized with a data bank solution. | from 2005 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Dr. Uwe Lange | |
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| The study "IASI/AVHRR Visual Scenes Analysis and Cloud Detection" has the aim to improve the IASI cloud detection by optimising the coefficients used for a predefined set of cloud tests which are performed in the IASI Level 2 processing. For the optimisation, a dataset is assembled by a visual analysis of AVHRR Level 1B scenes overlaid by collocated IASI footprints. A sample comprises the visual cloud classification (cloud-free, cloudy and partly cloudy) together with all data required by the IASI cloud detection tests and the assessment of their performance after optimisation. A set of interactive tools has been developed for the visual inspection and classification of IASI/AVHRR footprints. These tools as well as the IASI reader will be developed as plug-ins to the ESA BEAM 4 software, an open-source image processing, visualisation and analysis application. |
from 2007 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Norman Fomferra | |
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| The objective of the GLOBCOVER / ESA initiative is to develop a service to produce a global land-cover map for the year 2005-2006, using the fine resolution (300 m) mode data acquired over the full year 2005 by the MERIS sensor on-board the ENVISAT satellite. A regionally-tuned classification and the calibration/validation of the classification by a team of regional experts in land cover characteristics assures the generation of an accurate global land cover map. Our role was to develop the prototype of the pre-processing chain as well as performing the pre-processing to the whole data set. | from 2005 to 2008
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| Contact Person: Dr. Carsten Brockmann | |
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| Within the OFEW project a standardized classification method for remote sensing data of intertidal flats has been developed. Different surface types such as sediment types, macrophytes and mussel beds can be spectrally differentiated and therefore be classified from optical remote sensing data. First steps have been made to integrate this application into the operational monitoring programmes. The project has been co-funded by the ministries for the Environment of Schleswig Holstein and Lower Saxony. | from 2005 to 2007
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| Contact Person: Kerstin Stelzer | |
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| The MERIS Application and Regional Products Projects (MAPP) aims at providing the German Earth observation and climate research community with additional, region-specific, and higher-level Envisat MERIS science products and services. MERIS Full Resolution data of Europe are acquired in NRT at the national receiving station in Neustrelitz, and regional Level 2 and Level 3 products will be generated operationally. Validation, documentation and user training are important elements of the project aiming at improving the exploitation of MERIS products tailored to German user needs. | from 2005 to 2007
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| Contact Person: Dr. Ralf Quast | |
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