NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS)
Lead Research Organisation:
National Centre for Earth Observation
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Publications
Williams J
(2020)
3D Segmentation of Trees Through a Flexible Multiclass Graph Cut Algorithm
in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Samman A
(2018)
A classification of synoptic patterns inducing heavy precipitation in Saudi Arabia during the period 2000-2014
in Atmósfera
Rajasree V
(2016)
A comparative study on the genesis of North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone Madi (2013) and Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone Florence (2006)
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Akritidis D
(2018)
A deep stratosphere-to-troposphere ozone transport event over Europe simulated in CAMS global and regional forecast systems: analysis and evaluation
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Gurubaran S
(2017)
A high-altitude balloon experiment to probe stratospheric electric fields from low latitudes
in Annales Geophysicae
Zawadzka J
(2020)
A simple method for determination of fine resolution urban form patterns with distinct thermal properties using class-level landscape metrics
in Landscape Ecology
Stoll P
(2020)
A well-observed polar low analysed with a regional and a global weather-prediction model
in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Graban S
(2020)
Accurate deep-learning estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration from the spectral particulate beam-attenuation coefficient.
in Optics express
Kim M
(2017)
Air-Sea exchange of biogenic volatile organic compounds and the impact on aerosol particle size distributions
in Geophysical Research Letters
| Description | The key finding from the activities of NEODAAS are the publications deriving from NEODAAS support. MARINE & TERRESTRIAL FRESHWATER The examples below are for the marine and terrestrial freshwater science sectors and EXCLUDE any NEODAAS work in support of NERC grants, since we believe this would be reported by the grant-holder. Hence, the key findings below represent work done through "direct access" to the facility. NEODAAS data were used in a preliminary attempt to find a water quality algorithms that can be applied to NASA MODIS data in a variety of lakes in Europe. NEODAAS sea-surface temperature (SST) and net primary production data were used as environmental data to investigate sexual segregation in gannets. It was found that sexual segregation is driven largely by habitat segregation between mixed and stratified waters, which in turn results in sex-specific foraging behaviour and dive depths. NEODAAS SST data were used for the Irish Sea as a factor impacting the temporal and spatial variation in size at maturity of the common whelk, one of the most important shellfish fisheries for the United Kingdom. Likewise, NEODAAS provided modelled sea-bed temperature data and surface chl-a data as environmental parameters used in a study to investigate the relative impact of scallop dredging on habitats at the scale of the king scallop fishery in the English Channel, by comparing epifaunal species diversity, composition, and biomass at sites subjected to varying levels of dredge fishing, while accounting for variation in environmental parameters between sites. In situ data on partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) were used to construct multiple linear regressions between pCO2 and air-se CO2 fluxes and environmental variables (including NEODAAS data). These were then applied to long time series of NEODAAS SST and chl-a data to investigate inter-annual variability resulting in significant differences in the intensity and/or direction of annual fluxes. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE The examples below are for the atmospheric science sector and EXCLUDE any NEODAAS work in support of NERC grants, since we are told that this should be reported by the grant-holder. Hence, the key findings below represent work done through "direct access" to the facility only. NEODAAS data supported a project that demonstrated the use of cluster analysis for airstream classification. The particular case used was an extratropical cyclone (Friedhelm, 2011), but the method can also be applied to other situations. NEODAAS imagery was used to identify the development of airstreams and front locations in the system. Also linked to extratropical cyclones was a study of the 'St Jude's Day' windstorm (2013) as it travelled across southern England. This showed how evaporating showers played a role in transferring sting-jet wind momentum to the surface. It was also noted that infrared satellite imagery can indicate where these processes may occur as illustrated by NEODAAS imagery of the event. Our data supported a study of subtropical cyclones (STCs) in the NE Atlantic that aimed to identify common features and assist forecasting. These were found to be a special case of N Atlantic STC with similarities to extratropical cyclones and tending to resemble those in the S Atlantic, whereas NW Atlantic STCs are more similar to tropical cyclones. NEODAAS image sequences were used in a detailed analysis of a particular STC case to better interpret the general results. NEODAAS data were again used in studies of high-latitude severe weather, such as polar lows. One of these looked at the Barents Sea during winter. The results suggested that marine cold air outbreaks are the most important factor in the region for extreme winds on a small spatial scale, and this information may be used to supplement model data and improve forecasts. Another supported paper presented a 14-winter climatology (1995-2009) of Nordic and Barents seas polar lows, based for the first time on passive microwave satellite data. Among the findings, the 637 events identified was greater than for earlier studies using infrared imagery, showing that microwave data provide an opportunity to detect these systems when they are masked by higher level clouds. NEODAAS AVHRR imagery was used to check for cloud signatures for each detected polar low. In a separate study, another 14-winter (1999-2013) climatic analysis of polar lows was carried out for the Nordic Seas to determine their tracks and attributes, such as duration and lifespan. This was based on NEODAAS AVHRR imagery which was used to track all of the systems. The results confirmed those of previous short-duration/smaller-region studies and also increased knowledge of polar lows in the region. |
| Exploitation Route | Many others are possible through further applications to the facility. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Agriculture Food and Drink Education Environment |
| Description | NEODAAS creates impact through the activities of its users both academic and through the Pathways to Impact plans for NERC-grant supported work. Academic impact is demonstrated by the ~370 peer-reviewed papers supported since 2010 including support for a cruise used in a Nature paper and a series of cruises used in a Nature Communications paper, both published in 2015. Cumulative impact factors from NEODAAS-supported papers have grown significantly over the review period, for example ~230 in 2015. Economic and societal benefits: NEODAAS data have been used in the proposition and selection of marine protected areas (MPAs), also on the observation and understanding of harmful algal blooms of threat to the aquaculture industry and under investigation in a joint NERC/BBSRC programme. Data are used in support of research into hazardous weather, such as severe dust storms that resulted in respiratory difficulties and transport disruption and in NERC's Storm Risk Mitigation/DIAMET project; into flooding in Europeand into other natural hazards e.g. "Quantifying the uncertainty in natural hazard forecasts", 2012-2016, funded through NERC PURE (Probability, Uncertainty and Risk in the Environment) research programme, grant NE/J017221/1. NEODAAS provides data (via online access and commercial data sales) to overseas institutes, companies (with >180 active commercial users in 14/15) and others that support operational activities. Examples include NRT imagery for charting sea ice around Greenland / Iceland and monitoring volcanic activity (Danish Met. Inst. and U. Iceland), wildfire alerts covering Europe (by CSIR, South Africa), weather and forecast information produced by operations support staff (e.g. for UK MoD, UKMO, Brazilian Air Force and Airbus Flight Test) and free on-line weather services (e.g. Weather Underground, USA). NEODAAS data impact examples are given in the annual reports and on the web site. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Transport |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Citation in Scientific Reviews for MCCIP Report Card 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | http://www.mccip.org.uk/media/2008/05_stratification_2020.pdf |
| Description | MCCIP Report Card 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| Impact | The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) was created in 2005 to act as a coordinating framework for the UK, providing marine climate change impacts evidence to decision makers. MCCIP report cards provide regular updates on the current state of scientific understanding in a clear and concise manner. Over the past 10 years many leading marine scientists have contributed to MCCIP report cards, covering a wide range of topics related to changes in the climate of the marine environment and impacts of these changes on marine biodiversity and society. This report card summarises over 10 years of reporting on marine climate change impacts in the UK, examining how understanding has evolved since the first MCCIP report card was published in 2006. It reports on key lessons learned working at the science-policy interface, ensuring marine climate science continues to be provided to end-users to inform policy and management. [An image within the report card was provided by NEODAAS] |
| URL | http://www.mccip.org.uk/media/1770/mccip-report-card-2017-final-artwork-spreads.pdf |
| Description | (CERTO) - Copernicus Evolution - Research for Transitional-water Observation |
| Amount | € 2,843,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 870349 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | H2020-INFRADEV-2016-2 DANUBIUS PP |
| Amount | € 4,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 739562 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 12/2016 |
| End | 11/2019 |
| Description | NERC Innovation |
| Amount | £153,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/R014965/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 06/2020 |
| Title | Global ocean colour data set |
| Description | AS a result of the ESA CCI project a reanalysis of merged SeaWiFS, MODIS and MERIS ocean colour data has been produced 1997-2012. This was updated in 2015 to a version 2 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Data have been used in other research activties |
| URL | http://www.oceancolour.org |
| Title | Orbview-2 SeaWiFS satellite data delivered to NASA |
| Description | Over 4000 unique SeaWiFS datasets were delivered to NASA for inclusion in its global archive of high resolution, local area coverage data. These were received at Dundee from the Orbview-2 satellite between 2004 and 2010. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | SeaWiFS provided high quality ocean colour data and the NEODAAS datasets are now available to international users via NASA's Ocean Biology Processing Group as well as to the NERC community. |
| URL | http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Title | Real time data delivered to CSIR, South Africa for European wildfire alerts |
| Description | NEODAAS Dundee delivers near-real time fire information to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa to support its AFIS wildfire alert platform. The information is derived from Terra/Aqua-MODIS and NPP-VIIRS satellite data we receive at Dundee and provides the AFIS platform with coverage of Europe. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Hundreds of fire managers across Europe now use the service for early detection and response to wildfires to help minimise environmental and economic impacts on e.g. national parks and forestry. |
| URL | http://southernafrica.afis.co.za/ |
| Description | ESA Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) R&D project |
| Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| Department | RAL Space |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Objectives of the project were to review and develop channel models, data and tools for the design of High-Capacity Flexible Broadband Satellite Systems operating (Q/V and Ka Band) with focus on future systems at Q/V Band. Tasks - 1. State-of-the-art review, preliminary design of software tool and a review of planned satellite experiments at Q/V band. 2. Improve/develop propagation models, model uncertainty of predictions and implement in software, develop optimisation algorithms, final design of software tool. 3. Implement design tool, description of algorithms for telecom campaigns and final reporting |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above |
| Impact | The project was completed in 2016 with a final report and presentation. It may lead to other related collaboration activity with the same partner. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | ESA Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) Programme |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Department | ESRIN |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | NEODAAS Dundee was invited to participate in ESA's Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) Programme. The programme aims to consolidate Earth Observation satellite data sets from the major AVHRR archives of ESA, University of Bern and Dundee and use these to produce a coherent and complete European master data set. The resulting data set has been identified as an important resource needed for Essential Climate Variables and Climate Change Initiative projects. So far, over AVHRR 10,000 recordings covering the years 1981-1988 have been requested from Dundee. These have been extracted from the archive and delivered to University of Bern in Level 0 format. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Bern are undertaking ingest and consolidation of data from the various providers. The AVHRR European Master Data Set will then be generated in Level 0, 1A and 1B formats and will made available for end end users to access through ESA EO data systems. Dundee will receive copies of the complete data set in each format for direct distribution to its own user community. |
| Impact | Ongoing - the resulting output data set is needed for Essential Climate Variables and Climate Change Initiative projects. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | ESA Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) Programme |
| Organisation | University of Bern |
| Department | Institute of Geography |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | NEODAAS Dundee was invited to participate in ESA's Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) Programme. The programme aims to consolidate Earth Observation satellite data sets from the major AVHRR archives of ESA, University of Bern and Dundee and use these to produce a coherent and complete European master data set. The resulting data set has been identified as an important resource needed for Essential Climate Variables and Climate Change Initiative projects. So far, over AVHRR 10,000 recordings covering the years 1981-1988 have been requested from Dundee. These have been extracted from the archive and delivered to University of Bern in Level 0 format. |
| Collaborator Contribution | University of Bern are undertaking ingest and consolidation of data from the various providers. The AVHRR European Master Data Set will then be generated in Level 0, 1A and 1B formats and will made available for end end users to access through ESA EO data systems. Dundee will receive copies of the complete data set in each format for direct distribution to its own user community. |
| Impact | Ongoing - the resulting output data set is needed for Essential Climate Variables and Climate Change Initiative projects. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | ARSF Scripts (added new script to convert heights between WGS84 elipsoid and Geoid) |
| Description | Various sripts for using, processing or handling NERC-ARF. Latest script was added to help a user convert heights between geoid and elipsoid. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Geoid conversion script implemented in hyperspectral processing chain by PhD student. Other scripts have also been utilised by researchers for their data processing. |
| Title | Geostationary Satellite Animation Viewer |
| Description | The Geostationary Satellite Animation Viewer is a flexible software tool for creating animations from geostationary satellite images through the NEODAAS Dundee website. These may be created for any date range and may be played automatically or manually controlled to allow backwards and forwards animation through image sequences. Multi-channel animations are possible allowing the switching of spectral bands during playing. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | All registered users of the NEODAAS Dundee website now have use of the facilities provided by this new tool. Animations ranging from a single day to months can be easily created from the extensive archive of geostationary satellite images available at Dundee allowing the user to quickly study features of interest. A downloader tool is also provided to allow the images from any animation to be downloaded with ease. |
| URL | http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/animation-viewer-guide.html |
| Title | Global 1km-resolution ocean colour data |
| Description | NEODAAS has developed the capability to map satellite ocean colour data at 1km resolution on a global scale. Previously it has been necessary either to degrade the resolution (unavoidably losing some data) or to map only much smaller areas. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Although computationally intensive for a single processing job, mapping products globally in this way permits efficiencies of scale both in terms of the total amount of processing required and in terms of the complexity of the infrastructure required to support it. This should significantly simplify operations at NEODAAS, increasing reliability and available staff time. |
| Title | NEODAAS bulk data downloader |
| Description | This software is an update to the NEODAAS website to permit users to search through available data and download large amounts (up to one month's worth) in one go. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Previously users could download only a single data file at a time, which was a problem if the user was interested in long time periods. We anticipate that this should make NEODAAS data useful to a much wider range of users, though it may take time for this to be realised since it will take a while for potential users to become aware of the opportunity |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/bulk/ |
| Title | Oceansat-2 satellite data pre-processing |
| Description | NEODAAS Dundee has developed software to pre-process raw ocean colour data received from India's Oceansat-2 satellite. This will enable the facility to receive these data in raw form using any of its antennas without the need to purchase ISRO proprietary hardware and without the significant operational limitation of being restricted to using only one antenna. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | As a result of this development NEODAAS Dundee successfully demonstrated capability to receive from Oceansat-2 and an agreement was then concluded with ISRO to purchase proprietary higher-level processing software and data reception/distribution rights. |
| Title | Software to Produce Cruise Support Bulletins |
| Description | Software to generate extract and generate plots from satellite data products which can be sent to research cruises. New software is more flexible then previous system and able to produce better plots with a range of colour scales. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The software was used to provide images to the AMT cruise in 2019, some of these images were used in blog posts. |
| URL | https://amt4oceansatflux.org/News/Starter_for_10_and_the_Eye_of_the_Storm |
| Description | All eyes on earth - Earth Story summer exhibition outreach event at Eden Project, Cornwall, July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Aser Mata and Silvia Pardo took part in the Lab Programme representing NEODAAS. Their team gave a quiz around Earth Observation data and its use for environmental topics. These ideas were linked to the use of drones and aircraft for high resolution data, with a drone displayed alongside visualisations such as the tallest tree in the tropics. Silvia introduced the topic of water quality with a practical sessions using a Secchi-Disk, to give an idea of the uses of in-situ vs satellite data, with ancient techniques, and how these are combined today on research cruises. The Eden Project estimated ~5000 visitors passed through The Lab each day, with at least 8000 people attending during the event dates. The Eden Project has shown interest in future collaborations with PML and NCEO. As an additional impact, a visitor named Kate Crawfurd and her daughter liked the exhibition so much that brought some of the material provided back to their local school in Plymouth. Kate is a painter who used to work at PML as a marine biologist and has been commissioned to paint a mural at the school school. She aims to take this opportunity to mix "Arts and Ocean Colour" - she is planing to paint a sea mural with the children and give an talk about ocean monitoring using Ocean Colour with the help of a Secchi Disk that PML have lend to her school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Astronomical Society of Glasgow visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In June 2016, a group of more than 20 amateur astronomers from the Astronomical Society of Glasgow visited NEODAAS Dundee to be given a tour of the facility, including description and demonstration of our operations. The visitors were very engaged and feedback was very positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| Description | Birling Gap Haze - BBC Radio Sussex interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following national news regarding the "toxic haze" at Birling Gap in Sussex on 2017-08-27, NEODAAS released a related satellite image. Ben Taylor was interviewed about it twice on BBC Radio Sussex. NEODAAS was contacted afterwards by interested members of the public for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Birling Gap Haze - Daily Mail Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following national news regarding the "toxic haze" at Birling Gap in Sussex on 2017-09-27, NEODAAS released a related satellite image. NEODAAS was contacted by the Daily Mail for more information, following which they ran an article online. NEODAAS was contacted afterwards by interested members of the public for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4836018/Experts-probing-Beachy-Head-gas-scour-satellite-imag... |
| Description | Birling Gap Haze - Daily Mirror |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following national news regarding the "toxic haze" at Birling Gap in Sussex on 2017-09-27, NEODAAS released a related satellite image. The Daily Mirror contacted NEODAAS for more information and ran a related article online. NEODAAS was contacted afterwards by interested members of the public for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/experts-scour-images-taken-space-11078212 |
| Description | Birling Gap Haze - The Guardian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following national news regarding the "toxic haze" at Birling Gap in Sussex on 2017-08-27, NEODAAS released a related satellite image. The Guardian newspaper ran two articles online, one of which appeared in print on 2017-09-02. NEODAAS was contacted afterwards by interested members of the public for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/29/investigators-believe-toxic-cloud-on-sussex-coas... |
| Description | Birling Gap Haze - The Sun |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following national news regarding the "toxic haze" at Birling Gap in Sussex on 2017-09-27, NEODAAS released a related satellite image. The Sun picked up reports in other news outlets and ran an article online. NEODAAS was contacted afterwards by interested members of the public for more information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4351510/beachy-head-chemical-leak-space-east-sussex-birling-gap/ |
| Description | Britain's Sharks documentary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS prepared and provided a composite image of chlorophyll in waters around the British Isles that was shown during ITV's "Britain's Sharks" documentary to illustrate the distribution and abundance of phytoplankton in UK waters |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | British Branch meeting of the International Glaciological Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nick Selms attended the British Branch meeting of the International Glaciological Society on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th September 2019, and represented NEODAAS. Whilst there discussions took place and it was agreed with James Lea of Liverpool that PML would host a PhD student on placement within NEODAAS if the studentship was funded. Also agreed in principle that a PhD student in their group would share some data we need for training and/or validating a machine learning algorithm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Demonstration of NEODAAS data and GIS Portal at Living Wales Showcase Events |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Living Wales project is a collaboration between research and goverment in Wales led by Aberystwyh University aiming to captures the dynamics of the Welsh landscape through Earth observations. The two events introduced the concepts behind Living Wales and showcased current capability and application in areas ranging from biodiversity and climate resilience to agricultural productivity and health. In total over 50 people attended each event. At both events Dan Clewley from NEODAAS had a large display were people were able to see some of the layers produced by the Living Wales project alongside marine layers (e.g., chlorophyll concentration) produced by NEODAAS. Feedback was very possitive with a number of participants planning to explore the data in their own time. Further plans are being discussed to incorperate the GIS portal and NEODAAS data being produced in near real time within the Living Wales project so they can be made available to government in Wales through this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://epwales.org.uk/events/upcoming-events/living-wales-showcase/ |
| Description | Discovery in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS attended (as an exhibitor) the NERC 50th Anniversary event aboard RRS Discovery when she was moored in the Thames. NEODAAS was there representing the National Centre for Earth Observation. A variety of audiences were reached - schoolchildren, invited policy makers and representatives from industry, and members of the public who had participated in a Natural History Museum competition. Through discussion with attendees, opportunities were available for further collaborative work, commercial opportunities and increased public knowledge of the work of NERC, NCEO and NEODAAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ITV Documentary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS received a request from a TV production company making a documentary for ITV to provide a satellite image of the waters around the UK to illustrate plankton abundance as part of the documentary. NEODAAS created and provided an appropriate image, the documentary is due to air in 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Images for Wildlife Trust Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided Images and scientific insight for the Isle of Scilly Wildlife Trust blog post. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ios-wildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/into-the-blue |
| Description | International Cloud Atlas (WMO-No. 407) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A new edition of the International Cloud Atlas (WMO-No. 407) was published by the World Meteorological Organization in 2017. The Atlas describes the classification system for clouds and meteorological phenomena used by all WMO members. It provides a common language to communicate cloud observations, and ensures consistency in reporting by observers around the world. It serves as a training tool for meteorologists, as well as those working in aeronautical and maritime environments, and is popular with weather enthusiasts and cloud spotters. Cloud types are illustrated by images and augmented by metadata including satellite imagery. The Atlas features several NEODAAS satellite images that are used as metadata. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/home.html |
| Description | Keeping pace with the rapidly increasing volume of Earth Observation satellite data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | James Dingle presented a poster titled "Keeping pace with the rapidly increasing volume of Earth Observation satellite data" at the 4th Conference of Research Software Engineers in September 2019. The poster presentation included a picture demonstration of the data portal, NEODAAS branding and a description of the data NEODAAS can produce/are producing and how much work has been needed to keep up with all of the recent (last 5 years) satellites launched. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Leaflet Update and re-print - NEODAAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | New updated NEODAAS leaflet has been re-printed to reflect the new branding of the NEODAAS service. Leaflets will be circulated at multiple events over the coming year providing potential users detailed information about the services and products NEODAAS can offer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meet the authors - Q&A session on detection of plastic from satellite data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1st July 2020 - Attended by 18 people from across of academia and industry internationally attended a 'Meet the authors - Q&A session on detection of plastic from satellite data' hosted by NEODAAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NEODAAS Dundee Display System - Dundee Science Centre, Mills Obervatory (Dundee) and Polaris House |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The system displays real-time satellite imagery being received at NEODAAS Dundee and selected images from our extensive archive. A system has been installed at Dundee Science Centre as part of a space themed exhibition to coincide with the Tim Peake's ISS mission. A system has also been installed at Mills Observatory, Dundee on a long-term/permanent basis. Both venues are open to the public and schools etc. and the display is intended for public engagement. Another system has been permanently installed at the RCUK offices Polaris House, Swindon. This is intended to showcase and raise awareness of NEODAAS/NCEO/NERC facilities and capability to Research Council staff and visitors. All three installations of the display system as described above continue to be used as of February 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
| Description | NEODAAS Twitter feed |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS has operated a Twitter feed since summer 2014. This is used to raise awareness of the service and of satellite remote sensing generally amongst the general public. It is also used to communicate with other scientists about NEODAAS presence at events such as conferences. We have had responses that have included requests for changes in our products to eg. support colour blind users, resulting in further service development at NEODAAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/NEODAAS |
| Description | NEODAAS/FSF training course 5-8th October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 15 people, mostly PhD students attended a virtual training event which led to a request to provide similar training for SENCE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | OCF Press Release - MAGEO GPU cluster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release through OCF (suppliers of the GPU cluster) picked up by multiple media sources internationally. http://primeurmagazine.com/weekly/AE-PR-02-21-51.html https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/environmental-researchers-benefit-from-powerful-supercomputer-at-plymouth-marine-laboratory/ https://digitalisationworld.com/news/60585/environmental-researchers-benefit-from-powerful-supercomputer-at-plymouth-marine-laboratory https://www.techmarketview.com/api/em/mail.aspx?d=H75_jxvYXctaPxTTYxbtG9LiBNKNXiiWmbCN8myHsh_wmQAxgpBAyGeMhRyHKivV#blog180474 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.scientific-computing.com/news/environmental-researchers-benefit-hpc-resources-plymouth-m... |
| Description | Ocean Colour / Portal Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training course on Ocean Colour and NEODAAS. Held for 5 lecturers from marine science course at Cornwall College on 27th January. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Poster Presentation: MAGEO - The Massive GPU Cluster For Earth Observation: Supporting Artificial Intelligence Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 500 research scientists and HPC industry leaders attended the Computing Insight conference on the 5th and 6th December 2019. A poster was presented and discussions about AI for Earth Observation and the coming NEODAAS GPU CLUSTER (MAGE) occurred increasing NEODAAS profile and the services that it offers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Press release for NEODAAS recommissioning and website relaunch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Picked up by other media outlets, press release for for NEODAAS recommissioning and website relaunch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.neodaas.ac.uk/News/Earth_observation_service_NEODAAS_website_relaunch |
| Description | Royal Met. Society online course - Come Rain or Shine: understanding the weather |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS Dundee provided a number of satellite images as illustrative material to support a Royal Met. Society online course entitled "Come Rain or Shine: understanding the weather". The course is specifically intended for geography teachers, but is open to all users. As of September 2016 more than 9000 people had registered to join the course and there will be further enrollments when the course runs again. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | SENCE EO CDT Training Session - 26th and 27th October 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided virtual sessions on atmospheric correction as part of SENCE EO CDT Training Session held 26th - 27th October 2020. Attended by 17 PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UK Met Office free online course - Learn About Weather |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Learn About Weather' is a free, online, open access course for the general public developed by the Met Office in partnership with the University of Exeter, the Royal Meteorological Society, the National Trust and others. The course is for anyone looking for an introduction to weather, as well as those with a particular interest in how weather affects photographers, gardeners and walkers. It will run several times each year from September 2017. The course includes some NEODAAS Dundee images as illustrations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learn-about-weather |
| Description | University Open Days |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The University of Dundee held three separate open days during April, August and September 2016 for prospective students and their parents/guests. For the School of Science and Engineering this included visits to NEODAAS Dundee to be given a tour of the facility, including description and demonstration of our operations. The intention was to promote the School and its facilities to potential course applicants. Approximately 30 visitors attended on each occasion and feedback was very positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Use of NEODAAS Dundee imagery by media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS images of significant events are made available to the media when they are received, e.g. images showing severe storms, snow cover, volcanic eruptions. These images feature regularly in newspapers, television news and associated websites, television documentaries and many other websites. The highest profile example for 2015 was an image of the first UK/Ireland storm to be named - Storm Abigail, 12 Nov 2015. This image featured in several newspapers including The Guardian and Daily Express as well as BBC 1 Scotland's main television news broadcasts and the ITV Breakfast programme. In January 2015, the University of Dundee issued a press release to mark 40 years since installation of the first dish based tracking antenna at the satellite receiving station (NEODAAS Dundee) in January 1975. This led to media coverage of the facility including a local newspaper article and regional television and radio items. In June 2016 an image of north-south UK weather divide was featured by newspaper including Metro, The Star and The Yorkshire Post. In July 2016 the BBC News website featured two NEODAAS images showing very different UK weather conditions 24 hours apart. Also in July 2016, The Courier newspaper (North East Scotland) featured an article on data reception from the Indian Oceansat-2 satellite commencing at NEODAAS Dundee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| Description | Use of NEODAAS Dundee imagery by the media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS images of significant events are made available to the media when they are received, e.g. images showing severe storms, snow cover, volcanic eruptions. These feature regularly in newspapers, television news and associated websites, television documentaries and many other websites. Recent examples are imagery showing UK winter conditions and snow cover in January 2018 which featured on BBC1 Reporting Scotland television news, the BBC and STV news websites and newspapers including The Daily Mail, Evening Standard and The Courier (NE Scotland) newspapers. Imagery of the Saddleworth Moor wildfire in June 2018 was featured on BBC, Sky, Huffington Post and MSN news websites, newspapers including the Express and Oldham Evening Chronicle and a health advice bulletin for residents on the GOV.UK website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-44634023 |
| Description | Use of NEODAAS Dundee imagery by the media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | NEODAAS images of significant events are made available to the media when they are received, e.g. images showing severe storms, snow cover, volcanic eruptions. These feature regularly in newspapers, television news and associated websites, television documentaries and many other websites. An example for 2017 was imagery of the UK/Ireland storm named Storm Doris, 23 Feb 2017. This featured on the BBC News website and The Herald (Scotland) newspaper which both showed sequences of our images of the storm. Other articles by BBC News online, The Irish News and The Courier (NE Scotland) also featured our Storm Doris images. Later in 2017 we released imagery of Storm Caroline, 7 Dec 2017. This featured on television in BBC1 Reporting Scotland main evening news and late bulletin and in articles published by The Scotsman, The Independent and The Courier (NE Scotland) newspapers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39070686 |
| Description | Working Internationally in EO Workshop. 1st July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 scientific researchers met to attend the workshop on "working internationally in Earth Observation". This was a national event held in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |