Managed by PML.
Collaborating with AMT.
Funded by the EU and ESA
Funded by the European Commission European Space Agency logo Copernicus Logo
This project has now evolved in to the AMT4OceanSatFlux project, for further details see the new website here

Validating Copernicus Sentinel data products using Fiducial Reference Measurements

Providing validation

The AMT4SentinelFRM project focuses on providing high quality Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) to validate satellite data during the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) annual research voyage between the UK and destinations in the South Atlantic.

These observations from space provide unique information which greatly aids understanding and management of our environment and are vitally important because they can observe vast areas of the Earth that are difficult to access and sample using traditional methods.
 

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Observing from space

The European Commission's Copernicus programme is the largest global environmental monitoring initiative ever conceived. The satellites used by the programme carry a vast range of sensors for monitoring our land, ice, oceans and atmosphere.

Data provided by the AMT cruise will confirm the quality and performance of Copernicus satellite data that are used by Copernicus services. 


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Our aim

The aim of the project is to validate Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-2A data products using Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM).  

This will be achieved through the collection, processing, analysis, publication and reporting of in situ FRM field measurements coincident and near-contemporaneous with data from the Sentinel satellites collected as part of the Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise. The project will utilise data from the Sentinel-2A Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) and the Sentinel-3A Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) and the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR).

The project will also take full opportunity to validate relevant Copernicus Contributing missions. 

Our objectives

News Highlights

Optics rig being deployed off the RRS James Clark Ross

AMT4OceanSatFlux campaign underway to measure carbon dioxide flux

15 October 2018

A new project building upon the work of AMT4SentinelFRM, is currently sailing the length of the Atlantic to measure gas exchange between the...
Atlantic Meridional Transect 27 scientists and crew of RRS Discovery.

The south subtropic convergence zone to South Georgia

02 November 2017

Hold onto your hats folks, we are entering the South Subtropical Convergence Zone!! From the deep blue waters between 10 and 35 South, one crosses...