Proposer Role and contribution Qualification, experience and capacity to provide the contribution

Personnel involved in the project Relevant publications

Proposer : Eliane CUBERO-CASTAN (MEDIAS-F)

Groupement d'Intérêt Public MEDIAS-FRANCE, TOULOUSE, FRANCE.

MEDIAS-FRANCE will participate to the development and the exploitation of the FORMAT database and GIS , which represent key elements of the project.

This task will include:

• the development of the general structure of the database, using ORACLE software. This development will be based on the already existing ACCESS data conceptual model.
• the collection of the datasets to be loaded into the database. This collection will be done both from the partners involved in FORMAT, and from various data archive centres able to provide datasets of interest,
• the loading of the data files within the database,
• the development of a user interface allowing to select data subsets according to various criteria (location, time period, name of parameters, thresholds on these parameters, ...). Through this user interface, specific requests could be sent to the database, and data subsets corresponding to these request criteria could be extracted and imported on user’s computers.
• the distribution of data. Access to database will be possible either through electronic server (HTML interface) or through CD-ROMs, which will allow to provide a database archive to the users. A documentation written and validated by the original data provider, and describing the acquisition and processing methods, will be associated to each dataset.

MEDIAS-FRANCE will also ensure the development of a GIS over the database. The GIS is a necessary tool for the integration of the whole relevant parameters into a common geographic-referenced system, and for the spatialization of the various parameters derived from the ground point analysis.

Moreover, MEDIAS-FRANCE will ensure the processing of the remote sensing data to be used for the project. This processing will include both geometrical correction and registration of data, and radiometric processing and analysis of data, such as classification and mapping.

MEDIAS-FRANCE is a non-profit making, public corporation established in 1994 by French national institutions (CNES - the French Space Agency, METEO-FRANCE, ORSTOM - the French overseas research organisation, and the University Paul-Sabatier of Toulouse) and private companies (CLS - which operates the Argos data collection system, and SPOT-IMAGE). Its mandate is " to develop research, modelling, training, and data management and distribution in the field of global environmental change, particularly in the framework of the international programmes IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme), WCRP (World Climate Research Programme) and IHDP (International Programme on Human Dimensions of Global Environment Change), and with special focus on the regions of the Mediterranean Basin and Africa, in close liaison with French and foreign laboratories, universities and research institutions involved in the MEDIAS network ".

MEDIAS-FRANCE has developed three main lines of activities :

1. Support to global change research projects: technical and administrative coordination of collaborative projects in atmospheric chemistry (e.g., IGAC-DEBITS Africa, Expresso), hydrology (e.g., Med-Hycos), paleoclimatology (PEP III, Euro-African Pollen Data Base), meteorology and climatology
2. Data management: catalogues and directories, integrated data bases (e.g., Mediterranean satellite oceanographic and meteorological data base on CD-ROM), campaign data bases (e.g., Hapex-Sahel, Expresso, Mozaic), ground network data bases (e.g., Photons, IDAF). Data products are available on diskettes or CD-ROMs for scientific users. On line distribution of particular data sets is also provided (e.g., mirror ftp site of the WDC-A Global Pollen data base).
3. MEDIAS-FRANCE collaborates with ENRICH, START, ACMAD, IGBP-DIS, NOAA/NGDC, etc., and provides a secretariat to the START Committee for the Mediterranean.

• CUBERO-CASTAN Eliane has received the Ph.D. degree in computer science software engineering from the Université Paul Sabatier (UPS, Toulouse, France). She joined CNES, The French Space Agency, in 1987, where she took part to SPOT data quality control group. From 1990 to 1998, she was with the Space Image Quality and Processing Division, where she had the onus of research and development project management in the field of information extraction from optical, radar, and multisensor remote-sensing data. She is now with MEDIAS-FRANCE where she is in charge of the data management activities.
• BOICHARD Jean-Luc is graduate from the French National School of Meteorology. He worked as computer system analyst and administrator at the National Research Centre of METEO-FRANCE, and joined MEDIAS-FRANCE as computer engineer in 1996.
• DELESTAN Anne is graduate of ISITV engineering school, in scientific computer science and applied mathematics. She joined MEDIAS-FRANCE in 1998.

• One computer engineer (to be determined), who will be exclusively affected to the FORMAT data management.

1. Aman A., H. P. Randriamanantena, A. Podaire & R. Frouin, 1992 - Upscale integration of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index : the problem of spatial heterogeneity. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, n° 2, March 1992, 326-338.

 

2. Brustet J.-M., J.-B. Vickos, J. Fontan, K. Manissadjan, A. Podaire & F. Lavenu, 1991 - Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning in West Africa with NOAA-AVHRR. Global Biomass Burning: Atmospheric, Climatic and Biospheric Implications, pp 47-52. Edited by J. S. Levine. MIT Press.

 

3. Delmas R. A., P. Loudjani, A. Podaire & J.-C. Menaut, 1991 - Biomass Burning in Africa: An Assessment of Annually Burned Biomass. Global Biomass Burning: Atmospheric, Climatic and Biospheric Implications. Edited by J. S. Levine. MIT Press, 126-132.

 

4. Deschamps P.-Y., F.-M. Bréon, M. Leroy, A. Podaire, A. Bricaud, J.-C. Buriez & G. Sèze, 1994 - The POLDER Mission: Instrument Characteristics and Scientific Objectives. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 32, n° 3, May 1994, 598-615.

 

5. Deuzé J.-L., F.-M. Bréon, P.-Y. Deschamps, C. Devaux, M. Herman, A. Podaire & J.-L. Roujean, 1993 - Analysis of the POLDER Airborne Instrument Observations over Land Surfaces. Remote Sens. Environ. 45:137-154.

 

6. Puyou-Lascassies P., A. Podaire & M. Gay, 1994 - Extracting crop radiometric responses from simulated low and high spatial resolution satellite data using a linear mixing model. Int. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, n°18, 3767-3784.

 

7. Roujean J.-L., M. Leroy, A. Podaire & P.Y. Deschamps, 1992 : Evidence of surface bidirectional effects from a NOAA/AVHRR multitemporal dataset. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, March 1992, 685-698.

 

8. Soufflet V., D. Tanré, A. Bégué, A. Podaire & P.Y. Deschamps, 1991 - Atmospheric effects on NOAA-AVHRR data over Sahelian regions. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 12, n° 6, June 1991, 1189-1203.