A Distributed Modular Data Processing Chain Applied to Simulated Satellite Ozone Observations
Year: 2021
Authors: Gai M., Barbara F., Ceccherini S., Cortesi U., Del Bianco S., Tirelli C., Zoppetti N., Belotti C., Canessa B., Farruggia V., Masini A., Keppens A., Lambert J.C., Arola A., Lipponen A., Tuinder O.
Autors Affiliation: Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFAC-CNR), I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Ottica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (INO-CNR), I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Flyby, S.r.l., I-57128 Livorno, Italy Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), B-1180 Brussels, Belgium Finnish Meteorological Institute, 70211 Kuopio, Finland Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, 3731 GA De Bilt, The Netherlands
Abstract: Remote sensing of the atmospheric composition from current and future satellites, such as the Sentinel missions of the Copernicus programme, yields an unprecedented amount of data to monitor air quality, ozone, UV radiation and other climate variables. Hence, full exploitation of the growing wealth of information delivered by spaceborne observing systems requires addressing the technological challenges for developing new strategies and tools that are capable to deal with these huge data volumes. The H2020 AURORA (Advanced Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Retrieval for Applications) project investigated a novel approach for synergistic use of ozone profile measurements acquired at different frequencies (ultraviolet, visible, thermal infrared) by sensors onboard Geostationary Equatorial Orbit (GEO) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in the framework of the Copernicus Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 missions. This paper outlines the main features of the technological infrastructure, designed and developed to support the AURORA data processing chain as a distributed data processing and describes in detail the key components of the infrastructure and the software prototype. The latter demonstrates the technical feasibility of the automatic execution of the full processing chain with simulated data. The Data Processing Chain (DPC) presented in this work thus replicates a processing system that, starting from the operational satellite retrievals, carries out their fusion and results in the assimilation of the fused products. These consist in ozone vertical profiles from which further modules of the chain deliver tropospheric ozone and UV radiation at the Earth?s surface. The conclusions highlight the relevance of this novel approach to the synergistic use of operational satellite data and underline that the infrastructure uses general-purpose technologies and is open for applications in different contexts.
Journal/Review: REMOTE SENSING
Volume: 13 (2) Pages from: 210-1 to: 210-21
More Information: The AURORA project is supported by the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program of the European Union (Call: H2020-EO-2015; Topic: EO-2-2015) under Grant Agreement No. 687428.KeyWords: distributed data processing, simulated satellite measurements, software prototype, geo-databaseDOI: 10.3390/rs13020210