Siberian Earth System Science Cluster

"The mission of the Siberian Earth System Science Cluster is to provide a web-based infrastructure and comprehensive information products derived from Earth Observation that support environmental and earth system research in Siberia."

The Siberian Earth System Science Cluster established at the Department of Earth Observation at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Germany) is a spatial data infrastructure to facilitate Earth System Science in Siberia.

Products provided cover parts of Siberia and have been created by several research projects. Further some products are derived from NASA MODIS sensor. The main objective of SIB-ESS-C concerning data provision is to integrate automatic running process chains to provide up-to-date Earth Observation products.

The study region comprises a number of ecosystems in northern Eurasia ranging from the tundra, the boreal and temperate forests, mountainous areas and grasslands. The region is believed to play a critical role in global climate change and has been also defined as one of IGBP's Boreal transects representing a strong climate change hot spot in Northern Eurasia.

The Siberian Earth System Science Cluster is being funded by the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (Germany) for the period commencing January 2006 until April 2013.

SIB-ESS-C provides data sets and value-added products resulting from previous research projects (e.g. SIBERIA, SIBERIA-II, SibFORD). Furthermore some products from MODIS Data were created. Data access and visualisation is available through the SIB-ESS-C Web Portal. Data holdings are gradually extended and improved.

MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (MOD13C1)
	Spatial Resolution	0.05 deg
	Temporal Coverage	2000-02-18 until 2009-12-31
	Creator	Roman Gerlach, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
MODIS Normalized Differenced Vegetation Index (MOD13C1)
	Spatial Resolution	0.05 deg
	Temporal Coverage	2000-02-18 until 2009-12-31
	Creator	Roman Gerlach, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
MODIS Land Surface Temperature Daytime (MOD11C3)
	Spatial Resolution	0.05 deg
	Temporal Coverage	2000-03-01 until 2009-12-31
	Creator	Roman Gerlach, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
MODIS Land Surface Temperature Nighttime (MOD11C3)
	Spatial Resolution	0.05 deg
	Temporal Coverage	2000-03-01 until 2009-12-31
	Creator	Roman Gerlach, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
SIBERIA-I Forest Cover Map 1997/1998
	Spatial Resolution	50.0m
	Temporal Coverage	1997-09-01 until 1998-08-31
	Creator	Christiane Schmullius, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
SIBERIA-I Radar Image Map 1997/1998
	Spatial Resolution	100.0m
	Temporal Coverage	1997-09-01 until 1998-08-31
	Creator	Christiane Schmullius, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
SIBERIA-II Continuous Field Land Cover 2003
	Spatial Resolution	500.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Daniela Knorr, SIB-ESS-C, Friedrich-Schiller-University
SIBERIA-II Digital Elevation Model - 100m
	Spatial Resolution	100.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-02-11 until 2000-02-22
	Creator	Urs Wegmueller, GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG
SIBERIA-II Digital Elevation Model - 500m
	Spatial Resolution	500.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-02-11 until 2000-02-22
	Creator	Urs Wegmueller, GAMMA Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG
SIBERIA-II Duration Thaw/Freeze 2000-2003
	Spatial Resolution	10000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Richard Kidd, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IPF)
SIBERIA-II Fire Disturbances 1992-2003
	Spatial Resolution	1000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	1992-05-01 until 2003-10-30
	Creator	Charles George, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
SIBERIA-II Land Cover 2001-2004
	Spatial Resolution	500.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2001-06-25 until 2004-09-30
	Creator	Laine Skinner, University of Wales Swansea, UK
SIBERIA-II Onset Thaw/Freeze 2000-2003
	Spatial Resolution	10000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Richard Kidd, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IPF)
SIBERIA-II Phenology Budburst 2000-2002
	Spatial Resolution	5000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2002-12-31
	Creator	Nicolas Delbart, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere (CESBIO)
SIBERIA-II Phenology Senescence 2000-2002
	Spatial Resolution	5000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2002-12-31
	Creator	Nicolas Delbart, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere (CESBIO)
SIBERIA-II Snow Depth 1999-2000
	Spatial Resolution	25000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	1999-10-01 until 2000-06-30
	Creator	Manuela Grippa, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere (CESBIO)
SIBERIA-II Snow Depth 2000-2001
	Spatial Resolution	25000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-10-01 until 2001-06-30
	Creator	Manuela Grippa, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere (CESBIO)
SIBERIA-II Snow Depth 2001-2002
	Spatial Resolution	25000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2001-10-01 until 2002-06-30
	Creator	Manuela Grippa, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere (CESBIO)
SIBERIA-II Snow Melt Date 2000-2002
	Spatial Resolution	25000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-03 until 2002-12-31
	Creator	Manuela Grippa, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere (CESBIO)
SIBERIA-II Water Bodies 2003/2004
	Spatial Resolution	75.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-03-21 until 2004-08-23
	Creator	Annett Bartsch, Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IPF)
SibFORD Burn Severity Database 2003-2008
	Spatial Resolution	463.3127m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2008-12-31
	Creator	Viacheslav Egorov, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Burnt Area Inventory Database 2003-2008
	Spatial Resolution	463.3127m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2008-12-31
	Creator	Viacheslav Egorov, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Clearcuts Database 2005-2008
	Spatial Resolution	230.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2005-01-01 until 2008-12-31
	Creator	Viacheslav Egorov, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Forest Age Classes for GLC2000 - Deciduous Broadleaf Forest 2000
	Spatial Resolution	1000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2000-12-31
	Creator	Mikhail A. Korets, Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Brunch of Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Forest Age Classes for GLC2000 - Deciduous Needle Leaf Forest 2000
	Spatial Resolution	1000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2000-12-31
	Creator	Mikhail A. Korets, Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Brunch of Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Forest Age Classes for GLC2000 - Evergreen Needle Leaf Forest 2000
	Spatial Resolution	1000.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2000-01-01 until 2000-12-31
	Creator	Mikhail A. Korets, Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Brunch of Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Probability of Forest Fire Ignition by Humans or Lightning 2002-2006
	Spatial Resolution
	Temporal Coverage	2002-04-01 until 2006-10-01
	Creator	Mikhail A. Korets, Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Brunch of Russian Academy of Sciences
SibFORD Relative Carbon Emission of the Canopy Layer during Forest Fires 2003-2007
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2007-12-31
	Creator	Dmitry Ershov, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity (CFEP)
SibFORD Relative Carbon Emission of the Ground Vegetation Layer during Forest Fires 2003-2007
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2007-12-31
	Creator	Dmitry Ershov, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity (CFEP)
SibFORD Relative Carbon Emission of the Litter Layer during Forest Fires 2003-2007
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2007-12-31
	Creator	Dmitry Ershov, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity (CFEP)
SibFORD Relative Carbon Emission of the Undergrowth/-brush Layer during Forest Fires 2003-2007
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2007-12-31
	Creator	Dmitry Ershov, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity (CFEP)
SibFORD Relative Carbon Emissions from Logging 2005-2008
	Spatial Resolution	20010.0m
	Temporal Coverage	2005-01-01 until 2008-12-31
	Creator	Dmitry Ershov, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity (CFEP)
SibFORD Relative total biomass of dominant forest species and age groups 2003
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Elena Sochilova, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity
SibFORD Relative total biomass of ground vegetation cover 2003
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Elena Sochilova, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity
SibFORD Relative total biomass of litter layer 2003
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Elena Sochilova, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity
SibFORD Relative total biomass of the canopy layer 2003
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Elena Sochilova, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity
SibFORD Relative total biomass of undergrowth and underbrush layer 2003
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2003-12-31
	Creator	Elena Sochilova, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity
SibFORD Total carbon emission of forest fires in Central Siberia 2003-2007
	Spatial Resolution	19922.45m
	Temporal Coverage	2003-01-01 until 2007-12-31
	Creator	Dmitry Ershov, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity (CFEP)

Several research projects are contributing to SIB-ESS-C. An overview of former and ongoing projects with focus of Siberia is shown in the following table.

BIOMASAR 2
DUE Permafrost  (Website)
	The focus of the ESA DUE Permafrost is to demonstrate and validate, permafrost monitoring information service from local to large scale, mainly towards climate change studies and addressing the pan-boreal/arctic zone. The project acts as a platform between users and earth observation service providers to define user requirements to the remote sensing community and develop key tools to address them
Forest Dragon 2 (Website)
	The Forest DRAGON 2 project forms one part of the DRAGON 2 programme – a cooperation programme of ESA together with the National Remote Sensing Centre of China (NRSCC) in the field of earth observation application development. Due to the fact that Chinese forests have been ongoing constant pressure and existing forest resources are not considered adequate for needs of the Chinese economy and livelihood of people, the Forest DRAGON 2 project aims to monitor the Chinese forests status and development on a regular basis by using earth observation data. For this purpose SAR-based forest growing stock volume maps are created for different years (1995-2005-2010) from which forest cover change is derived.
GIONET (Website)
	GMES Initial Operations - Network for Earth Observation Research Training (GIONET) funded by the Marie Curie People Actions under the European Seventh Framework Programme will establish a European Centre of Excellence for Earth Observation Research Training that aims to cultivate a community of PhD students skilled in land and emergency monitoring services in collaboration with partners from higher education and industry across Europe. GIONET will develop better methods for monitoring climate change, environmental disasters and land cover change. It will also lead to the development of new methods using satellite monitoring for disaster relief after landslides and floods, controlling deforestation and overseeing the protection of tropical rainforests, as well as for climate change monitoring, lake water quality measurement and coastal erosion assessment.
IRIS (Website)
	The Irkutsk Regional Information System for Environmental Protection (IRIS) assesses the current status and dynamics of the Irkutsk region's forestry environment, influenced by man-made changes and anthropogenic impact. IRIS benefits and contributes to on-going European–Russian cooperation projects.
KULUNDA (Website)
	The main goal of the interdisciplinary KULUNDA project is to mitigate degradation and desertification process, to stabilize and in the long run, to enhance carbon sequestration in soils. It as well aims to increase crop yield by development and implementation of sustainable land management practices for agricultural used areas and by that to contribute to the rural and regional development. The gained knowledge and the results of the KULUNDA project will largely contribute to the research on climate change, sustainable land management and rural and regional development.
Kyoto & Carbon (Website)
	The ALOS Kyoto & Carbon Initiative is an international collaborative project led by JAXA Earth Observation Research Center (EORC). It forms the continuation of JAXA's JERS-1 SAR Global Rain Forest and Global Boreal Forest Mapping project (GRFM/GBFM) into the era of the Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS). The objective of the ALOS K & C Initiative is to define, develop and validate thematic products derived primarily from ALOS PALSAR data that can be used to meet the specific information requirements relating to the international environmental Conventions, Carbon Cycle Science and Conservation of the environment.
ParaPolWald
	Retrieval of forest parameters from polarimetric SAR data. To extend the SAR data base for the retrieval of forest parameters and also to improve the saturation level of estimating forest biomass.
Siberia-I (Website)
	To support the development of sustainable management policies and regimes at the strategic and operative levels in order to manage the Russian forest resources in an efficient and ecological way. SIBERIA is a shared-cost action (SCA) financed through the 4th Framework Programme of the European Commission, Environment and Climate, Area 3.3: Center for Earth Observation, Theme 3: Space Techniques Applied to Environmental Monitoring (Contract No. ENV4-CT97-0743-SIBERIA). SIBERIA's work is based on extensive satellite data made available through ESA's 3rd ERS Announcement of Opportunity (Project Number AO3.120 (SIBERIA) and NASDA's JERS initiative "Global Boreal Forest Mapping"
Siberia-II (Website)
	The overall objective of SIBERIA-II is to demonstrate the viability of full carbon accounting (including greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO2, CO, CH4, N2O, NOx) on a regional basis using the environmental tools and systems available to us today and in the near future. The region under study is Northern Eurasia, covering an area of more than 200 million ha and representing a significant part of the Earth's boreal biome which plays a critical role in global climate. The tools and systems to be employed include a selected yet spectrally and temporally diverse set of multi-sensor Earth Observation instruments, detailed existing databases of field information and some of the worlds most advanced climate models to account for fluxes between land and atmosphere.
SibFord (Website)
	The SibFORD project aims at the development of methods and tools to estimate carbon emissions induced by forest disturbances using Earth observation (EO) techniques in combination with in-situ data and contemporary models, and to improve the understanding of human impacts on the carbon balance in boreal ecosystems through analysis of multi-annual integrated land surface-model / remote sensing datasets.
ZAPAS (Website)
	The ZAPÁS project brings Russian and European partners together, aiming to enhance the procedures and products in the field of Earth observation for forest resource assessment and monitoring. They intend to exploit Earth observation data from European and Russian satellites, such as ENVISAT MERIS and ASAR, and METEOR-M and RESURS-DK1. This collaboration is set to lead to the development of first biomass maps, and biomass change maps for the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 on a local scale, as well as improved biomass and land cover maps at regional scale. Moreover, the project will generate a 1 km scale land cover map as input to a carbon accounting model, which will facilitate improved European-Russian reporting on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Siberian Earth System Science Cluster (SIB-ESS-C) offers interoperable Web Services for resource discovery and access. Services are compliant to specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Data Discovery

OGC Catalog Service for Web (CSW) Endpoint:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de/gi-cat-6.1/services/cswiso

CSW 2.0.2 getCapabilities request:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de/gi-cat-6.1/services/cswiso?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetCapabilities

Data Access

OGC Web Map Service (WMS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service (WFS) Endpoint:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de:8080/geoserver/ows

WMS 1.1.1 getCapabilities request:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de:8080/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.1.1&request=getCapabilities

WCS 1.1.1 getCapabilities request:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de:8080/geoserver/ows?service=wcs&version=1.1.1&request=getCapabilities

WFS 1.1.0 getCapabilities request:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de:8080/geoserver/ows?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=getCapabilities

Data Analysis

OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) Endpoint:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de:8070/cgi-bin/pywps.cgi

CSW 2.0.2 getCapabilities request:

http://argon.geogr.uni-jena.de:8070/cgi-bin/pywps.cgi?service=wps&request=getCapabilities

Coordination
Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius	c.schmullius[at]uni-jena.de	+49-(0)3641-948881
PD Dr. Sören Hese	soeren.hese[at]uni-jena.de	+49-(0)3641-948873
Jonas Eberle	jonas.eberle[at]uni-jena.de	+49-(0)3641-948889
Roman Gerlach	roman.gerlach[at]uni-jena.de
Address
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Institute for Geography Department of Earth Observation Grietgasse 6 07743 Jena Germany Fax.: +49-(0)3641-948882