and Gerard, E.: EUFAR: the European Facility for Airborne Research, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–, EGU21-15741,, 2021. This presentation will give an overview of EUFAR, its recent achievements and future plans.īrown, P. EUFAR also promotes access to its members' data from airborne platforms and instruments and will be working with the AERIS data centre in France to provide a data portal to assist with this.
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Where possible, new software tools resulting from these activities are provided openly via the EUFAR website. Via its previous EC funding, EUFAR has been able to support training courses for early-career researchers to introduce them to the use of airborne measurements for environmental research. These cover, for example, instrument developments, data processing software and the scientific uses of airborne data.
In order that researchers should continue in future to have access to the most appropriate research aircraft and instrumentation to meet their science objectives independently of EC funding, EUFAR is now working to develop principles of Open Access (OA).ĮUFAR supports Expert Working Group meetings to exchange knowledge and promote best practice across the range of activities involved in airborne research. Examples of successful TA activities will be shown. This has provided both a comprehensive range of atmospheric in-situ measurements together with a variety of remote-sensing instruments and hyperspectral imagers for studies of land or water surfaces, vegetation etc. Via EUFAR Transnational Access, a range of aircraft and instrumentation has been made available to European researchers who do not have access to a suitable research infrastructure in their home country. In January 2018, EUFAR became an AISBL (international non-profit association under Belgian law) establishing EUFAR as an independent legal structure and ensuring EUFAR’s future. From the beginning until 2018, EUFAR has received funding within the different Framework Programmes of the European Commission. Since its creation in 2000, the European Facility for Airborne Research, EUFAR, evolved into the central network for the airborne research community in Europe. future plans involving airborne observational research.airborne instruments, developments and observations.airborne platforms to reduce the environmental footprint of alternative observation strategies.contributions of airborne measurements to modelling activities.identifying and closing capability gaps.using airborne and ground-based RI to complement satellite data, including cal/val campaigns.multi-aircraft/balloon/RPAS and multi-RI campaigns.recent observation campaigns and their outcomes.an overview of the current status of environmental research with a focus on the use of airborne platforms.This session will bring together aircraft, balloon and RPAS operators and the research community to present: The validation of operational satellite systems and applications using airborne measurements has come increasingly into focus with the European Copernicus program in recent years. Future satellite instruments can be tested using airborne platforms during their development. They cover large areas in the horizontal and vertical with adaptable temporal sampling. Aircraft and balloon operations depend on weather conditions either to obtain the atmospheric phenomenon of interest or the required surface-viewing conditions and so require detailed planning. Ground based systems and satellites are key information sources to complement airborne datasets and a comprehensive view of the observed system is often obtained by combining all three. The use of small state-of-the-art instruments, the combination of more and more complex sets of instruments with improved accuracy and data acquisition speed enables more complex campaign strategies even on small aircraft, balloons or RPASs.Īpplications include atmospheric parameters, surface properties of vegetation, glaciological processes, sea ice and iceberg studies, soil and minerals and dissolved or suspended matter in inland water and the ocean.
It includes sensors for meteorological parameters, trace gases and cloud/aerosol particles and more complex systems like high spectral resolution lidar, hyperspectral imaging at wavelengths from the visible to thermal infra-red and synthetic aperture radar. The range of available instruments enables a broad and flexible range of applications. Observations from aircraft, remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS/UAV/UAS) and balloons are an important means to obtain a broad view of processes within the Earth environment during measurement campaigns.