COPERNICUS 4 BULGARIA 2022

Greeting addresses

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EUSPA is the agency responsible for the downstream user uptake of Copernicus among other users, complementing the current efforts of the Copernicus programme ecosystem. Through a set of support actions such as the Cassini initiative, Horizon Europe, Copernicus demonstrators, the User Consultation Platform and other relevant activities, EUSPA is contributing towards an increased adoption of Copernicus to maximise the benefits of the EU Earth Observation programme in downstream markets.

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Copernicus Academy and Copernicus Relay are part of the Copernicus User-uptake Copernicus initiative. Members of their networks are scientific organizations, SMEs, NGOs and others working in the field of application of Earth Observation. The role of Copernicus Academy and Copernicus Relay is to raise awareness of the Copernicus program in each country. In the presentation you will learn who these organizations are in Bulgaria and what are their activities related to Copernicus.

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The main topic areas will be presented, with an emphasis on air quality forecasting products – pollutant types, geographic areas, as well as tools to support decission on air quality. The portals for obtaining visual information (maps) will be displayed, as well as those for accessing the digital data. The new elements of the services will be commented on as well as some examples of applications using CAMS data.

We will present the information about the World Ocean, which is provided in real time and for the past climatic period. The available products are divided thematically as Blue Ocean – the physical parameters, Green Ocean – biogeochemical parameters and White Ocean – parameters for the ice cover. We will give explanation on how to find and download the variables you are interested in. We will also look at the newly developed Ocean Monitoring Indicators and Ocean State Report. Special attention will be paid to the Black Sea and what is happening there – the trends in temperature, sea level, circulation and dissolved oxygen content.

In the presentation, we will briefly present the “Emergency” service of the Copernicus Program, the way to activate the service, the data, and products that are provided for certified and public access, as well as the prospects for its future development. The three systems of the thematic service for prevention and planning, early warning and monitoring of disasters will be briefly examined: the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS), the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) and the European Drought Observatory (EDO).

In the presentation we will present the information about the global biogeophysical products, pan-European products for land use and land cover, local products with high resolution; how to find satellite images and reference data on the Internet and use them in our daily work. We will pay special attention to mapping of agricultural crops with the help of data from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for the territory of Bulgaria. A comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the multitemporal supervised classification will be made using radar and optical data from the Copernicus program. We will also present the strategy for the development of CLMS in the next phase in the light of the transition to Copernicus 2.0.

In the presentation we will explain how we can access Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) products and data, what is available now and what is planned for the future. We will access data from the Climate Data Store, process them with its Toolbox and Python libraries, and introduce the C3S Demonstrator.

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Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS), or the hidden skeleton of fluid flows, basically, are material lines that organize the fluid-flow transport. Briefly, the attracting (or repelling) LCS take the form of material lines that plays a dominant role in attracting/repelling neighboring fluid elements to/from itself. Through extensive geostrophic velocity data, derived from altimeter data or hydrodynamic models, it is possible to extract the quasi-steady Lagrangian transport patterns. Despite the LCS as a tool to identify turbulent flow structures in real-time, the climatological LCS (cLCS) characterizes the Lagrangian transport patterns without the need for initial positions or an initial time. In both tools it is important to elucidate the physical interpretation of the Lagrangian transport. This contribution comes from remote sensing data and in-situ data. This data supported the climatological squeezelines and climatological attraction strength computed from a long time series of ocean current velocity data.

The presentation will focus on trainings related to the use of Copernicus EU data in secondary education, both by teachers and by the students. Experience from joint initiatives with the Bulgarian Geographical Society, the Faculty of Geology and Geography of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” will be presented.

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We are pleased to invite you to attend the session „Move to CREODIAS to make your work with EO data more efficient”. During the workshop you’ll learn how to use CREODIAS platform’s full potential. CREODIAS is one of the European DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) platforms, aimed at facilitating access to satellite data and ensuring the possibility of its processing in the cloud, as well as the creation of its own applications and services.

The presentation will start by a global display of WEkEO ecosystem, functions and services. We will then focus on the 3 services WEkEO provide : Data Access, JupyterLab, and Cloud Computing ressources. Three datasets from Copernicus Marine, Copernicus Land and Copernicus Climat will be used to show how to download and process data on WEkEO.

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