There is currently no open position at Rayference. However, if you have strong background in radiation transfer, inverse modelling, remote sensing (not GIS) or physical computer science, do not hesitate to contact us ar recruitment@rayference.eu.
Discover our results on how atmospheric vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, and concen-tration affect molecular absorption calculation in our latest publication "Impact of atmospheric vertical profile on hyperspectral simulations over bright desert pseudo-invariant calibration site,", published in European Journal of Remote Sensing.
Our new publication on "Retrieving BRDFs from UAV-based radiometers for fiducial reference measurements: caveats and recommendations," has just been published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing. This paper illustrates the difficulties to infer open-air surface BRDF from UAV observations.
Our lastest publication "Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Retrieval from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V in the Mission Exploitation Platform Environment," has just been published in Remote Sensing. It reveals the potential of the PROBA-V and SPOT-VGT archive for the generation of climate data records.
The lastest results obtained with our Eradiate 3D radiative transfer model illustrate the difference between black sky surface reflectance referred to as Bidirectional Reflectance Factor and the blue sky (bottom of atmosphere) surface reflectance referred to as the Hemispherical Directional Refelctance Factor.
Do not miss the latest achievement with our CISAR algorithm.
We are pleased to announce that the 2023 edition of the Eradiate Workshop will take place on June 7th 2023 in Varese, Italy.
Latest results from the SPAR@MEP ESA project, applying our CISAR algorithm to PROBA-V data to retrieve an improved surface albedo over North Africa. The new global BHR dataset at 5km is available on the Zenodo repository via the following link.
Our last publication " Radiative Transfer Model Comparison with Satellite Observations over CEOS Calibration Site Libya-4" has just been in Atmosphere. It reveals the typical uncertainties due to radiative trnasfer model numerical approximations used to simulate satellite observations.
Do not miss our last publication from marta Luffarelli " Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval in Presence of Cloud: Application to S3A/SLSTR Observations" issued in Atmosphere.
We are pleased to announce that the 2022 edition of the Eradiate Workshop will take place on March 29th and 30th 2022. The event will be hosted by the European Space Agency, if possible at ESRIN with a hybrid setup to allow for remote participation, or online should the epidemic situation prevent on-site meetings. This workshop will kick off the official release of Eradiate on GitHub.
Ship trails in the Biscay Bay have been clearly identified from the the 1km aerosol product derived with our CISAR algorithm. Read more on this is this ESA news.
Following the next beta release of Eradiate, we will organise an online training session for users on Tuesday December 7th 2021. During this session, we will introduce Eradiate’s atmospheric simulation features. Note that Eradiate will still be beta software at that date. Interested users are welcome to express their interest by sending an email to news-at-eradiate.eu. Please be aware that there will be a limited number of seats, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served principle.
The development of Eradiate started two years ago with the idea of building a new radiative transfer framework designed for accuracy and usability. One of our goals is to have Eradiate recognised as a reference in terms of numerical accuracy. For that purpose, benchmarking and comparison are of prime importance: model intercomparison is how we document the strengths and weaknesses of our models and are an excellent opportunity to test and improve simulation code. Eradiate has been successfully compared with the RAMI online checker (ROMC) .
A 1 km r esolution aerosol optical thickness data set is retrieved from PROBA-V data from our CISAR algorithm. Read more on this topic in that ESA news.
Our CISAR algorithm has been recently extended to include the retrieval of cloud properties. This was feasible thanks to the retrieval mechanism, which is based on the online inversion of a radiative transfer model. With the aid of temporal and spectral constraints, as well as a new source of prior information on the cloud phase and optical thickness built from satellite observations, CISAR is now able to retrieve aerosol and cloud single scattering properties without relying on a pre-processed cloud mask. This means that aerosols are retrieved continuously also in the presence of thin clouds. The new version of the CISAR algorithm has been applied to SLSTR / Sentinel-3A observations aggregated at 5 km. Read more on this topic in that ESA news.
The development of Eradiate model is progressing well. Read more about this activity in this ESA web story.
Rayference has been working on the verification and correction of the S3A/SLSTR solar bands. This activity has been reported in web story of the Eradiate project entitled "Estimating the accuracy of 1D radiative transfer models over the Libya-4 site". Following this study, the S3A/SLSTR Level 1b TOA BRF corrections recommended by Rayference, displayed in the following table,
| Bands | S1 | S2 | S3 | S5 | S6 |
| S3A/SLSTR NADIR VIEW | |||||
| Correction | 0.95 | — | — | 1.10 | 1.10 |
| S3A/SLSTR OBLIQUE VIEW | |||||
| Correction | 0.92 | 0.93 | 0.93 | — | — |
will be used by the CIRCAS project. These calibration correction factors should multiply the delivered top-of-atmosphere bidirectional reflectance factor (TOA BRF) values. The complete analysis is presented in a dedicated report.
The final agenda for the Eradiate Workshop 2019 is now available. You can attend remotely upon request.
A new Rayference publication on the CISAR algorithm has been issued: Luffarelli, M. and Y. Govaerts. 2019. " Joint Retrieval of Surface Reflectance and Aerosol Properties with Continuous Variation of the State Variables in the Solution Space – Part 2: Application to Geostationary and Polar-Orbiting Satellite Observations." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12 (2): 791–809.
The latest Eradiate newsletter is available here : " Eradiate Winter News ."
A new Rayference publication has been issued : Govaerts, Y.M.; Ruethrich, F.; John, V.O.; Quast " Climate Data Records from Meteosat First Generation Part I: Simulation of Accurate Top-of-Atmosphere Spectral Radiance over Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites for the Retrieval of the In-Flight Visible Spectral Response. ." Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1959
Visit Rayference contribution to FIDUCEO blog on "Can we trust Earth as a calibration reference for climate monitoring activity?".
Rayference releases the Combined Inversion of Surface and AeRosol (CISAR) algorithm, an advanced mathematical method for the joint retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol properties from observations acquired by space-based imagers.
A new Rayference publication on the CISAR algorithm has been issued : Govaerts, Y. and Luffarelli, M. " Joint retrieval of surface reflectance and aerosol properties with continuous variations of the state variables in the solution space: Part 1: theoretical concept." Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss. 1doi:10.5194/amt-2017-29, in review.
Visit Rayference contribution to FIDUCEO blog on deriving an aerosol climate data record from Meteosat First Generation observations.
In the context of the Rayference contribution to QA4ECV FP7 project, a new publication has been issued : Govaerts, Yves M. 2015. " Sand Dune Ridge Alignment Effects on Surface BRF over the Libya-4 CEOS Calibration Site." Sensors 15, no. 2: 3453-3470.