ESA Coastal Erosion Project : end-users validation document

This is a Phase-2 mid-term version of the End-Users Validation Document (EUVD) of the Earth Observation products produced by the “Coastal Change from Space” team for the Coastal Erosion Project (BGS ref. NEE6695R) within the Science for Society slice of the 5th Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP-5) run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and written by the End-Users team. It contains a detailed validation and synthesis of the products produced by the Service-Provider team against the End-Users Requirement Document (BGS ref. CR/19/055).
The EUVD summarizes the conformity of the different Earth Observation Products provided by the Service Providers (ARGANS, adwäisEO and IsardSAT) with the specifics User Requirement for each one of the enrolled end-user organizations (British Geological Survey (BGS), Geological Survey Ireland (GSI), Subdirección General para la Protección de la Costa (SGPC) supported by the Instituto de Hidraulica Ambiental de Cantabria (IHC) and ARCTUS) and additional requirements from other end-users organized per country (UK, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Canada).
BGS member of staff, Dr Andres Payo has been in charge of compiling and synthesizing all end-user requirements into a standardized format and writing this report, while Dr Michael A. Ellis has reviewed and approved the final version of this document. The main contributors from each one of the enrolled end-users’s organization are: Dr. Xavier Monteys (GSI), Dr Jara Martinez Sanchez (Environmental Hydraulics Institute - Universidad de Cantabria, IHCantabria), Christian Marchese (ARCTUS).