Satellite Data Fusion Pipeline

Python pipeline for downloading Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 imagery and PhenoCam ground truth, applying NDVI-based cloud pre-selection, fusing sensors with the EFAST algorithm, and evaluating fused Green Chromatic Coordinate (GCC) time series against PhenoCam gcc_90.

Features

• Acquisition — S2 L2A (AWS Element84 STAC), S3 OLCI L1B (Copernicus OpenEO), PhenoCam midday images and GCC CSV
• Pre-selection — Aggressive and non-aggressive NDVI-based cloud screening (plus dark-scene rejection)
• Preparation — Harmonised reflectance/GCC rasters, distance-to-cloud weights, S3 compositing and optional temporal smoothing
• Fusion — EFAST under eight scenarios per site (BtI and ItB × two strategies × σ ∈ {20, 30} days)
• Post-processing — Crop to valid-data window; NDVI and GCC timeseries at the site
• Metrics — Temporal comparison vs PhenoCam (metrics.json); optional Tier-2 withheld-S2 gap validation
• Web viewer — Static HTML dashboard over pipeline outputs (webapp/)

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install git+https://github.com/DHI-GRAS/efast.git   # not on PyPI

Create .env with Copernicus Data Space credentials:

• CDSE_USER
• CDSE_PASSWORD

Python version is pinned in .python-version (use .venv/ locally).

Usage

from run import run_pipeline

run_pipeline(season=2024, site_position=(47.116171, 11.320308), site_name="innsbruck")

site_position is always (lat, lon). Study sites are listed at the bottom of run.py: innsbruck, forthgr, pitsalu, vindeln2, sunflowerjerez1, institutekarnobat.

By default, most stages in run.py are commented out (metrics-only). Uncomment acquisition → pre-selection → preparation → fusion → post-processing for a full run.

Pipeline stages

1. Download S2, S3, and PhenoCam
2. Pre-selection (per-sensor NDVI screening → raw/preselection/)
3. Prepare S2/S3 for each strategy (prepared_{aggressive|nonaggressive}/ and _itb/ variants)
4. EFAST fusion (BtI reflectance and ItB GCC products)
5. Post-process crops and timeseries (processed_*_sigma{20,30}/)
6. Compute metrics vs PhenoCam → metrics.json

Gap validation (optional)

With prepared data and EFAST installed:

python -m gap_validation.run --site innsbruck --season 2024 --lat 47.116171 --lon 11.320308

Writes data/{site}/{season}/validation/gap_manifest.json, gap_validation_summary.json, and masked fusion under validation/fusion/. See python -m gap_validation.run --help.

Data layout

data/{site_name}/{season}/
  raw/
    s2/                    # {YYYYMMDD}_{n}.geotiff — B02, B03, B04, B8A
    s3/                    # {YYYYMMDD}_{n}.geotiff — Oa04, Oa06, Oa08, Oa17
    phenocam/              # JPEGs, GCC JSON, phenology sidecar
    preselection/          # {s2,s3}_preselection.{json,csv}
  prepared_{strategy}/
    s2/                    # REFL + DIST_CLOUD GeoTIFFs
    s3/                    # composite_{YYYYMMDD}.tif
    fusion/                # REFL_{YYYYMMDD}.tif (σ≈20)
    fusion_sigma30/        # REFL (σ=30)
  prepared_{strategy}_itb/
    s2/  s3/  fusion/      # GCC products (Index-then-Blend)
  processed_{strategy}_sigma{20,30}/
    s2/  s3/  fusion/      # cropped {YYYYMMDD}_0.geotiff
    gcc/  ndvi/            # timeseries.json per source
  processed_{strategy}_itb_sigma{20,30}/
    s2/  s3/  fusion/  gcc/
  validation/            # gap experiment (when run)
  metrics.json

Site metadata: data/sites.geojson (six thesis sites). data/coweeta/ is local/legacy and not listed there.

File formats

Sentinel-2 — Multi-band GeoTIFF; bands [blue, green, red, nir]; VIEWING_ZENITH_ANGLE metadata; filename {YYYYMMDD}_{increment}.geotiff.

Sentinel-3 — Multi-band GeoTIFF; same band order; filename {YYYYMMDD}_{increment}.geotiff.

Prepared S2 — S2A_MSIL2A_{YYYYMMDD}_REFL.tif plus *DIST_CLOUD.tif (cloud-distance weights for EFAST).

Web viewer

Static HTML/JS in webapp/ — no build step. Shared GeoTIFF helpers: webapp/common.js. CDN: Leaflet, geotiff.js, proj4. Symlink: webapp/data → ../data.

Serve from the repository root (not webapp/):

python3 -m http.server 8000
# http://localhost:8000/webapp/index.html

Or from the workspace root: make serve.

Page	Purpose	Primary data paths
index.html	Post-processed maps, NDVI/GCC timeseries, PhenoCam	processed_{strategy}_sigma{n}/, raw/phenocam/
preselection.html	Cloud-screening diagnostics	raw/preselection/{s2,s3}_preselection.json
prepared.html	Prepared REFL/GCC before crop	prepared_{strategy}/, prepared_{strategy}_itb/
fusion.html	EFAST daily fusion rasters	prepared_*/fusion/, fusion_sigma30/
postprocessed.html	Cropped processed stacks	processed_*_sigma*/
metrics.html	Tabular metrics.json (thesis export source)	{site}/{season}/metrics.json under webapp/data/
gap_validation.html	Withheld-S2 gap experiment	{site}/{season}/validation/gap_validation_summary.json
phenology.html	TIMESAT on PhenoCam GCC	raw/phenocam/phenocam_phenology.json

Site/season dropdowns use data/sites.geojson. Map pages: BtI | ItB; scenarios aggressive / nonaggressive, σ 20 / 30. Keep the shared nav consistent across all eight pages. QA only — thesis tables are exported from the workspace root (make export or ../scripts/export_thesis_tables.py).

Development

ruff check --fix . && ruff format .

Pre-commit hooks: .pre-commit-config.yaml.

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). See LICENSE.