Team

The SAGE project team comprises seven scientific and industrial partners.

The partners are:

Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway)

Project Role: Prime contractor and scientific lead, responsible for the overall management of the project.

Met Norway is also leader of WP 300 (System Development and ECV Data Processing), which will build the open-source system that will produce and distribute the products.

Science And Technology Norway (S&T)

Project Role: Leader of Work Package 600 (Project Management & Science Lead), providing project management, and supporting the science leader in organising activities and coordinating with the consortium, project reporting and document control.

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)

Project Role: Leader of Work Package 200 (Algorithm Development), coordinating the development of the core methods for retrieving ice age and type from EO data.

University of Bremen (UB)

Project Role: Contributing to the development of algorithms, leading Work Packages 210 (Algorithm intercomparison and selection) and 250 (Blending of SITY and SIAG).

Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Project Role: Leader of Work Package 100 (Requirements Analysis), which will define what the community needs from the sea-ice age and drift records.

University of Hamburg (UH)

Project Role: Leader of Work Package 400 (Validation). The goal of the work package is to quantify the product quality and uncertainties, and provide an independent evaluation.

University of Manitoba (UM)

Project Role: Leader of Work Package 500 (Product Assessment) and the Climate User Research Group. The work package will use the products in climate research, including studies of MYI budgets, sea-ice trends, and model evaluation.