ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes, the Copernicus Programme and India ISPRS TC V Mid Term Symposium Dehradun, 20th November
Steven Hosford, ESA/CNES CEOS Executive Officer
Issue/Revision: 0.0 Reference: Status: ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use The European Space Agency
Slide 2 Purpose of ESA
“To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.” Article 2 of the ESA Convention
ESA was established in 1975
Slide 3 ESA facts and figures
• Over 50 years of experience
• 22 Member States
• Eight sites/facilities in Europe, about 2300 staff
• 5.6 billion Euro budget (2018)
• Over 80 satellites designed, tested and operated in flight
Slide 4 ESA EO Programmes in 2018
709 People Budget 555 in EOP 154 in other ESA 1.5 bn Directorates
5 Sites
ESRIN ECSAT HQ ESTEC EBO
Slide 5 Satellites 25 under development 15 in operation
Slide 6 The Earth Explorers
Slide 7 The Earth Explorers Missions
• Science driven programme • Mission selection proposed by a peer committee “Advisory Committee for Earth Observation” • Financed through the Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP) • On average one mission every 2 years
Explorer Core Missions Fast Track Missions Major missions covering Smaller research and primary research demonstration objectives missions
ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use Slide 8 Science: Earth Explorers
Slide 9 Aeolus
Launched 22 Aug. 2018 Wind Mission First ever UV LIDAR in Space
Slide 10 Aeolus
12 September 2018
© ESA/ECMWF ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use Slide 11 Copernicus
Slide 12 Copernicus – a new Phase in EO
European Earth Observation System • Led by the EU • EU-ESA Collaboration
European response to global needs:
• to manage the environment • to mitigate the effects of climate change • to ensure civil security
European independence, contribution to global system (GEOSS)
ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use | Slide 13 CSC: Sentinel Satellites
Sentinel 1 (A/B/C/D) All weather, day/night applications, SAR Imaging interferometry
Sentinel 2 (A/B/C/D) Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture, … Multispectral Imaging Continuity of Landsat, SPOT
Sentinel 3 (A/B/C/D) Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land Ocean & Global Land Monitoring surface temperature, altimetry
Sentinel 4 (A/B) Atmospheric composition monitoring, pollution; Geostationary Atmospheric instrument on MTG satellites
Sentinel 5 (A/B/C) & Precursor Atmospheric composition monitoring; Low-Orbit Atmospheric instrument on MetOp-SG satellites
Sentinel 6 Altimetry reference mission Jason CS (A/B) Slide 14 The Big Data Revolution Copernicus is the largest producer of EO data in the world
All this data is available: Daily Data Production All global landmass15 TB is FreelySentinelsand openly observed every worldwide 5 days at 10m resolution With long-term Daily Data continuity well beyond This has never Dissemination Sentinels 150happened TB 2030 before Copernicus Sentinel Data Policy
Sentinel data are available:
Free, Full and Open* Over very long term Systematically, Operationally
* ESA Sentinel Data Policy (Sep 2013) and EU Delegated Act on Copernicus Data and Information Policy (Dec 2013) ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use | Slide 16 Registered Sentinel Users
150000 Sentinel access through 125000 • EU/ESA Copernicus 100000 Open Access Hub • 6 Copernicus 75000 services 50000 • 18 ESA Member State hubs 25000 • NASA, NOAA, USGS, Geoscience Australia 0 Jan 15Jul 15Jan 16Jul 16Jan 17Jul 17Jan 18Jul 1 • Commercial hubs Sentinel Open Access Data Hub
Statistics on 12 Nov. 2018 scihub.copernicus.eu DIAS – Creating an EO Data Ecosystem
• Copernicus Data and Information Access Services • Common DG-GROW-ESA approach to EO data exploitation with Copernicus at its core • Create & enable European EO Data ecosystem for research & business • Started in June 2018
Slide 19 Copernicus Space Component Evolution
Next-Gen. missions will replace current & expansion missions 2014 Current Sentinels Sentinel Next Generation Sentinel Expansion
Copernicus for Security Copernicus 2.0
6 High Priority Candidate Missions Anthropogenic CO Monitor causes of 2 High Resolution Imaging Agriculture & Water Climate Change Surface Temp. Spectrometer Productivity (CO2 emissions) Monitor effects of Phase A/B1 for new SentinelsFood ongoing Security, Soil ClimatePolar Ice Change & Snow Hyperspectral & Minerals, Forestry, (Arctic/PolarTopography ice Imaging Biodiversity volume)
PassiveSea Ice MicrowaveConc. & SST LSoil-band Moisture, Imaging(Arctic situational SARVegetation & awareness) Ground Motion
ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use | Slide 21 Operational Systems are Game-Changers
Copernicus Services
Land Atmosphere
Marine Climate Environment Change
Emergency EmergencySecurity Management Security MarineClimateAtmosphere EnvironmentLand Change Management SeaRefugeeAtmosphericBuildMonthly SurfaceMapping-up Camp area mean Temp. CO inFloods 2 Monitoring MethaneBudapesttime Anomalies series
ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use Slide 22 International Agreements • EC leads cooperation with third countries and international organisations • ESA implements technical cooperation activities with those partners Aim is mutual access to and enhanced use of Earth observation data
Fields of cooperation may be:
• Data acquisition and Quasi Real Time production (International Local Stations – currently not foreseen) • Complementary collaborative data products and algorithms definition • Core data product dissemination and access (e.g. international mirror sites) • Development of innovative tools and applications • Complementary external validation support activities Existing Cooperation Agreements (4)
Signed in February 2016. NASA intends to set-up a NASA Sentinel data mirror site
Signed in March 2016. NOAA intends to use global NOAA Sentinel data for research purposes
Signed in February 2016. USGS will focus on Sentinel- USGS 2 products hosting and distribution.
Signed in March 2016. GA, in collaboration with partner entities, intends to establish a Regional Geoscience Copernicus Data Access/Analysis Mirror Site ('GA Data Australia Mirror Site') to improve access to, and exploitation of, Sentinel data in the Australian, South-East Asia and South Pacific Region ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use 06/04/2018 | Slide 25 Thank you for your attention!
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