ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use DRAGON 5 COOPERATION PROPOSAL INFORMATION NOTE FOR SCIENTISTS Prepared by ESA & NRSCC Reference EOP-SD-TN-0090 Issue 1 Revision 0 Date of Issue 16th December 2019 Status Approved Document Type Technical Note ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Title DRAGON 5 COOPERATION PROPOSAL - INFORMATION NOTE FOR SCIENTISTS Issue 1 Revision 0 Author ESA & NRSCC Date Approved by Date Reason for change Issue Revision Date Issue DRAFT Revision Reason for change Date Pages Paragraph(s) Page 2/31 DRAGON 5 Cooperation Proposal Information Note For Scientists Date 16th December 2019. Issue 1 Rev 0 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use Table of contents: 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 Purpose and structure of the document ............................................................................................................................ 5 1.2 Applicable documents ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 1.3 Reference documents & websites ...................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4 List of Acronyms ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 2 BACKGROUND TO THE DRAGON COOPERATION .......................................................................... 9 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE CALL ........................................................................................................ 10 3.1 Objectives of the call ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 3.2 General conditions of the call .......................................................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Organisation of a project’s proposal ................................................................................................................................. 11 3.3.1 Principal Investigator(s) tasks for proposal submission ............................................................................................... 11 3.4 Research and development on Dragon 5 topics .............................................................................................................. 12 3.5 Requests for information concerning the call ................................................................................................................. 13 4 SUBMISSION & EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS .............................................................................14 4.1 Proposal submission ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 4.2 Review Panel and procedures .......................................................................................................................................... 14 4.3 Evaluation criteria ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 4.4 Follow-on actions and activities ...................................................................................................................................... 15 5 SCHEDULE .................................................................................................................................... 15 1 ANNEX - ARCHIVE ESA EO MISSIONS ..........................................................................................16 1.1 ERS ................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 1.2 ENVISAT .......................................................................................................................................................................... 16 1.3 GOCE ................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 2 ANNEX OPERATIONAL EARTH EXPLORERS MISSIONS .............................................................. 18 2.1 SMOS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 2.2 CRYOSAT-2 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18 2.3 SWARM ............................................................................................................................................................................ 18 2.4 ADM-Aeolus ..................................................................................................................................................................... 19 3 ANNEX - FUTURE EARTH EXPLORERS MISSIONS ...................................................................... 20 3.1 EarthCARE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20 3.2 BIOMASS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 20 3.3 FLEX ................................................................................................................................................................................ 20 4 ANNEX - COPERNICUS SENTINELS MISSIONS ............................................................................. 21 4.1 Sentinel 1 A/B ................................................................................................................................................................... 21 4.2 Sentinel 2 A/B .................................................................................................................................................................. 21 4.3 Sentinel 3 A/B .................................................................................................................................................................. 21 4.4 Sentinel 4 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 22 4.5 Sentinel 5 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 22 4.6 Sentinel 5-P ...................................................................................................................................................................... 23 4.7 Sentinel 6 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 23 5 ANNEX - ESA TPM MISSIONS ....................................................................................................... 24 5.1 Optical ESA TPM sensors ................................................................................................................................................ 24 5.1.1 PROBA-V........................................................................................................................................................................ 24 5.1.2 Planet .............................................................................................................................................................................. 24 5.1.3 Pleiades/SPOT ............................................................................................................................................................... 25 5.1.4 Deimos-2 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 25 5.1.5 WorldView 2&3/GeoEye-1/QuickBird .......................................................................................................................... 25 5.2 SAR ESA TPM sensors ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 5.2.1 ALOS-1 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 26 5.2.2 COSMO-SkyMed ............................................................................................................................................................ 26 Page 3/31 DRAGON 5 Cooperation Proposal Information Note For Scientists Date 16th December 2019. Issue 1 Rev 0 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use 5.2.3 RadarSat-2 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 27 5.2.4 Iceye (collection will be opened early next year) .........................................................................................................