Ref. Ares(2015)2934566 - 13/07/2015 ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use esrin Via Galileo Galilei Casella Postale 64 00044 Frascati Italy DOCUMENT Copernicus Space Component Data Access Portfolio: Data Warehouse 2014 - 2020 Prepared by B. Hoersch, V. Amans ESA Reference COPE-PMAN-EOPG-TN-15-0004 Issue/Revision 1.0 Date of Issue 31/03/2015 Status Draft ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use APPROVAL CHANGE LOG Reason for change Issue Nr. Revision Number Date CHANGE RECORD Issue Number 1 Revision Number 0 Reason for change Date Pages Paragraph(s) First issue 31/03/2015 DISTRIBUTION Name/Organisational Unit Page 2/79 Copernicus Space Component Data Access Portfolio: Data Warehouse 2014 - 2020 Issue Date 31/03/2015 Ref COPE-PMAN-EOPG-TN-15-0004 ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use Table of contents: 1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 6 1.1 Reference documents ........................................................................................................6 1.2 Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................6 1.3 Document overview ......................................................................................................... 8 2 USER CATEGORIES AND LICENSING SCHEME ....................................... 8 2.1 Copernicus Services [Copernicus_Services] ................................................................... 8 2.2 Institutions and bodies of the Union [Union_Inst] ........................................................ 8 2.3 Participants to a research project financed under the Union research programmes – space [Union_Research_Projects_space] ...............................................................................9 2.4 Participants to a research project financed under the Union research programmes – non space [Union_Research_Projects_non-space] ................................................................9 2.5 Public Authority [Public_Auth] ........................................................................................9 2.6 International Organisations and NGOs [INT_ORG_NGO] ...........................................9 2.7 Public [Public] ...................................................................................................................9 2.8 Licensing scheme ..............................................................................................................9 3 COPERNICUS SPACE COMPONENT ........................................................ 11 3.1 Resolution Classes........................................................................................................... 11 3.2 Copernicus Dedicated Sentinel-1 Mission ...................................................................... 12 3.3 Copernicus Contributing Missions ................................................................................. 12 4 CORE DATASETS ..................................................................................... 13 4.1 Overview of CORE datasets ............................................................................................ 13 4.2 Detailed description of CORE datasets .......................................................................... 15 4.2.1 Optical HR Pan Europe coverage (HR_IMAGE_2015) ............................................... 15 4.2.2 Optical VHR multispectral and panchromatic coverage over Europe (VHR_IMAGE_2015) ............................................................................................................ 18 4.2.3 European Optical MR1 composites (MR_IMAGE_2015) ............................................ 21 4.2.4 Optical MR2 worldwide coverage (MR_OPTICAL_GLOBAL) ...................................23 4.2.5 Optical LR worldwide coverage (LR_OPTICAL_GLOBAL) ....................................... 24 4.2.6 European HR2 Multitemporal Coverages (EUR_HR2_MULTITEMP) ...................... 25 4.2.7 VHR1-2 Urban Atlas 2012 ............................................................................................. 27 4.2.8 SAR HR2/MR1 Worldwide coverage (HR2-MR1_SAR_GLOBAL) ............................ 28 4.2.9 Sea Ice Monitoring HR1/MR2 SAR (SAR_SEA_ICE) ................................................ 29 4.2.10 Altimetry and Atmospheric datasets ...................................................................... 31 5 ADDITIONAL DATASETS......................................................................... 32 5.1 List of ADDITIONAL datasets ........................................................................................32 5.2 Detailed description of Additional datasets .................................................................. 34 5.2.1 VHR1 SAR and Optical ................................................................................................. 34 5.2.2 VHR2 SAR and Optical ................................................................................................ 36 5.2.3 HR1 SAR and Optical ................................................................................................... 38 5.2.4 HR2 SAR and Optical ................................................................................................... 40 5.2.5 MR1 SAR and Optical ................................................................................................... 42 6 EO DATA ORDERING WITHIN ADDITIONAL DATASETS ........................ 43 6.1 Order parameters ........................................................................................................... 43 6.1.1 Size of Minimum Orderable Area ............................................................................... 44 Page 3/79 Copernicus Space Component Data Access Portfolio: Data Warehouse 2014 - 2020 Issue Date 31/03/2015 Ref COPE-PMAN-EOPG-TN-15-0004 ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use 6.1.2 Satellite Tasking lead time ........................................................................................... 48 6.1.3 Processing Options ....................................................................................................... 49 6.1.4 Cloud Coverage Classes ................................................................................................ 49 6.1.5 SAR Polarisation .......................................................................................................... 50 6.1.6 Delivery timeliness ....................................................................................................... 50 6.2 Quota allocation, consumption and reshuffling ............................................................ 50 6.2.1 Quota consumption ....................................................................................................... 51 6.2.2 Quota exhaustion and reshuffling ................................................................................. 51 6.2.3 Quota allocations per Project ........................................................................................ 52 7 CSC-DA SERVICES ................................................................................... 65 7.1 Copernicus Space Component Data Access (CSC-DA) infrastructure ........................... 65 7.2 Rapid Emergency Activation Satellite Tasking ............................................................. 66 7.2.1 Rush tasking schemes .................................................................................................. 66 7.2.2 CCMEs emergency service support .............................................................................. 66 7.3 Registration and Signature of ESA-User Licence .......................................................... 68 7.3.1 Sentinel data access ...................................................................................................... 68 7.3.2 Contributing Missions data access ............................................................................... 68 7.4 EO data ordering ............................................................................................................ 68 7.5 Subscription Request ..................................................................................................... 69 7.6 Discovery and download ................................................................................................ 69 7.7 Direct access to CCMEs or CDS on-line repositories .................................................... 69 8 USER SUPPORT SERVICES .................................................................... 69 8.1 Web Portal ...................................................................................................................... 70 8.2 Day-to-day support for enquiries and ordering ............................................................ 70 8.3 Specific support regarding the data offer ...................................................................... 70 ANNEX 1: EEA39 AREA OF INTEREST .......................................................... 71 ANNEX 2: ACQUISITION WINDOWS FOR HR/VHR _IMAGE_2015 ............. 72 ANNEX 3: PROJECTION INFORMATION FOR HR/VHR _IMAGE_2015 ....... 74 ANNEX 4: MAP OF LARGE REGIONS & CLOUD COVER ZONES ................... 75 ANNEX 5: CLOUD COVER AND HAZE .......................................................... 76 Page 4/79 Copernicus Space Component Data Access Portfolio: Data Warehouse 2014 - 2020 Issue Date 31/03/2015 Ref COPE-PMAN-EOPG-TN-15-0004 ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use List of tables Table 1 Datasets licensing scheme