View on the need to develop standards and certification protocols

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View on the need to develop standards and
certification protocols
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What is EARSC?

• EARSC is a non-profit-making organisation created
  in 1989
• EARSC is an association of corporate and observer
  members which gathers the collective voice of the
  Earth Observation Industry
• EARSCs focus is growing the use of earth
  observation and increasing the profile of its
  members.
• Fosters dialogue between EARSC members, decision
  makers and users
• Provides technical expertise and policy guidance
• Promotes EO industry with European bodies

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EARSCs Mission
EARSC facilitates networking amongst member
organizations and disseminates information on
opportunities, stakeholder involvement,
procedures and policies of interest to its
members. Through the active participation of its
members, EARSC helps them be more successful by
providing the best networking and information
dissemination
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EARSC Goals

• Support
• Goal continually support industry in relevant
  institutions
• Action promote development of communications,
  marketing and standards of EO industry though
  public administration
• Policy
• Goal major driver of member-supportive EO policy
• Action develop policy positions on EO sector and
  partnerships
• Outreach
• Goal through membership expansion and networking
  activities, provide good opportunities for
  members to effectively develop business
  relationships with existing and new partners,
  customers and suppliers
• Action Proactively engage the communication
  between many different actors. Solicit feedback
  for improvements. Implement Membership campaign.
• Information
• Goal primary source of strategic EO info and new
  business knowledge for members. EO voice (braking
  news, eventsetc)
• Action contact communication with members.
  Organize events. Enhanced representation will
  strength the voice of industry.

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STANDARDS

• Non-proprietary Standards
• Success of the government programs
• Leverage their investments in systems and data
• Selection of the best software tool for each job
  and reduce technology and procurement risk, like
  the risk of being bound to one vendor
• Programs based on open standards have a 25
  better return on investment than programs based
  largely on vendors' proprietary interfaces and
  formats.

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Standards a History of Success

• GSM An agreed standard
• WINDOWS A de-facto commercially imposed standard
• LINUX A de-facto non-commercially established
  standard

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E.O.Harmonization

• Why
• Combination of data from different sources is
  essential to know the Earth System
• Constrains
• Imcompatible observations, missing standards,
  insufficient operational data assimilation
  capacity
• Needs
• Mechanism for achieving the convergence or
  harmonization of observation methods, agreement
  on the use of standards, references and the
  promotion of intercalibration and operational
  data assimilation

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E.O.Standards

• Environmental information needs a minimum set of
  tools to allow interoperability to reduce the
  cost of making transaction between information
  systems.
• The idea to follow is the internal
  reorganization of the systems. The Earth
  Observation value added sector should evolve with
  interoperable services and using standards,
  independently of the space data and of the
  sensor.
• Standards should consider two main topics DATA
  and NETWORKS

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CORINE INSPIRECORINE -Coordination of
Information of the Environment INSPIRE-
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

• CORINE 1990 and CORINE/IMAGE2000 A successful
  attempt to standardize Earth Observation and
  Geo-Data for LAND-COVER applications
• INSPIRE A succesful Framework Directive aiming at
  Data Harmonization for ENVIRONMENT applications.

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INSPIRE
INSPIRE- Infrastructure for Spatial Information
in Europe

• The INSPIRE Framework Directive, lays down
  general rules for the establishment of an
  infrastructure for spatial information in Europe,
  based on infrastructures established and operated
  by the Member States.
• The component elements of those infrastructures
  shall include
• metadata,
• spatial data sets
• network services and technologies
• agreements on sharing, access and use
• coordination and monitoring mechanisms,
• processes and procedures.
• Member States will have to implement different
  measures to have these components into place.

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GMES relevant objectives

• Converging or harmonizing observation methods
• Promoting the use of existing standards and
  references, intercallibration and data
  assimilation.
• Defining and updating interoperability
  arrangements
• (collecting, processing, storing and
  disseminating shared data, metadata and products)
• Studying new standards

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GIS I/F STANDARDS (I)

• The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) is an
  international consortium of 335 companies,
  government agencies and universities
  participating in a consensus process to develop
  publicly available interface specifications.
• OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable
  solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and
  location-based services, and mainstream IT. The
  specifications empower technology developers to
  make complex spatial information and services
  accessible and useful with all kinds of
  applications.

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GIS I/F STANDARDS (II)

• To support INSPIRE, OGC and OGCE, the European
  OGC subsidiary, provided input to the early
  Position Papers for INSPIRE
• European OGC industry members participated in the
  Internet consultation prior to the adoption of
  the Framework Directive by the European
  Commission.
• OGCE was also a partner in the Geographic
  Information Network In Europe (GINIE) Project.
  The aim of this project was to develop a cohesive
  Geographic Information Strategy at the European
  level, and which thus provided strategic input to
  INSPIRE

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European ActorsPrograms working for
Geo-Interoperability

• EU
• INSPIRE
• GMES
• ORCHESTRA
• RISE
• MOTIVE
• GEOCREW
• ESA
• Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility -
  Interoperability (HMA-I) Project
• GMES
• EUSCReference Facility
• NATO
• MGCP

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European ActorsPrograms working for
Geo-Interoperability

• SPAIN IDEE-GeoPista
• UK GeoDRM
• GERMANY GDI-DE
• THE NETHERLANDS GeoServices
• FRANCE InfoTerre
• NORWAY GeoNorge

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EARSC Actual Members (87)

• European Space Imaging
• Eurosense
• Eurosense EOOD
• Eurosense Sp. Z.o.o.
• GAF AG
• GeoID
• Geospace
• Geosystems Polska
• Geoville
• GIM
• GISAT
• GMV
• H.G. Geo Data Solutions
• Hunting TS
• Indra Espacio
• Infoterra Group
• INSA
• INTA (Observer)
• ITT Visual information Solutions

• PCI Geomatics (Observer)
• Planetek Italia
• RapidEye
• ReSAC (Observer)
• Saab Ericsson Space
• Sarmap
• Satellite Services BV
• SciSys
• Sener
• SERTIT-ULP (Observer)
• Space Systems Finland
• Spacedat
• Spacemetric
• Spot Image
• Starlab
• Tecnologías y Servicios Agrarios
• Tele-Rilevamento Europa
• Telespazio
• ThalesLand Joint Systems

• Advanced Computer Systems
• Aerodata International Surveys
• Alcatel Alenia Space France
• Alcatel Alenia Spazio Italy
• Arcadis KLM Aerocarto
• Argongra
• Argoss
• Aurensis
• BARCO Belgium
• Brockmann Consult
• C-Core (Observer)
• Captec
• CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites)
• ControlWare
• Critical Software
• CS Communications Systems
• CTM
• Definiens AG
• Deimos Space

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EARSC Board of Directors
- Paul Kamoun (Alcatel Alenia Space, F),
Chairman - Stigbjorn Olovsson (Metria
Miljöanalys, SE), Vice-Chairman - Andre Jadot
(Eurosense, B), Treasurer - Nickolaus Faller
(Infoterra GmbH, DE), Director - Marcello
Ricottilli (Finmeccanica, I), Director - Vicente
Ruiz (INSA, ES), Director - Geoff Sawyer (EADS
Space, FR), Director - Han Wensink (Argoss, NL),
Director - Ian Downey (SciSys, UK),
Director Contact P.O. Box 10.000, Brussels 45,
1020 BXL, BELGIUM Mónica Miguel-Lago- EARSC
Executive Secretary
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