Overview of ESA GMES activities and interactions with the EC

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Overview of ESA GMES activities and interactions
with the EC
 Informationstag  zu  GMES  und  Satcom  im
 6. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm 29 April 2005,
Bonn
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Agenda

• ESA EC Coordination
• GMES Advisory Committee
• GMES Programme Office
• ESA activities on GMES
• GMES Service Elements
• Charter a precursor
• GMES Preparatory Activities
• GMES Space Component Programme

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ESA EC Coordination
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GMES Co-ordination Bodies

• Advisory Committee
• GAC(2004)1
• A way of maintaining and strengthening the
  political ownership of GMES,
• Provide strategic advice and policy orientation
  on
• GMES long-term implementation, including possible
  funding mechanisms and encouraging a GMES
  partnership.
• to optimise the use of existing and future GMES
  infrastructures,
• assessing the overall strategic and
  socio-economic benefits of GMES
• Membership
• EC, ESA and related Member States, interested in
  making significant contributions to GMES
• Meeting
• twice a year, next on 1st June 2005

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GMES Co-ordination Bodies

• Programme Office
• GAC(2004)2
• Implement, in its early stages, the operational
  management of GMES
• Membership
• Co-chaired by
• EC - Head of Unit for GMES,
• ESA - Head of ESA GMES Unit,
• DG-Environment,Joint Research Centre, Research,
  Enterprise Industry
• ESA Earth Observation Programmes Directorate
• EEA , EUMETSAT,EU Satellite Center
• Meeting
• twice a month

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Actions

• MANAGEMENT
• Assessment of Socio-Economic Impact of GMES
  GAC(2004)5 - July 2004.
• IMPLEMENTATION
• Initial services implementationGAC(2004)4 July
  2004
• Development of the Space Observation
  componentGAC(2004)7 July 2004
• In situ component, GAC(2004)6 July 2004
• Data integration and information management
  (INSPIRE)
• Data policy framework
• Security and dual-use, GAC(2004)17 Nov. 2004
• Definition of follow-up management structure
• Funding mechanisms
• International cooperation policies
• Proposal for Long-Term Implementation of GMES

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ESA Activities on GMES
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GMES Preparatory activities
Development of Initial Services GSE
Program Socio-economic analysis Architecture
studies Space Component Sentinels Coordination
with national programs and Eumetsat Ground
Segment Oxygen Phase 2 (O2 open and
operational)
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GMES Service Element (GSE)
GSE is a key element and critical milestone for
GMES. It is in the middle of its successful
implementation phase.

• Prime objectives
• Maximum use of EO in support of European policies
  on environment and security
• Basis for future EO operational systems for the
  benefits of Europes citizens

• GSE services must fulfill
• Availability
• Reliability
• Affordability

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GSE Initial Services in consolidation
CoastWatch
Real-time Ocean
ICEMON
Northern View
Risk fire flood
Forest Monitoring
Soil Water
Land Motion
Urban Services
Humanitarian Aid
Atmosphere
Food Security
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User Organizations in GSE
Total 210 User orgs 190 from 33 countries 20
international
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Examples of some GSE Services delivered a
sample from 12 out of 50 individual services

• Consortium Service (example) What has
  been delivered
• CoastWatch Coastal indicator service 12
  regional units
• ROSES Algae bloom monitoring 60 regional
  basins
• ICEMON Global ice type and ice drift 200
  map-days
• Northern View Sea ice monitoring 280 regions
  of interest
• Forest Monitoring Input for national GHG
  reporting 3 nat. reports
• SAGE Water Quality 4 river basins
• Urban Services Urban land use 24 European
  cities
• GMFS Large scale crop monitoring 250
  districts/com.
• RISK-EOS Burnt scar monitoring 17 admin.
  Areas
• TerraFirma Ground displacement monitoring 16
  European cities
• Promote Urban Air Quality forecasts 2 European
  cities
• Respond Crisis Mapping Products Darfur,
  Tsunami others

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Real-time Ocean Monitoring Services

• Providers
• CLS
• Meteo-Fr
• Mercator
• IFREMER
• DNV
• NERSC
• NCMR
• Telespazio

Users CEDRE IFREMER NDF NSF IMR NCD P of
Barcelona Puertos Estados Min. Fomento Galicia
CMC CPMM Catalunya Met P of Gijon UKEA MCGA CEFAS
Min Mer. Marine HCMR
Services - Algae Bloom Monitoring - Oil Spill
Monitoring Impact Assessment
Policies INT IMO Marine Pollution (MARPOL) EU
Water Framework Directive EU ICZM
recommendations EU 6th EAP - protect nature
biodiversity EU 6th EAP - address environment
health
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Service examples

• Oil spill information
• (using C-band SAR)

Algae Bloom detection (using Ocean-colour / Meris)
Routine Monitoring alert
Impact Assessment Evolution forecasting
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Benefits example Algae bloom monitoring

• In 2002 about 200 M loss of mussel cultures in
  the River Scheldt area.
• Predicting of risk based on EO-Chlorophyll and
  wave data.
• In 2004 decision support for closing dams to keep
  Harmful algae blooms outside the estuary.

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PROMOTE Services
Atmospheric information to support protocol
monitoring
Users JRC-IES NILU EPA UBA-A UBA-D BVDD LUA WMO EC
MWF DEFRA London RIVM SYKE ADEME LOreal Meteo
Fr EMPA ARPA APAT VITO/VMM
Services Stratospheric Ozone UV Radiation Air
Quality - past, present, forecast Greenhouse
gas emissions, concentrations
Providers KNMI DLR DWD RIU U Bremen CERC PrevAir
ACRI-ST FMI

• Policies
• - Vienna convention
• - Montreal Protocol
• UN Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air
  Pollution
• UNFCCCC
• EU Clean Air for Europe (CAFÉ)

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PROMOTE Services on UV Radiation
www.gse-promote.org
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Forest Monitoring Services
Services - Forest Monitoring - Mapping and
Monitoring of Disturbances - Sub-National Forest
Information Service - Land Use and Forest
Indicator Service

• Providers
• GAF
• SFMC
• Metria
• VTT
• Geoapikonisis
• Joanneum

Users Min Agr FEA Thuringa IFGF NOA NBF Stora
Enso Min Agr FEA FS of IGSNR
Policies INT UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol INT UN
Convention on Biodiversity EU Water Framework
Directive EU Soils Forest Strategies EU 6th
EAP - protect nature biodiversity EU 6th EAP -
address environment health EU 6th EAP -
tackling climate change EU 6th EAP - preserve
nat. resources
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National Greenhouse Gas Reporting
Services Maps and Statistics for Land Use, Land
Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Spatially
explicit information on forest area and changes
versus 1990 Carbon Stock and annual changes Error
Budget and Minimum reliable estimate Compliance
with COP decisions and LULUCF Good Practice
Guidance Guidelines

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Charter a precursor
The International Charter on Space and Major
Disasters

• Initiated by CNES and ESA, joined by CSA, NOAA,
  ISRO, CONAE JAXA
• Unified system of space data acquisition /
  delivery in case of natural or human-made
  disasters
• Data delivery to civil protection agencies,
  emergency rescue services UN cooperating body
  since 2003
• Operational since 2000 24 hrs on-duty-operator,
  data resources from all Charter members
• Recent Examples of Charter Activation
• Bam Earthquake 2003
• Darfur Crisis 2004
• Tsunami Catastrophe 2004/2005

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GMES Preparatory Activities Studies
Socio Economic Benefits Study
User requirements / service segment
GMES Service Evolution
Long-term Scenario Study
G/S Architecture Definition
Concept
Sentinel Definition Studies
Requirements Assumptions
Heterog. mission Accessibility (inter-operab.)
Concepts
Space Missions Evolution
Space Segment Arch Commonality Development
approach
2005 - 2015
2005 - 2030
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Socio-Economic benefits

• Objectives
• Impact assessment for all significant new
  investment
• Support member states in investment decision
• Better understand how GMES will impact on key
  stakeholders to support future discussions and
  priority setting key groups include
• Public sector legally mandated organisations
• The citizen (directly and indirectly)
• European industry (eg competitiveness, pollution
  control effectiveness)
• Politicians
• Regional and global monitoring programmes
• Promote benefits from GMES implementation to
  wider audience

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Outcome and schedule

• What will be delivered?
• Key benefits to be expected arising from GMES
  implementation
• A political and strategic view of the benefits
  and impacts due to GMES implementation
• Benefits evaluated against cost envelopes from an
  economic perspective
• Variation in benefit resulting from different
  implementation levels for GMES
• Schedule
• Kick-Off meeting March 2005
• First versions of analysis by June/July 2005
• Final versions of analyses by November 2005

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GMES Architecture Studies
USERS
Service Component
Socio-economic data
Data Integration Information Management
Ground Segment
In-Situ Data Access
EO Data Access Integration Layer
PGS
PGS
PGS
In-situ Airborne Other non-space Systems Existing
In-situ networks (EIOnet, INSPIRE)
FOS
FOS
FOS
Space Segment
National Cooperative Missions
EUMETSAT
ESA
In Situ Component
Space Component / EO Component
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Space Observations
The GMES Sentinels
Sentinel 1 SAR imaging All weather, day/night
applications, interferometry Sentinel 2
Superspectral imaging Continuity of Landsat, SPOT
Vegetation-type data Sentinel 3 Ocean
monitoring Wide-swath ocean color and surface
temperature sensors, altimeter Sentinel 4
Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition
monitoring, trans-boundary pollution Sentinel 5
Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition
monitoring
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Sentinel (1-2-3) Definition Studies

• Detailed definition of Sentinels and of its
  operations concept.
• Establish the mission and system concept,
• Demonstrate the feasibility
• Provide the design
• Validate in System Requirements Review (SRR) as
  per ECSS-M-30A
• Analysis of mission and system functions and
  requirements for all mission elements,
• Programmatic system engineering approach, model
  concept, development planning, schedule and cost
  estimates,
• Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 include also the
  analysis of the accommodation of the 3-band
  payload defined in the Fuegosat

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GMES Sentinels Payload Ground Segment

• Objectives
• Define and design
• the multi-mission PDS architecture and
  operational concept
• to be applied to the GMES Sentinel (i.e. 1, 2
  and 3 series),
• building over current and past mission PDGS
  gained experience
• Specifying the
• multi-mission and mission-specific PDS modules
• and their interfaces,
• and providing an implementation plan including
  the costs, schedule and risks.
• Scope
• All PDGS functions
• Including the interface to the EO data access
  layer

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Interoperability
GMES Services
Science
Comm.
Public
Public
Public
Science
Public
Comm.
Service Infrastructure and Support
GEOSS Access
Access
EO Data Access Integration Layer
Access
In-situ Non-space systems
Tasking/Dissem
other European Mission ground segment
Non-European agencies ground segments
Production
M C
EUMETSAT
Archive
Acquisition
Satellite/ Missions
ESA
Na t
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Heterogeneous missions accessibility
(inter-operability)

• Objectives
• Define, standardize and prototype
• harmonized interface for the GMES Service Users
  with the different EO data providers,
• to allow an easy and cost-effective access to
  heterogeneous EO mission data
• Scope
• GMES EO products and its format ()
• EO products quality certification, including
  methods and criteria and across-mission
  calibration and validation standards ()
• Interface for ordering/programming, catalogue
  access, and on-line data access.
• user management and administration
• EO data supply agreements (common GMES data
  policy and Service Level Agreement) to be adhered
  by the GMES satellite data providers. ()

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GEO and GMES
The Oxygen Concept

• Facilitating access to EO data from ESA and other
  missions
• Increasing sustainability of data provision
• Widening the range of offered data sources
• Making operations of EO missions more efficient
• Started 2002, ongoing to enlarge the benefits of
  EO

Pillar S Developing Services
Pillar C Access to current data sources
Pillar N Integrating new national EO projects
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GMES Space Component Programme

• addresses the following elements
• Space observations
• Sentinels
• National missions, Eumetsat and TPM
• GMES ground segment required to manage space data
• Integration of new space data into GMES services
• Not addressed in the GMES proposal are
• In-situ observations
• Policy regulatory framework
• Institutional structure to govern, finance and
  operate GMES

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Programme Schedule
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Road Map
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GMES
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
(GMES)
GMES is a joint initiative of ESA and the EC to
respond to the need to establish, by 2008, a
European Capacity for Global Monitoring of
Environment and Security to support the public
policy makers need for global access to
reliable, accurate and up-to-date information on
issues of environment and security EC
Communication COM(2001)264, 15 April 2001
Needs
Public Policy
EO
Solutions