Space Downstream Services 2010 6-7 May 2010, Tallinn, Estonia The GMES programme: Implementation of the Space Component and Services Josef Aschbacher Head, ESA GMES Space Office
GMES Components GMES is a user-driven EU led initiative Services Component coordinated by EC Produces information services in response to European policy priorities in environment and security Relies on data from in-situ and space component In-situ component coordinated by EEA Observations mostly within national responsibility, with coordination at European level Space Component coordinated by ESA Sentinels - EO missions developed specifically for GMES Contributing Missions - EO missions built for purposes other than GMES but offering part of their capacity to GMES (EU/ESA MSs, EUMETSAT, commercial, international) GMES is a perfect example of a system of systems
GMES Services Monitoring Earth sub-systems: Land: land use and land cover changes Ocean: sustainable ocean resources and impact of environmental hazards Atmosphere: effect of greenhouse gases and aerosols on climate change, air quality, and ultraviolet radiation ~600 M Euro since 2002 (EC+ESA) Other Services: Emergency: rapid mapping services in case of humanitarian crises, and natural or man-made disasters Security: maritime surveillance, conflict prevention and mitigation outside Europe Climate change is cutting across the above domains
Example of land service: Land classification and planning of Vilnius - Lithuania (GSE Land) Harmonised mapping of European urban areas (more than 100,000 popul.): 22 classes 0.25ha MMU Users: DG Regio Municipalities and local authorities
Example of marine service: Global Sea Level Rise Sea level rise from several satellite radar altimeters
Example of atmospheric service: CH4 Concentration 2003-2005 ESA's Envisat global atmospheric methane distribution (air mole fractions in parts per billion) Credits: ESA and University of Bremen
Example of Emergency service: flooding Flooding management in the Elbe region of Germany April 2006 Credits: NRSA, USGS, DLR/GMES RISKEOS
Example of maritime surveillance WEBGIS Coastline SAR Image L1B EO Plot EO Plot and AIS Tracks EO Plot Correlated with AIS Tracks EO not Associated Plot Service Timeline
Downstream value-adding sectors of space-based applications: World and European revenues Main results: EO is the smallest of the three space application segments European revenues from EO amount to approximately 2% of total European revenues European EO revenues take up around 1/3 of world revenues Assessment of the downstream value-adding sectors of space-based applications, executive summary. Euroconsult for ESA, April 11 2007
GMES Space Component Governance - Role of ESA Coordinator of the overall GMES Space Component Definition of overall GSC architecture and plan for future evolutions Coordinating access to GMES missions from national, EUMETSAT and third party satellite owners Development and procurement Agency for dedicated space infrastructure Development of first spacecraft and Ground Segment Procurement of recurrent elements In addition, ESA is the ad-interim operator of Sentinel 1, - 2 and Sentinel-3 (land) EUMETSAT is the proposed operator of Sentinel-3 (Marine), Sentinel -4 and -5
GMES dedicated missions: Sentinels Sentinel 1 SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry 2012, 2014+ Sentinel 2 Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT 2013, 2014+ Sentinel 3 Ocean and global land monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry 2013, 2014+ Sentinel 4 Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, transboundary pollution 2018+ Sentinel 5 and Precursor Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring 2014, 2019
Potential Contributing Missions to GMES Cosmo-Skymed SPOT Pléiades SeoSat List not exhaustive Radarsat TerraSAR X RapidEye METOP DMCs MSG will evolve based on service requirements and mission availabilities + PROBA-V, Seosar, TanDEM-X, EnMAP, Venµs, Altika, etc.
Example: Optical HR and VHR Contributing Missions Optical High Resolution missions Principal Owner 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Medium / High Resolution Sentinel-2 A Sentinel-2 B Sentinel-2 C, SPOT 4 SPOT 5 SPOT Follow-on RapidEye - 5 S/C RapidEye Follow-on (TBC) UK-DMC & UK-DMCII Deimos-1 DMC Seosat / Ingenio EnMap (Hypersp.) PRISMA Venµs (Hypersp.) ESA ESA ESA CNES CNES InfoTerra/Astrium RapidEye RapidEye DMCII Deimos CDTI DLR ASI CNES-ISA Very High Resolution Pléiades 1 & 2 (VHR) HiRos (TBC) CNES DLR In orbit Approved Planned
GMES Ground Segment and Data Access GMES Space Component GMES Dedicated Missions GMES Contributing Missions GS s (ESA, EUMETSAT, NOAA, National MS Missions, etc ) Sentinel-5 Final end-user information products GSC Coordinated DA + GS GSC Data Request GSC Data Provision GMES Services Component USER Segment
GMES Space Component Long Term Scenario GMES Space Component Long-Term Scenario (Preliminary) 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 Access to Contributing Missions Sentinel 1A Sentinel 1B Sentinel 1C Sentinel 1 Follow-on GSC build-up Sentinel 2A Sentinel 2B Sentinel 2C Sentinel 2 Follow-on Sentinel 3A Sentinel 3B Sentinel 3C Sentinel 3 Follow-on Sentinel 4 A (MTG-S 1) Sentinel 4 B (MTG-S 2) Sentinel 4 Follow-on Build-up Phase EU Operational Programme 2.3 bn Euro already provided by ESA MSs and EC Sentinel 5 Precursor Sentinel 5 A (Post-EPS) Sentinel 5 B (Post-EPS) Sentinel 5 Follow-on Jason -CS Jason -CS Follow-on GSC New Observation Merged Segment 1 and 2 2011+ R&D Budget EPS = EUTMESAT Polar System Operational Programme (Long Term Scenario) Future Generation MTG-S = Meteosat Third Generation - Sounder
Profile of the funding for R&D and Operational activities (in c.e.c) for the GMES Space Component GSC LTS - Funding for R&D and Operations/Recurrent 1000 900 800 R&D Operations and Recurrent 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030
GMES Space Component Phasing ESA Prep. Programme ESA Segment 1 ESA Segment 2 EU Init-Ops EU Operational programme 2004 2006 2009 2011 2013 2014 2017 2023
Upcoming Challenges (for GMES Space Component) Based on GMES Dialogues, define access to GCM data in the long-term Consolidate GMES Space Component Long Term Scenario, in particular including results from GMES Dialogues Obtain funding for GSC Initial Operations (-A operation, -B launch, -C advance procurements, data access) Obtain funding for GSC build-up completion (Sentinel-5, Jason-CS) Support EU / EC effort to organise operational funding post 2014 Conduct S of GMES studies to provide input to discussion with EU/EC and with ESA MSs regarding the S of GMES
European Cooperating State Agreement with ESA (PECS) Status created in 2000 and granted to European Union States that want to accede to the ESA Convention Main aim: prepare this European State in the most efficient manner for accession Duration of the Agreement: in principle five years This Agreement is associated to the participation in a specific Plan for European Cooperating States (PECS). Discussions are on-going with a number of countries. ESA welcomes all EU Member States in order to associate them with the European space effort, including the Agency s programmes
Estonian access to ESA First cooperation agreement signed in June 2007 European Cooperation State (ECS) Agreement signed on 10 November 2009 The ECS Agreement will be followed within the end of 2010 by a PECS Charter, a five-year plan jointly agreed between ESA and Estonia. During those five years, Estonia shall perform a number of activities, mostly in research and development, to help it develop expertise within its space industry. At the end of the five-year period ESA will assess the progress made and decide whether Estonia is ready to become a full member of ESA or whether another fiveyear plan should be drawn up. Estonian Government has already expressed its intention to fully join the Agency.
Estonian proposed PECS projects Estonia has already identified a few PECS projects it wants to carry out, pending approval and funding from ESA. Some of them are of relevance to GMES, e.g.: New application areas for disaster rapid mapping infrastructure Remote sensing ferrybox for cal/val of Case II water satellite products Improving the quality of green house gas inventory in Estonia Services based on optical radiometry applications for aquatic environment
Further information For further information please visit: ESA GMES website EC GMES website www.esa.int/gmes www.ec.europa.eu/gmes