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Democratising Access to EO Data

Maurice BorgeaudHead of Science, Applications and Climate Department,Directorate of Earth Observations Programmes,European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN)

ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official UseTaking the Pulse of our Planet

ESA Vision for EO

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Satellites25 under development

15 in operation

ESA Developed Earth Observation Missions

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Copernicus – the European EO programme

European Earth Observation System, led by the EU

European response to global needs:

• to manage the environment• to mitigate the effects of climate

change• to ensure civil security

OPEN, FULL, FREE data policy

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Copernicus – European Leadership in EO

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I n d i c a t i v e C o p e r n i c u s D e p l o y m e n t S c h e d u l e

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Copernicus – continue global leadership in EO

> 215.000

150 TB satellite data distributed per day

6 operational servicesregistered users= tip of the iceberg

full, free & open data policy

ClimateOcean SecurityLand Atmosphere Disaster

7 satellites flyingS1 S2 S3 S4 S5P S5 S6

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preparing Copernicus 2.0

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Copernicus Open Access Data Hub

Statistics on01 Mar 2019

Registered Sentinel Users

The real number of users ismuch higher but unknown dueto the free, full & opendata policy.

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Active Users per Continent

Status on01 Mar 2019

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Copernicus 4.0 – New Monitoring Missions (6 HPCM)

CRISTAL – Polar Ice & Snow

CIMR – Microwave Radiometer

Anthropogenic CO2 Monitoring

CHIME – Hyperspectral Mission

L-band SAR Mission

Land Surface Temp. MissionCauses of Climate Change

Agriculture & Water Productivity

Effects ofClimate Change

Food Security, Soil, Biodiversity

Sea: Surface Temp. & Ice Concentration

Vegetation & Ground Motion & Moisture

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Data and Information Access Services (DIAS)e.copernicus.eu/DIAS

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A complementary operations concept: users access a work environment containing the data and resources required, as opposed to downloading and

replicating the data ‘at home’.

Exploitation platform (or community platform) =

Virtual open and collaborative environment

• data centres (EO and non-EO data)• computing resources and hosted processing

• collaborative tools (processing tools, data mining)• development tools and test bench functions

• application shops and market place functionalities• communication tools (social network)

• accounting tools to manage resource utilisation

Exploitation platforms

EO dataIn-situ data

EOsoftware

ICTresources

Community Collaboration

“Move User activities to the Data”

EO THEMATIC Exploitation Platforms (TEPs)

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CCI: To retrieve ECV’s from satellite data CCI+

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Global Development Assistance

• Bring operational EO solutions in Official Development Assistance (ODA)

• New programme based:• New ESA EO element: to support mainly Knowledge

Development activities with the European EO downstreamservice sector

• WB+ADB Trust Fund element: ODA financing from mainlyEuropean Aid Agencies/Ministries, will support mainlyCapacity Building and Skills Transfer activities in developingcountries)

• For geographic regions in 3 continents: South/Central America, Africa, Asia

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