ESA EO programmes

Bojan Bojkov, ESA/ESRIN

Ballast Water Risk Workshop BSH, Hamburg, January 25, 2011

Overview

– The European Space Agency

– The Data User Element (DUE)

– Outlook

The European Space Agency

ESA has 18 member states:

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,

France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,

Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands,

Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,

United Kingdom and Czech Republic.

(Canada takes part in some projects

under a cooperation agreement)

08/2005 - 2

08/2005 - 4

• Human space flight and exploration

• Microgravity research

• Earth ObservationEarth ObservationContinuous data acquisitionLong term archiveMulti-scale capabilitiesMulti-sensor informationData Exploitation

• Telecommunications

• Satellite navigation

• Launcher development

30+ years experience5 centres~2000 staff members

~4+ billion Euro/year budget70+ satellites developed20+ satellites in operation

The European Space Agency

Europe’s expanding EO capacity

ERS 1 ERS 2OceansSea Ice

CryosphereLand SurfaceClimatology

+ Global Ozone+ Terrestrial biosphere

+ Ocean colour+ Atmospheric chemistry

1991 1995

ENVISAT2002

MERIS high resolution

– 2004 high resolution

image (300m)

– Phytoplankton bloom

– Contrails/cirrus

– This type of data available

on the rolling archive -

http://oa-es.eo.esa.int

– Download images from

http://miravi.esa.int

Sea Ice

SAR measurements(ERS1/2, Envisat)

GOCEGOCE

ADM-AeolusADM-Aeolus EarthCAREEarthCARE

SMOSSMOS SwarmSwarm

CryoSat-2CryoSat-2

Scientific Missions

ERS-2ERS-2ERS-1ERS-1 ENVISATENVISAT

ESA’s EO programme securing 40 years comprehensive long-term observations from space

Operational Series (with EUMETSAT/EC)

MeteosatMeteosat

MetOpMetOp

Sentinel 1Sentinel 1

Sentinel 2Sentinel 2

Sentinel 3Sentinel 3

Sentinel 4Sentinel 4

Sentinel 5Sentinel 5

Sentinel 4Sentinel 4

Sentinel 5Sentinel 5

Data User Element Programme (DUE)

– A voluntary programme requested by member states to develop operational EO application

– Initially (1996) as DUP, and from 2003 as the DUE (now supported by all 18

member states and Canada)

– Three clear objectives:

1. to create an environment allowing for the development of user communities for

both institutional and commercial applications;

2. to support European companies to develop and demonstrate information products;

3. to support industry, i.e. value adding and servicing companies, in establishing

useful and cost effective services

(Note, DUE is not a programme providing operational products/services, but rather

demonstrations of products/services)

ServiceDevelopment

User Groups: National & sub-national public authorities, European institutions, International organizations, NGOs

EO data

Products

Products validation Service assessmentGround truthing

In-situ data accessUser requirements

consolidation

Service Demonstration

DUE User Driven Approach

DUE Topical User Consultations in 2008/ 2009

Map in construction– Urban Heat Island, June 2007, NOA, Athens, 50 participants– GlobWave, September 2007 , Ifremer, Brest,, 150 participants– Support to Aviation for Volcanic Ash Avoidance, November 2007,

MeteoFrance, Toulouse, 30 participants– GlobSnow, February 2008, University of Bern, 30 participants.– Permafrost, February 2008, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, 40

participants– GlobAlbedo, September 2008, ESRIN, Frascati, 20 participants– PostKyoto, December 2008, Poznan, 10 side events– GlobVapour, January 2009, DWD, Offenbach, 20 participants– GlobWetland II, March 2009, “La Tour du Valat”, Arles, 50 participants– CoastColour, March 2009 National Maritime Center, Cork, 50 participants– GlobCloud, March 2009, FUB, Berlin, 80 participants

User Requirement Document

The Service required include the provision of the following geo-information products:

• XXX

• XXX

The area of interest is the following: ….

The timeframe of interest in the following ….

The format of the products should be the following: ….

The National User Network is made of…

Letter of Commitment

I will commit X men/month of work to:

Coordinate the work of local agencies;

Consolidate the User Requirements;

Provide access to data and information useful for the project;

Organize dedicated ground data collection campaigns for the project;

Support the validation of the results;

Assess the final service from a user perspective;

To initiate a project, ESA requests to participating user organizations:

a Letter of Commitment

a User Requirements Document (URD)

The User The User

DUE User Commitments

300+ user organizations in DUE

– ~170 national ministries and agencies

– ~100 research institutions

– ~few private companies and non-governmental organisations

– ~70 new users brought in 2008 and another 70 in 2009

– and users are from all continents

DUE user project example: medspiration

• Driven by tourism• OSI SAF was sub-contractor• http://www.medspiration.org/

Global projects… from 2001 to 2012

Innovators II – Ballast Water

– Feasibility study for BSH addressing

the IMO convention directly in the

North Sea

– Combined information from models

and previous DUE activities

– To be presented in detail in the next

talk

– ESA is interested in supporting

improvements and extension of this

activity – hence the WS

Web story http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM9OHSRJHG_index_0.html

Thank you!