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ESA IAP Arctic Workshop | 13/03/2011 | Slide 1 ESA IAP Arctic Workshop Summary Dr Tony Sephton (IAP) + Prof Jean-Pierre Contzen (IAPAC) 13/03/2012

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ESA IAP Arctic WorkshopSummary

Dr Tony Sephton (IAP) + Prof Jean-Pierre Contzen (IAPAC)

13/03/2012

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Key Objectives of IAP Arctic Workshop

1. Identify operational user needs in the Arctic region.2. Help to establish operational services in the Arctic in areas where

integrated applications are relevant: Oil and Gas. Shipping Fishing. Search and Rescue. Telemedicine. Tourism.

3. Preparatory steps for operational services: Workshop Questionnaire (including a request for ideas). IAP Feasibility Studies (OC’s and DN’s). IAP Demonstration Projects.

4. Expand interest in the IAP programme to new communities.5. Build on several ongoing IAP activities on the Baltic.

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Main themes of IAP workshop

1. Oil and Gas exploration/extraction:

Monitoring of iceberg trajectories, position of ice edge, motion of ice floes, ice thickness. Monitoring of oil spills.

2. Merchant shipping and tourist cruises:

Ice charting and navigation.

Monitoring of chemical pollution.

3. Fisheries.

Identification of areas of high ocean productivity and eutrophication for the fishing industry and fisheries protection authorities.

Geo-fencing (identification of areas where fishing is allowed), and fish catch traceability.

4. Applicable across all Arctic activities:

Communications between rig, ship and shore (including leisure activities).

Telemedicine.

Polar lows / weather / sea state forecasting. Search and Rescue.

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Link between Arctic Environment and Potential IAP Activities

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Workshop Summary

• Hosted here at DTU on 12th March 2012.

• Close to 100 participants.

• 16 presentations, covering a broad range of potential activities.

• Applications-oriented event (space + in-situ).

• Many challenges to be met, but also many opportunities.

• Less a priority to develop new technologies, more the question of matching existing space capabilities with well-defined user requirements.

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Workshop Summary

Specific considerations to be taken into account when dealing with the Arctic:

• Extreme, remote but also sensitive environment.

• Interaction between policy and technology (e.g. sovereignty issues vs. continental shelf research).

• Importance of the human dimension (local populations, tourists, changing perceptions): “People expect help” and “A person in distress is a person in distress !”.

• Costs of in-situ operations (icebreakers: 65K to 200K $/day; aircraft 1300 to 12500 $/hour).

• Changing fishing patterns due to climate change:

• Increasing populations in Arctic waters, but severe decline expected at equatorial latitudes.

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Workshop Summary

• Sustainable Environment: People - Planet - Profit.

• Impact of legal framework on space activities:

• Use of space techniques for implementing/improving legal framework.

• Right and duty of effective administration of allocated areas:

• E.g. Navigation for mapping, marking, routing, SaR.

• Risk Governance:

• Required for development of critical infrastructures.

• Importance of “Reputational Risk”.

• Value of archive data for historical risk assessment.

• Emergence of new risks such as space weather (impact on HF comms and GNSS).

• New technologies: e.g. SAT-AIS (illegal oil spills, fisheries, ship emissions).

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Workshop Summary

• Lack of high bandwidth robust communications highlighted.

• Demand for doubling of bandwidth every 2.5 years.

• Better image compression.

• Very difficult to coordinate SaR above 76 deg N.

• Importance of international cooperation, many examples of efficient implementation (e.g. geophysical surveys, SaR).

• Tourism:

• “Pairing of ships” not generally implemented; iceberg “dilemma” !

• Sparse and inaccurate sea-charts, and information on character/movement of ice.

• Limited access to medical care.

• Importance of using integrated applications from space in conjunction with other means -> holistic approach.

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What Next ?

• Analyse responses to Questionnaire (copies available !).

• Presentations available on DTU portal (http://www.dtu.dk/subsites/iap) with link from ESA IAP portal (http://iap.esa.int).

• Further thematic workshops (as required).

• IAP Feasibility Studies (Open Competitions and Direct Negotiations).

• IAP Demonstration Projects.

• Operational Services realised in the next 2 to 3 years.

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UserDemand

FeasibilityStudy Demo Operational

Service

User with demand but no contact to industry

Contact with ESA:

• iap.esa.int

• Conferences

• Ambassadors

• Call for User Ideas

Funding by ESA:

• 100% - ESA initiated activities in close collaboration with users / stakeholders

• 50% * - Partner / industry initiated activities in close collaboration with users / stakeholders

Funding by ESA:

• 50% - initiated by ESA or industry

ESA IAP Involvement

Support,etc

* For Feasibility Studies only:Work carried out by Universities and research institutes and justifying no further commercial interest in the final solution may be funded 100% by the Agency.

ESA’s Integrated Applications Promotion Programme (ARTES 20)

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Key steps to prepare for an IAP activity …1) The right content and set-up:

- A “good” user with a problem in demand of a solution.- A service-oriented mindset (not research or technology driven). - A strong team (strong leadership, right mix of partners).- Operational, technical, and commercial know-how. - Involvement of a potential service provider (indispensable for DEMO’s).… and, of course, more than 1 space asset to be integrated.

2) Submission of a proposal is the necessary process to apply to the ARTES 20 programme:- Either as an activity initiated by a consortium (co-funded) following

the requirements of the continuously open call for ARTES 20proposals in AO 6124 (Outline Proposal => Full Proposal);

- Or answering to ESA-initiated ARTES 20 ITTs (fully funded).

ESA’s Integrated Applications Promotion Programme (ARTES 20)

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Contact and Further Information

Thanks for your attention !• IAP Website: http://iap.esa.int

• “Integrated Applications Handbook”available as hardcopy and via the IAP website: http://iap.esa.int/handbook

• IAP Open Call for co-funded activities online on - EMITS: http://emits.esa.int (ITT AO6124)

• Information on IAP Open Competitive Tenders online on - IAP website http://iap.esa.int/intended-tenders/all- EMITS at the time of publishing

• IAP general email address: [email protected]