Global Monitoring for Global Monitoring for Environment and SecurityEnvironment and Security

Mauro FACCHINI

DG ENTR- GMES Bureau

NEREUS – 1 December 2010

•An independent Earth Observation system for Europe

•The largest fleet of satellites and atmosphere/earth-based monitoring instruments in the world

•An end user-focused programme of services for environment and security

•Joined-up information for policymakers, scientists, businesses and the public

•Europe’s response to the global need for environment and climate monitoring

What is GMES?

EU Added value

• Overall “information chain”: from observation to information required by the users

• “System of systems“: mutualisation & long term sustainability of capacities & resources

• Build on existing capacities in MS

• Coordination of user needs at Global, European, National and Regional level

What is the objective?

...to provide information services to policy-makers and other users

EARTH OBSERVINGSYSTEMS

(space, airborne, in-situ)

PUBLICPOLICIES

(Environment & Security)

Information

Needs(policy driven)

Space AgenciesIn-situ Observing systems

Scientific CommunityEO Value Adding Industry

National Governments and AgenciesEuropean Union Institutions

InterGovernmental Organisations (IGOs) Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

Regional administrations

Initiation of GMES, Baveno Manifesto

Gothenburg EU Summit “establish by 2008 an operational European capacity for … GMES”

Investments by ESA and EC on services

GMES becomes ‘flagship’ of the European Space PolicyESA C-MIN in Berlin approves GMES Space Component programmeGMES Bureau creation1,2 B€ in the period 2007-2013

EC-ESA agreement on GMES signedGMES services presented at Lille Forum

Commission proposal for a GMES Programme RegulationCommission Communication on the GMES Space component

EP and EU Council adopt the regulation;

Launch of first GMES Sentinels

1998

2000

2001+

2005

2006

2008

2009

2010

2012+

Some key milestones

GMES Overall View

USERS

OBSERVATION

Policy makersPrivate,

commercialPublic& &

In Situ Infrastructure

Space Infrastructure &

Land Marine Atmosphere

Emergency Security Climate

What is their need?

Examples provided

Information services

Sustainable information

Farming Oil Spill Tracking Air quality Flood Surveillance Climate Change

GMES Components

GMES is an EU led initiative

In-situ component – coordinated by EEA

• Observations mostly within national responsibility, with coordination at European level

• air, sea- and ground-based systems and instruments

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 Services

Horizontal applications

Monitoring of Earth systems

Land

Marine

Atmosphere

Security Emergency Climate Change

Expected benefits

Cat.1 (Efficiency Benefits): 2786 M€

Cat.2 (European Policy Formulation Benefits): 14582 M€

Cat. 3 (Global Action Benefits): 17298 M€

Total benefits (up to 2030):

Efficiency Saving

Air Quality

Marine

Flooding

Conflict Resolution

Humanitarian Aid

Seismic Application

Forest Fires

‘Other’ risk & Civil Security Appl.

Forest Ecosystems (EU)

Climate Change – Adaptation

Deforestation – Climate

Desertification

Desertification – Ecosystem

0 5,000 10,000 15,000

Based on PWC study

Expected benefits

• Short term: support to the implementation of running policies and legislation

• Medium Term: support to the definition and formulation of new policies

• Longer Term: impacting the formulation and implementation of policies with a global reach

Expected benefits

• Space technologies and derived services as building block of the innovation plan, which is part of the European strategy against the economic crisis

• The implementation of GMES will be ensured by European Companies :

- downstream services companies will benefit from the European investments

- They will have the ability to develop long term strategy thanks to Earth Observation data

- The competencies will be kept and available in Europe

Programme evolution

R&D

EU Operational programme

2004 20092006 2013 2014 202320172011

R&D

Initial

Operations

Preparatory actions

Preparatory actions

• Financing

• Emergency

• Land

• Take up of Services

•Space Component

• Governance

•GMES Committee

•Security Board

•User Forum

Implementation of Initial Operations

Estimate funding required before and after 2014

Cost analysis

Prepare GMES Governance, for build-up and operational programme

GMES legislative programme

Next programmatic steps

It is highly important to involve the regional dimension in the implementation of GMES services.

This involvement will:

• help to identify specific needs that could be similar in different regions and could form the basis for a cross-border and trans-national cooperation,

• promote GMES capabilities better in local administrations and thereby foster an increased demand.

• facilitate access to services for regional users

• foster partnerships for downstream service providers

Role of regions

Call for proposals was included in FP7-Space Workrprogramme 2010 (negotiations ongoing)

Expected impact from selected projects

• improving the knowledge, structuring and awareness of the GMES downstream sector at the regional level.

• supporting downstream service providers’ ability to obtain a better market overview, to identify and assess market segments suitable for investment, and to identify potential partners.

• providing regional users of GMES services with a facilitated identification of services and service providers with a capacity to respond to their needs.

• enhancing the attraction for regional financial support to GMES related activities.

Role of regions

Conclusion

• GMES is a challenge: it is an ambitious programme with great expectations and involves several partners.

• Ambitious activities need time

• Moving from Research to operations

• Regions role as users and downstream market facilitators

For further information please visit

EC GMES website :ec.europa.eu/gmes

EU Space Research : ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/research

FP7 services website:gmes.info

Back-up slides

Land services• Land services address a broad range of EU policies and

users (land use planning, forestry, water, agriculture etc.)

• Stepwise approach: « multi-purpose » products common to many

users and applications (1st priority): 3 components• Global : Essential Climate Variables (ECVs),

biogeophysical parameters in support to Climate Change monitoring

• Continental : Pan-EU products (e.g. Pan-EU land cover and land cover change)

• Local : zooming on ‘hot spot’ (e.g. urban areas, protected area, coastal areas etc.)

thematic products at EU or International level (e.g. water quality/quantity models, crop forecasts, environmental indicators etc.)

Marine

• Maritime transport

• Ocean resources

• Sea temperature

• Sea level rise

• Oil spill monitoring

• …

GMES Services

ATMOSPHERE

Global & European

• Air quality

• Climate Forcing, e.g. Aerosols, GHG, ECVs

• Ozone

• UV monitoring/Solar radiation

=>Support implementation of Directives (Air Quality) & international conventions (Montreal, CLRTAP, Kyoto)

=>Better analysis of national, regional air pollution abatement policies & measures

=> Solar Energies: Solar-radiation potential analysis

GMES Services

Emergency

• Natural hazards:

- Floods

- Fires

- Earthquakes

- Tsunamis

-Land slides..

• Man-made disasters

GMES Services

Security

• Maritime surveillance

• Border control

• External actions

• Civil security

• …

Security service under definition

GMES Services

Climate Change

• Adaptation

• Mitigation

• Simulation

• Enforcement

• Tracking

• …

GMES Services