The marine perspective of Copernicus
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The marine perspective of Copernicus
Michael Rohn, Torsten RiedlingerEuropean Commission - GMES unit
---Integrated Maritime Policy Expert Group
11 December 2012
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What is Copernicus?It does Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
VP Tajani announced new name this morning!
The European Earth monitoring programme- Providing reliable information on the environment and security
to public users- Long term and operational - Building on existing assets and capabilities- Complemented by dedicated assets (e.g. Sentinels)- Contributes to growth and job through open data policy to
downstream sector
3GMES USERS
Coordinated Data Access System
GMES ServicesGMES Services
Contributing missions
In situ observations
Sentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS seriesSentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS series
GMES Space Component
System view
Service lines Land Atmosphere Marine Emergency Security Climate Change
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Objective: To provide information on the state of physical ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional areas.
Monitoring and forecast, plus reanalysis of past years on
• Currents• Temperature• Salinity• Sea ice• Sea level• Surface winds
• Biogeochemistry
Marine environment monitoring
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Current implementation as pilot service
• Outside GIO as FP7 research project MyOcean-2• FP7-SPACE-2011: Prototype Operational
Continuity for the GMES Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Service
• 59 participants from 28 different countries
• 41,2 M€ total cost (28 M€ EC contribution)
• From April 2012 to September 2014
• Coordinator: Mercator Océan
• http://www.myocean.eu.org
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Main building blocks
• Thematic Assembly Centres• Marine Forecasting Centres
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RTD
Operational service
GMES: from research to operations
2011 2014
MerSea
20202019
IG
GMESInitial Operations
GMES User Forum
Copernicus Marine Service
MyOcean MyOcean -II
GMES User ForumWorkshop
Copernicus Timeline
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Programmatic base Regulation GMES & its initial operations (GIO)
Communication COM(2011)831
New EU Financial Regulation
Funding Commission (EC) proposes GMES to be funded outside the MFF
European Parliament (EP) recommends it inside the MFF
No consensus position in the Council
Next EU summit on MFF expected on February 2013
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Next steps Decision on the budget (MFF) Debates + adoption by EP and Council in co-
decision Delegation Agreements to be concluded (and
procurement) Start of the operations in Summer 2014
It changed its name to Copernicus today