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GSCB Workshop 2009:EUMETSAT Missions

Dr. Harald Rothfuss, EUMETSAT.GSCB Workshop 2007,

ESRIN, Frascati,18-19 June 2009.

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Introduction To EUMETSAT

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT, is an intergovernmental organisation, established in 1986 and is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany.

EUMETSAT is funded by the National Meteorological Services of its Member States to deliver operational satellite data and products that satisfy the meteorological and climate data requirements of the Member States – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, through decades.This is carried out taking into account the recommendations of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

EUMETSAT’s primary objective is “to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites.”

A further objective is “to contribute to the operational monitoring of the climate and the detection of global climatic changes.”

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EUMETSAT Missions

EUMETSAT operates and processes and disseminates data from:

first generation Meteosat geostationary satellites (Meteosat-6, 7),

second generation Meteosat geostationary satellites (Meteosat-8, 9),

polar-orbiting Metop satellites (Metop-A).

Ocean Surface Topography Mission (Jason-2).

EUMETSAT also routinely acquires, processes and disseminates data from:

NOAA polar-orbiting satellites (NOAA-19).

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EUMETSAT space segment

THIRD PARTY PROGRAMMES

GMES SENTINEL-3A/BGMES SENTINEL-4GMES SENTINEL-5

METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONMETEOSAT-8METEOSAT-9

METEOSAT-10METEOSAT-11

METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION

EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEMMETOP-AMETOP-BMETOP-C

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2909…

METEOSAT FIRST GENERATIONMETEOSAT-6METEOSAT-7

OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION

JASON-2JASON-3

JASON FOLLOW-ON

POST-EPS

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Overview of the EUMETSAT ground segment

Data acquisitionand Control

Pre-processingEUMETSAT HQ

Meteorological ProductsExtraction

EUMETSAT HQDarmstadt

Unified MeteorologicalArchive and Retrieval

Facility (U-MARF)EUMETSAT HQ

Darmstadt

Data Dissemination via EUMETCast

Applications Ground Segment

EUMETSAT Geostationary SystemsMeteosat satellites EUMETSAT Polar System

Metop satellites

Other Data Sources

Centralised processingand generation of products

Decentralised processingand generation of products

USERS

Jason-2Optional Programmefor Ocean Altimetry

SATELLITE APPLICATIONFACILITIES

within the Member States

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Distributed Applications Ground Segment

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7

6

2

15 8

3

Member State

Cooperating State

Support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting

Ocean and Sea Ice

Climate Monitoring

Numerical Weather Prediction

Land Surface Analysis

Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring

GRAS Meteorology

Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management

SAF Consortium Member

Additional Met Service Users

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5

4

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Interoperability of EUMETSAT missions

EUMETSAT offers multi-mission Services for a global delivery of available data and products to its user community. These Services are compatible with requirements from WMO and GEO.

Mission Data Flow EUMETSAT Service Multi-

mission Compliancy (WMO, GEO)

Standards

Data Discovery EO-Portalhttp://navigator.eumetsat.int yes

• INSPIRE (Implementing Rules –IR- and services)• OGC Catalogue Services (CSW 2.0.2)• ISO Metadata Profile 1.0, ISO19115/19119• GML 3.1.1• SAML 2.0• WMO• …..

Data Delivery (NRT)

EUMETCAST / GEONETCAST yes BUFR, GRIB, NetCDF, Native…

Data Delivery(Offline)

Archivehttp://archive.eumetsat.int/ yes BUFR, GRIB, NetCDF, Native…

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Data Discovery via the EUMETSAT EO Portal

Users

Discover, search, register, order and subscribe

Subscribe to services

Discover/search products Register to

messages

Distributed search, remote order

Order/ subscription products

Subscribe to services

GEONETCast Catalogue

EUMETCast/ GEONETCast

EUMETSAT Archive(s)

(U-MARF, SAFs)

EUMETSAT Partner Agencies/

GMES, WMO

User Notifcations(UNS)

EUMETCast / GEONETCast

Other Dissemination

Services

Registration

Discovery (Product Navigator)

Order Followup

Access to applications & data

EUMETSAT EO Portal

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Near Real time Data Delivery via EUMETCast

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Near Real time Data Delivery via GEONETCast

EUMETCastNetworkCentre

FENGYUNCastNetworkCentre

GEONETCastAmericasNetworkCentre

EUMETCastUsers

EUMETCastData

Providers

FENGYUNCastUsers

FENGYUNCastData

Providers

GEONETCastAmericas

DataProviders

GEONETCastAmericas

Users

Data exchange

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GEONETCast Availability of Data

• GEONETCast is a contributing element to the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) that is being coordinated by the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO).

• GEONETCast is a global network of satellite based data dissemination systems providing environmental data to a world-wide user community.

• GEONETCast consists of:EUMETCast: EUMETSAT’s contribution.FengYunCast: The China Meteorological

Administration’s contribution, utilising the AsiaSat4 satellite to broadcast data and products to a usercommunity in the Asia-Pacific region.

GEONETCast-Americas: A future broadcast system covering the Americas, which is currently being planned by NOAA.

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Offline data access via EUMETSATs Unified Meteorological Archive/Retrieval Facility (UMARF)

EPS facilities

EUMETSAT Geostationary SystemsMeteosat satellites

EUMETSAT Polar SystemMetop satellites

USERS

Jason-2Optional Programmefor Ocean Altimetry

SATELLITE APPLICATIONFACILITIES

within the Member States

MSG facilitiesMTP facilities Jason-2 facilities

Unified Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility (U-MARF)

FTP

EO Portal

HTTP

Media delivery

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EUMETSAT Data Policy

• EUMETSAT is the owner of its satellites plus the data and products generated from the satellites and the EUMETSAT ground segment.

• National Meteorological Services (NMSs) of EUMETSAT Member States receive all EUMETSAT data for Official Duty use at no cost.

• NMSs of EUMETSAT Member States act as Exclusive Licensing Agents of EUMETSAT for users within their national territories, and apply the uniform EUMETSAT fees and conditions.

• EUMETSAT Secretariat acts as licensing authority for users outside of EUMETSAT Member States and for international organisations.

• EUMETSAT Secretariat is also licensing authority for archived data and for derived products generated by the EUMETSAT ground segment.

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EUMETSAT Data Policy (cont)

• A set of data is declared as “Essential”, as defined by WMO, and provided free of charge to all users, world-wide (e.g. 6-hourly image data, all data from Metop local mission).

• A further set of data is provided to NMSs of non-Member States free of charge for Official Duty use (e.g. 3-hourly image data).

• Free of charge access to all data is given for scientific and educational use (including “amateur” use).

• Other types of users have to pay a fee, which varies depending on user category (i.e. End Users, Service Providers or Broadcasters).

• Commercial activities of NMSs of Member States are treated like Service Providers.

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Long-Term Data Preservation

• Legacy data from all Meteosat satellites back to Meteosat-2 launch in 1981 migrated into U-MARF.

• New EUMETSAT programmes fund the transcription of previous programme archives so that they ‘inherit’ the existing archive, thus ensuring long-term data preservation.

• Data and products from on-going missions archived routinely.– Current monthly ingestion: ca. 9 TB– Current monthly retrieval: ca. 50 TB– Currently registered users: ca. 2300

• Multiple copies of all archived data maintained – second copy stored off-site (Offenbach), with third copy on disk for most demanded products.

• Periodic migration of data onto new media (from experience, approximately every 5 years).

• U-MARF catalogue data and products versioning ensures support to reprocessing.

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EO Portal – HMA service status (1)

• Collection & Discovery Service (usage of bridge HMA-T/IV 2009)OGC 07-038, Cataloguing of ISO Metadata (CIM) using the ebRIM profile of CS-W, version 0.1.8, 21/11/2007

• Earth Observation Product Metadata (currently 0.9.1, upgrade to 0.9.3 middle of 2009, extension maybe in 2010)OGC 06-080, GML Application Schema for EO Products, Version 0.9.3, 21/07/2008

• Catalogue Search (prototype 0.1.7 upgraded to 0.2.4 middle of 2009)OGC 06-131, EO Products Extension Package for ebRIM Profile of CSW 2.0, Version 0.2.2, 12/11/2008We require changes for conformance definitions – Level 1 (CL1) ! Has it been formally reviewed by partners ?Is 0.2.4 baseline for implementation of HMA client ?

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EO Portal – HMA service status (2)Catalogue Search – Conformance Level

OGC document Annex G: Part1-Part4

• Collection (Part1)Ok

• BBox (Part2)request: polygon should be CL3

• EOP queryables (Part3)request: only one value per queryable should be required for CL1

• Classification queryables (Part4)request: must be optional for CL1, since EUM does not use extensions

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EO Portal – HMA service status (3)

• Order (implementation planned end of 2009)OGC 06-141. Ordering Services for Earth Observation Products, Version 0.9.4, 05/09/2008

• Feasibility Analysis (no implementation foreseen by EUMETSAT)OGC 07-018, Opengis Sensor Planning Service Application Profile for EO Sensors, version 0.9.5, 19/11/2007

• Web Map Service (not planned yet, 2010)OGC-07-063r1 OpenGIS WMS EO Application Profile, 31/10/2008

• Identity Management (work presently on-going based on OpenSSO)OGC 07-118, User Management Interfaces for Earth Observation Services, Version 0.0.2, 23/04/2008

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Standardisation Assessment

HMA: Interoperability of EO-Archives is of fundamental importance in facilitating integrated data access for environmental analysis, e.g. in GMES context.EUMETSAT is implementing the HMA services (as per previous slides). They are enabled following successful establishment of bilateral agreements (like the one already existing with CNES)

LTDP:As one of Europe’s leading operational Satellite Data Provider, EUMETSAT has long experience in data preservation. The policy in house is coherent with the LTDP guidelines.Climate studies can benefit from geostationary METEOSAT image data in the Archive dating back until 1981.

QA4EO:EUMETSAT is a partner in the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System, an initiative from WMO and CGMS to derive homogeneous, well calibrated data from the international constellation of operational meteorological satellites. Guidelines of the QA4EO will be taken into account.