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!
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