Slide 1 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Exploitation Management “tool” (A)ATSR Exploitation Plan AEP Wolfgang Lengert ERS Mission Manager

Slide 2 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Overview How to exploit jointly the (A)ATSR mission (scientist - funding bodies – operational users) Exploitation Plan – Exploitation Board What’s missing & next steps

Slide 3 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Missing: Exploitation Management tool  For funding bodies: –To identify easily activities which meet their objectives (e.g. policy, research, operations) –Share outcome of their investments (e.g. ESA, DECC, NERC has successful done it in the past) –To see where investment in one mission ((A)ATSR) could also be beneficial for other missions (MERIS, SMOS)  Scientists: –To see their research ideas documented in a kind of “shopping list” of Funding Bodies –Identify research gaps  Operational users: –To see which research activities have reached maturity to be picked up for operational use In summary: An attractive tool for all (A)ATSR players providing transparency on the full (A)ATSR exploitation life cycle and encouraging the synergetic use of resources (money and intelligence) was missing.

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Slide 5 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 AEP contains: Volume 1: (A)ATSR project overview Volume 2: Projects which have requested (A)ATSR data Volume 3:Peer reviewed (A)ATSR Exploitation Volume 4:SST Products and their Applications Volume 5:LST Products and their Applications Volume 6:Aerolsol and Cloud Products and their Applications Communication plan

Slide 6 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Approach taken for the overview (Vol. 1) Policy Areas Climate Change Environment & climate … Scientific Areas Ocean Processes Land Surface processes Atmosphere Cryosphere Operational Applications Ops Applications GMES Programme Questions: What are the strategic science issues How can (A)ATSR contribute Recommendations for the future work

Slide 7 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 GHRSST

Slide 8 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Quality Extract of AEP: February 2002 – IPF V5.01 Launch version. June 2002 – IPF V5.02 Scan jitter error corrected. The IPF wrongly treated scans affected by scan mirror jitter as invalid, resulting in missing scans on images. Browse algorithm modified to provide visual improvements. Histogram equalisation was removed from the daytime algorithm and the night-time algorithm concept was simplified. July 2002 – IPF V5.52 Internal change (i.e. not affecting the processing algorithms) to address an overflow problem with the variable SAT_BINARY_TIME. September 2002 – auxiliary data update: ATS_VC1_AX New ATS_VC1_AX (Visible Channel Coefficients Data) file supplied to correct scaling errors in pre-launch file (shortly after, replaced by daily VC1 files provided by the AATSR Flight Operations Support team). October 2002 – auxiliary data update: ATS_INS_AX New ATS_INS_AX (Instrument Data) file supplied to prevent spurious BBU temperature validation warnings (internal issue, not visible in delivered data). 14 November 2002 – auxiliary data update: ATS_CH1_AX New ATS_CH1_AX (L1B Characterisation Data) file submitted to the PDS containing updated misalignment parameters, AOCS parameters and regridding tolerances. This improved the co-location between the forward and nadir views. January 2003 – IPF V5.55 Update containing modifications to the VISCAL algorithm, and associated ATS_PC1_AX (L1B Processing Configuration Data) auxiliary file. The original VISCAL algorithm did not work with real AATSR data because of undocumented differences in VISCAL monitor sampling between ………. (A)ATSR product history Continuous retrieval improvement & reprocessing & Cal/Val

Slide 9 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 How to get a new ideas funded? Project Title(A)RC Lake Temperature Product Application and/or Underpinning Activity Lake temperature ECV ObjectivesTo prototype a Lake Temperature product for potential adoption as an official ESA product. MaturityTentative lake products exist but they are immature. They can be improved by exploiting the algorithm development work that is being performed on the (A)RC project. JustificationThis will expand the range of products that (A)ATSR can produce and will contribute to an ECV. PriorityMedium – research project UrgencyHigh – funding and effort is available now Project DescriptionThe surface temperature of lakes in the Global Terrestrial Network for Lakes (GTN-L) is designated as an ECV, product T.1.3 of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). In addition, lake temperature products have been requested by several international users, principally through the GHRSST-PP science team since the producers of SST datasets are in a good position to also provide lake temperature datasets. Two fundamental questions to be addressed by the project are: 1.Lake definition: what is a lake (and not a river or an inland sea)? 2.Algorithms: are the usual SST algorithms able to retrieve the lake temperatures with the requested accuracy or do new algorithms need to be designed? The project will investigate to what extent these questions can be answered using (A)ATSR data, by developing prototype products based on the approach used by the (A)RC project. Project Schedule2009 – 2012, with go/no go assessments at the end of each year Resources Required3 years of post-doctoral research effort, plus some T&S BudgetTBC Funding AgencyESA Project sheets - “shopping list”:

Slide 10 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Composition of AEP board CHAIRMANSHIP The chairmanship of the AEB will be shared by DECC and ESA. COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD The composition of the AEB will reflect the interests of the instrument and exploitation funding partners and the international nature of the scientific community that can potentially exploit (A)ATSR data. Instrument and Exploitation Funding Partners: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC, supported by UKMO) European Space Agency (ESA) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC aka BNSC/EO) Exploitation Funding Partners: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra, EO Group) …… And the ATSR PI team Prof. D. Llevellyn-Jones & Dr. C. Mutlow

Slide 11 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 AEP Exploitation Board OBJECTIVES The primary objective of the (A)ATSR Exploitation Board (AEB) is to act on behalf of the (A)ATSR funding partners (instrument & exploitation) to exercise appropriate and effective leadership in the evolution of an (A)ATSR exploitation programme, and to facilitate communication between them. TERMS OF REFERENCE to identify scientific priorities for (A)ATSR exploitation activities to identify possible future applications of (A)ATSR data to current practical problems in environmental monitoring, to identify the high-priority needs of policy-makers and major stakeholders, such as the EU, WMO, IGBP and other related organisations, for research and applications, to which the use of (A)ATSR data might contribute, to consider, when possible, proposals from the (A)ATSR stakeholders for future developments in the (A)ATSR exploitation programme, the AEB will review and develop the (A)ATSR Exploitation Plan (AEP) …. The AEB will solicit recommendations on the evolution of the AEP from the (A)ATSR QWG, user groups such as GHRSST, and scientific symposia and workshops.

Slide 12 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 What’s missing  Make the AEB board more international  Get ToR approved at the first AEB meeting in October  Communicate the “new” way of working in collaboration across:  funding bodies  Scientists,  Operational organizations  Release final & complete AEP  Review communication plan with this respective

Slide 13 Santa Rosa 27 May 2009 Summary  The (A)ATSR mission is more than only easy & free data access.  The AEP ensures Transparency & Openness  throughout the Exploitation life cycle  With the new Exploitation management structure everybody can contribute to the mission and the same time take benefit for his work.