1 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 In situ component SPACE COMPONENT International Collaborations & Observing Systems Physical Biogeochemical, ecological Virtual Constellations Hans Bonekamp European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

2 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 WHO questions European ORGANISATION for the EXPLOITATION of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). Or Who is organised?The users. (MET services) Who is exploiting the satellites? The users. EUMETSAT is doing (with partners) user-driven satellite programmes EUMETSAT is doing more and more oceanography

3 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 Observational network design The fundamental and most difficult issues in discussion of observations of any kind are all related to the two questions: 1. What is one trying to observe? 2. How well does it have to be done? A consequent, but less fundamental, third question is: 3. What is the current capability and in what ways does it remain inadequate? Carl Wunsch Observational Network Design For Climate OceanObs 2009.

4 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 Virtual Constellation Virtual: Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name Constellation: a group or configuration of ideas, feelings, characteristics, objects, etc., that are related in some way. 1.Striking realism in it. 2.Is International Collaboration 3.Is Captured programmatically (CEOS)

5 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 Virtual Constellations: Outline 0. Prelude 1. CEOS for Oceans (and related with CGMS) 2. Some highlights of the individual Virtual Constellation Individual VC Schedules 3. EU/ESA/EUMETSAT satellite mission highlights - Sentinel-3 - Sentinel 6 (Jason Continuity of Service) S3VT/MPC Prelude

6 CEOS: Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

7 WMO / CGMS : Ocean Considerations Several coordination areas are well catered for outside CGMS, in particular by CEOS Virtual Constellations Encourage the CEOS Virtual Constellations to submit papers to CGMS on relevant operational matters with appropriate recommendations to CGMS Strengthen the link to JCOMM, in particular the Cross Cutting Task team on Satellite Data Requirements. Ocean is considered explicitly in climate activities and handled by the CEOS- CGMS Joint Working Group, and the increased capabilities of the next generation GEO satellites for ocean applications will also be addressed in this context. CGMS-42 meeting, May 2014, Guangzhou

8 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 CEOS Ocean Virtual Constellations Sea Surface Temperature: CEOS SST Virtual Constellation (SST-VC) Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) Sea Surface Height: Ocean Surface Topography Virtual Constellation (OST-VC) Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) Ocean Surface Vector Winds: Ocean Surface Vector Winds Virtual Constellation (OSVW-VC) International Ocean Vector Winds Science Team (IOVWST) Ocean Colour: CEOS Ocean Colour Radiometry Virtual Constellation (OCR-VC) International Ocean Colour Coordination Group (IOCCG), IOCS meetings

9 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 Virtual Constellation as Table Geophysical Variable CEOS Virtual Constellation Single mission Remote Sensing Science Team Multi- mission Application Science Team Ocean Surface Topography OST-VCSaral, Swot S3VT/MPC OSTST HY2A OSTST COASTALT S3VT Sea Surface Temperature SST-VCGHRSST S3VT Ocean surface vector winds OSVW-VCASCAT SAGIOVWST Ocean Colour Radiometry OCR-VC IOCCG S3VT/MPCIOCCG/IOCS S3VT Salinity-Aquarius ST SMOS ST ? PG GOV? ST

10 OST-VC: CRYOSAT-2 EU HY-2A CN Jason-2 FR/EU/USA Launch Date Operating Past Sept 2014 Missions Past-Now Saral/AltiKa FR/Ind Jason-1 FR/EU/USA TOPEX/POSEIDON FR/USA 08/92 ENVISAT EU ERS-2 EU 04/95 GEOSAT FO USA 02/98

11 OST-VC CRYOSAT-2 EU Complementary Nadir Missions Broad-Coverage Mission HY-2B CN HY-2A CN Reference Nadir Missions (Non Sun-Synchronous) Jason-2 FR/EU/USA Launch Date 02/13 OperatingProposedDevelopment Sentinel-3C EU Sentinel-3B EU SWOT USA/FR Jason-CS-A/Sentine-6-A EU/USA Sentinel-3A EU Sept 2014 Missions Now-Future Jason-3 FR/EU/USA Saral/AltiKa FR/Ind 20/08 JCS-B EU/USA 04/10 Compira JP Sentinel-3D EU 08/11 HY-2D CN HY-2C CN

12 OST-VC Foci OST-VC management: Membership /Mailing list / review ToR enhanced cooperation/alignment with other CEOS VCs/WGs Altimetry SAR mode: (Cryosat-2/sentinel-3/Jason-CS) Development of level 1 products Development of training Climate Sea Level Data Record: Continuity of reference altimetry Reprocessing (e.g. Topex) Update Constellation User Requirements Document SAR-Mode altimetry Swath Altimetry

SIT Tech. Workshop 2014 CNES, Montpellier, France 17 th -18 th September SST-VC Background GHRSST formed in 2000 and operating successfully, so no desire to duplicate Instead, SST VC created to serve as a bridge between CEOS and the existing Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST) Over 60 GHRSST products, flowing through international data management framework SST-VC brings CEOS requirements to GHRSST For example, WGISS requirements for CWIC/IDN GHRSST feeds requirements to space agencies via SST-VC Scientific developments Product generation requirements Constellation requirements (draft paper)

14 Ku-band Combined C- and Ku-band C-band 10/06 06/99 Design LifeExtended Life Proposed Operating Design LifeExtended Life Approved METOP-A Europe METOP-C Europe METOP-B Europe Post EPS Europe QSCAT USA CFOSAT China/France RapidSCAT USA GCOM-W2 Japan/India/USA Scatt operational series India Launc h Meteor-M N3 Russia Oceansat-3 India SCATSAT India Meteor-MP 3 Russia GCOM-W3 Japan/India/U SA HY-2A China HY-2B China HY-2C China FY-3E China FY-3G China Oceansat-2 India 03/04 OSVW-VC ( surface winds)

15 e.g., White Paper describing and justifying the oceanography and climate requirements for an OSVW constellation. Local time coverage assessment Ocean Surface Vector Winds Virtual Constellation (OSVW-VC)

16 Let’s look at the Copernicus Sentinels The Matrix film Sentinel Sentinel-3

17 Copernicus: Delegation Agreements - work nearly finished Management Arrangement Delegation Agreement Nb European Parliament agreed with the EU Copernicus Regulation (Nr. 377/2014 ). Hence Copernicus as a EU program has been established.

18 EUMETSAT and the Sentinels EUMETSAT Direct EUMETSAT User Community Programmatic Engagement :interest/link: Sentinel-1-Marine Meteorology, Sea Ice Sentinel-2-E.g. marine environment, Sentinel-3 Sentinel-3 Marine MissionOceanography, Marine (Marine Centre) Meteorology, Sea Ice, Seasonal Forecasting, Climate, Marine Environment Sentinel-4Part of EUMETSAT MTG SystemAtmospheric Composition (GEO) Sentinel-5 Part of EUMETSAT EPS-SG System Atmospheric Composition (LEO) Sentinel-6Jason Continuity of ServiceOceanography, Climate EUMETSAT Optional Program with Partners (follow-on of Jason-2/3)

19 Sentinel–3 Payload Complement Optical Mission Payload: Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) Topography Mission Payload: SAR Altimeter (SRAL) MicroWave Radiometer Precise Orbit Determination (GNSS Receiver,DORIS Laser Retro-Reflector)

20 On-line Data Access (ODA) Rolling archive: last 1 month of data Near Real Time: EUMETCast (Multi Mission Element) Digital Video Broadcast using commercial telecommunication satellite services low cost, standard VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminals) 3 hour NRT for Sentinel-3 at the pick-up point access to integrated marine data stream: weather, ocean Long-term archive (Multi Mission Element) U-MARF (Unified Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility) two last baselines of all products EUMETSAT Sentinel-3 data dissemination: baseline

21 Joint ESA/EUMETSAT Sentinel-3 Validation Team ESA-EUMETSAT joint call for Sentinel-3 Validation Team (S3VT) rolling call, continuously open no funds 80 teams from Europe and around the globe over 40 ocean colour teams S3VT-1 meeting, November 2013, ESA/ESRIN Rome to consolidate and document S3VT activities prior to launch to facilitate Phase E1 and Phase E2 Cal/Val planning S3VT-2 meeting, November 2013, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt to discuss specific data access needs to discuss overall Mission Performance Set-up (relation QWG, MPC, satellite commissioning, etc) “s3vt” on

22 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 Sentinel-6 : Jason Continuity of Service 2015 Jason-CS (Sentinel-6) 2020 Sentinel-6 will be implemented by the multi-partner Jason-CS programme to continue the altimetry services of Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3. Programme endorsement expected for mid 2015.

23 Long Term Archive (Trends)

24 Final Remarks/Thoughts Virtual constellations as a program they virtual but as missions addressing user needs they are real. GOV is Virtual Constellation for the science of Global Operational Ocean Model Suites. Let’s remember that GHRSST started as a GODAE project. User-driven ocean satellite missions => You are in the driver seat. Hence towards space agencies Less: “Great that you guys do this for us” More: “You should do this and this!” Carl Wunsch, OceanObs 2009 Less: user advice more: user requirements Support further globalisation

25 GOVST-V Beijing 2014 International Collaborations & Observing Systems Virtual Constellations! Thanks