Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Status report on the current and future satellite systems by the European Space Agency (ESA) Presented to CGMS-41 plenary session, agenda item C.2

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master)

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 3 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS 2002 Launch more than 4000 science projects 2004 Envisat Symposium Salzburg (A) Ozone hole 2005 Bam earthquake Global air pollution Chlorophyll concentration B-15A iceberg Hurricane Katrina Envisat Symposium Montreux (CH) 2007 CO2 map Arctic 2007 Living Planet Symposium Bergen (N) 2010 L’Aquila 2009 and many workshops dedicated to specific Envisat user communities Iceland 2010 Japan 2011 Prestige tanker oil slick Living Planet Symposium Edinburgh (UK) 2013 ENVISAT – 10 years of data and discovery

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 4 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS ESA’S EARTH EXPLORER SATELLITES – HIGH-END SCIENCE RESEARCH MISSIONS GOCE 17 March 2009 EARTH CARE SWARM Fall th EE BIOMASS SMOS 2 Nov CryoSat-2 8 April th EE ADMAEOLUS

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 5 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS FUTURE EARTH EXPLORER SATELLITES  FLEX: to provide global maps of vegetation fluorescence  CarbonSat: quantify and monitor the distribution of carbon dioxide and methane. Candidate missions for the 8 th Earth Explorer:  BIOMASS will provide continuous global interferometric and polarimetric Radar observations of forested areas.  Essential to the understanding of the role of forests in Earth’s carbon cycle and in climate change. BIOMASS will be the 7 th Earth Explorer:

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 6 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS THE ESA CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE © Dailygalaxy.com –EO satellites deliver global, consistent and long-term data for Essential Climate Variables, constituting the foundation supporting Climate Research and Applications –GMES Sentinels will provide long-term continuity for monitoring our planet –Gaps in time series => irreversible damage to the foundation underpinning Climate Research

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 7 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLES UNDER THE ESA CCI – Cloud Properties – Carbon Dioxide, Methane & other GHGs – Ozone – Aerosol properties – Sea Surface Temperature – Sea Level; Sea Ice – Ocean Colour – Glaciers and ice caps – Land cover – Fire disturbance – Soil moisture

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 8 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS METEOROLOGICAL MISSIONS First image of Europe’s “youngest” meteorological satellite, MSG-3 (launched 7 August 2012) –Cooperation model: –ESA develops and launches the European meteorology missions –EUMETSAT operates them –Currently Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) in GEO and MetOp in LEO –MSG-3 and MetOp-B successfully launched in 2012 –MeteoSat Third Generation (MTG) and MetOp Second Generation (Post-EPS) under development

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS  GMES is a European space flagship programme  GMES provides the necessary data for operational monitoring of the environment and for civil security Slide: 9 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS GMES SPACE COMPONENT – UPCOMING LAUNCHES Sentinel-1A Sentinel-2ASentinel-3A

Agency, version?, Date 2012 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Add CGMS agency logo here (in the slide master) Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS Slide: 10 Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites - CGMS  The Sentinels provide the basis for offering GMES Services to European users  Land Monitoring  Marine Services  Atmosphere  Emergency Response  Civil Security  Climate Change  ESA and the EU invested 100 M€ each in the preparation of a wide user basis  330+ organizations are ready to use Sentinel data from services GMES SERVICES Atmospheric composition Global Land Cover Maps Global Sea Surface Temperature