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/

08/ Human space flight and exploration Microgravity research Earth Observation Earth Observation Continuous data acquisition Long term archive Multi-scale capabilities Multi-sensor information Data Exploitation Telecommunications Satellite navigation Launcher development 30+ years experience 5 centres ~2000 staff members ~4+ billion Euro/year budget 70+ satellites developed 20+ satellites in operation The European Space Agency

Europe’s expanding EO capacity ERS 1 ERS 2 Oceans Sea Ice Cryosphere Land Surface Climatology + Global Ozone + Terrestrial biosphere + Ocean colour + Atmospheric chemistry ENVISAT 2002

MERIS high resolution – 2004 high resolution image (300m) – Phytoplankton bloom – Contrails/cirrus – This type of data available on the rolling archive - – Download images from

Sea Ice SAR measurements (ERS1/2, Envisat)

GOCE ADM-Aeolus EarthCARE SMOS Swarm CryoSat-2 Scientific Missions ERS-2 ERS-1 ENVISAT ESA’s EO programme securing 40 years comprehensive long-term observations from space Operational Series (with EUMETSAT/EC) Meteosat MetOp Sentinel 1 Sentinel 2 Sentinel 3 Sentinel 4 Sentinel 5 Sentinel 4 Sentinel 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)

Service Development User Groups: National & sub-national public authorities, European institutions, International organizations, NGOs EO data Products Products validationService assessment Ground truthing In-situ data access User 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 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 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

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

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