Overview of ESA GMES activities
and interactions with the EC
Informationstag zu GMES und Satcom
im 6. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm
29 April 2005, Bonn
Agenda
ESA – EC Coordination
 GMES Advisory Committee
 GMES Programme Office
ESA activities on GMES
 GMES Service Elements
 Charter: a precursor
 GMES Preparatory Activities
 GMES Space Component Programme
ESA – EC Coordination
GMES Co-ordination Bodies
Advisory Committee
GAC(2004)1
A way of maintaining and strengthening the “political ownership” of GMES,
Provide strategic advice and policy orientation on:
• GMES long-term implementation, including possible funding
mechanisms and encouraging a “GMES partnership”.
• to optimise the use of existing and future GMES infrastructures,
• assessing the overall strategic and socio-economic benefits of GMES
Membership:
• EC, ESA and related Member States, interested in making significant
contributions to GMES
Meeting:
• twice a year, next on 1st June 2005
GMES Co-ordination Bodies
Programme Office
GAC(2004)2
Implement, in its early stages, the operational management of GMES
Membership:
• Co-chaired by:
• EC - Head of Unit for GMES,
• ESA - Head of ESA GMES Unit,
• DG-Environment,Joint Research Centre, Research, Enterprise & Industry
• ESA Earth Observation Programmes Directorate
• EEA , EUMETSAT,EU Satellite Center
Meeting:
• twice a month
Actions
MANAGEMENT
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Assessment of Socio-Economic Impact of GMES
GAC(2004)5 - July 2004.
IMPLEMENTATION
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Initial services implementation
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Development of the Space Observation component
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In situ component, GAC(2004)6 – July 2004
Data integration and information management (INSPIRE)
Data policy framework
Security and dual-use, GAC(2004)17 – Nov. 2004
Definition of follow-up management structure
Funding mechanisms
International cooperation policies
Proposal for Long-Term Implementation of GMES
GAC(2004)4 – July 2004
GAC(2004)7 – July 2004
ESA Activities on GMES
GMES Preparatory activities
Development of Initial Services: GSE Program
Socio-economic analysis
Architecture studies
Space Component
Sentinels
Coordination with national programs and Eumetsat
Ground Segment
Oxygen Phase 2 (O2 – “open and operational”)
GMES Service Element (GSE)
GSE is a key element and critical milestone for GMES.
It is in the middle of its successful implementation
phase.
Prime objectives:
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Maximum use of EO in support of
European policies on environment
and security
 Basis for future EO operational
systems for the benefits of Europe’s
citizens
GSE services must fulfill:
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Availability
Reliability
Affordability
GSE Initial Services in consolidation
CoastWatch
Real-time Ocean
ICEMON
Northern View
Risk fire & flood
Forest Monitoring
Soil & Water
Land Motion
Urban Services
Humanitarian Aid
Food Security
Atmosphere
User Organizations in GSE
DN 1
CH 1
IRE 2
PT
3
FN
3
A
3
NL
GR
CA
N
S
B
UK
I
D
E
F
EU
Africa
Other
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Total: 210 User orgs
190 from 33 countries
& 20 international
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25
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Real-time Ocean Monitoring Services
Providers
CLS
Meteo-Fr
Mercator
IFREMER
DNV
NERSC
NCMR
Telespazio
Users
Services
- Algae Bloom Monitoring
- Oil Spill Monitoring & Impact
Assessment
Policies
INT: IMO Marine Pollution (MARPOL)
EU: Water Framework Directive
EU: ICZM recommendations
EU: 6th EAP - protect nature & biodiversity
EU: 6th EAP - address environment &
health
CEDRE
IFREMER
NDF
NSF
IMR
NCD
P of Barcelona
Puertos Estados
Min. Fomento
Galicia CMC
CPMM
Catalunya Met
P of Gijon
UKEA
MCGA
CEFAS
Min Mer. Marine
HCMR
Service examples
Oil spill information
Algae Bloom detection
(using C-band SAR)
(using Ocean-colour / Meris)
Routine Monitoring
& alert
Impact Assessment
&
Evolution forecasting
Benefits example: Algae bloom monitoring
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In 2002 about 200 M€ loss of
mussel cultures in the River
Scheldt area.
Predicting of risk based on EOChlorophyll and wave data.
In 2004 decision support for
closing dams to keep Harmful
algae blooms outside the estuary.
PROMOTE Services
Atmospheric information to support protocol monitoring
Services
Providers
KNMI
DLR
DWD
RIU
U Bremen
CERC
Prev’Air
ACRI-ST
FMI
Stratospheric Ozone
UV Radiation:
Air Quality:
- past, present, forecast
Greenhouse gas emissions,
concentrations
Policies
- Vienna convention
- Montreal Protocol
-UN Convention on Long-Range
Transboundary Air Pollution
- UNFCCCC
- EU: Clean Air for Europe (CAFÉ)
Users
JRC-IES
NILU
EPA
UBA-A
UBA-D
BVDD
LUA
WMO
ECMWF
DEFRA
London
RIVM
SYKE
ADEME
L’Oreal
Meteo Fr
EMPA
ARPA
PROMOTE Services on UV Radiation
www.gse-promote.org
Forest Monitoring Services
Services
Providers
GAF
SFMC
Metria
VTT
Geoapikonisis
Joanneum
- Forest Monitoring
- Mapping and Monitoring of Disturbances
- Sub-National Forest Information Service
- Land Use and Forest Indicator Service
Policies
INT: UNFCCC & Kyoto Protocol
INT: UN Convention on Biodiversity
EU: Water Framework Directive
EU: Soils & Forest Strategies
EU: 6th EAP - protect nature & biodiversity
EU: 6th EAP - address environment & health
EU: 6th EAP - tackling climate change
EU: 6th EAP - preserve nat. resources
Users
Min Agr
FEA
Thuringa IFGF
NOA
NBF
Stora Enso
Min Agr
FEA
FS of IGSNR
National Greenhouse Gas Reporting
IN-SITU DATA
Forest inventory field
data (sample plots)
Core Users:
Biomass Expansion
and Carbon
Extension Models
BMVEL - Germany; NOA - Greece; MAPAAR
- France
Responsible for UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol
reporting (Art. 3.3, 3.4)
Carbon estimates per sample plot
New Interested Users:
EO STRATIFICATION
Forest type & land use derived from optical and SAR data
CSIR, South Africa
NRSC, Namibia
Poland
ERSI, Zimbabwe
Services:
Germany
Greece
French Guiana
Maps and Statistics for Land Use, Land Use
Change and Forestry (LULUCF)
Spatially explicit information on forest area and
changes versus 1990
Change Detection
CARBON BUDGET
Forest area & Carbon Stock
- Average estimate
- Minimum reliable estimate
Carbon Stock and annual changes
Error Budget and Minimum reliable estimate
Compliance with COP decisions and LULUCF
Good Practice Guidance Guidelines
Charter: a precursor
The International Charter on Space and
Major Disasters
 Initiated by CNES and ESA, joined by CSA, NOAA, ISRO, CONAE & JAXA
 Unified system of space data acquisition / delivery in case of natural or
human-made disasters
 Data delivery to civil protection agencies, emergency & rescue
services; UN cooperating body since 2003
 Operational since 2000: 24 hrs on-duty-operator, data resources from all
Charter members
 Recent Examples of Charter Activation:
 Bam Earthquake 2003
 Darfur Crisis 2004
 Tsunami Catastrophe 2004/2005
GMES Preparatory Activities Studies
User requirements /
service segment
GMES
Service Evolution
Concept
Sentinel
Definition
Studies
G/S
Architecture
Definition
Socio
Economic
Benefits
Study
Long-term
Scenario
Study
Requirements &
Assumptions
Heterog.
mission
Accessibility
(inter-operab.)
Concepts
Space Segment Arch
Commonality
Development approach
Space
Missions
Evolution
2005 - 2015
2005 - 2030
Socio-Economic benefits
Objectives
• Impact assessment for all significant new investment
• Support member states in investment decision
• Better understand how GMES will impact on key
stakeholders to support future discussions and priority
setting – key groups include:
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Public sector legally mandated organisations
The citizen (directly and indirectly)
European industry (eg competitiveness, pollution control
effectiveness)
Politicians
Regional and global monitoring programmes
• Promote benefits from GMES implementation to wider
audience
Outcome and schedule
What will be delivered?
– Key benefits to be expected arising from GMES implementation
– A political and strategic view of the benefits and impacts due to
GMES implementation
– Benefits evaluated against cost envelopes from an economic
perspective
– Variation in benefit resulting from different implementation levels
for GMES
Schedule
– Kick-Off meeting March 2005
– First versions of analysis by June/July 2005
– Final versions of analyses by November 2005
GMES Architecture Studies
USERS
Service Component
Socio-economic
data
Ground
Segment
Data Integration & Information Management
EO Data Access Integration Layer
PGS
PGS
PGS
Interoperability
FOS
FOS
FOS
Interoperability
EUMETSAT
In-situ
Airborne
Other
non-space
Systems
Existing
In-situ networks
(EIOnet, INSPIRE)
Space
Segment
National
Cooperative
Missions
In-Situ Data Access
ESA
Space Component / EO Component
In Situ
Component
Space Observations
The GMES Sentinels
Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging
All weather, day/night applications, interferometry
Sentinel 2 – Superspectral imaging
Continuity of Landsat, SPOT & Vegetation-type data
Sentinel 3 – Ocean monitoring
Wide-swath ocean color and surface temperature
sensors, altimeter
Sentinel 4 – Geostationary atmospheric
Atmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary
pollution
Sentinel 5 – Low-orbit atmospheric
Atmospheric composition monitoring
Sentinel (1-2-3) Definition Studies
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Detailed definition of Sentinels and of its operations concept.
Establish the mission and system concept,
Demonstrate the feasibility
Provide the design
Validate in System Requirements Review (SRR) as per ECSSM-30A
• Analysis of mission and system functions and requirements for
all mission elements,
• Programmatic: system engineering approach, model concept,
development planning, schedule and cost estimates,
• Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 include also the analysis of the
accommodation of the 3-band payload defined in the Fuegosat
GMES Sentinels Payload Ground Segment
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Objectives
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Define and design
the multi-mission PDS architecture and operational concept
to be applied to the GMES Sentinel (i.e.: 1, 2 and 3 series),
building over current and past mission PDGS gained experience
Specifying the:
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multi-mission and mission-specific PDS modules
and their interfaces,
and providing an implementation plan including the costs, schedule
and risks.
Scope
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All PDGS functions
Including the interface to the EO data access layer
Heterogeneous missions accessibility
(inter-operability)
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Objectives
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Define, standardize and prototype
harmonized interface for the GMES Service Users with the different
EO data providers,
to allow an easy and cost-effective access to heterogeneous EO
mission data
Scope
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GMES EO products and its format (*)
EO products quality certification, including methods and criteria and
across-mission calibration and validation standards (*)
Interface for ordering/programming, catalogue access, and on-line
data access.
user management and administration
EO data supply agreements (common GMES data policy and Service
Level Agreement) to be adhered by the GMES satellite data
providers. (**)
GMES Space Component Programme
… addresses the following elements
1. Space observations:
 Sentinels
 National missions, Eumetsat and TPM
2. GMES ground segment required to manage space data
3. Integration of new space data into GMES services
Not addressed in the GMES proposal are …
 In-situ observations
 Policy & regulatory framework
 Institutional structure to govern, finance and operate GMES
Programme Schedule
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Deployment Preparation
OVERALL PROGRAMME
GMES Service Elements
Preparatory Activities
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C-Min
Initiating: Phase 1
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Development: Phase 2
Full Operations
Funding:
ESA
EC
Programme Confirmation
2010
2011
2012
2013
Road Map
2005
PBEO - Elements of GMES proposal (11 April)
Consultation of GPO
PBEO (Draft) Full Programme Proposal (19-20 May)
GAC 3 - Presentation of Summary Programme Proposal
(1 June)
Space Council - Presentation of Summary Programme
Proposal (7 June)
ESA Council - Final Programme Proposal, Enabling
Resolution (21-22 June)
ESA Pot. Part. Mtg. draft Declaration, draft Implementing Rules
PBEO Declaration, for approval
ESA Coulcil - Implementing Rules, for approval
Space Council
GAC 4 (TBC)
ESA C-MIN - GMES Declaration, for subscription of phase 1
Clarification on GMES Governance
Confirmation by EC of Service Requirements
Confirmation of EC budget for FP - 7 and Space / GMES
Agreement between ESA and EC on cofunding model for GMES
Break Point Agreement on Phase 2, Operationnal Services
Start Phase 2, Operations
2006
2007
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2008
GMES
Global Monitoring for Environment and
Security (GMES)
“GMES is a joint initiative of ESA and the EC to respond to the
need to establish, by 2008, a European Capacity for Global Monitoring
of Environment and Security to support the public policy maker’s need
for global access to reliable, accurate and up-to-date information on
issues of environment and security”
EC Communication COM(2001)264, 15 April 2001
Needs
Public
Policy
EO
Solutions