Introduction to ESRIN
ESA Centre for Earth Observation
Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012
Volker Liebig (H/ESRIN, D-EOP)
Gunther Kohlhammer
Head of Earth Observation Ground Segment & Mission Operations Department
06 November 2012
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www.esa.int/esrin
ESA FACTS AND FIGURES
Goal: “To provide for and promote, for
exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation
among European states in space research
and technology and their space
applications.”
•Over 40 years of experience
•19 Member States
•Five establishments in Europe, about 2200
staff
•4 billion Euro budget (2012)
•Over 70 satellites designed, tested and
operated in flight
•17 scientific satellites in operation
•Celebrated the 200th launch of Ariane in
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February 2011
19 MEMBER STATES AND GROWING
ESA has 19 Member States: 17
states of the EU (AT, BE, CZ, DE,
DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, IE, LU, NL,
PT, RO, SE, UK) plus Norway and
Switzerland.
Eight other EU states have
Cooperation Agreements with ESA:
Estonia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary,
Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and the
Slovak Republic. Bulgaria and Malta
are negotiating Cooperation
Agreements.
Canada takes part in some
programmes under a Cooperation
Agreement.
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ACTIVITIES
ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to
combine responsibility in nearly all areas of space activity.
• Space science
• Navigation
• Exploration
• Technology
• Human spaceflight
• Earth observation
• Launchers
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• Telecommunications
• Operations
ESA’S LOCATIONS
EAC
ESTEC
(Noordwijk) (Cologne)
Salmijaervi
(Kiruna)
Harwell
ESA HQ
(Paris)
ESA sites/facilities
Offices
ESOC
(Darmstadt)
Brussels
Redu
Toulouse
Oberpfaffenhofen
Cebreros,
Villafranca
ESA ground stations
ESAC
(Madrid)
ESRIN
(Rome)
Moscow
Washington
Houston
Santa Maria
Kourou
Maspalomas
New Norcia
Perth
Malargüe
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Rome and ESRIN
Envisat ASAR
image, August
2003
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The ESRIN Establishment
Personnel on site (Oct 2012): 617
 221 ESA staff (including YGT, fellows and trainees)
 396 contractors
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Earth Observation
Vega Department
Corporate Informatics
Telecommunications
Contracts, Site, Personnel,
Communication
ASI Science Data Centre
ESA Security Office
 + 60 international conferences,
36.000 visitors per year
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Earth Observation in ESRIN
Earth Observation functions in ESRIN
 EO Payload Operation Management Centre
 Multi-mission Ground Segment management
 Earth science & application development
 GMES Space Office
 Charter management
 Earthnet activities management
 CEOS and GEO activities
 EO User Helpdesk
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ESA ESRIN
Control Centre for Distributed Facilities
10 Processing
and Archiving
Facilities
ESA & TPM
Satellite Flight
Control Centres
+ small thematic
archives
Centralised Functions
Ground & Satellite
Data Dissemination
Networks and Data
Flow
200 VAC and Service
Companies
ESA Ground Segment Introduction: Slide 9
• Development, Management and
Maintenance of a distributed Ground
Segment
• User Services
• Multi-mission Mission Planning
• Instrument Performance
Monitoring, Product Development &
QC
• Exploitation Development and
Management
• Technology Development
Standardisation and Technology
Transfer
• Mission Management, Data Policy
11000 Science
Users
25 Expert Support
Laboratories
ECMWF & Meteorological
Network
10 National
Ground Stations
28 Foreign
Stations
worldwide
GMES Services
In Orbit today: ESA Earth Observation
satellites
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4 EO missions in operation
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5 more currently operated by Eumetsat
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3 historical ESA missions +
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30 partner missions for which data are
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+3800 user projects worldwide– increasing
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More than 100 Terabytes/yr of data
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Increase by a factor of 40 in the coming years
disseminated to European users
further
Preservation of Space derived data has become an important Issus for
ESA even at the level of CMIN 2012
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Satellites for emergency relief
The International Charter on
Space and Major Disasters
- > Data acquisition in case of natural or
human-made disasters
- > Data delivery to civil protection
agencies, emergency & rescue services
Examples of activations:
 Darfur Crisis 2004
 Haiti earthquake 2010
 Tsunami Catastrophe
2004/2005
 Japan earthquake / tsunami 2011
 Hurricane Katrina 2005
 Feugo Volcano in Guatemala 2012
 Sichuan
Earthquake 2008
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 Fires in Chile (Patagonia) 2011
VEGA Small launcher programme
 ESRIN is the management
centre for the VEGA small
launcher programme
 VEGA is able to place up to
2000-kg satellites into polar
and low-Earth orbits
 First VEGA qualification flight
successful on 13 February
2012
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Informatics
Information Systems
ESRIN is the Host centre of ESA’s
Information Systems:
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Corporate Business Applications
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Corporate Information
Technology Infrastructure
ESA’s Information Systems Department
ensures that ESA runs smoothly.
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Further ESRIN Activities
 Virtual Reality Theatre
 European Centre for Space Records
 Telecommunication Multimedia
Infrastructure
 ESRIN Telecom Lab
 ESA Broadcast Service via Web
 Incubators (agreement ESA – BIC Lazio)
 ESA Web Portal
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Alliance for Permanent Access Conference 2012
Welcome to ESA and ESRIN
Have a good Conference
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