The Romanian GMES Context

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The Romanian GMES Context an update
JRC Information Day and ST WorkshopsBucharest,
Romania, 11 May 2006

• Marius-Ioan Piso
• Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)

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Contents

• Romanian Space Agency
• National update
• International update
• GMES related RTD projects
• Space Applications
• Security research
• Space and Security

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Romanian Space Agency

• Established in 1991, ROSA become in 1995 an
  independent public institution under the
  authority of the Ministry of Education and
  Research
• Mission
• Coordinate the national space research and
  applications programs
• Promote space development
• Be the Government representative in the
  international space cooperation
• Develop specific project oriented research
  through its own centres
• Coordinate the Inter-ministerial group on
  Security Research
• Law 40/93, Govt. Decisions 923/95 and 1574/2004

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Romanian Space Agency
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Romanian Space Agency

• Attributes
• Acting under the Authority of the Romanian
  Government - Ministry of Education and Research
• Interagency coop. MoD, M. Foreign Affairs, M.
  Agriculture and Environment, M. of Interior, M.
  Telecomm. and IT
• Contract authority and PMU for the national
  AEROSPACE RD Program
• Contract authority and PMU for the national
  SECURITY RD Program
• Executive president for the Inter-Ministerial
  Board on Security Research (2004) and
  Inter-agency INSPIRE Group of experts
• Authorized to establish research and development
  Centers oriented on specific objectives of the
  Romanian Space Program
• Government representative (mandated) for ESA, EC
  (FP6 AEROSPACE), UN-COPUOS, others (NASA, Russian
  Federation, . .)
• Representative for COSPAR, other int.
  organizations . .

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Romanian Space Agency

• Integral extra-budgetary financed sources
• RD contracts, consultancy, international
  cooperation, management
• Staff 35 (21 research professionals)
• ROSA Headquarters in the centre of Bucharest
• Offices, information retrieval and processing
  facilities, GRID
• http//www.rosa.ro
• ROSA Research Centre
• Core technologies and assets data mining,
  knowledge management, GRID, nanosatellite
  technologies
• Shared facilities with INCAS and the Institute of
  Space Science
• Laboratories, Library, Data processing and GRID
• Ground station for EO satellites
• Space Applications Centre (CRUTA)
• Established 1993, fully equipped for satellite
  data processing
• Data bases of EO and ground data, Land use / Land
  Cover for Romania

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Romanian Aerospace Programme

• Contribute to the national and global scientific
  development by participation to international
  space missions and development of new projects
• Improve the national and regional security by
  means of peaceful space applications (2001)
• Contribute to the infrastructure of the
  information society
• Develop new space technologies, space spin-offs
  and commercial space applications
• Human resources building to meet the space
  science and technology development for the 21st
  Century
• Give a model of capacity building and support the
  national effort to continental and international
  integration

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Romanian Aerospace Programme

• Component sub-programs
• Policy and infrastructure
• Capacity building technology park, centres of
  excellence, quality management, GRID, concurrent
  engineering
• Space exploration
• Space missions (INTERBALL, CLUSTER, PLANCK,
  COROT, AMS . . ) Space science, microgravity
  life science
• Space applications
• Satellite communications, Earth observation,
  GNSS, precision farming, disaster management,
  telemedicine, GMES, GALILEO, LPIS, software
• Aerospace science and technology
• Aerodynamics and flight dynamics, C3 systems,
  onboard technology
• Industrial development and spin-off
• Aerospace platforms (UAVs, IAR-99, AEROTAXI),
  components, high speed facilities, infrastructure.

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Romanian Aerospace Programme

• Number of current projects
• 108 (39 2001, 40 2002, 20 2003, 72 - 2004)
• Participant organizations (Romanian) 121
• Professional staff involved 630 full time
  equivalent
• Funding
• Budget engagement limit 2001 2006 31,25 Meuro
• Budget engagement (present) 18,75 Meuro
  (2001-2005)
• Co-financing 31 - private and public partners
• Actors RD institutes, universities, companies,
  NGOs, SMEs public and private, most of them
  in consortia

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GMES related projects
LCCSRO Thematic inventory of land use based on remote sensing, GIS and GPS Agriculture
ADAMRO Assimilation of remote sensing data applicable in rational and precision agriculture Agriculture
LPISRO Study for fitting the European regulations related to high resolution images utilization for Land Parceling Integrated System (LPIS-RO) development Agriculture
ADAMRO 2 Agriculture plans for national precision farming using remote sensing and dynamic production modeling monitoring systems Agriculture
MODVEGET Vegetation reflectance modeling for biophysical parameters assessment from remote sensing data (MODVEGET) Biodiversity
LCSSFORESTS Forest vegetation classification technology with satellite images utilization and geographical data base , support for FAO-LCCS methods fitting to Romania conditions Biodiversity
RISKEAB Space technology utilization for seismic risk evaluation in Romania. Pilot studies for Bucharest Disasters
STDM-RO Satellite images processing and utilization methods for disasters monitoring and management Disasters
VRANCEA Study for thermal, magnetic and gravimetric regional anomalies remote sensing methods for a better understanding of processes taking place in Vrancea seismic area Disasters
MONDUN Geospatial data processing methods for risk phenomena monitoring and management in Danube and its floodplains areas (MONDUN) Disasters
ORTOPRECIS GIS extension by orthorectified remote sensing images utilization Ecosystems
IMPACT Remote sensing techniques for assessment of environment modifications under influence of antropic factors due to urban development in Bucharest and surrounding areas - IMPACT Ecosystems
SATMEDELTA Telemedicine applications in Danube Delta Ecosystems
PRAF Methodology for dust content identification and evaluation in urban environment, based on aerial and satellite images in visible and infrared Ecosystems
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GMES related projects
SISMIN System for remote sensing inventorying and monitoring of mining industry land areas Energy
RADARCOAST Interferometer applications in Black Sea Coastal area Water
RADARCOAST 2 Coastal zones remote sensing monitoring technologies Water
FLOODAN Lower Danube flooding modeling using satellite images Water
SATAPA Thermal infrared and microwave satellite data utilization for water resources monitoring for population security Water
STAR STAR - Receiving station for satellite data in real time. Functional model Capacity Building
STAR 2 Telecommunication platform for regional satellite data dissemination experiments Capacity Building
PRECISAT Studies towards development of a national system for collecting and transmission of 3D differential GNSS data Data Management
AIRTOPO Airborne system for spatial topographic data recording and processing Data Management
LUCIUS Building a National Network for GMES Applications Support by Setting Up a Land Use Land Cover Information Unified System Network
INSPAM Spatial Data Infrastructures with Applications in Environmental Protection Network
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GMES Pathfinder Projects

• ROSA coordinated Projects included in the
  National RTD CEEX Program
• LUCIUS Building a National Network for GMES
  Applications Support by Setting Up a Land Use
  Land Cover Information Unified System
• exploit experience acquired by consortium members
  and build a network providing the scientific and
  technological regional support for the
  development of GMES applications through
  institutional development and capacity building
  in geospatial data (space and in-situ)
  acquisition, processing and management
• INSPAM Spatial Data Infrastructures with
  Applications in Environmental Protection
• initiate and develop an interoperable framework
  able to contribute to establishing a national
  spatial data infrastructure following the
  European initiatives in this domain (GMES,
  INSPIRE, ORCHESTRA etc.)
• SPIM Centre for disaster monitoring by space
  technology
• Generate the infrastructure, procedures and
  knowledge management for flood and other natural
  disasters monitoring

Update 2005!
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Security research programme

• National RD Programme SECURITY
• Drafted under the authority of GIMS
• Included by Govt. Decision 2080/ Nov. 2004 in the
  National Research, Development and Innovation
  Plan
• Goals
• Research, technology and systems for security and
  defence
• Prepare the national actors for the participation
  in the FP7 security research areas
• Support for the integration in EU, NATO, WEO,
  other programs and organizations relevant for
  security and defence
• Development of national capacity building and
  support for cooperation between research,
  industry and users
• Increasing awareness and the new security culture
  among citizens and decision makers

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Romanian Security Research Programme

• Inter-ministerial Group for Security Research
  (2004)
• Ministry of Education and Research, Ministry of
  Defense, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of
  Economy and Commerce, Romanian Intelligence
  Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romanian
  Space Agency
• RTD programme launched in 2005
• 84 projects and 114 organizations involved
  (Universities, RTD institutes, major companies
  and SMEs, NGOs)
• In concordance with FP7 Security, NATO and
  National priorities
• ROSA coordinator and contract authority

Update 2006!
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Romanian Security Research Programme

• Subprogrammes
• Security policy and strategy
• Protection against terrorism and security of
  infrastructures
• Situation awareness and reconnaissance
• Crisis management and interoperability
• Industrial development

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GMES-related projects
SNMC  Centrul pilot eLearning pentru dezvoltarea si distribuirea de continut digital in domeniul securitatii nationale si managementul crizelor - CPeL - SNMC  Crisis management
MASTER  MASTER - Modelul unui centru de excelenta in domeniul securitatii - CES  Capacity building
HARTMAG  Sisteme de masura si trasare a hartii magnetice si hidrografice a tarmului Marii Negre - HARTMAG Ecosystems, border security 
EWSGUV  Cercetari privind realizarea sistemului integrat de avertizare seismica in timp real a autoritatilor asupra iminentei unui cutremur vrancean catartrofal - EWSGUV  Disasters
SATExplor  Dezvoltarea de metode si demonstrarea unui sistem pilot pentru extragerea informatiei din imagini de teledetectie satelitara si aeriana pentru gestiunea situatiilor de criza sau dezastru aplicatii si demo pentru monitorizarea si cuantificarea efectelor inundatiilor - SATexplor  Disasters
SPIM  Sistem pilot integrat de monitorizare si determinare a efectelor inundatiilor in bazinul Siretului inferior - SPIM Disasters 
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International Cooperation

• ROSA is the national representative for
• European Space Agency (ESA) by law
• United Nations COPUOS by mandate from the
  Foreign Ministry
• NATO Scientific Committee and RTO Space
  Advisory group
• EC FP6 AEROSPACE PC, INSPIRE by mandate
  from the Ministry of Education and Research
• NASA Government representative
• CNES (French Space Agency), Russia
  (negotiations), Hungary, Bulgaria Azerbaijan
  Bilateral agreements
• ASI (Italian Space Agency), DLR (German Space
  Agency) - projects
• International organizations membership COSPAR,
  IAF, IAU, EURISY, SAF, GDIN, others, bilateral
  agreements with research organizations

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European Space Agency

• On 17 February 2006 Romania strengthened its
  relations with ESA by signing the European
  Cooperating State Agreement, becoming the third
  European country to join this status. Hungary was
  the first in April 2003 followed by the Czech
  Republic in November of the same year.

Update 2006!

• The ceremony took place in Bucharest with the
  participation of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Prime
  Minister of Romania, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA
  Director General, Anton Anton, Romanian Secretary
  of State for Science and Technology, Marius-Ioan
  Piso, President and CEO of the Romanian Space
  Agency, and cosmonaut Dumitru Dorin Prunariu,
  Chairman of the Board of the Romanian Space
  Agency.

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European Space Agency

• During the coming months Romania will define with
  ESA the specific areas and projects for
  cooperation, and the budget for the next five
  years.
• Major participation will be in ESAs space
  science programme and the ESA/EC joint GMES
  (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)
  initiative.
• Other areas of cooperation will include ESAs
  microgravity and exploration programme and
  technology activities.
• Participation in GMES will strengthen the
  countrys use of Earth observation data for
  agricultural planning, crop forecasting and flood
  monitoring.

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European Space Agency GMES

• 1. The space component, which includes
  development and operations of all satellite and
  ground segment infrastructure providing the
  required data streams
• 2. The in-situ component, which includes
  development and operation of all ground based and
  airborne data gathering networks. This also
  includes socio-economic data such as demographic
  data, industrial output data and epidemiological
  data.
• 3. Data harmonisation and standardisation,
  including infrastructure for data assimilation,
  standardised processing, data fusion, modelling
  and forecasting and service support
  infrastructure such as data access, catalogue,
  archive and customer support facilities
• 4. User oriented services, including data
  procurement, information generation and delivery,
  product quality assurance and monitoring
  compliance with user domain working practices,
  standards and legislative requirements
• The ROSA ESA common projects would include some
  of those components

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United Nations COPUOS

• COPUOS - The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of
  Outer Space was set up by the General Assembly in
  1959 ( resolution 1472 (XIV)) to review the scope
  of international cooperation in peaceful uses of
  outer space, to devise programmes in this field
  to be undertaken under United Nations auspices,
  to encourage continued research and the
  dissemination of information on outer space
  matters, and to study legal problems arising from
  the exploration of outer space.
• Two standing Subcommittees of the whole
• Scientific and Technical Subcommittee
• Legal Subcommittee
• Number of Member States in the Committee 67
• Romania Chairman of the Scientific and
  Technical Subcommittee (2004-2006)

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United Nations COPUOS - DMISCO

• Recommendation UNISPACE III 5 Action team 7
• An international space coordination body for
  disaster management nominally identified as the
  'Disaster Management International Space
  Coordination Organization (DMISCO)' should be
  established
• Such a body would have the mandate to provide the
  necessary means to optimize the efficiency of
  services for disaster management.
• It would ensure affordable, comprehensive and
  universal space-based delivery by fully utilizing
  existing and planned space and ground assets and
  infrastructures, and with the full participation
  of organizations and mechanisms currently in
  place.
• The proposed organization would act as a focal
  point for global space efforts in support of
  disaster management.

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United Nations COPUOS - DMISCO

• Experts were nominated as members of the ad hoc
  expert group and have participated in the
  elaboration of the DMISCO study
• Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Canada,
  China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France,
  Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy,
  Japan, Latvia, Morocco, Nigeria, Philippines,
  Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation,
  Spain, United States of America,
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and
  Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World
  Meteorological Organization (WMO), Committee on
  Space Research (COSPAR), International
  Astronautical Federation (IAF) and International
  Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  (ISPRS).
• The work of the ad hoc expert group was supported
  by the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the
  Secretariat.
• Romania by ROSA - in charge with the DMISCO
  Implementation Action group

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United Nations COPUOS - DMISCO

• International functions
• One-Stop Shop for Information
• Awareness Raising and Outreach Activities
• Knowledge Management and Transfer
• Coordination functions
• Platform for Fostering Alliances
• Bridge the gap between the disaster management
  and space communities - Communities of Practice
• Support to Capacity Building
• Operational functions
• Regional and Country Profiles
• National Disaster Management Planning and
  Policies
• Implementation of National Activities defined by
  National Focal Points.

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NATO Security through Science

• The Security Through Science Programme offers
  grants to scientists in NATO, Partner and
  Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate
  on priority research topics.
• The aim of the Security Through Science Programme
  is to contribute to security, stability and
  solidarity among nations, by applying science to
  problem solving.
• Topics in priority research areas
• Defence Against Terrorism
• Countering Other Threats to Security
• Partner-Country Priorities.
• ROSA representing Romania in the SCOM

Update 2004!
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NATO Security through Science

• ENVSEC
• The OSCE, UNEP and UNDP set up the Environment
  and Security Initiative in 2002 with the aim of
  identifying, together with regional stakeholders
  (such as governmental representatives and NGOs),
  environmental issues that are a threat to
  stability and peace and using environmental
  co-operation as a confidence-building exercise in
  vulnerable regions.
• Since 2004, NATO - associated with ENVSEC through
  the NATO Programme for Security through Science
  and the activities of the Committee on the
  Challenges of Modern Society
• The NATO Science Committee (October 2005) agreed
  to provide financial support through the Security
  through Science Programme for the extension of
  the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC)
  to Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine).
  ENVSEC has so far focused on Central Asia, the
  South Caucasus and Southeast Europe

Update 2005!
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NATO Security through Science

• Defence against Terrorism
• Rapid Detection of Chemical, Biological,
  Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Agents or Weapons,
  and Rapid Diagnosis of their effects on people
• Novel and rapid methods of detection (e.g.,
  chemical and biosensors, multisensor processing,
  gene chips)
• Physical Protection against CBRN agents
• Decontamination of CBRN agents
• Destruction of CBRN agents and weapons (e.g.,
  chemical and vaccine technologies)
• Medical Countermeasures
• Explosive Detection
• Eco-Terrorism Countermeasures
• Computer Terrorism Countermeasures

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NATO Security through Science

• Countering Other Threats to Security
• Environmental Security (e.g., desertification,
  land erosion, pollution, etc.)
• Water Resources Management
• Management of Non-Renewable Resources
• Modeling Sustainable Consumption (e.g., food,
  energy, materials, fiscal measures and
  environmental costings)
• Disaster Forecast and Prevention
• Food Security
• Information Security
• Human and Societal Dynamics (e.g. new challenges
  for global security, economic impact of terrorist
  actions, risk assessment, management of science,
  science policy, security-related political
  science, and international relations in general)

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NATO Space Science and Technology Advisory Group
(SSTAG)

• NATO uses information from space assets in most
  of its military operations from situational
  awareness to space weather. Better understanding
  and improved situational awareness has been
  extended to space operations. The improvements in
  both ground and space based sensing to accomplish
  the full operational picture are required.
  Coalition forces must also understand the utility
  of new sensing techniques. Small satellite
  techniques will allow most nations to develop
  space assets and to launch on demand.
• Space Science and Technology Advisory Group
  (SSTAG) created in May 2005 within the NATO
  Research and Technology Agency (RTA)
• ROSA expert member in the 10 nations SSTAG
• Established recommendations via peer review
  process for new technical activities in the
  research panels related to use of space
• First Specialist Meeting to be held in Romania
  September 2006

Update 2005!
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NATO Space Science and Technology Advisory Group
(SSTAG)
Update 2005!

• Recommended topics related to GMES
• Space Based Multi- and Hyperspectral Sensors
  Technology and Applications
• Space Based RADAR Technology and Applications
• Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying in
  the Networked Environment
• Use of Commercial Satellite Remote Sensing
  Information for Maritime Surveillance and
  Oceanography
• 3D Urban Mapping
• Exploitation of Satellite Remote Sensing Data for
  Change Detection
• Radar Polarimetry from Space
• Ground Segment Antenna for Multi-Mission
  Applications
• Systems of Systems for Early Warning
• Image and Data Compression Algorithms for Remote
  Sensing and Communication
• Near Real-Time Automatic and Semi-Automatic
  Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
• Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)

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Regional cooperation in space applications

• UNISPACE III Regional Preparatory Conference for
  Eastern Europe, UN/Romania (ROSA), Bucharest,
  25-29 January 1999
• A total of 89 persons attended the Preparatory
  Conference, from 21 countries and 8 international
  organizations
• The Earth and its environment
• Communication and navigation systems
• Benefits of space exploration, including the role
  of Microsatellites and
• Information, education and cooperation.

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Regional cooperation in space applications

• United Nations Regional Workshop on the Use of
  Space Technology for Disaster Management for
  Europe , 19-23 May 2003, Poiana Brasov.
• Joint initiative of the United Nations Office for
  Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) and the Romanian Space
  Agency (ROSA), on behalf of the Government of
  Romania, and co-sponsored by the European Space
  Agency (ESA), the Centre National dÉtudes
  Spatiales (CNES), and the United Nations
  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
  (ISDR).
• Brought together practitioners, space agencies
  and those responsible for dealing with disaster
  management to present experiences and best
  practices on the space technology-based solutions
  to disaster management in Europe

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United Nations Regional Workshop on the Use of
Space Technology for Disaster Management for
Europe , 19-23 May 2003, Poiana Brasov.
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Regional cooperation in space applications

• UN/ESA/Eurisy/ROSA
• The Danube and Europe Integrated Space
  Applications in the Danube Basin, 23-25 June 2004
  - Mamaia, Romania
• Environment, Security and Space Applications
• Integrated Space Applications to Water Resources
  Management
• Natural Resources Related Issues
• Human Security

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Space and Security National

• ROSA further development as a technology
  development and capacity building organization
• Integrate gradually the national space
  exploration and industrial programmes to ESA
• Keep the role of a single national voice for the
  EU programmes on space, security and aerospace
• Concentrate the national public and private
  resources to critical masses and develop its own
  niches
• Maintain the wider field of international
  cooperation with the major global actors in space
  and security
• Build gradually its space applications center
  towards the EU and become a regional partner for
  JRC

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ROSA Update

• The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
• National Space, Aerospace and Security Research
• International Space programs (ESA), Space
  applications (EU FPs), Space for security (NATO)
• Regional partner for GMES and JRC

Update 2007!
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Floods 2005-2006

• International Charter Space and Major Disasters
• July 2005
• Charter Call 91
• CNES ROSA SERTIT
• April 2006
• Charter Call 121
• DLR ROSA
• Data from ERS-2, RADARSAT, SPOT 4, SPOT 5, DMC,
  FORMOSAT, IRS, MODIS
• Local data CRUTA, ROSA, DTM

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Floods 2005-2006

• From space technology . .

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• To Practical results!

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ROSA GMES Update

• Questions?
• Thank you for your attention!