End User Requirements Oil

1
End User RequirementsOil Gas

• Ideas
• For IICWG 8

2
Example Ice OperationsN.E. Caspian Sea Shallow
Water Island
3
Objectives

• Increase info to end users forecasters
• Improve Quality of Information
• Increase Speed of Delivery
• Focus areas include
• Emergency tasking
• Oil spill
• Analysis of different ice conditions
• EER

4
Ideas by End Users, OG

• 1. Launch New/more Satellites more, quicker,
  cheaper service?
• 2. Enhance
• a. ice drift monitoring forecasting tools
• b. identification of ice types
• 3. Provide high resolution localized ice charts
• 4. Enhance understanding of ice conditions,
  Training

5
1. Use - or Launch New Satellites

• High quality SAR is expensive if done frequently
• Opportunity to get SAR at lower cost
• Provide real time data on ice conditions

6
2a. Enhance Ice Drift Monitoring

• Limited info - Radarsat image freq 1/day
• Mostly large scale movement
• Radar image processing
• Accuracy reliability
• Need for a numerical forecasting model
• What is the weakest link, currents?
• 1-5 day forecast fleet operations
• access by vessels

7
2b. Enhance Identification Ice type

• Location application specific
• Cost is an issue
• General info needed
• - stationary ice and drifting ice
• - ridges, size and frequency
• - rafted ice or stamukha's
• Satellite Imagery Capabilities?

8
3. Provide High Res Local Charts

• Ice charts for structures may be different
• - Ice structure interaction
• - Ice description thickness, speed, ridges,
  rubble
• - Vessel and Marine access
• - EER
• Standardization ?

9
4.Enhance understanding of Ice Conditions

• End User focus KISS
• Egg code limitations
• Thin ice breakdown too coarse / fine
• Thick ice breakdown too coarse in thick deformed
  ice
• More annotations, different symbols
• Indications for deformed ice, rafted ice
• Optimize use of SAR in egg codes
• Training ?

10
Summary IdeasEnd users OG

• Use / Launch new Satellites
• frequent HR imagery
• Ice drift and drift monitoring
• Satellite Imagery Capabilities
• Standardization
• Training

11
EO based services

• Useful, Available, Reliable Yes
• Affordable Sometimes
• OG Awareness Insufficient
• Difficult to find out? Time consuming
• Future needs Various locations
• Exploitation of EO Various
• ESA help See next

12
Suggestions for ESA to benefit the IICWG
community

• Document client needs and requirements Survey,
  Site visits, Workshop and Distribute results
• Document Satellite Capability Sentinel
  compatibility Product vs. Usage Large vs. small
  area
• 3. Ability to handle risk and emergency
  conditions (EER, oil spill). Operational Access
  to Data
• 4. Focus on User Applications multi platform
  Swath planners, ice types (ridging, rafting), 3-D
  info, filters, centralized data access, Web Cam