GMES Marine Core Service

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GMESMarine Core Service
Arno KaschlGMES Bureau - European Commission
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GMES

• joint initiative of the European Commission and
  ESA
• ? relevant information to policy-makers and many
  other users
• autonomous capacity to generate deliver Earth
  observation-derived information on environment
  security strategic for EU

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GMES Services

• Three Service areas based on Earth system
  components
• Land Monitoring European land cover urban
  spots global land
• Marine Monitoring sea state ecosystem
  characteristics over global ocean European
  regional seas
• Atmospheric Monitoring air quality (European)
  and climate forcing (global), stratospheric
  composition (global) and solar energy
• Further, two horizontal components
• Emergency Response rapid mapping
  alert/preparedness systems
• Security issues global situations, border and
  maritime surveillance, homeland security

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GMES and Climate Change Information

• Assessment of current status
• GMES Services will deliver indicators derived
  from long time series of observations (e.g. GCOS
  ECVs describing atmosphere, land ocean)
• Space and ground-based observations used for both
  short-term monitoring forecasting and long term
  analyses/reanalyses
• Long-term projections and scenarios
• Information provision by research community
  involved in Earth system modelling
• GMES Service information used for retrospective
  calibration/validation of these models
• GMES should feed socio-economic analysis of
  climate change impacts derived measures

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Marine Core Service

• Systematic reference information on the state of
  the ocean over global ocean European regional
  seas
• Observational and model data
• Now- and forecasting
• Re-analyses
• Ocean scenario simulations (with climate
  modelling centres)

• Evolution towards marine resource coastal zone
  management
• Component of the EU Maritime Policy

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Marine Core Service

• Build on what is available (FP6 IP GSE)!
• MCS existing foundations can be characterised as
• the existing infrastructure in the form of in
  situ observing systems, EO systems and data
  collection and modelling systems that are in
  place to provide environmental information
  services
• previous and current RD projects that have or
  are delivering relevant understanding, tools and
  capabilities
• Mersea, Polarview, Marcoast ? myOcean

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Marine Core Service
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Simplified architecture
TAC Thematic Assembly Centers specific
pre-processing of different parameters to be used
as observation time series and input to the
global and regional forecast centres MFC
Monitoring and Forecasting Centers
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Some Core products
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Challenges regardingenvironmental data

• Global Environmental Change reinforces the need
  for Information to support policy decisions
• Technological Progress is an asset to respond to
  the need
• Availability of relevant data
• Lack of access
• Lack of funding for technical infrastructure,
  lack of continuity
• Spatial and temporal data gaps
• Lack of data interoperability
• Inadequate user involvement

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Some Answers

• INSPIRE

GMES
WISE
SEIS
WISE-Ocean
EMODNET
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GMES, INSPIRE, SEIS et al.

• Mutually supportive complementary approaches to
  tackle challenges
• Have a European impact but also global reach eg
  climate change
• INSPIRE metadata, interoperability
• (what data is out there? how to make it
  useful..)
• SEIS data and product availability,
  decentralised network
• (how to have (quality) data available, even
  NRT..)
• GMES its all about services..
• (Increase the amount of data produced and put
  the available data to good use and add value..)

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Interaction GMES EMODNET

• GMES development should profit from the
  integration efforts and efforts at facilitated
  access made through EMODNET
• GMES MCS Outputs are part of EMODNET, pillar
• GMES is contributing to the availability of
  relevant data/products by promoting free access
  to products ? Use of MCS information GMES
  public good observation data
• ? Important interfaces, need to exploited

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GMES as driver(to the benefit of EMODNET)

• Move towards sustainability ? operationalising of
  some priority research networks European Member
  States to sustain their current investment
• Possible EU support to in situ networks (for
  European added value, e.g.
• Filling gaps in observation infrastructure
• Inter-European observation infrastructures
• European contribution to international networks
  (through European infrastructure, e.g. ARGO)
• Mobilisation use of public financing
  instruments
• From national to local levels
• By EU not limited impact to FP space programme
• Constant effort in RD activities (observation,
  modelling, information management)
• Tool for international cooperation, incl. GEO
  process e.g. Access to observation data not
  controlled by Europe

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Timeline

• Main milestones
• 2008-2009 governance package, dossier de
  programme
• Preparatory Action ongoing (support to emergency)
  to be progressively increased in scope funding
  until 2013
• 2011-2012 beginning of full implementation
• 2014 new EC Financial Perspectives -gt
  operational funding line

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GMES Forum

• 16/17 September 2008 French Presidency
  Conference, Lille
• User / service focus
• Demonstrators presenting operational GMES
  products to users
• Websitewww.forumgmes2008.eu

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Some Conclusions

• GMES is important component of EMODNET
• Earth observation derived information more
  more important for public decision making
  market applications
• Importance of the GMES initiative for
• Consolidating integrating the current European
  capacities
• Establishing public good services as a common
  European information basis
• Stimulating the development of a downstream
  sector of sustainable business models
• Maintaining the European position at
  international level
• GMES is an important driver!
• Leadership of the marine community in GMES
• Need for consolidating improving the structure
  coordination of this community at European
  level
• Maintain a constant dialogue with the European
  bodies