ESA EARTH WATCH STRATEGY OUTLOOKS

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ESA EARTH WATCH STRATEGY OUTLOOKS

• L. Marelli
• Head of EO Earth Watch strategy

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The last decade . Europes expanding capacity
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What happen post- ENVISAT?

• The ESA Living Planet Programme
• created in consultation with the key players
  Europes scientists
• Industry
• European Commission
• EUMETSAT and many others

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The mission classes and the programme elements
LIVING PLANET PROGRAMME
Dual mission strategy, two types of user
driven, complementary missions Earth Explorer
to better understand the earth Earth Watch, to
initiate long term monitoring system and services
EARTH WATCH - space segment - service
supply - brokerage and marketing of the
service
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLOITATION COMPONENT
EARTH OBSERVATION ENVELOPE PROGRAMME (EOEP)
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• Earth Watch
• Key principles
• Synergy of commercial and institutional market
• Integrated European capabilities space, ground
  services
• Core initial capability defined mainly by
  institutional market
• Long term perspective required
  

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• Earth Watch
• Advantages of a unique European initiative
• Space segment commonality of components, economy
  of scale
• Ground segment sharing of facilities by
  different services
• Service segment access to institutional markets
  across Europe, lower cost per service, critical
  mass to tackle non-European markets

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EARTH WATCH

• Background ERS and ENVISAT as generators of
  applications
• Operational Meteorology
• Industry ideas
• ERSIS

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The Earth Watch Background
The ERS missions initially conceived for research
generated soon high value products and services
demanded by the users on an operational basis.

• The ENVISAT will extend and enhance the services
  provided by ERS and open new opportunities

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The Earth Watch Operational Meteorology
Meteosat VIS 0.7 2.25 km WV 6.4 4.5 km IR
11.5 4.5 km

• The first ESA EO mission, Meteosat-1, 1977 would
  have been called Earth Watch
• 6 more European meteorological satellites have
  been placed in GEO in 20 years.
• Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) is in phase C/D.
• Activity started for Eumetsat on an Advanced
  Geostationary IR Sounder as alternative for post
  MSG-3 time

MSG HRV 1 km IR 3.8 3 km VIS 0.6 3 km IR 8.7
VIS 0.8 IR 9.7 IR 1.6 IR 10.8
WV 6.2 IR 12.0 WV7.4 IR 13.0

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The Earth Watch Operational Meteorology

• The first MetOp satellites are being built for
  the Eumetsat Polar System (EPS).
• The MetOp satellites already include capabilities
  developed under ESA research missions, OMI, ASCAT
  (from ERS GOME and AMI-SCAT) and GRAS (from Earth
  Explorer).

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Earth Watch ERSIS
Space Segment
ERSIS Space Segment
Super/ hyper spectral
opt 1 m
opt 2.5 m
SAR L
SAR X 1 m
SCC
TTC
Service Segment
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Earth Watch planning