GMES Service Elements: 3rd collocation meeting findings

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GMES Service Elements3rd collocation meeting
findings
Sustainable Development Global Climate
Change Agriculture (PAC) / Fishery
Quality of life FP6 European
Research Biodiversity
Humanitarian aid Development Common
Defense Sec
Solutions
Needs
Information Services
Policy
operational in 2008
Luigi FUSCO ESA/ESRIN (EOP-S)
EOP/G-S EC/IST Coordination meeting ESRIN 4
June 2004
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GMES Concept

• GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and
  Security
• GMES is part of the EC-ESA European White Paper
  on Space
• This initiative responds to the emerging needs to
  protect and monitor the environment at global,
  regional and local scale.
• Key actions are
• Provision of services
• Access Space observing systems and additional
  in-situ observations systems
• Data integration and information management
• Research Technology Development
• ESA prime focus is on
• The Space elements
• Development of Operational Services (GMES Service
  Element)

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GMES Concept

• GMES is the European contribution to the
  International effort in preparing GEO (Global
  Earth Observing System) to
• Sustainable development
• Environmental treaty monitoring and international
  conventions
• Enhancing the security of citizens
• Preserving peace through transparency of
  information
• GMES is in line with the ESA Living Planet
  Programme
• Maintain Europe at the leading edge of Earth
  Sciences
• Formulation, implementation and monitoring of
  public policies and in the provision of public
  services
• Forster the development of commercial services
  using Earth Observation

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Link with ESA EO programmes
EO exploitation (earth.esa.int) from Science to
Applications
Science
Research Path
Industry Path
User Path
Applications Demonstration
New Techniques
New Users
New Providers
Global Monitoring for Environment Security (GSE)
Market
Future EO missions
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GMES plan
Autonomous Operational European capacity for
GMES
GMES Action plan endorsed by EC ESA
council (Nov 01)
ESA council Decision on implementation plan
Deployment of GMES space component (Earth Watch
Sentinels)
Baveno Manifesto (Oct 98)
GMES Forums
GMES Report
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Implementation Period (stage 2)
Initial Period
Sustainability
GMES requires a space component insuring EO data
continuity
3nd GSE colocation
Total Budget 83M, 5yrs Initial Phase 10
projects 1.5M 20months
GSE Consolidation
GSE Full operationalisation
servicereviews
programmereview
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GSE objectives
Services
End-users
Information
Geo Data
EO Met RD satellite data, remote
sensing, in-situ networks
Operational Earh System Monitoring Forecasting
GIS, Processing Data Fusion, Forecast Model
Citizens EU Policy Regulation body Env agency
Value chain

• GSE aims to make the end-to-end EO value chain
  more effective by
• Delivering information (not data) to end-users
  (e.g. tactical / strategic)
• Organising the supply (e.g. developing the
  necessary infrastructure)
• Federating the demand (e.g. user-pull, not
  technology pushed)
• Establishing a sustained dialogue with end-users
  (e.g. policy body)
• GSE aims to close the loop between operational
  results and
• definition of future systems such as Earth Watch
  missions.

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GSE methodology

• Key questions of consolidation
• What information is needed?
• What services can be provided?
• What are the benefits for Europes Citizens?
• Do the benefits justify the costs?
• Specific GSE mechanisms
• Precursor services
• Service Level Agreement
• Associated projects (links with
  RD initiatives)
• Open service partnership
• Strategy group / plan

Iterative Service cycle
User Consultation
Service Adjustment
Product Design
Promotion
Feedback Analysis (utility Report)
SLA
Delivery
Testing by users (validation report)
Training

• Geographic scope from global to regional to
  local
• Time scale present10y

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3rd GSE Collocation meeting scope

• Critical review of each service in terms of
  public benefits, user acceptance, scenarios for
  implementation, milestones for sustainability
• Coordination options between existing consortia
  and identification of needs for additional
  activities
• Indications and requirements for future EO
  operational capacity in Europe
• Infrastructure requirements for in-situ data
  gathering and data access, modelling and data
  assimilation, data processing and fusion, service
  delivery and user exploitation
• Actions to be completed relating to service
  validation and standardisation including
  compliance with user standards

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3rd GSE Collocation focus groups organisation

• Critical review of existing (48) GSE services by
  partner organisations
• GSE validation and standards
• User communities, federation
• GSE Supply side synergy and overlaps
• Service benefits impacts and costs
• Infrastructure requirements from different
  service portfolios
• availability of data sets and access
• Key infrastructure and issues
• Service partnership and agreements
• Service sustainability

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3rd GSE Collocation space segment priorities

• Issue Continuity of key data sources is not
  presently guaranteed and this impacts on the
  credibility and acceptance of the service
  portfolio
• Findings
• Key sensors have been identified their
  continuity must be assured
• Marine priorities
• C band SAR - wideswathapol
• MODIS/MERIS type and ocean colour
• Land priorities
• High resolution optical (LandSAT-7 type)
• C band INSAR
• Atmosphere priority Post-ENVISAT combination of
  atmospheric composition sensors

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3rd GSE Collocation selected key messages

• Priority Services identified for progressive
  implementation
• During next stage significant effort needs
  devoted to
• service validation,
• standardisation and certification
• Users key service models are
• User generates information in-house using
  licenced capability
• User procures services from external provider
• Partnerships must be open and inclusive
• SLA is a key mechanism to facilitate move from
  ESA funded activities to sustainable service
  provision
• Infrastructure requirements not detailed or
  finalised. Follow-on funding options must be
  better defined early in next stage of GSE

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3rd GSE Collocation service user
infrastructure

• Users and their infrastructures are distributed
  broadly with diverse service needs
• Distributed service infrastructures must be
  implemented rather than major centralized
  developments
• GSE stage 2 activities need to draw on
  infrastructures developed by other organizations,
  e.g. EC and EEA.
• Service expansion requires some investment.
• Product improvement
• New and enhanced models, with increased
  assimilation of EO and in situ data (e.g.
  forecasting)
• Create synergies between European service
  providers
• Commonly accessible data-pools (e.g. elevation
  models)
• Basic, common value-adding processing
• Communications networks (distributed networks,
  centralization not foreseen)
• Backup and redundancy
• Enhance productivity by automation of service
  supply chain
• Online archive facilities, catalogues, etc.
• Automatic feature detection algorithms (e.g. oil
  spills)
• Broker systems, improving user interface to
  services

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GMES challenges
Building blocks for Earth Information Monitoring
Forecasting services

• Exciting scientific research
• Validation / Certification
• Better EO algorithms Exploitation of new
  information (Polarisation / Multi-angle)
• Use state-of-the-art Earth System models
  (biological, chemical component)
• Need Error statistics for assimilation
  Certification
• Transfer of RD to operations

Models
Assimilation
In-situ
EO
BUT need for EO Data continuity!! Sentinel 1
C-band SAR Sentinel 2 MR WS superspectral
optical Sentinel 3 Ocean Altimeter
Colour Sentinel 4 Atmospheric GEO Sentinel 5
Atmospheric LEO
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Coordination mechanisms

• Exchange Information
• Align Schedules
• Joint Meetings or reviews
• Access Models (Hind/now/forecast)
• Transfer Algos Software (IPR)
• Validate Products
• Test New Services
• Agree Common Standards
• Common Approach to users

Project Level
IP Integrated Project (RD demo)
G S E
Definition of common terminology Services
Portofolio
Operational Service Provision
Research methods and demonstration
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GSE portfolio

• Forest Monitoring GAF (De)
• SAGE Infoterra (De)
• GMFS Vito (Be)
• URBAN Indra (Es)
• TERRAFIRMA NPA (Uk)
• RISK-EOS Astrium (Fr)
• RESPOND Infoterra (Uk)
• ROSES Alcatel (Fr)
• CoastWatch EADS (Fr)
• Northern View C-Core (Ca)
• ICEMON Met No (No)
• PROMOTE KNMI (Nl)

USER in the DRIVING SEAT
Right info, at the right time, at the right place
Delivered to International / Regional / Local
users such as EU institutions, Environment
Agencies, Regulatory bodies, Statistical
agencies, natural resource, mapping agencies
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Proposal for progressive implementation

• European scale services
• Marine and coastal environment information
  service
• Land information service
• Polar environment information service
• Regional scale services
• Forest Monitoring
• Fire and Flood Risk Management
• Geophysical Hazard Monitoring
• Global Monitoring for Food Security
• Continuation of consolidation activities
• RESPOND (humanitarian aid)
• PROMOTE (atmosphere)
• Progressive implmentation to be continued but
  full implications for next phase of GSE not fully
  defined,e.g.
• 15000 ScanSAR scenes per year in near real time
  for European oil spill surveillance
• Complete analysis of landslide risk on monthly
  basis

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Marine and CoastalEnvironment Surveillance
Monitoring
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Marine Coastal services big picture
Intl conventions secretariats OSPAR, Helsinki,
MAP
EMSA
EEA
EU DGs
Health safety agencies
Coast guards
environment agencies
Food/ fisheries agencies
Portauthorities
Coastal Environment
Systematic monitoring and detection for ALERT
Decision support information
Reference DB administration
Coastal Management information
In-situ datacollectionnetworks
VTMSoperators
NRTradarimagery
NRToptical imagery
Ocean state forecast
Meteo forecast
Airborne surveillance operators
GSoperators
Satelliteoperators
Ocean modeloperators
Meteo models operators
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Marine Coastal services

• The service portfolio is articulated around three
  levels of information
• Oil spill detection, drift forecast and impact
  assessment.
• Water quality
• Monitoring and Assessment
• Algae Bloom alert service
• Coastal Habitat mapping
• Coastal Vulnerability and risk assessment
• Coastal indicators
• Geophysical information mapping
• Near-shore wave and wind

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Conclusions

• Formal definition of infrastructure requirements
  not yet finalised
• First priority services for progressive
  implementation identified these have
  significant implications wrt infrastructure
• NRT availability
• European wide coverage
• Large number of local customised models
  presently with little or no assimilation of EO
  based information
• Widely distributed user base to be satisfied by
  service infrastructure