Copernicus EU

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Copernicus EU

EC perspectives

on the Earth Observation Revolution

Christophe Roeland - European Commission Space data for Societal Challenges and Growth Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs OECD Going Digital Conference, 26 October 2017, Paris

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FEEDING ARTIF IC IAL INTELL IGENCE

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Human intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Copernicus

THE EO REVOLUTION IN EUROPE

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In-situ component

Six Copernicus services

• Atmosphere

• Marine

• Land

• Climate change

• Emergency

• Security

Ground, sea and air-borne sensors

EU Sentinel satellites

Space component

Contributing missions

Copernicus

THE SENTI NELS Key Features

SENTINEL-1: 4-40m resolution, 3 day revisit at equator

Polar-orbiting, all-weather, day-and-night radar imaging

S1A and 1B in orbit

SENTINEL-2: 10-60m resolution, 5 days revisit time

S2A and 2B in orbit

Polar-orbiting, multispectral optical, high-resolution imaging

SENTINEL-3: 300-1200m resolution, <2 days revisit

S3A in orbit S3B Spring

2018

Optical and altimeter mission monitoring sea and land parameters

SENTINEL-4: 8km resolution, 60 min revisit time

1st Launch 2020

Payload for atmosphere chemistry monitoring on MTG-S

SENTINEL-5p: 7-68km resolution, 1 day revisit

S5P launched 13/10/2017

Mission to reduce data gaps between Envisat, and Sentinel 5

SENTINEL-5: 7.5-50km resolution, 1 day revisit

1st Launch 2021

Payload for atmosphere chemistry monitoring on MetOp 2ndGen

SENTINEL-6: 10 day revisit time

1st Launch 2020

Radar altimeter to measure sea-surface height globally

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THE COPERNICUS ECOSYSTEM

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THE B IG DATA CHALLENG E

8 TB/day of new Sentinel data with just S1-2-3 fully operational

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+ 10 PB/year

Copernicus data policy

Full, free and open access to Sentinel data and Copernicus services (excl. security)

A tool for economic growth and a driver for the digital economy

= 30 km pile of CDs

= 1015 bytes 1 000 000 000 000 000

Current volume: 13 PB

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THE COPERNICUS DATA ACCESS REVOLUTION

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• Strengthen Copernicus data distribution platforms

• Create a flexible data exploitation ecosystem based on the latest ICT technologies

Data Access and Information Service (DIAS)

Industry-driven platforms providing access to the basic data

and services + cloud-based computing resources

• Access to all Copernicus data and information virtually collocated with computing resources

• Allowing Big Data analytics without the need to download the data and information

• Allowing data fusion with non-EO data and information

Copernicus

WHERE COPERNICUS MEETS A I – Cas e study # 1

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• Satellite-based application to identify new construction projects worldwide by merging satellite/Copernicus data, machine learning and data mining

• Uses custom-made computer vision algorithms

which are trained to understand artificial neuronal networks, in order to automate the analysis of building sites and the detection of respective changes

• Detects new construction projects worldwide, months earlier than manual research, years before construction starts

Winner of the Copernicus Masters 2015

EO combined with artificial intelligence

for CHANGE DETECTION

ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use ESA | 01/01/2016 | Slide 9

• Time series of Sentinel-2 & Landsat-8

(45 10-days composites)

• High data volume: 2.2 TB (Oct. 2015-end 2016)

• 1.7 Million field parcels for training & validation

(Three federal states LPIS)

• Data Analytics: Machine Learning for crop

classification (Random Forests)

• Results:

• 1st National German Crop map at 30m

• Monitoring of grassland mowing, irrigation,

double cropping

Griffiths, P., Nendel, C., & Hostert, P. (in review). Intra-annual reflectance composites from Sentinel-2 and Landsat for national-scale crop and land cover mapping. Remote Sensing of Environment.

WHERE COPERNI CUS MEETS A I – Cas e stu d y # 2

ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use ESA | 01/01/2016 | Slide 10

German Crop landscape

Full Resolution Visualization Online: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/08/Mapping_Germany_s_agricultural_landscape