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Henri Laur EO Mission Operations & Ground Segment department, ESA

Welcome /

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The prime objective of ESA Earth Observation Strategy is to help society to:

Observe: develop and provide the observations to better understand the complexity of our planet and monitor its health;

Understand: enable improved predictions of the physical interaction of society with the Earth system;

Decide: inform decision makers and citizens on scenarios and consequences of political and economic decisions regarding our home planet.

The vision of ESA is to enable the maximum benefit of Earth observation for science, society and economic growth in Europe, served by European industry.

ESA Earth Observation Strategy

Facilitating access to EO data is essential to reach above objectives

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Need to anticipate the way users will use EO data in future, e.g.: • toolboxes in virtual research environment, • collaborative exploitation platforms, • processing algorithm edition, • merging of EO and non-EO data, etc.

Facilitating access to (quality) EO data

EO data policy at ESA (ESA policy and Copernicus policy) free of charge, open (and as full as possible)

For all missions, operations concept based on systematicity:

all data are systematically acquired, downlinked & processed to generate and disseminate core products

Focus on data quality

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Data challenges for EO missions at ESA

Innovation

Data continuity Data diversity Data quality

Timeliness Synergy between

EO missions Uniqueness

Data volume

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ESA and EO data quality

ESA objectives:

To ensure the best EO data quality, with state-of-the-art knowledge on processing algorithms,

For any products from any EO mission managed by ESA, to be able to quantify their accuracy through appropriate calibration / validation activities,

To further involve the expert communities in the improvement process of EO data.

ESA therefore relies on your expertise and support, as well as your national involvement

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ESA Earth Observation Programmes

ERS-1 ERS-2

ESA Third Party Missions

Earth Observation Envelope Programme + Heritage Mission Programme + Earth Watch

Copernicus

+ Earthnet

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Ministerial Council 2016, December 2016, Lucerne, Switzerland

For Earth Observation:

Optional programmes: New period of Earth Observation Envelope Programme (EOEP-5) New elements of Earth Watch Programme (GMECV+, InCubed, Altius, MicroCarb)

Within General Budget: LTDP+ (“Heritage Data Programme”, new period of existing programmatic line) Earthnet (new period of existing programmatic line)

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Proba-1

09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

2002

Data management to be ensured after satellite operations: • Data preservation • Data access • Data upgrade/ reprocessing

1991

Funded by EOEP-3 MOM (5 years)

Funded by EOEP-4 MOM (5 years)

2012

Data management GOCE

Data management

Data management ERS-1/-2 Envisat

08 Funded by EOEP-5

MDM (4 years)

18 19 20 21

ADM-Aeolus

EarthCARE SAOCOM-CS

SMOS

CryoSat

Data preservation and valorisation

Data preservation and valorisation

Data preservation and valorisation

Funded by Heritage Data Programme (LTDP+)

Sentinel missions

ESA missions

Proba-V Altius MicroCarb

Funded by EarthWatch

Swarm

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Sentinel missions

The open access Data Hub, for anyone (45,000 users)

Collaborative mirror sites directly serve 600+ users (status end 2015)

As of spring 2016, international partners mirror sites have started disseminating towards own national communities

Large and small private companies are re-distributing Sentinel products via free and pay-per-use schemes

Copernicus services are providing their higher level products to ~10,000 users (status Q1 2016)

Sentinel Data Hubs operated by ESA

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ESA EO Ground Segment evolution strategy [September 2015]

Evolution and return on investment: how will EO data be used in 5 years and 10 years from now (“big data” era)?

how can Europe maximise the benefits on its public investments with EO satellites (e.g. in terms of knowledge/information creation, of socio-economic benefits) ?

How can ESA address the above questions within the ground segment(s) with the other EO stakeholders in Europe: - European Commission, in particular through a partnership with DG GROW - Public agencies in Europe (national space agencies, Eumetsat, others…) - Industry in Europe

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Exploitation platforms

EO data non-EO data

EO software

ICT resources

An innovative operations concept: users access a work environment containing the data and resources required, as opposed to downloading and replicating the data ‘at home’. A scenario for data intensive exploitation gradually complementing the traditional operations concept for the ground segment

Exploitation platform (or community platform) =

Virtual open and collaborative environment

bringing together: • data storage (EO and non-EO data) • computing and network resources, hosted processing • concurrent design and test bench functions • collaborative tools (processing tools, data mining tools,

user toolboxes, …) • communication tools (social network) and documentation • application shops and market place functionalities • accounting tools to manage resource utilisation

What is an Exploitation Platform ? New paradigm (or big data paradigm) “Move User activities to the Data”

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“traditional” data dissemination (pull/push)

Network of exploitation

platforms

“EO Innovation Europe”

“Big Data”

Objectives of the network concept:

Enabling large scale exploitation of EO data

Stimulating the innovation with EO data

Maximising impact of European EO assets and preserving European independence

Heritage EO data (e.g. Spot-1, Envisat)

Operational public EO data

(Sentinel, Meteo)

R&D EO data (e.g. Earth Explorers, SWOT)

Commercial EO data

(e.g. Pleiades, TerraSAR-X)

The best worldwide EO data asset EO in Europe

Airborne & in-situ data

Vivid global user communities

Users R&D remote sensing Users profit-making

services

Users geosciences

Users public services

5 interconnected user groups

General public, education, media

EO Innovation Europe concept a network of exploitation platforms

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Innovation Programmes evolution

Operational Programmes

Copernicus & “EO Innovation Europe” concept

Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment

National/commercial missions data access

“EO Market Place” Open to additional actors

EOEP-5 (“EO Science for Society”) Heritage Data (LTDP+), Earthnet EarthWatch CCI, InCubed

European EO data ecosystem Common concept and partnership

Copernicus Data & Information Access Services

Open Science Cloud & GEOSS Infrastructure EU

Copernicus Services & user uptake

Research and Innovation Projects (H2020)

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