Use of space for monitoring of the environment Evie Merethe Hagen, Norad/DECEE-meeting 12.april 2011

Content/ presentation headlines The Norwegian Space Centre The Millenium Development Goals Space for monitoring of the environment and development of infrastructure Norsk Romsenter –

30. sep. Norwegian Space Centre Government agency for coordination of Norwegian space activities under the Ministry of Trade and Industry Represents Norway in the European Space Agency (ESA), FP7 Space, GAC, CEOS and GEO Share holder in Andøya Rocket Range and Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (KSAT). KSAT owns ground stations in Tromsø, Grimstad, Svalbard (SvalSat) & Antarctica (TrollSat) Ca 30 employees (Skøyen in Oslo)

1 End Poverty and Hunger 2 Universal Education 3 Gender Equality 4 Child Health 5 Maternal Health 6 Combat HIV/AIDS and Malaria 7 Environmental Sustainability 8 Global Partnership The UN Millennium Development Goals

Space technology FOR poverty alleviation!

Monitoring of the environment and development of infrastructure

IKONOS QuickBird SPIN-2 SPOT 4, 5 EROS A1 Envisat Aura/Aqua/Terra Grace QuikScat Sage SeaWinds TRMM Toms-EP UARS Landsat 7 SORCE ACRIMSAT CBERS SeaWiFS ERBS Jason Orbview 2, 3 RadarsatALOS DMC SAC-C SAC-D/Aquarius

AISSat-1 Norsk Romsenter –

© GEO Secretariat U.S. Department of State, Washington DC July 31, 2003 GEO, the Group on Earth Observations An Intergovernmental Organization with 81 Members and 56 Participating Organizations

Use of Norway`s comparative space advantages Norsk Romsenter –

30. sep. 11 Norway: A pioneer in ocean monitoring

Norwegian Space Centre 12 Bjørkhaug – 56m Olympic Prawn – 60m Hopen – 66.4m Tønsnes – 50.8m Polaris – 60m J. Bergvoll – 57.3m Arctic Swan – 64m Polaris LYLI – 51.6m Hermes – 53m ©ship-info.com Vesttind – 70.1m Detection & identification of ships & skip tracks with radar & AIS

SAR/AIS integration Norsk Romsenter – No AIS Correlated vessel detection/AI S

30. sep. Monitoring of oil spill Independent of darkness & clouds radar images (SAR) from satellites deliver information about extent of oil spills and oil seeps. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) - responsible for the maritime safety in EU – use satellite data for tracking oil spill extent & identification of illegal oil spills. The oil industry uses satellite data to monitor the environment around oil platforms & to localise oil seeps for identifying potential new oil reserves. The extent of the oil spill from Prestige taken from the radar ASAR onboard ENVISAT. © ESA / ENVISAT

Norwegian Space Centre Monitoring of sea ice in the Arctic

Space for Oil for Development and International fisheries management? Norsk Romsenter –

Monitoring of Tropical Forest (GEO Forest Carbon Tracking (GEO FCT)-task )

Forest Carbon Tracking (FCT) Optical data complemented by SAR In-situ data for validation of satellite data and biomass estimation Near-real time high resolution data for enforcement Norsk Romsenter –

Norway`s contribution to monitoring of tropical forest - HUB- services for tropical countries within the GEO FCT-framework - Radar-technology & expertise in algorithm development for operational services - Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) - Experience with capacity building regarding in-house services

GEO FCT National Demonstrators

Tanzania and Norway Norway will assist the Government of Tanzania in establishing their national MRV system (build-on to NAFORMA) Main Norwegian contribution to the Tanzanian MRV-system will be related to introduction of collection and processing of data from airborne LiDAR, and SAR and optical data from satellites

Brazil and Norway Norway will help improve INPEs Brazilian Amazon Monitoring Program PRODES - Yearly Deforestation Assessment DEGRAD - Yearly Degradation Assessment DETER - Bi-weekly detection of new deforestation and degradation Optical data is the primary data source in the Brazilian systems, Norwegian expertise will introduce SAR As supplementary to PRODES and DEGRAD As a tool for Early warning Norwegian expertise will in addition help make INPEs system more automatic, as well assist in the extension to other forest biomes Regarding extension onto the “Cerrado”, a link to Tanzania is established CBERS downloading at Svalbard

Mexico, Guyana and Indonesia Norsk Romsenter –

Development of a Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)

The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Development Goals

Space for international health (together with forests)?

Norways main bilateral partners regarding health and forest India Malawi Pakistan Nigeria Ringed in: MDG 4 & 5 Color coded: Forest

SuperPico – A (VSAT) platform for use for global health and tropical forest..

Summing up.. Norsk Romsenter –

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