OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meeting Welcome 8th March 2010 ESA/ESRIN M. Eugenia Forcada (European Space Agency, Earth Observation Directorate) Eugenia.Forcada@esa.int

The ESRIN Establishment Personnel on site 218 staff in: Earth Observation field Vega Department Informatics Telecommunications, Contracts, Site, Personnel, Communication ASI Science Data Center Over 410 contractors from European industry +30 Young Graduate Trainees and research fellows +37.000 visitors in 2008 +60 international conferences per year 2

ESRIN is the lead centre for Earth observation EO Payload Data Operations Centre of ESA Multi-mission Ground Segment management ERS and Envisat including Artemis reception Earth Explorers Third Party Missions Earth science & application development GMES Space Office Charter management Earthnet activities management CEOS and GEO activities

EO User services, education ESRIN manages the largest EO data archive of its kind in Europe ESRIN acts as central access point for users of EO data worldwide: the UN, the European Commission, NGOs, universities, research institutes, local authorities, commercial entities ESRIN provides access to a distributed ground segment ESRIN is the centre of EO education Matera Ground Station, Italy 4

The VEGA Small Launcher Programme ESRIN : management centre for the VEGA small launcher programme managed by an integrated ESA / ASI / CNES team VEGA : 0.3-2t satellites into polar and low-Earth orbits helping European space industry to make access to space easier, quicker and cheaper Maiden flight scheduled for end 2010

Further ESRIN Activities Host centre of ESA’s Information Systems: Corporate Business Applications Corporate Information Technology Infrastructure European Centre for Space Records Telecommunication Multimedia Infrastructure & ESA Broadcast Service via Web Incubators (agreement ESA – BIC Lazio)

Purpose of ESA “To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.” Article 2 of ESA Convention

ESA Activities ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in all areas of space activity. Space science Human spaceflight Exploration Earth observation Launchers Navigation Telecommunications Technology Operations

ESA Activities in ESRIN ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in all areas of space activity. Space science Human spaceflight Exploration Earth observation Launchers Navigation Telecommunications Technology Operations

ESA facts and figures Over 30 years of experience 18 Member States Five establishments, about 2000 staff 3 600 million Euro budget (2009) Over 60 satellites designed and tested More than 10 scientific satellites in operation Five types of launcher developed Over 180 launches made

EARTH OBSERVATION

Why EO ? Mean sea level rise

Why EO ? Global mean sea level rise Courtesy of Remko Scharroo

Geostationary Meteorological Missions From past to present Earth Explorers Since 1978 1991 1995 2002 Meteosat ERS 1 ERS 2 ENVISAT Evolution of Objectives…. Beispiel Polare Eiskappen ERS-ENVISAT-Cryosat 18-20 Jahre of RA Daten Sentinels / GMES Geostationary Meteorological Missions + Global Ozone + Soil Science Oceans Cryosphere Soil Science Climatology + Ocean colour + Atmospheric constituents

EO missions handled by ESA Since 1977 1990 2000 2008 2011 2025 Earthnet: European access to non-ESA missions: Landsat, SeaWifs, NOAA, JERS, MODIS, ALOS, Proba, Bird, Scisat... European users Meteo METEOSAT Second Generation MSG-1, -2, -3 METEOSAT M-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in cooperation with EUMETSAT METOP-1, -2, -3 Cryosat 2 (Polar Ice Monitoring) Science to better understand the Earth (Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer) GOCE SMOS (Soil moisture) Earth Explorers ADM/Aeolus (Atmospheric Dynamics) Explain Data Policy EarthCARE (Clouds, Aerosol & Radiation) SWARM (Magnetic) ERS-1, -2 ENVISAT Applications Services long term monitoring systems and services GMES Sentinel 1 (SAR imaging) Sentinel 2 (Multispectral) Sentinel 3 (Ocean global monit) Sentinel 4 (Atmospheric) Sentinel 5

With wider participation as necessary Ground Segment Coordination Body: joining forces to Standardise EO access Members: Agencies in ESA member states investing in and managing Earth Observation Payload Data Ground Segments Established in June 2005 Shares the respective expertise in the development and operations of Payload Data Ground Segments of EO missions GSCM Members All design and develop EO ground segments using public programmes and funds (of some 300M/Y) Sub groups for dedicated subjects e.g. Standardisation of access to EO data (HMA) With wider participation as necessary

Thank you ! ESA desires you a fruitful meeting