ENVISAT Burcu Bölükbaşı 18.09.2018 envisat

Overview Introduction Mission and System History 18.09.2018 envisat

Introduction Launched by the European Space Agency in March, 2002. Measurements of the atmosphere, ocean, land, and ice. Continuity of the data measurements of the ESA ERS satellites. 18.09.2018 envisat

Earth science research Monitoring of the evolution of the environmental and climatic changes Development of operational and commercial applications 18.09.2018 envisat

Mission and System The Envisat Space Segment (the satellite itself) including the Polar Platform (PPF) and the payload The Envisat Ground Segment consisting of the payload data segment (PDS) and the flight operation segment (FOS) 18.09.2018 envisat

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ARTEMIS (Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite) Testing Operating New technology systems Launched on 12 July 2001. 18.09.2018 envisat

Explore advanced technology to transmit data directly from one satellite to another Observation satellites in low orbit like ERS must use on-board recording and global networks of ground stations 18.09.2018 envisat

Two payloads for communications directly between satellites: Receive data from low-Earth orbiting satellites Transmit them directly to Europe L-band land mobile payload allows two-way communications, via satellite, between fixed Earth stations and land mobiles - trucks, trains or cars - anywhere in Europe and North Africa. 18.09.2018 envisat

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ARTEMIS Coverage High and low rate data, including recorder playback, can be received under the Artemis coverage (the on-board Ka-band transmit terminal and data reception with the User Earth Terminal (UET) at ESRIN). The establishment of the link between the Envisat and Artemis satellites may require up to 3 minutes. 18.09.2018 envisat

The Ten-thousandth Orbit The satellite completed its 10,000th orbit in 28 January 2004. Traveled 450 million kilometers since its launch Envisat was using all its ten instruments to gather information about the earth and the ground segment was generating about 10,000 Megabytes of data products. 18.09.2018 envisat

SCIAMACHY total ozone column: Instrument: Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) Date of Acquisition: 28 January 2004 Orbit number: 10000 Orbit direction: Descending SCIAMACHY product used: Level 1 spectra 18.09.2018 envisat

ASAR Global Monitoring Mode over Arctic Sea, north of Greenland: Instrument: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Date of Acquisition: 28 January 2004 Orbit number: 10000 Orbit direction: Descending ASAR features: Global Monitoring Mode image (1000 meter resolution) ASAR mode: Global Monitoring Mode (400 km wide) ASAR polarization: HH 18.09.2018 envisat

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technical Information: Instrument: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Dates of Acquisition: Red: 15 July 2004, Green: 6 May 2004, Blue: 22 January 2004 Orbit numbers: 48286, 47284, 45781 Frame: 2781 Instrument features: 25 meter resolution Coordinates: NE Lat/Long: N 41.30 / E 29.86 NW Lat/Long: N 41.48 / E 28.71 SW Lat/Long: N 40.58 / E 28.46 SE Lat/Long: N 40.40 / E 29.60 18.09.2018 envisat

MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) Technical Information: Instrument: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Date of Acquisition: 18 November 2004 Orbit number: 14218 Instrument features: FR Coordinates: NE Lat/Long: N 42.47 / E 30.42 NW Lat/Long: N 43.99 / E 23.56 SW Lat/Long: N 38.22 / E 21.63 SE Lat/Long: N 36.79 / E 27.97 18.09.2018 envisat

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Technical Information: Instrument: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Dates of Acquisition: Red: 07 June 2004, Green: 06 October 2003, Blue: 15 December 2003 Orbit Direction: Descending Orbit number: 11870, 8363, 9365 Instrument features: Wide Swath Mode (geometric sampling: 1 pixel=75 m.) ASAR polarisation: VV Coordinates:  NE Lat/Long: N 42.52 / E 31.00 NW Lat/Long: N 42.51 / E 26.52 SW Lat/Long: N 40.01 / E 26.59 SE Lat/Long: N 40.03 / E 30.54 18.09.2018 envisat

Instrument: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) ASAR wide Swath Mode over Antarctica, the Ross Sea and giant iceberg B15-A: Instrument: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) Date of Acquisition: 28 January 2004 Orbit number: 10000 Orbit direction: Descending ASAR features: Wide Swath Mode image (150 meter resolution) ASAR mode: Wide Swath Mode (400 km wide) ASAR polarization: HH http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMCPWWLDMD_FeatureWeek_0.html 18.09.2018 envisat http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMCPWWLDMD_FeatureWeek_0.html

MERIS Reduced Resolution over Texas and Mexico: Instrument: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Date of Acquisition: 28 January 2004 Orbit number: 10000 Orbit direction: Descending Instrument features: Reduced Resolution image (1200-metre resolution) 18.09.2018 envisat

AATSR Thermal Image over Baffin Island: Instrument: Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) Date of Acquisition: 28 January 2004 Orbit number: 10000 Orbit direction: Descending Instrument features: Level1b (TOA) image (1 kilometre-scale resolution) 18.09.2018 envisat

OPERATIONS Envisat flies in a sun-synchronous polar orbit of about 800-km altitude. The repeat cycle of the reference orbit is 35 days Provides a complete coverage of the globe within one to three days MWR and RA-2 ERS-1 and ERS-2 18.09.2018 envisat

Mission and Operation Requirements Sun-synchronous polar orbit (SSO): Nominal reference orbit of mean altitude 800 km, 35 days repeat cycle, 10:00 AM mean local solar time (MLST) descending node, 98.55 deg. inclination. The orbit is controlled to a maximum deviation of +/- 1 km from ground track and +/- 5 minutes on the equator crossing MLST. Recording of payload data over each orbit for low bit rate (4.6 Mps) on tape recorders or solid state recorder (SSR). High rate data (ASAR and MERIS) to be accessible by direct telemetry or recording on SSR. 18.09.2018 envisat

Global Low Rate Mission and Data Recovery Strategy General operation concept continuous operation of the low-rate instruments around the orbit (with the exception of MERIS, which is limited by sun-illumination conditions); on-board recording of all instrument data; data-recorder playback at least once per orbit in order to ensure availability of fast delivery products within less than three hours from observation systematic processing of all acquired data. 18.09.2018 envisat

Processing and Data Distribution Strategy Low-rate data is systematically processed on the ground and disseminated to users in near real time (NRT). All data is reprocessed off-line. Nominal off-line distribution is performed on physical media to registered users. Small products are available for retrieval on line, with the possibility for users to extract partial data sets. 18.09.2018 envisat

Regional Mission Operations and Data Decovery Strategy The regional mission includes the full-resolution mode of MERIS and all modes of the ASAR, with the exception of the wave mode. The following sections provide the basic concepts ruling the operations of the regional mission. 18.09.2018 envisat

ASAR general operation strategy ASAR offers, by exploiting the combinations of polarizations and incidence angles, 37 different and mutually exclusive operating modes in high, medium (wide swath mode), and reduced (global monitoring mode) resolution. ASAR high- and medium-resolution imaging modes are either transmitted on a real time link (direct X-band or via Artemis Ka-band link) or recorded on the on-board solid state recorder for ground data recovery. 18.09.2018 envisat

ASAR processing and data distribution Browse products are available on-line. High-resolution products are processed in near real time or off-line, upon user request. All medium (and high) resolution products are delivered to users on request either in near real time on a dissemination channel or off line on physical media. 18.09.2018 envisat

MERIS general operation strategy MERIS operates at full resolution (FR with 300 m resolution at nadir). The data are averaged on board to produce a separate data stream at reduced resolution (RR with 1200 m resolution at nadir). MERIS FR is either transmitted on a real time link (direct X-band or via Artemis Ka-band link) or recorded on the on-board solid state recorder for ground data recovery. 18.09.2018 envisat

MERIS processing and data distribution MERIS RR data acquired at ESA facilities is systematically processed in near real time to generate MERIS RR Level 1b and 2 products as well as browse products. Browse products are available on-line. Upon user request MERIS FR data is processed and distributed either in near real time (dissemination link) or off-line (physical media). 18.09.2018 envisat

Regional mission data recovery data over Europe will be acquired directly via X-band links (Kiruna and Matera coverage), data outside Europe will be acquired whenever possible via Artemis direct transmission to the UET located at ESRIN, data outside direct coverage of the ESA X-band stations and Artemis, will be recorded on board using the SSR and acquired via deferred dump to one of the ESA stations via X- or Ka-band links, 18.09.2018 envisat

data requested by a station operator or by the distributing entities on behalf of a station operator will be transmitted in X-band for acquisition by the corresponding station, if data to be acquired by a station operator are also needed as part of ESA archive, then in parallel with X-band direct data transmission, ESA will acquire the data via combined use of the SSR, X- or Ka-links as appropriate. 18.09.2018 envisat

On-board Recording Capability The on-board recording system is composed of two solid state recorders (SSR) with 70 Gbits capacity each, and one tape recorder (TR), 30 Gbits capacity as back up for low rate data recording. 18.09.2018 envisat

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Main technical characteristics of the SSR's 18.09.2018 envisat

Tape Recorder One tape recorder (TR) onboard ENVISAT capable of recording the low-rate global data. The recorder allows to record up to 6500 seconds, which is slightly more than one full orbit of LR data recording. The TR playback dump is performed at 50 Mbps (half-RF channel) via X- or Ka-band links. 18.09.2018 envisat

On ground data recovery (data dump) Two selectable data dump rates are usable on X-band and/or Ka-band RF-channels: 50 Mbps (half RF channel) dump of 70 Gbits in 23 min 20 sec. 100 Mbps (full RF channel) dump of 70 Gbits in 11 min 40 sec. (for ASAR HR data only). Each of the three memory areas can be separately controlled with respect to data dump time and data rate. 18.09.2018 envisat

Operation strategy and mission impact One SSR will be used for the global mission, for low rate data recording. Second SSR will be used for the regional mission (ASAR HR and MERIS FR), with data dump via ARTEMIS to the user Earth terminal (UET). 18.09.2018 envisat

Data transmission up to two X-band links operating at a time up to two Ka-band links operating at a time X- and Ka-band transmitters operate independently, therefore up to two X-band links and two Ka-band links can be operated simultaneously. 18.09.2018 envisat

Mission Scenarios 18.09.2018 envisat

Global mission scenario continuous operation of the low-rate instrument around the orbit (For MERIS, sun-illumination constraints limit the observation to about 43.5 minutes per orbit); on board recording of all instrument data; playback at least once per orbit to ensure availability of FD products within less than three hours from observation; systematic processing of all acquired data. 18.09.2018 envisat

Regional mission scenario the ASAR high-rate operations in wide-swath mode and narrow-swath modes the MERIS full-resolution (FR) mode 18.09.2018 envisat

The Envisat Orbit 18.09.2018 envisat

Measurement patterns orbital parameters 18.09.2018 envisat

Orbit selection 18.09.2018 envisat

Orbit maintenance The orbit maintenance requirements are that the deviation of the actual ground track from the nominal one is kept below 1 km and that the mean local nodal crossing time matches the nominal one to better than five minutes. The orbit maintenance strategy aims for minimum disturbance of the payload operation. 18.09.2018 envisat

 History The development of a multimission Polar Platform for future Earth observation missions, initially started as an element of the Columbus Space Station Programme. The Polar Orbiting Earth Observation Mission (POEM-1), initially conceived as a combined mission with instruments for scientific application, research, and operational meteorology. This mission, to be based on the Polar Platform, was to be the successor of ERS. 18.09.2018 envisat

The Polar Platform (PPF) deletion of multimission requirements and related activities for cost saving reasons; splitting of the first mission POEM-1 into Envisat (the environmental mission) and METOP-1 (the meteorological mission) in mid-1993; several iterations on cost savings/descoping actions executed in mid-1993, early 1994, and the end of 1995 to reduce overall programme costs in industry and ESA 18.09.2018 envisat

The mission The development of the payload instruments for Envisat started after the split of POEM-1 into Envisat and METOP-1 at the Ministerial ESA council meeting in December 1993. 18.09.2018 envisat

Objectives 18.09.2018 envisat

Primary Objectives to provide for continuity of the observations started with the ERS satellites, including those obtained from radar-based observations; to enhance the ERS mission, notably the ocean and ice mission; to extend the range of parameters observed to meet the need of increasing knowledge of the factors determining the environment; to make a significant contribution to environmental studies, notably in the area of atmospheric chemistry and ocean studies (including marine biology). 18.09.2018 envisat

Secondary Objectives to allow more effective monitoring and management of the Earth's resources; to better understand solid Earth processes. 18.09.2018 envisat

Global mission objectives Real time data delivery (from a few hours to one day from sensing): forecasting of the sea state conditions at various scales; monitoring of sea surface temperature; monitoring of some atmospheric species (e.g., ozone for warning purposes); monitoring of some atmospheric variables (e.g., temperature, pressure, and water vapor, cloud top height, earth radiation budget, etc.); monitoring of ocean color for supporting fisheries and pollution monitoring (complementing the regional mission). 18.09.2018 envisat

Off-line mode (days to weeks from sensing): radiate processes; ocean-atmosphere heat and momentum exchange; interaction between atmosphere and land or ice surfaces; composition of the atmosphere and associated chemical processes ocean dynamics and variability; ice sheet characteristics and sea ice distribution and dynamics; large-scale vegetation processes in correlation with surface energy and water distribution; primary productivity of oceans; natural and man-made pollution over the oceans. support to large international programmes (GCOS, IGBP, etc.). 18.09.2018 envisat

Regional mission objectives sea ice off-shore applications snow and ice detection and mapping coastal processes and pollution monitoring ship traffic monitoring agricultural and forest monitoring soil moisture monitoring and large-scale vegetation processes geological features and mineral resources application linked to SAR interferometry (DEM generation, hazard monitoring, etc.) hydrological research and applications support to fisheries in coastal waters 18.09.2018 envisat

Instrument contribution to Envisat mission objectives 18.09.2018 envisat

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ENVISAT Burcu Bölükbaşı 18.09.2018 envisat