DUE projects and future perspectives Olivier Arino Marc Paganini Frank Martin Seifert Simon Pinnock Bojan Bojkov Claus Zehner Frascati 26/11/2009

The Programme Element

A programme requested by the members states

First, to create an environment allowing for the development of user communities for both institutional and commercial applications; Second, to support European companies to develop and demonstrate information products; Third, to support industry, i.e. value adding and servicing companies, in establishing useful and cost effective services DUP 1 (5 years) 6 MEUR 26 projects 2001 DUP 2 (3 years) 8 MEUR 22 projects 2003 EOEP-2 DUE (5 years) 16 MEUR 30 projects 4 offices 2008 EOEP-3 DUE (5 years) 16 MEUR 24 projects 2 offices DUE Programme declaration

DUE Planned # and size of projects in EOEP-3 ~ 16 MEuro –14 Large size projects (Global Change, International Environmental Convention projects, …) –10 Innovator type projects (New thematic, User Commitment and URD, …) –Support to offices: 1 MEuro (e.g. GOFC-GOLD, GHRSST,...) –Extension of existing projects: 2 MEuro (e.g. Desertwatch, GlobCover, …)

DUE Planned # and size of projects in 2010 ~ 3 to 4 MEuro 5 Large size projects in preparation –GlobEmission (User Consultation to be done today) –Storm Surges (done in September) –Sand and Dust Storms (done in September) –TropForest (done in May) –PostKyoto (pending from 2009)

Working With Users

Establish long term relationship with users, ESA convention, DG agenda 2007 & DG agenda 2011

Service Development User Groups: National & sub-national public authorities, European institutions, International organizations, NGOs EO data Products Products validationService assessment Ground truthing In-situ data access User requirements consolidation Service Demonstration DUE User Driven Approach

User Requirement Document The Service required include the provision of the following geo-information products: XXX The area of interest is the following: …. The timeframe of interest in the following …. The format of the products should be the following: …. The National User Network is made of… Letter of Commitment I will commit X men/month of work to:  Coordinate the work of local agencies;  Consolidate the User Requirements;  Provide access to data and information useful for the project;  Organize dedicated ground data collection campaigns for the project;  Support the validation of the results;  Assess the final service from a user perspective; To initiate a project, ESA requests to participating user organizations:  a Letter of Commitment;  a User Requirements Document (URD); The User DUE User Commitments

~150 national ministries and agencies ~100 research institutions ~few private companies and non-governmental organisations ~70 new users brought in 2008 and another 70 in New User Organisations

DUE Projects Offices

DUE User Consultations in 2008 and 2009 Map in construction –Urban Heat Island, June 2007, NOA, Athens, 50 participants –GlobWave, September 2007, Ifremer, Brest,, 150 participants –Support to Aviation for Volcanic Ash Avoidance, November 2007, MeteoFrance, Toulouse, 30 participants –GlobSnow, February 2008, University of Bern, 30 participants. –Permafrost, February 2008, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, 40 participants –GlobAlbedo, September 2008, ESRIN, Frascati, 20 participants –PostKyoto, December 2008, Poznan, 10 side events –GlobVapour, January 2009, DWD, Offenbach, 20 participants –GlobWetland II, March 2009, “La Tour du Valat”, Arles, 50 participants –CoastColour, March 2009 National Maritime Center, Cork, 50 participants –GlobCloud, March 2009, FUB, Berlin, 80 participants

Working with Global Change Communities

DUE GlobSeries branding

Working with International Environmental Conventions

ESA participate to UNFCCC, UNCCD, UNCBD and Ramsar COPs Map in construction –World Summit, Johannesburg, 2002 –UNFCCC COP 8, New Delhi, 2002 –RAMSAR COP 8, Valencia, 2002 –UNFCCC COP 9, Milan, 2003 –UNCCD COP 6, La Havana, 2003 –UNFCCC COP 10, Buenos Aires, 2004 –UNCCD COP 7, Nairobi, 2005 –RAMSAR COP 9, Kampala, 2005 –UNFCCC COP 11, Montreal, 2005 –UNFCCC COP 12, Nairobi, 2006 –UNCCD COP 8, Madrid, 2007 –UNFCCC, COP 13, Bali, 2007 –RAMSAR COIP 10, Changwon, 2008 –UNCBD COP 9, Bonn, 2008 –UNFCCC COP 14, Poznan, 2008 –UNCCD COP 9, Buenos Aires, 2009 –UNFCCC COP 15, Copenhagen, 2009

Tracking of Hammerhead sharks (background SST map)

Projects Achievements and Impacts

–GSE service (Italscar, SLAM, KytoINV, Human, PROMOTE) –GMES core service (Medspiration, GlobColour, TEMIS) –IAP (SevesEO,Water Quality, Epidemio) –International cooperation with Africa: TIGER –CCI/GCOS (GlobCarbon, GlobCover, GlobAerosol, GlobColour, GlobIce, GlobGlacier, GlobModel) –Production of major new scientific data set (GlobCover, GlobColour,…) –User funding (Aquifer/ African Development Bank) –EEA practices (GlobCorine) –GEO communities of practices –Public Awareness of EO benefits: 74 new web stories, 40 % of EO applications, pick up by New York Time, CNN, TV5, … DUE projects achievements and impacts

Future Perspectives

–Consolidate institutional relations with International Environmental Conventions –Consolidate and expand relationship with already existing users communities –Breed new user communities –Continue the transfer of Research to Applications –Continue to develop precursors to GMES or CCI –Serve institutional requests (EEA, FAO, UNEP, …) –Support GEO communities of practices –Investigate new exploitation fields for Sentinels and Explorers DUE agenda

–User Driven –No overlap with ESA & EC GMES services (e.g. MACC) –No overlap with ESA CCI projects (e.g. GreenHouse gases) –URD and letter of commitment by 31 January –Project duration 2 years –Funding (500 KEuro to 1 MEuro depending of work) –Open competitive ITT first semester 2010 –KO in 2010 –Final presentation in 2012 GlobEmission boundaries

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