North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Current Status of the Eumetsat Operational and Future Satellite Systems Ken Holmlund Meteorological Operations Division EUMETSAT

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Overview Current Systems –Meteosat First Generation –Meteosat Second Generation Future Systems –EUMETSAT Polar System Additional –EUMETCast –EUMETSAT ATOVS Retransmission System –JASON-2

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Meteosat First Generation (until end of 2008, TBC by Council) Three operational satellites Meteosat-7 (Parallel Operations to MSG, Until Early 2005) Meteosat-6 (Rapid Scan Service, Until End 2005) Meteosat-5 (Indian Ocean Data Coverage) Services Image Acquisition, Rectification and Dissemination Data Collection and Re-transmission (Only 0 o ) Meteorological Data Distribution(Only 0 o ) Meteorological Products Extraction Rapid Scan Products (Only 10 o W, best effort basis) Reprocessing facility

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Meteosat Second Generation Meteosat-8 Commissioning finished in December 2003 Regular Operations commenced in January 2004 Operational name is Meteosat-8 MSG-2 launch foreseen early 2005

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Meteosat Second Generation Meteosat-8 Image and Product validation phase-out –Until end of February 2004 Status nominal –Calibration within spec BB-calibration timing impact (mirror angle dependency) e.g. within 1K with HIRS –Rectification nominal –Main anomaly: SSPA failure -> transponder limitation Dissemination via EUMETCast –Dedicated land-line to Wallops

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Spacecraft Status

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EUMETSAT Polar System Current Status SVT in May 2004 successful 1st GS delivery III/2004 Final GS for launch end of 2004 Launch end of 2005 Schedule risk mitigation TBC

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Instrument processing chain status IASI –L1 CNES –Working (I/F, data) –L2 open ATOVS –Performance issues with L2, situation improved with RTTOV GOME-2 –L1 FAT ongoing GRAS –POD and POD Val clarified ASCAT –L1 FAT completed

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Additional Information package released on the WEB –Test data and tools to be included sequentially PPF Labs to be delivered sequentially –QCF and ASCAT already in house

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EPS Data dissemination Current Baseline NRT –Dedicated line to US Baseline format EPS native User request for dissemination via EUMETCast Data to be provided in WMO standard formats (BUFR etc).

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EUMETCast Channel allocation: –Channel 1EARS & RSS0.250 Mbps –Channel 2MSG HRIT1.620 Mbps –Channel 3MSG LRIT0.386 Mbps –Channel 4DWDSAT0.256 Mbps Channel 2 and 3 are fed into the C-band turn-around service. C-band bandwidth is 2.7 Mbps Scope and constraints for additional bandwidth

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 System Overview (Ku-band) AAPP/ Fucino USERS UPLINK EUMETSAT NOAA/ Meteosat-8 EUMETCast STATIONS NWP SAF Quality Control GTS

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EUTELSAT's Hotbird 6 Satellite Footprint

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EUMETCast C-Band coverage

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EUMETCast Service Extensions Envisaged (I) Evolution of Meteosat-8 meteorological products –New products based on prototyping by MET –Updates of existing products based on operational experience VEGETATION derived products –VEGETATION products from SPOT –Proposal by European Commission for an operational demonstration in the second half of 2004 Basic meteorological Data from WMO regional Association VI –RA VI is Europe and Middle East –Use of EUMETCast for basic provision of observations and forecasts –Working Group under RA VI is establishing user requirements –Formal proposal to EUMETSAT delegate bodies will follow

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EUMETCast Service Extensions Envisaged (II) ENVISAT data –Interest in ENVISAT data in Africa (MERIS for fishery) –Informal communication with ESA AEOLUS data –ESA Wind lidar mission to be launched 2007 –Informal communication with ESA Indian satellite data (INSAT, KALPANA) –Backup to Meteosat-5 data –To be provided via NOAA and Météo-France Meteosat-8 reception in South America –Sub-Continent not covered by EUMETCast –Options under investigation

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EARS Services Specification

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Coverage by end of 2003 Tromsø Kangerlussuaq Maspalomas Gilmore Creek Bedford Edmonton Monterey Wallops Gander Athens

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 EARS Continuation and Extension Current EARS pilot phase runs until the end of this year Proposal to be put forward to Council already endorsed by STG: –Continuation of ATOVS Retransmission Service –New Pilot AVHRR Retransmission Service –New Pilot ASCAT Retransmission Service –Extended Coverage

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Possible Additions

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Jason2 / OSTM mission Core mission to continue TOPEX/POSEIDON & Jason1 high precision topography measurements to support operational oceanography implementation Science requirements for core OSTM mission are identical to Jason-1 Experiment under evaluation –High resolution altimetry Wide Swath Ocean Altimeter

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 NASA responsibilities: Project Management Launch vehicle Payload Advanced Microwave Radiometer Wide swath Ocean Altimeter (optional) GPS Receiver Laser Retroreflector Array WSOA data validation processing and distribution NOAA responsibilities: Support to Project Management Ground system Earth Terminals Ground network Project Operations Control Center (POCC) Satellite routine operations after commissioning Operational product processing and distribution User interface NASA responsibilities: Project Management Launch vehicle Payload Advanced Microwave Radiometer Wide swath Ocean Altimeter (optional) GPS Receiver Laser Retroreflector Array WSOA data validation processing and distribution NOAA responsibilities: Support to Project Management Ground system Earth Terminals Ground network Project Operations Control Center (POCC) Satellite routine operations after commissioning Operational product processing and distribution User interface CNES responsibilities: Project Management Satellite, Proteus bus Payload Nadir Altimeter DORIS tracking receiver WSOA TWTA Ground System System integration & test Mission Operations during commissioning Data Processing, archiving and distribution Support to WSOA Data CALVAL EUMETSAT responsibilities: Support to Project Management Earth terminal, ground network Operational product processing and distribution User interface CNES responsibilities: Project Management Satellite, Proteus bus Payload Nadir Altimeter DORIS tracking receiver WSOA TWTA Ground System System integration & test Mission Operations during commissioning Data Processing, archiving and distribution Support to WSOA Data CALVAL EUMETSAT responsibilities: Support to Project Management Earth terminal, ground network Operational product processing and distribution User interface OSTM / Jason2 Responsibility Sharing

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Data Products and Services –Operational Science Data Record (OSDR) Wind/wave products distributed to users within 3 hours –Geophysical Data Record (GDR) 10 days span, same quality as for Jason-1 –Interim Geophysical Data Record (IGDR) Compromise delay vs accuracy under evaluation –IGDR + waveform for continental water studies under evaluation –Other products WSOA products Multi satellite products Coastal zone products

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Data Dissemination and Policy –Data Dissemination OSDR distributed by Eumetsat in Europe through GTS and other such networks (e.g. world wide web) IGDR distributed by CNES through GTS and other such networks (e.g. world wide web) GDR distributed by CNES NASA/NOAA have similar responsibility on the US side –Data Policy All products available through this program will be made available in accordance with WMO resolution 40 and classified as essential data

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 JASON-2 4-party programme with CNES, EUMETSAT, NASA and NOAA Operational continuation of CNES/NASA project JASON-1, satellite launched Dec 2001 First Critical Design review end of 2004 Decision point for JASON-2B end of 2004 –Operational programme?! Current launch date April 2008

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 Satellite Application Facilities Part of the EUMETSAT Ground Segment Operational Responsibility Emerging requirement for real time data –e.g. SSMI/S

North America - Europe Data Exchange Group May 2004 That’s it