EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMME MIPAS AND THE EUROPEAN EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMME Chris Readings
1987 ERS-1 (1991) & ERS-2 (1995)
1987 Metop Envisat THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION INCLUDES LARGE EUROPEAN POLAR PLATFORM –METOP PLUS ENVISAT Metop Envisat
1987 ERS-1 WITH ERS-2 TO FOLLOW THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WHICH INCLUDED LARGE EUROPEAN POLAR PLATFORM–METOP PLUS ENVISAT MEETING IN ABINGDON - HERBERT FISCHER, BRUNO CARLI, JOHN PYLE, MIKE RAST AND CHRIS READINGS STRATEGY FOR CHEMISTRY PROPOSED – INCLUDES MIPAS
THE MIPAS SAG C BLOM ESA REPRESENTATION B CARLI M CARLOTTI J L DELBOUILLE H FISHER J M FLAUD M LOPAS-PUERTAS C MUELLER H OELHAF R ZANDER ESA REPRESENTATION C J READINGS M RAST J LANGEN PLUS (LATER) A DUDHIA & T MCELROY
ESA’s Earth Observation Missions (not Earth Watch) 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1995 2002 Extension GOCE SMOS Possible Extension CryoSat ADM-Aeolus 1998 ERS-2 Envisat EarthCARE Swarm Possible Ext.
The Earth System Model
The Living Planet Programme Objectives: Maintain Europe at leading edge of sciences Increase use of Earth Observation in formulation, implementation and monitoring of public policies and in the provision of public services Foster the development of commercial services using Earth Observation Content: EARTH EXPLORER SATELLITES for science and technology demonstration EARTH WATCH SATELLITES for long-term operational monitoring SERVICES and APPLICATIONS demonstration + int’l agreements (e.g. Charter on Space and Major Disasters) Explanation of the new strategy Objectives, which are fundamental for the Envelope programme (explanations to follow) Click On ‘type of objects’ to implement this strategy
ESA “LIVING PLANET” PROGRAMME EARTH EXPLORERS B, C, D, E EO PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES EARTH WATCH DEFINITION INSTRUMENT PRE- DEVELOPMENT MISSION EXPLOITATION MARKET EARTH EXPLORER COMPONENT Ground Segment Continuity of Missions EARTH WATCH PROGRAMME (several elements) Earth Explorers (Earth Science) Preparation of operational missions Multi-mission access to data Preparation of applications = Operational Meterology D&E COMPONENT All the programmes needed to implement the global strategy And place of Explorers with different lines of activities (cf LPP objectives on previous slide) More explanations to follow GMES SPACE COMPONENT EARTHNET EARTH OBSERVATION ENVELOPE PROGRAMME (EOEP)
ESA Earth Explorers 1 - 6
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for!” Omar Khayyam