Slide 1 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep ESA Report on ESA EO missions CEOS Budapest, WGISS May 2006 I. Petiteville
Slide 2 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep Topics Earth Explorer Missions 3 rd Party missions: ALOS
Slide 3 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep smos Aeolus Goce EARTH EXPLORERS Cryosat-2
Slide 4 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep Earth Explorer Missions Core missions: GOCE: Gravity and Ocean Circulation. ADM-Aeolus: Measuring the winds at all altitudes. Opportunity missions CRYOSAT: Sea-Ice Monitoring SMOS: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity. Floating sea ice NOAA Salinity in the Mediterranean
Slide 5 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep CRYOSAT Ground Station Kiruna Salmijarvi CRYOSAT-1 equipment Cryosat-2 : Replacement of Cryosat-1 (launch failure) Launch in March 2009.
Slide 6 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep Earth Explorer missions (2/3) ADM Aeolus: –GS PDS development KO in Jul. 2005, –PDS completed in –Launch in Sep SMOS: –Ground Segment Phase C/D just starting –Launch 19 Sep. 2007
Slide 7 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep Svalbard Ground Station
Slide 8 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep Earth Explorer missions (3/3) SWARM: –Launch in 2009 GOCE: –Ground Segment kick- off in Sep –Launch beginning of 2007.
Slide 9 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep rd Party mission: ALOS
Slide 10 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep ALOS 3 sensors: 1 SAR L-band and 2 optical ALOS Data European Node (ADEN): –Successful Launch on Jan 24, 2006 (beginning of TBC by JAXA) –First optical image PRISM on Feb 14, 2006
Slide 11 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep Shimizu Port
Slide 12 CEOS WGISS 20, Kyiv, Sep First AVNIR-2 image acquired by ESA at Kiruna (Sweden) on April 24, 2006