1. GÉANT community delivering Copernicus
Maria Minaricova GÉANT
Jakob Tendel DFN
20 September 2016

2. Outline Copernicus Programme Research and Education Networking
Overview & Sentinels
Services
Copernicus Emergency Management System
Data Access
Research and Education Networking
National Research and Education Networks
GÉANT
R&E Services
Copernicus use cases
Collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA)
Sentinel Data Hubs on GÉANT
International contract services
Collaboration with EUMETSAT
EUMETCast terrestrial, Multicast across network domains
Single point of contact services

3. Mom, how does your phone know what the weather is going to be like?
Good question ??
Mom, how does your phone know what the weather is going to be like?

4. Copernicus – Support for Weather Predictions
- sea-surface temperature over the Atlantic:
blue areas - coldest & red - warmest
- accuracy of a few tenths of a degree.
Source: ECMWF
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is a worldwide leading international organisation that develops and operates global models to predict the behaviour of the atmosphere. Every day, its powerful computing systems assimilate in near real-time over 12 millions of observation data from about 60 satellites and from various ground networks.
Source: ESA

5. Sentinels for Copernicus
Costs – overall budget €7bn up to 2020
Benefits to the EU Economy –
estimated € 30 billion (through 2030)
Source: EU Copernicus

6. Data & Services through Copernicus
Products and services to manage and protect the environment and natural resources and ensure civil security
Benefits for Europe and the international community
Essential information for 6 main domains:
Ocean
Land
Atmosphere
Climate change
Security
Emergency response
ALL data FREE of charge
Available 24/7 365 days
Source: EU Copernicus

7. Copernicus - Marine Services
Marine safety
Oil spill combat
Ship routing
Search & rescue
Marine resources
Analysis and forecast of hydrodynamic and ecosystem models
Fish stock management
Marine and coastal environment
Monitoring water quality, pollution, coastal activities
Seasonal and weather forecasting
Short & long term
Climate monitoring, ice surveys
Source: EU Copernicus

8. Safer Seas Safety and reliability:
ice monitoring and forecasting allows planning for safe and efficient transportation routes
800 million tones of goods are transported by ship every year in the Baltic Sea, with 40% transported during winter
Cost savings:
icebreaker fuel consumption reduced up to 50%
transit times and costs reduced up to 2000 € per ship/day
decreased cost of living for Northern communities

9. Where are the jellyfish?
Facts:
In the Mediterranean region, people are treated for jellyfish stings each year
 In 2013, jelly fish blocked a cooling water intake, prompting a Swedish nuclear reactor to shutdown
In 2007, jellyfish wiped out a salmon farm in Northern Ireland killing fish
Sentinel-3 is primarily an ocean mission that will provide accurate and reliable measurements on:
Sea-surface temperature
Ocean colour
Sea-surface height
Ocean currents
Source: EU Copernicus Marine Service

10. Land Services
Objective – to provide land-cover information for environment and other terrestrial applications
Data collected and analysed – wide range of biophysical parameters – state of vegetation (leaf area index), energy budget, water cycle (soil moisture index)
Land maps – high resolution
Forest areas
Agricultural areas
Wetlands
Small water bodies
Specific areas of interest – urban atlas, biodiversity hot spots
Thermal infrared sensors – global land monitoring
Innovative altimeter – advanced monitoring of water levels of rivers and lakes worldwide
Source: GeoVille & TU Vienna; Based on: MetOp ASCAT

11. Satellites aid reindeer herders
Facts
Norway is home to the last remaining viable populations of wild reindeer in Europe
Reindeer generally roam free on pasture grounds
Benefits
Timely and accurate information on snow cover and its changes in remote and vast circumpolar regions
Detailed information about snow conditions over large areas
Support for adapting to climate variability and change to maintain sustainable reindeer husbandry

12. Monitoring Construction Progress from Space
20th Football World Cup in Brazil
timely and accurate geospatial information to monitor infrastructure construction progress.
This supports authorities and civil engineers in planning and managing construction sites (including sport stadiums).
The Estádio Nacional - Brasília during and after construction. The construction process was tracked by the Pléiades satellite constellation before the 9th FIFA Confederations Cup, an international football tournament held from 15 to 30 June Source: AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE; Image: Pléiades

13. Copernicus Emergency Management Service GIO EMS
Earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, floods, storms claim human lives and cause serious damage
GIO EMS
Timely & Accurate data – before, during and after disasters
Global coverage
Quick data delivery,
reliable info day-and-night,
cloud free imagery
Rush mode – immediate response
Non-rush mode – prevention, preparedness, disaster risk reduction, recovery

14. Copernicus Support for Flood Management
June 2013 – century flood in central Europe
Copernicus Emergency Management Service (GIO-EMS)
53 reference maps
65 flood delineation maps (GE, HU, CZ)
Loss > € 12 billion
Benefits
Preparation, analysis, mitigation
Flood forecast modeling
Risk assessment and damage evaluation
Source: GeoVille
Source: GIO EMS - Mapping; Background Image: WorldView-2

15. Security Services Border surveillance
Security threats – detection & monitoring
Crisis prevention, preparedness and response
Maritime surveillance – safe use of the sea and securing Europe’s maritime borders - 70,000km of coastline
Navigation, marine pollution, law enforcement overall security
Help manage humanitarian crises
Timely and accurate geospatial information
Benefits
up-to-date, accurate geographic information for logistics, water supply infrastructures, demography, health facilities and the environment
help to identify priority areas for receiving humanitarian and financial aid
provide essential geographic information for remote areas where this is absent or not current
Source: European Commission

16. GÉANT community support for Copernicus
Research and Education Networks
Dedicated Internet networks
Serve publicly funded research and academic education organisations
Architected and tuned to best performance for scientific data
Most countries have one designated or de facto national R&E network
Strong international R&E community enabling cross-border services

17. International R&E Network Collaboration
Partner and connector in global R&E networking
moving 1Pb/day
Membership Association of almost all European NRENs
International connectivity between NRENs
Recipient and coordinator of EC grant funds under the series of GNx projects
Project management
Service development and provision

18. Copernicus – data access
Data Provision Responsibilities:
ESA:
Sentinel 1+2, Sentinel 3 Land L1 products
Sentinels Scientific Data Hub scihub.copernicus.eu
Copernicus Services Data Hub cophub.copernicus.eu
Sentinels International Access Hub inthub.copernicus.eu
Sentinel-1 Collaborative Data Hub colhub.esa.int
EUMETSAT:
Sentinel 3-6 Marine, Climate, and Atmosphere products
EUMETCast eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/DataDelivery/EUMETCast
Online Data Access eumetsat.int/website/home/Data/DataDelivery/OnlineDataAccess

19. Case Study

20. R&E Support For ESA COPERNICUS
R&E users are a significant target audience
Tend to be regular, high-volume data consumers
Are already served by a dedicated network infrastructure
“How Best to disseminate to R&E users over the R&E networks?”
The European R&E networking community is represented by GÉANT
GÉANT maintains links to worldwide R&E networks
Implement COPERNICUS dissemination via GÉANT

21. ESA Copernicus dissemination
Data Processing
Product Generation
Archives
Satellite Downlink
“The Internet”
“Hubs” Pickup Point T
COPERNICUS WAN
DFN
NREN A
GÉANT
NREN B

22. ESA Copernicus dissemination
Data Processing
Product Generation
Archives
Satellite Downlink
“The Internet”
“Hubs” Pickup Point T
COPERNICUS WAN
DFN
NREN A
GÉANT
NREN B

23. ESA COPERNICUS Contract Services
ESA data hub in Germany
DFN for GÉANT access from Germany
ESA EO unit in Italy
Cross-border contract issues
SOLUTION:
GÉANT signs agreement with ESA
GÉANT subcontracts DFN
DFN implements connection in DE
GÉANT
DFN
ESA ESRIN
GERMANY
ITALY
Contract
Data
Data Hubs

24. ESA Copernicus Dissemination
ca. 30 TByte pro Tag

25. Case Study

26. Case study: EUMETSAT
EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment.
Operate a system of meteorological satellites that observe the atmosphere and ocean and land surfaces – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
This data is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide (USA, Korea, Africa).

27. EUMETSAT Dissemination
EUMETCAST
Near-Real-Time data stream
Via encrypted DVB-S2 broadcast to subscribers
Challenge: Future years satellite NRT will begin to exceed available data rate
Demonstration service with GÉANT, network-based complement to EUMETCAST
Leverages R&E network bandwidth and stability
Designed to maintain the key EUMETCAST concepts
Delivery as one-to-many-point PUSH streams, instead of user-initiated file download
The same subscriber channels and product categorisations
Maps well to existing data processing and delivery chain

28. EUMETCast Terrestrial Footprint Overview
Accessibility mainly within Europe to all Member States
Prerequisite to accessibility is: eligibility to access the dissemination via NREN
Currently 8 sites are registered with the multicast stream and receive data in near real-time in Europe and 3 sites overseas.
Outreach to Asia - Korea (KMA) via cooperation between GEANT and our Asian partner networks
Outreach to USA (NOAA) via cooperation - GEANT and Internet2
Outreach to Australia (NCI) via cooperation GEANT- TEIN and Asia-Pacific partner networks
Feasibility of outreach to selected organisations located in Africa planned for 2016

29. Web based near real-time Monitoring
In-house developed portal
Escalation procedures based on monitoring critical section
Multicast beacon matrix

30. EUMETCast Terrestrial
EUMETCast data distribution using IP multicast from EUMETSAT HQ in Germany to 31 countries in Europe, using GÉANT and the NRENs networks
A Single point of contact for the customer – connecting the customer with the whole community
In the absence of a formal SLA:
Implementation of added-value services that support an operational-like data provision
Monitoring, reporting and escalation processes

31. Service portfolio
Feasibility Analysis in respect to connecting individual end-points
Single Point of Contact and activity coordinator
Technical Service Support and escalation processes
Web based near real-time monitoring of EUMETCast terrestrial multicast at GÉANT OC

32. ¿Questions?