1. How OSS could be used for GMES?
Cascadoss Symposium Warsaw , 16 June 2008
How OSS could be used for GMES?
Jakub Ryzenko

2. (space, airborne, in-situ) (Environment & Security)
GMES Objectives
… started with Baveno Manifesto in 1998 …
GMES is a joint initiative of the European Commission and ESA.
Its objective is to provide relevant information to policy-makers and other users, particularly in relation to environment and security.
EARTH OBSERVING
SYSTEMS
(space, airborne, in-situ)
PUBLIC
POLICIES
(Environment & Security)
Information
Needs
(policy driven)
Space Agencies In-situ Observing systems Scientific Community EO Value Adding Industry
National Governments and Agencies European Union Institutions Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
The objective of GMES is to provide, on a sustained basis, reliable and timely services related to environmental and security issues in support of public policy makers’ needs. GMES is an EU-led initiative, in which ESA will implement the space component and the Commission will manage actions for identifying and developing services relying both on in-situ and space-borne remote sensing data.[1],[2].
[1] COM(2005)565 final “Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES): From Concept to Reality” of
[2] 3rd Space Council orientations of
The identified GMES Atmosphere Service users are:
European institutions and agencies (in particular EC Directorate General for ENV, EEA and its Information and Observation Network - Eionet);
International bodies in support of conventions (e.g. CLRTAP TF HTAP, EMEP MSCs; UNFCCC IPCC; WMO; UNEP);
National and regional authorities and environmental agencies, with their external service suppliers;
National meteorological services;
Specific communities: research, modelling, science, EU research projects;
EU citizens (possibly more indirectly, services should be publicly accessible);
Health services (epidemiology and information);
NGOs;
Other GMES services;
Private sector;
Less developed countries.

3. GMES Overall Architecture
OBSERVATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
Space Infrastructure
In Situ
Infrastructure
Users
Atmosphere
Emergency
Security
CORE 
SERVICES
Marine
Land
Added Value Chain
Space infrastructure for GMES: GMES Space Component
ESA Sentinel missions
National missions
EUMETSAT missions
In Situ infrastructure for GMES
Measurement networks (including EU contribution to international) and “opportunity” observations
Earth System Compartment approach divided in three: atmosphere, ocean, land ….
Status: evolution from research to operational systems
Start with infrastructure / data required by Core Services as defined by IG process
Added value chain divided in two layers:
Core services
Common (multi-purpose) information capacity for Europe
Requested by the EU: link with European information needs
EU involved in Core Service governance & funding (operational + R&D budgets)
Downstream services
Tailored for specific applications at local / regional / national levels (public good or private use)
EU not responsible for service requirements
EU should encourage / support the implementation of this service layer, e.g. through R&D funding
EU not involved in Downstream Service governance or operational funding
Concept applicable on a case-by-case basis
Possible evolution of boundaries with time
Farming
ICZM
Air quality
DOWNSTREAM SERVICES

6. Awareness
Data
Tools
Costs
Certification
What can I do with it?
Where are data?
How to do it?
How much does it cost?
Am I allowed to use it?

7. ESA funded GMES services
100 M€ by ESA MS
Period (2009)
400+ user organisations
EC has invested another 100 M€

8. GMES dedicated missions: Sentinels
Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging
All weather, day/night applications, interferometry
Sentinel 2 – Multispectral imaging
Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture, etc Continuity of Landsat, SPOT data
Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoring
Wide-swath ocean color, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry
Sentinel 4 – Geostationary atmospheric
Atmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary pollution
Sentinel 5 – Low-orbit atmospheric
Atmospheric composition monitoring
2011
2012
2012
2017+
2019+

9. Potential contributions to GMES Space Component
National, Eumetsat and Third Party Missions for GMES (list not exhaustive)
CosmoSkymed
SPOT
Pléiades
Jason
Radarsat
Terrasar-X
Rapideye
DMCs
METOP
MSG
+ Seosat, Tandem-X, Enmap, Venμs, Altika, etc.

10. Goal of GMES GMES aims at developing operational services,
… following the example of
meteorology… … but for other domains such as emergency management, air quality monitoring, land monitoring, ocean & sea ice monitoring, etc.
Science needed to create and continuously improve operational services

11. Data Where are data? Costs How much does it cost? Certification
GMES
GMES
GMES
Data
Costs
Certification
Where are data?
How much does it cost?
Am I allowed to use it?

12. GMES
GMES
GMES
OSS
What can I do with it? Where are data?

15. GMES

16. GMES
GMES
GMES
OSS
What can I do with it?
Where are data?

17. .. Soft B Tools Change detection Grass fire Forest dens. Soft A Soft B…

18. COMMON ACCESS PLATFORM
GMES
GMES
GMES !
OSS
COMMON ACCESS PLATFORM !
Awareness
Data
Tools
Costs
Certification
What can I do with it?
Where are data?
How to do it?
How much does it cost?
Am I allowed to use it? !