1. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 ESA EARTH WATCH STRATEGY OUTLOOKS L. Marelli Head of EO Earth Watch strategy

2. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 ERS 1 ERS 2 Oceans Sea Ice Cryosphere Land Surface Climatology + Global Ozone + Ocean Colour + Atmospheric Constituents 1991 1995 ENVISAT 2001 The last decade ……. Europe’s expanding capacity

3. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 What happen post- ENVISAT? The ESA Living Planet Programme: created in consultation with the key players Europe’s scientists Industry European Commission EUMETSAT and many others

4. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 The mission classes and the programme elements Dual mission strategy, two types of user driven, complementary missions: Earth Explorer to better understand the earth Earth Watch, to initiate long term monitoring system and services LIVING PLANET PROGRAMME EARTH OBSERVATION ENVELOPE PROGRAMME (EOEP) EARTH WATCH: - space segment - service supply - brokerage and marketing of the service DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLOITATION COMPONENT EARTH EXPLORERS B, C, D, E EO PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES EARTH WATCH DEFINITION ACTIVITIES INSTRUMENT PRE- DEVELOPMENT MISSION EXPLOITATION MARKET DEVELOPMENT EARTH EXPLORER COMPONENT

5. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 Earth Watch Key principles: Synergy of commercial and institutional market Integrated European capabilities: space, ground services Core initial capability defined mainly by institutional market Long term perspective required

6. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 Earth Watch Advantages of a unique European initiative: Space segment: commonality of components, economy of scale Ground segment: sharing of facilities by different services Service segment: access to institutional markets across Europe, lower cost per service, critical mass to tackle non-European markets

7. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 EARTH WATCH Background: ERS and ENVISAT as generators of applications Operational Meteorology Industry ideas ERSIS

8. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 The Earth Watch: Background The ENVISAT will extend and enhance the services provided by ERS and open new opportunities The ERS missions initially conceived for research generated soon high value products and services demanded by the users on an operational basis.

9. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 The Earth Watch: Operational Meteorology The first ESA EO mission, Meteosat-1, 1977 would have been called Earth Watch 6 more European meteorological satellites have been placed in GEO in 20 years. Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) is in phase C/D. Activity started for Eumetsat on an Advanced Geostationary IR Sounder as alternative for post MSG-3 time Meteosat VIS 0.72.25 km WV 6.44.5 km IR 11.54.5 km MSG HRV1 kmIR 3.8 3 km VIS 0.63 kmIR 8.7 ” VIS 0.8 ”IR 9.7 ” IR 1.6 ”IR 10.8 ” WV 6.2 ”IR 12.0 ” WV7.4 ”IR 13.0 ”

10. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 The Earth Watch: Operational Meteorology The first MetOp satellites are being built for the Eumetsat Polar System (EPS). The MetOp satellites already include capabilities developed under ESA research missions, OMI, ASCAT (from ERS GOME and AMI-SCAT) and GRAS (from Earth Explorer).

11. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 ERSIS Regional Services Europe North- America, South America, Asia, etc ERSIS Regional Services Service Segment Space Segment other Space & Ground Systems/Providers SPOT, RADARSAT, ENVISAT, IKONOS,... products observation demands level 0,1 ERSIS Core Services (ECS) ERSIS Space Segment opt 1 m opt 2.5 m Super/ hyper spectral SAR X 1 m SAR L SCCTT&C Resellers VAOs non partners payload data downlink (direct) orders observation schedules ERSIS Central Facilities (ECF) ERSIS Application Services Network (EASN) per application ResellersVAOs ERSIS partners Basic &Intermediate Products customers Final Products direct customers high priority requests orders Earth Watch: ERSIS

12. E arth Observation Information Day, Bruxelles 3rd October 2000 Earth Watch planning