1. NSO and NL EO contributions Joost Carpay, Netherlands Space Office (NSO) CEOS Plenary, 8/9-11-11 http://www.spaceoffice.nl/

2. NSO (Netherlands Space Office) Founded in 2009, 28 FTE’s, “fusion” of various (aero)space institutes, ministries Part of government; the NL government focal point for space Steering committee of 3 ministries and Foundation for Scientific Research NWO Responsible for execution of NL Space Policy Representative in ESA PBs Representative in GEO and other international bodies Representative to other Space Agencies Management of national programs (tech. development, TROPOMI) NL Policy: Focus on key strength, in int’l cooperation, use(r) driven Planet Earth (Earth Observation), Science & Exploration, Space Technology, and Daily Life (services to the citizens) Strategy: redirection from technology driven to user/market drive Netherlands Space Office 2

3. SCIAMACHY Atmospheric Chemistry instrument, with Germany, Belgium and ESA SCIA on Envisat launched in 2002 SCIA: limb and nadir scanning imaging spectrometer Netherlands Space Office 3

4. OMI: Imaging spectrometer Nadir, wide-angle UV-Vis spectrometer, using 2D detector (no scanning), with Finland, NASA Launched in 2004 on EOS-AURA Ozone monitoring, pollution, etc. Netherlands Space Office 4 13 km (2 sec flight) ) 2600 km 12 km/24 km (binned & co-added) flight direction » 7 km/sec viewing angle ± 57 deg 2-dimensional CCD wavelength ~ 780 pixels swath ~ 580 pixels

5. TROPOMI OMI concept, with smaller pixels and SWIR channel Cooperation NL-ESA, Sentinel 5 precursor mission (GMES) Provides SCIA, OMI data continuity Focus on sensing the troposphere Currently in transition Phase B-> Phase C/D Netherlands Space Office 5

6. Processing Centres at KNMI (Netherlands Meteorological Institute) Generates and distributes some OMI products (also done from US) Essential for in-orbit calibration of OMI SCIAMACHY Data Centre distributes some SCIAMACHY data Supports national and international exploitation of data at TU Delft (Delft Technical University) Processing and distribution of Radar altimetry data Under development PPP infrastructure for data distribution to facilitate development of commercial and government applications of EO data Active contributor to GEO projects Netherlands Space Office 6