2. ERS & ENVISAT for the Ice Community Andrea Celentano IICWG Meeting 2001 – Norway

3. Overview: what is Eurimage ? Founded in 1989; current shareholders: 51 % 49 % Location: Rome (Italy)

4. Eurimage Mission To be a content provider in the world-wide “Geo Information” business, offering fast, easy and cost-effective access to multi- satellite data and derived products with global coverage

5. Satellite Missions Distribution Rights QuickBird –Exclusive Master Distributor for DigitalGloble for Europe and the Mediterranean Basin LANDSAT – World-wide exclusive for data from ESA stations – World-wide distribution of all other archived data at USGS – Distribution agreements with IGS ERS /Envisat –World-wide distribution for data from ESA stations and International stations on behalf of EMMA

6. Satellite Missions Distribution Rights IRS – World-Wide distribution for data from Space Imaging Inc. archive – Distribution rights from Euromap archive Radarsat – Distribution rights for EU countries Ikonos – Distribution rights from Space Imaging Inc., Space Imaging Europe and Space Imaging Eurasia

7. Africa: 4 Asia: 18 Europe: 102 S. America: 10 N. America: 18 Network: More than 150 Application Providers Australia: 5 VA companies offering Geo-Information solutions to end users To maximise segment and geographic area coverage Increased in Europe from 80 to 100 (150 in 2001) Growing presence world-wide (ERS/Envisat; JV with IGS)

8. EMMA and the ESA SAR missions Leader of the EMMA Consortium, one of the two distributing entities appointed for the world-wide distribution of data from the ESA missions:  ENVISAT (launch first quarter 2002)  ERS 1-2

9. EMMA Master Distributor Eurimage Data and Services Provider: –Satellite Tasking: Interface with ESA and Ground Stations –Access to data archives: Nat’l and Int’l Ground Stations –Co-ordination with ESA and Ground Stations to develop NRT data dissemination systems (FTP, DVB…) –Catalogues: Einet and DESCW (on-line, off-line) –Tailored pricing conditions –Dedicated Support Team

10. EMMA Value Adders ASI, Astrium, DLR, InfoTerra, QinetiQ, Telespazio Marketing and implementation of Value Added products and services –specific segments –key geographic areas –multi-source data Product innovation and product development

11. EMMA Ground Stations DLR, QinetiQ, Telespazio –Special/fast acquisition response –Fast dissemination of NRT products and services –Acquisition outside visibility masks

12. ENVISAT payload Dimensions Launch configuration: length 10.5 m envelope diameter 4.6 m In-Orbit configuration: 26m x 10m x 5m Mass Total satellite 8140 Kg Payload 2050 Kg Power Solar array power: 6.5 kW (EOL) Average power demand: Sun Eclipse (watts) (watts) Payload 1700 1750 Satellite 3275 2870 Launch vehicle Ariane 5 (single launch) Orbit 800 km as ERS, sun synchronous 10:00, i.e. 30 minutes before ERS-2 The next ESA SAR mission: ENVISAT

13. ENVISAT ASAR Imaging Modes

14. some ASAR applications

15. NRT Services to Ice Centres Direct Down-Link at: –Ground Receiving Station –At Customer Location ARTEMIS Direct Down-Link for fast data reception Raw or Processed Data Delivery via: –FTP –DVB Data/Service delivery through NGS Partners: DLR, QinetiQ, Telespazio

16. KIRUNA ESA/ESRIN ENVISAT X-Band USERS Payload Data Recovery Artemis (European DRS) The next ESA SAR mission: ENVISAT Ka-Band Solid State Recorders

17. Comments on Concept Paper Eurimage has understood and is ready to work with the Ice Service Community Single Services Ice Service Community Data Access –Volume –Licenses of Use –Format Delivery

18. Comments on Concept Papercont’ Single Service & Ice Service Community –Competitive Prices –Ad-Hoc Service fitted to personalized requirements Data Access (Volume, Sharing, Format) –Discounts based on volume orders –Multi-user/site License –Std. ESA Formats, VA products from the EMMA Members (with own products & services ). Delivery –To each user community –Single database for multiple retrieval

19. Conclusions Eurimage is willing to start negotiations and discussions with Ice Organizations to setup agreements for both ERS and future ENVISAT We also wish to continue our participation to Ice Organization events and initiatives which require: –Co-ordinated actions between: Users Community, Data Providers, VA Sector, Satellite Operators