ESA programmes forexploitation of Earth Observation

Pierre-Philippe Mathieu Industry Section

EOP-SEI

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Renewable Energy

Raw EO data Information & Services End-User Application

Backscatter from Synthetic Aperture Radar

Wind rose retrieved through numerical model of boundary layer

Integration with ancillary data Sources into user software

Wind farm management

Marine offshore renewableWind Energy Wave Energy

Courtesy ARGOSSCourtesy NERSCC

Portugal (Ocean Power Delivery)Denmark (Horns Rev)

EOWIND stand at theEuropean Wind Energy Conference in London, essential meeting point for the Wind energy industry

Raising awareness of users

EarlyWarning

Exploiting Solar RadiationHappy Sun MobileManaging PV plants

Happy Sun mobile service, FLYBY (It), VODAFONE (It)

DLR (De), Uni Oldenburg (De), Tecsol (De)

Ground irradiance UV index

EO supporting hydropower

Optimizing Hydropower Production

River Network (ENVISAT/RA)

Snow Cover Extent (ENVISAT/MERIS)

Digital Elevation Model Land Cover (ENISAT/SAR)

Weather Condition (MSG)

Runoff Forecast Quality - Schlegeis

Oil & Gas

Effective Seismic SurveysEO for optimal planning of

seismic surveys Explore in remote areas

INFOTERRA (Uk), WESTERN GECO (UK)

Satellite images are being used to pre-plan the optimum positions of geophones as well as vibrator trucks in order to obtain the best possible information on subsurface characteristics

Monitoring land motionOil field & Mining Pipeline corridor

AMEC (Int), ATLANTIS (Ca), Mining (RIO TINTO,TECKCOMINCO, KINGROSS)

AMEC (Int), ATLANTIS (Ca), TERRASEN GAS (Ca)

Offshore Oil exploitationOffshore oil explorationOcean weather forecasting

Joint venture between ARGOSS (Nl), NERSC (No), FUGRO GEOS (Uk) to create a company oceannumerics.com

Iceberg monitoring

Manice format

Iceberg detection / drift International Ice Patrol

Thank you very much for your attention

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