Testimonies of Portuguese participation on ESA activities

Info day on EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMMES for ESA Ministerial Council

11th of June 2012

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IntroductionCritical Software at a Glance

• Spin-off of the University of Coimbra,

established in 1998

• Space, Military and Civil Markets with

customers around the globe

AERONAUTICS SPACE DEFENCE TRANSPORTS

DUAL USE TECHNOLOGY

customers around the globe

• Offices in Europe, US, South America,

Africa and Asia

• More than 330 engineers at with

20M€ turnover in 2011

• CMMI level 5 quality certification

since 2009

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EUROPE

PSACBRAZIL

USA

SINGAPORE

MANUFAC.TELECOMGOVENERGYFINANCIAL

Safety Critical Development

• Real-time and embedded software

development

Introduction

ESA programmes and most relevant competencies

SPACE TECHNOLOGIES (General

This presentation focus on Critical’s participation on ESA’s Earth Observation activities

from two perspectives:

Safety Critical Validation Services• Verification & Validation

• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis

development

• Simulators

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Earth Observation Services• Monitoring and Management of Natural

Resources

• Natural and Anthropic Risks & Emergency

• Data modelling and GIS solutions

EARTH OBSERVATION

APPLICATIONS (EOEP)

SPACE TECHNOLOGIES (General

Programme, TRP, GSTP)

Space TechnologiesESA Reference projects

• Sentinel-2 - development

Onboard Software

Development:

• Sentinel-1 - ISVV

V&V, RAMS,

Qualification:

• Development of

csXluna RTEMS/Linux

based kernel:

• Galileo constellation

Ground Operational

Simulators:

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• Sentinel-2 - development

of the on-board Central

Software

• Sentinel3 - development

of the on-board Central

Software

• Galileo – development of

Payload Security units

• GAIA – support

development of Focal

Plane Assembly (FPA)

• Sentinel-1 - ISVV

• Herschel Planck – RTEMS

Qualification

• Verification and validation

of various other

missions including GOCE,

SWARM, Cryosat,

EarthCare

• Development of

RTEMS/Linux based kernel

for both payload and

avionics applications

• Co-existence of real and

non real time tasks

• Allow porting applications

from Linux to perform tasks

such as science data

processing or autonomous

mission planning

• Galileo constellation

simulator validation

• SWARM constellation

simulator design,

implementation

• BepiColombo simulator

development

Earth Observation relevant missions

Space TechnologiesFrom ESA Space Technologies to other geographies and sectors

• Experience with ESA Space sector allowed to become supplier of other Space agencies /

organizations: NASA, JAXA, CASC, INPE, EUMETSAT

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• Competencies and methodologies developed at ESA (ISVV and Embedded Software) allowed

to enter on other sectors:

• Aeronautic

• e.g. Airbus - Flap Control Certification Support, Certification of GPS Receivers,

Certification of On-board Equipment, Development Tactical Displays (AW)

• Transportation

• e.g. Verification & Validation Support (Bombardier, GE Rail)

Earth Observation Applications

ESA Reference projects (EOEP)

Landslides and floods

Land Monitoring

Services for Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil

Fire Prevention and

Mitigation, Europe

Delivery of geo-

Risk-EOS – Multi-risk

Automatic Earth

DesertWatch for

Portugal, Brazil and

Mozambique

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Landslides and floods

risk mapping.

Land use monitoring

namely informal

settlements and

construction activities.

Development of a C&C system to support forest fire combat in southern Europe, including operational forest fire risk mapping

Delivery of geo-

information services to

support the management

of floods, fires (burnt

areas) and other risks

throughout all phases:

Prevention, Early warning,

Crisis, Post crisis.

Automatic Earth

Observation (EO) data

processing for

producing Land Cover

cartography and

Desertification

Indicators

www.premfire.net www.riskeos.com Earth Observation for

Development Partnership

Earth Observation Applications

Examples of EO applications: Premfire, Risk-EOS and NOD

Fire monitoring

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Forest Fire Risk

Daily Burnt Areas

Provided since 2006

Fire monitoring

Penela 2012

Burnt Area near Torres NovasBurnt Areas in 2011

Earth Observation Applications

Examples of EO applications: DesertWatch-E

Land Degradation

Indicator

Land Degradation

IndicatorLand Cover Status

Indicator

Land Cover Status

Indicator

Land Cover: 2005

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• Envisat Meris, Landsat,

and Kompsat images

• Climatic data

Land Assessment, Portugal, 2000-2010

Monitoring Land Trends, Portugal, 2000-2010

Susceptibility to Desertification: 2005

Indicator of

Susceptibility to

Desertification

Indicator of

Susceptibility to

Desertification

Earth Observation Applications

Examples of EO applications: Rio Vulnerability Project

Spot multispectral and

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Land Use - Urban Mapping and

Monitoring

Slopes mapping

Flood scenarios at Rio Grande

Landslides susceptibility mapping

based Land deformations

Spot multispectral and

stereo pairs; ALOS SAR

Conclusions

Critical Software Testimony of Portuguese participation on ESA activities

• Increase of Portuguese industry competitiveness

• Development of new capabilities

• Human Resources Requalification

• Promotion of further business

• New opportunities on other Vertical Markets

• such as industry, energy, aeronautics or transportation

• New geographies (Africa & South America)

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• New geographies (Africa & South America)

• International partners and mind-set

• Increase involvement of Portuguese Users

• Users are fundamental on the developing process

• Clear benefit of using methodologies and applications developed in ESA

• Significant advantages comparing to in-situ data collection

• Cost savings, wide area coverage, non restricted access to data, easy and affordable updates, affordable data handling & processing

• Spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions are continuous increasing to meet the most demanding requirements

• Meaningful data for assessing multiple subjects

• Desertification, biodiversity, climate change, forest, agriculture, water, urban environment dynamics, Land Cover / Use changes, emergencies, maritime, etc..

Forest Management for

Pulp & Paper Industry

Sentinel OBSW to Railway

ISVV to Aeronautics

ConclusionsContacts

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Nuno DuroBusiness Development Manager

Earth Observation and GIS servicesnduro@criticalsoftware.com

Sentinel 2 - high-resolution optical images

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Portugal

Coimbra, Lisbon, Oporto

www.criticalsoftware.com

UK

Southampton

www.critical-software.co.uk

Romania

Bucharest

www.criticalsoftware.ro

Brazil

Sao Jose dos Campos

www.criticalsoftware.com.br

Mozambique

Maputo

www.criticalsoftware.co.mz

USA

San Jose

www.criticalsoftware.com