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Earth Observation Discovery Day20 November 2015

Introduction to Space & the Harwell Campus

Catherine Mealing-JonesDirector of Growth

UK Space Agency

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The UK and Space

Over 50 years involvement in space

- As a provider of systems

- As a user of data services

The UK Space Agency leads our civil space Programme

- active Internationally, in Europe and

Nationally

The space sector in the UK is recognised as a

- critical national infrastructure (CNI)

- and a major contributor to UK Growth ambitions


Three discrete segments: • upstream space industry (infrastructure and technology),

• downstream space industry (direct space services)

• the wider “space-enabled” economy (value-added applications)

What is the Space Economy?


Why are we holding the event here?

A vibrant international community

– Knowledge & people exchange

– Collaborative working: industry, academia and public

sector

– From start-ups to corporate HQs

Direct employment:

– 200 space-sector workers in 2010

– 500+ in 2015

– Targeting 1000+ by 2020, 5000 by 2030

But much wider impact as a focal point:

– Providing expertise and facilities to support industry

and academia (RAL Space, ESA ECSAT & Satellite

Applications Catapult)

– Links across the UK to regional centres of expertise

– Internationally significant, attracting companies to the

UK

A physical representation of the UK’s strategy

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Innovate UK etc)

Harwell’s role in the UK Strategy ?


Space for Smarter Government

The How: Dialogue - Processes – Outputs – Outcomes

Developing awareness

of space solutions,

data and products

Finding & establishing

mechanism to deliver

space solution

Operational

services

Consolidate

requirement across

the government

“We want to help public sector save money,

innovate and make more effective policy

decisions”

and

“Enable growth through: early public sector

adoption and utilisation

UK Government leadership by providing

support to exports”

What we do:

- Raise Awareness,

- Demonstrate feasibility

- Explore and consolidate reqts

- Create the relationships and

conditions for satellite

enabled data & services

Earth Observations Discovery Day20 November 2015

Stephen Lovegrove Permanent Secretary

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chair of cross-Government Earth Observation Working Group (EOWG)

• “Satellites and Commercial Applications of Space” identified as one of 8

Great emerging technologies (2013)

• Government’s Horizon Scanning Programme steered by Cabinet

Secretary’s Advisory Group

• Ministerial-chaired meetings on challenges and opportunities of emerging

technologies identified the need to improve and join up government use

of satellite observation data

• Earth Observation Working Group convened (Summer 2015)

• Against the background of considerable work underway in Government

already


Background and Context

Flood Analysis

Aims of the Day

A shared understanding of the opportunities & barriers

• Better awareness and understanding of the policy needs

• Better understanding of how earth observations can meet those challenges, now and

in the future

Greater use of earth observations across HMG

• explore common Government requirements to harness efficiencies and co-ordinate

existing activity

• break down barriers to uptake and improve collaboration and reuse

• understand delivery and procurement models

Identification of tangible actions or deliverables

• to be developed into an action plan by EOWG


Galileo Satellite (artists impression)

Launched 11 Sept 2015

Themes of the Day

• Is there a capability?

• What is the policy ask – now or in the future?

• What can be done to meet the gap / policy ask?

• How could that be delivered?

- effectively and efficiently

- collaboration

- funding/procurement

- new models / structural change


Satellite image of Kathmandu

following the Nepal earthquake

(Government use of satellite

data for emergency response):

Professor Ian Boyd Chief Scientific Adviser

Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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The Public Sector Policy Ask

Overview of public policy involvement

• Government departments involved: BIS, CO, DECC, Defra, DCLG, DFID, DfT, HO,

Go-Science, MoD and UKSA

• Different levels of EO understanding across departments

Progress of the cross Government EOWG

• Identifying generic and specific public sector needs and requirements

• Government - a skilled customer?

• Towards step change improvement in public policy delivery and driving sectorial

growth in the UK


Introductionwww.thinkdefence.co.uk

Drivers of changeWhat has stimulated us to start thinking differently?

• Policy challenges

• Recognition of the ongoing capability revolution

• The need for Government to embrace this - budget constraints, improving efficiency

• Technological change

Operational EO becomes a reality

• integration/assimilation of multiple sources of data including EO

• Regular updates and reliable, consistent delivery

• Greater definition and higher quality of information

• Cloud computing involving enhanced data handling

• Better business models


Direction of travelThe current use of EO across Government

• Small sectors of policy, often at sub-departmental levels

• Usually involving in-house technical skills

An example of the transition required for future use of EO

• Step 1: Defra has gathered EO skills and expertise in a CoE in EO. This model could

be extended to include other capability across Government

• Step 2: Re-task this CoE to be the ‘intelligent customer’, transducing the policy needs

in to a user specification that can elicit a helpful industry response

• Step 3: Build a strong collaborative interaction with industry


Thinking so far

Set up policy-relevant problem for industry to solve

• Define generic capabilities in terms of problems that present themselves at different

temporal and spatial scales, and also their dynamism

Three generic capabilities that might need different EO solutions

• Emergency Response and Management - planning, response and recovery decision

making

• Change Detection - environmental monitoring and definition of initial state

• Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance - real time monitoring situations


The business model of the future

• Government (non) ownership of capability and market building?

• Open data policy in Government and bespoke products

• Making the most of increasingly available public data sets

• UK Government as an early adopter

• Pay for information, not capability and only pay for what we need

• Source once use many times


RPA: UK Hedge data

The Ask

Government

• How can we be a better customer?

• Are there specific examples that we could ask industry to deliver on that could be used to

illustrate the advantages of EO across multiple policy areas simultaneously?

Industry

• What are the barriers industry face in providing EO services to the UK government?

• What kind of business models can you offer that would meet government requirements?

• Are you preparing to provide services based on assimilating multiple data sources with EO?

• Under the current financial climate how can we work best together that would enable the UK

government to become early adopters of your EO products and drive sectoral growth?


Applications

End-to-end Earth Observation

Overview

Open Floor

Q&A Session

Facilitated by Mark HampsonSatellite Applications Catapult

Q&A Session and Ground Rules

Based on the high level policy ask and the industry overview, this is your opportunity to:

- clarify your understanding

- delve a bit deeper into topics of interest

- challenge what you have heard so far

- explore any underpinning assumptions, obstacles and opportunities

If you have a question or wish to answer, please:

- raise your hand

- wait until the Session Facilitator invites you to speak

- use the microphone offered

- clearly state your name, your organisation and which sector of the audience your question is directed to

i.e. Government, Upstream, Downstream, Value added, Industry

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What next……?

Lunch!

- Buffet Lunch in Demo Room and Spectrum

- Visit the Operations Room Demonstration behind reception desk

Demos running at 12:15 & 12:30

- Ask a Question/Talk to a Catapult expert – “Happy to Help” desk by the stairs

Logistics:

- Moving between rooms this afternoon and dividing wall going up

- Please place bulky personal belongings at back of Jupiter

Timings:

- Starting promptly at 12:45

And it gets more interactive!!!!!!

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LUNCH BREAK

BACK IN HERE @12:45

FOR SYNDICATE SESSION BRIEFING

Welcome Back

Sara Huntingdon and John Vesey

Space for Smarter Government Programme

Syndicate Session Overview

AIM Expose cross cutting requirements/challenges for three topic areas & generate ideas of how they could be addressed

OUTPUTS Summary of key findings from each group and suggested priority areas for actions to take forwards

Syndicate 1 – Emergency Response - Stay here (Saturn)

Chair - Stuart Wainwright (Cabinet Office)

Syndicate 2 – Change Detection - Next door (Jupiter)

Chair - Ian Davidson (Defra)

Syndicate 3 – ISR Real time monitoring (Mars)

Chair - Chris Millward (MOD)

Coffee Break at 14:30 and back in here to give feedback to everyone at 14:45


Agenda for Syndicates (~90 mins)

Rough timings below:

- Introductions (~5 mins) - All

- Aims and Policy Overview (~5-10 mins) – Chairperson

- Clarification/Questions on Policy Overview (~5-10 mins) – All

- Brainstorm ideas (now, future, barriers/opps) (~15-20mins) – All (with Facilitator)

- Prioritise (~20-25 mins) – All (with Facilitator)

- Action Planning (~ 20 mins) – All (with Facilitator)

- Agree feedback mechanism – All (if not Chair/Facilitator)

Coffee Break 14:30 – 14:45 and then promptly back to Saturn


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