Slide: 1Ernst Koenemann

6th November 2007

Ernst Koenemann

Director Programme Development

EUMETSAT Future Programs: Status and Plans

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Global Satellite System

FY-2A(CHINA)86.5°E

METEOSAT-8 (EUMETSAT)3.4°W

METEOSAT-6(EUMETSAT)67,5°E

METEOSAT-5(EUMETSAT)De-orbit 2007

GOMS(RUSSIA)76°E

INSAT(INDIA)93.5°E

FY-1D(CHINA)

NOAA N(USA)

METEOR(RUSSIA)

GOES-9 JAPAN(USA)155°E

METEOSAT-7(EUMETSAT)57,5 °E

KALPANA-1(INDIA)74°E

MTSAT-1R(JAPAN)140°E

METEOSAT-9 (EUMETSAT)0°

GOES-W(USA)135°W

GOES-E(USA)75°W

GOES-N(USA)90°W

MetOp 9:30

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EUMETSAT Space Segment

96 98 00 02 0497 99 01 03 05 06 08 10 12 1407 09 11 13 15 1716 18

OSTMJason-2

Jason-3

IODC (63° E)

Rapid Scanning (10° E)

Primary Service (0° E) IODC (57.5° E)

3.4° W

0°

(*)

(*)

Meteosat First Generation

Meteosat-5

Meteosat-6

Meteosat-7

MSGMeteosat-8

Meteosat-9

Meteosat-10

Meteosat-11

MTG

EPSMetOp-A

MetOp-B

MetOp-C

Post-EPS

GMES Sentinel 3

IODC Backup (67.5° E)

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MTGMSG

MOP/MTP

4 observation missions:- Combined Imager: 16 channels

- Infra-Red Sounder- Lightning Imager

-3-axis stabilised satellites - Twin Sat configuration

2,5 and 2,2 t

1 observation mission:-MVIRI: 3 channels-Spinning satellite

800 kg

2 observation missions:- SEVIRI: 12 channels- GERB- Spinning satellite Class 2-ton

1977 20152002

Atmospheric Chemistry Mission (UVS)coordinated with ESA for implementation

via GMES Sentinel 4/5

Implementation of the EUMETSAT Mandate for the Geostationary

Programme

... 30 years of continuous operations achieved ...

MTG will provide continuity of EUMETSAT Services

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Flexible Combined (FC) Imager

Coverage Repeat cycle

Full Disk Coverage 18ox18o

10 min

Local Area Cov. 1/4 FD 10/4 min

The Flexible Combined Imagery Mission shall

• fully cover FDHSI user/service needs• support HRFI user/service needs as possible

Challenges compared to MSG:• improved Spatial Resolution 0.5 km - 2 km)• faster basic repeat cycle (brc = 10 min)• better spectral coverage (more channels)• improved spectral accuracy• improved radiometric accuracy

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Imagery Requirements

Meteosat 1 st Generation Meteosat 2 nd Generartion Meteosat 3 rd Generation

'Core' channels

Central wavelength

(m)

Width (FWHM)

(m)

Spatial Sampling

(km)

Central wavelength

(m)

Width (FWHM)

(m)

Spatial Sampling

(km)

Central wavelength

(m)

Width (FWHM)

(m)

Spatial Sampling*

(km)

FC -VIS 0.4 0.444 0.06 1.0

FC -VIS 0.5 0.510 0.05 1.0

FC -VIS 0.6 0.7 0.35 2.5 0.635 0.08 3.0 0.645 0.08 0.5

FC -VIS 0.8 0.81 0.07 3.0 0.86 0.07 1.0

FC -NIR 0.9 0.96 0.06 1.0

FC -NIR 1.3 1.375 0.03 1.0

FC -NIR 1.6 1.64 0.14 3.0 1.61 0.06 1.0

FC -NIR 2.1 2.26 0.05 0.5

FC -IR 3.8 * 3.9 0.44 3.0 3.8 0.40 1.0

FC -IR 6.7 6.1 1.3 5.0 6.3 1.0 3.0 6.3 1.00 2.0

FC -IR 7.3 7.35 0.5 3.0 7.35 0.50 2.0

FC -IR 8.5 * 8.7 0.4 3.0 8.7 0.40 2.0

FC -IR 9.7 9.66 0.3 3.0 9.66 0.30 2.0

FC -IR 10.8 11.5 1.9 5.0 10.8 1.0 3.0 10.5 0.7 1.0

FC -IR 12.0 12.0 1.0 3.0 12.3 0.5 2.0

FC -IR 13.3 13.4 1.0 3.0 13.3 0.60 2.0

Repeat Cycle : 30 min 15 min 10 min

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Coverage Repeat cycle

Full Disk Coverage 18ox18o

30 min

Local Area Cov. 18ox6o 10 min

MTG IR Sounding Mission

Priorities IRS Mission

- Atmospheric dynamic variables with high vertical resolution (e.g. water vapour flux, wind profile, transport of pollutant gases)

- More frequent information on Temperature and Humidity profiles for NWP (regional and global)

- Monitoring of instability / early warning of convective intensity

- Cloud microphysical structure

- support chemical weather and air quality applications

Hyperspectral IR sounding with focus

on time evolution of vertically resolved water vapour structures

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Coverage Repeat cycle

Full Disk Coverage 18ox18o

30 min

Local Area Cov. 18ox6o 10 min

MTG IR Sounding Mission

MissionBand

IRS-1 700 770

IRS-2 770 980

IRS-3 980 1070

IRS-4 1070 1210

IRS-6 1600 2000

IRS-7 2000 2175

cm-1Frequency range

Main Contribution

CO2

Surface, Clouds

O3

Surface, Clouds

H2O,

CO,

1800 channelsSpec.res. 0,62 1/cm

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MTG Lightning Imaging Mission

User Request: detect 90% of lightest events In Cloud (IC), Cloud to Cloud (CC), and Cloud to Ground (CG)

FOV 16° Earth Disk ~ 80% of the Full DiskIFOV – Spatial Resolution 10 km (45 degree North)Wavelength Neutral oxygen line OI(1) at 777.4 nmIntegration time 2ms - 1ms optimised to meet DE and FAR

Discharge optical pulse 0.5msEnergy range 4 - 400 µJm-2sr-1

Detection Efficiency (DE) > 90% - 40% for any individual eventFalse Alarm Rate (FAR) < 1 flash/sec (averaged over the full

Earth, assuming 50% cloud cover)

Repeat cycle continuous (as integration time)Accuracy intensity better 50% (20% goal)

Co-registration HRFI/FDHSI: better than 1 IFOVevent: single CCD-pixel above energy threshold integrated over time (1 – 2 ms)group: optical pulse associated with a single discharge of a CG return stroke or a recoil streamer of IC/CCflash : lightning flash, consisting of several discharges – strokes/recoil streamer - separated by 50-300 ms close in space (65 % of all flashes consists of more than 5 groups) (90% of all flashes have a discharge event with radiances above 10 µJm-2sr-1)

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Developing the MTG System

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Phase 0 – User Consultation &ESA Pre-Phase A Studies

Phase A

Phase B

Phase C/D

Phase E

Imaging Missions

Sounding Mission

Feasibility Studies Pre-feasibility Studies

Preliminary Design

Development

(first in-orbit elements and recurrent satellites)

Operations

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EUMETSAT Mandate for Post EPS

EUMETSAT’s Objectives

Operational Meteorology

Climate Monitoring

25 year Strategy

Environmental services (oceans, atmosphere, land, biosphere,

natural disasters – if driven by or driving meteorology and climate)

Mandatory Programmes

Continuation of observations

from geostationary

and polar orbits

Support to GMES:Establish a European capacity for the provision and use of

operational information for Global Monitoring of Environment and Security

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EUMETSAT Strategic Guidelines for Post-EPS

EUMETSAT will remain committed, as a minimum and top priority, to the mid - morning sounding mission

There is a joint commitment between EUM Member States and NOAA for a future Polar System (JPS)

Possible EUMETSAT contribution to a JPS fully open:

- instruments across the various orbits;- satellites on different orbits; etc.

EUMETSAT will keep responsibility for at least one end-to-end system

Need date for the core mission with instruments for Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity Sounding 2018 (1st piority) , followed by the remaining missions in 2020

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Post-EPS and GMES Possible Synergies

Sentinel 3

Ocean Surface Topography, Wave/Winds

Sea Surface Temperature

Ocean Colour

Sea Ice

Sentinel 5 (polar orbit)

Sentinel 4 (geosynchronous orbit – synergy with Meteosat

Third Generation)

Atmospheric Chemistry

Ozone Layer & Surface UV

Air Quality

Climate Change

ESA GMES

Space Components

Post-EPS Candidate Missions

Applications

Atmospheric Temp/Humidity

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Post-EPSCandidate Missions

Name Rank

High-Resolution Infrared Sounding (IRS) 3Microwave Sounding (MWS) 3Scatterometry (SCA) 3VIS/IR Imaging (VII) 3Microwave Imaging (MWI) - Precipitation 2Microwave Imaging (MWI) - Ocean and Land 2Radio Occultation Sounding (RO) 2Nadir viewing UV/VIS/NIR - SWIR Sounding (UVNS) 1Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) 1Multi-viewing, Multi-channel, Multi-polarisation Imaging (3MI) 1Dual View Radiometry (DVR) 1Radar Altimetry (ALT) 1

Note: Rank value 3: highest priority

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Space Weather: Observation of free electron content

Space weather manifests itself through the amount of free electrons in the ionosphere

Measuring the free electron content (FEC) provides in principle a way of estimating geomagnetic storm activity, different approaches exist to measure the FEC from satellites:Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by satellite

(DORIS)GPS radio occultation measurements (RO)Dual frequency altimetry (ALT)

Post-EPS includes RO and ALT missions with the potential to measure Total electron content of the ionosphere (ALT and RO)Free electron density profile (RO)

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Ongoing activities for Post EPS

Formulation of requirements on the RO and ALT missions to add the capability of measuring the free electron content

Improve understanding of relationship between total electron content as seen by ALT and relate FEC variability to solar radio flux and geomagnetic disturbance index

Study of utility of triple-frequency GNNS signals in RO measurements with respect to:Observation of space weather Possible improvement of ionospheric correction in RO measurements

compared to dual-frequency measurements

Study possibility of measuring the S4 scintillation index using RO

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Total Electron Content from TOPEX (10 day average)

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Thank you for your attention