GMES - Status and opportunities within the GMES Space Component

Warsaw Space Days 2008

Josef AschbacherHead, GMES Space Office, ESA

The IPCC Report 2007

Warming signs from Science

Arctic: ice-free as of 2nd half of the century

Permafrost: up to 90% melting until 2100, freeing high amounts of Methane gas

Precipitation: decrease in arid regions

and increase in wet areas

Storms and surges: less in number

but significantly stronger in intensity

Gulf Stream: significantly weakened

Sea level rise: up to 48cm until 2100 due to thermal expansion of water only

Space-based EO contributes significantly to global change monitoring

Model: Global temperature increase between + 2.4 and 6.4 degrees until 2100

Break-up of Wilkins Ice Shelf(ASAR/ENVISAT)

Ship tracks

NO2 concentration

ENVISATENVISAT

Calibration Review

Sep 02 Dec 02

Validation Workshop

Nov 03

MERIS Workshop

First images

Prestige tanker

First image via Artemis

Mar 02

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1200+ scientific projects

Sept 04

Envisat Symposium

Sep 05

MERIS /(A)ATSR

Workshop

Dec 03

SARInterferometry

Workshop

Ozone hole 2003

Bam earthquake

Global airpollution

Tectonic uplift(Andaman)

Chlorophyllconcentration

Dec 05

SARInterferometry

Workshop

May 06

B-15A iceberg

HurricaneKatrina

Atmospheric Science

Conference

+ pre-operational

activities for GMES

ENVISAT - Building up GMES services

R&D Operations

Goal of GMES

GMES aims at developing operational services,

… following the example of meteorology…

… but for other domains such as emergency management, air quality monitoring, land monitoring, ocean & sea ice monitoring, etc.

Science needed to create and continuously improve operational services

GMES Partners

EC: leader and responsible for implementing services

ESA: responsible for GSC implementation and coordination of GMES space infrastructure

EUMETSAT: potential operator for Sentinel-3 (M) and Sentinel-4/5

Other EU/ESA Member States: contributing missions

“ The European Space Policy (ESP) consolidates the responsibilities of the main stakeholders in space in Europe, in particular of the EC, ESA, the Member States and EUMETSAT. “

GMES: Some key milestones

Initiation of GMES, Baveno Manifesto

Gothenburg EU Summit “establish by 2008 an operational European capacity for … GMES”

Investments by ESA and EC on services

EU initiates “Fast-track” services; GMES becomes ‘flagship’ESA C-MIN in Berlin funds Phase-1 of GSC programme

ESA Phase-2 approved EC-ESA agreement on GMES signedEC Fast-Track services to become operationalESA C-MIN in November - GSC Segment-2

Launch of first GMES Sentinels

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GMES components

Services Component

• Produces information services in response to European policy priorities in environment and security

• Relies on data from in-situ and space component

In-situ component

• Mostly of national responsibility, with coordination at European level

Space Component – role of ESA as

• development agency for dedicated infrastructure

• coordinator of contributions from Member States, EUMETSAT, private and commercial partners

ESA funded GMES services

100 M€ by 100 M€ by ESA MSESA MS

Period 2003-Period 2003-2008 (2009)2008 (2009)

400+ user 400+ user organisationsorganisations

EC has EC has invested invested another 100 another 100 M€M€

GMES dedicated missions: Sentinels

Sentinel 1 – SAR imagingAll weather, day/night applications, interferometry

Sentinel 2 – Multispectral imagingLand applications: urban, forest, agriculture, etc

Continuity of Landsat, SPOT data

Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoringWide-swath ocean color, vegetation, sea/land surface

temperature, altimetry

Sentinel 4 – Geostationary atmosphericAtmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary

pollution

Sentinel 5 – Low-orbit atmosphericAtmospheric composition monitoring

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2012

2012

2017+

2019+

Sentinel-1Applications: • monitoring sea ice zones and the arctic environment• surveillance of marine environment• monitoring land surface motion risks• mapping in support of humanitarian aid in crisis

situations

4 nominal operation modes: • strip map (80 km swath, 5X5 m res.)• interferometric wide swath (250 km swath, 20X5 m

res.)• extra wide swath (400 km swath, 25X100 m res.)• Wave (5X20 m res.)

2300 Kg spacecraft mass

Sun synchronous orbit at 693 Km mean altitude

12 days repeat cycle

7 years design life time, consumables for 12 years

Sentinel-1:

C-band

SAR mission

Sentinel-2Applications:• Generic land cover maps• risk mapping and fast images for disaster relief• generation of leaf coverage, leaf chlorophyll

content and leaf water content

Pushbroom filter based multi spectral imager with 13 spectral bands (VNIR & SWIR)

Spatial resolution: 10, 20 and 60 m

Field of view: 290 km

1098 kg spacecraft mass

10 days repeat cycle

Sun synchronous orbit at 786 km mean altitude

7 years design life time, consumables for 12 years

Sentinel-2:

Superspectral imaging mission

Sentinel-3Applications:

• Sea/land colour data and surface temperature

• sea surface and land ice topography

• coastal zones, inland water and sea ice topography

• vegetation products

1198 kg spacecraft mass

Sun synchronous orbit at 814.5 km mean altitude over geoid

27 days repeat cycle

7 years design life time, consumables for 12 years

Sentinel-3:

ocean & global land mission

Sentinel-3Instruments:

• Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) with 5 cameras, 8 bands (only VIS) for open ocean (low res), 15 bands (only VIS) for coastal zones (high res). Spatial sampling: 300m @ SSP

• Sea and Land Surface Temperature (SLST) with 9 spectral bands, 0.5 (VIS, SWIR) to 1 km res (MWIR, TIR). Swath: 180rpm dual view scan, nadir & backwards

• RA packageSRAL Ku-C altimeter (LRM and SAR measurement modes), MWR, POD (with Laser Retro Reflector, GNSS and DORIS)

Sentinel-4

Sentinel-4:

GEO atmospheric

mission

Applications:

• monitoring changes in the atmospheric composition (e.g. ozone, NO2, SO2, BrO, formaldehyde and aerosol) at high temporal resolution

• tropospheric variability

Narrow field spectrometer covering UV (290-400 nm), visible (400-500 nm) and near-IR (750-775 nm) bands

Spatial sampling 5-50 km and spectral resolution between 0.06 nm and 1 nm (depending on band)

Geostationary orbit, at 0o longitude

Embarked on MTG-S and operated by EUMETSAT

Sentinel-5

Sentinel-5:

LEO atmospheric

mission

Applications:

• monitoring changes in the atmospheric composition (e.g. ozone, NO2, SO2, BrO, formaldehyde and aerosol) at high temporal (daily) resolution

• tropospheric variability

Wide-swath pushbroom spectrometer suite, covering UV (270-400 nm), visible (400-500 & 710-750 nm), NIR (750-775 nm) and SWIR (2305-2385 nm) bands.

Spatial sampling 5-50 km and spectral resolution between 0.05 nm and 1 nm (depending on band)

Low Earth orbit (reference altitude of about 817 km)

Sentinel-5 precursor to fill data gaps (2013-2019). Sentinel-5 embarked on post-EPS and operated by EUMETSAT

National, Eumetsat and Third Party Missions for GMES (list not exhaustive)

Potential contributions to GMES Space Component

+ Seosat, Tandem-X, Enmap, Venμs, Altika, etc.

CosmoSkymed SPOT

Rapideye DMCs

Pléiades Jason

METOP

Radarsat

Terrasar-X MSG

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GSC Data Provision

GMES Ground Segment and Data Access

GCM GS

USER Segment

Final end-user information products

Sentinel-5

Sentinel-4Sentinel-3

GMES Preliminary Long Term Scenario

1. Build-up phase development of first generation of Sentinels, data access to

MS/EUM missions, ground segment, early operations: ~ 2.4 bn€

Financing – ESA GSC programme 758 M€ Segment 1 (2005, 2007) ~ 800-900 M€ Segment 2 (2008)

Financing – EC FP7 600 M€ FP7 Space (2007-2013)

Additional funding is required in ~2011 to complete build-up

2. Operational Programmedevelopment of recurrent Sentinel satellites, operational access to Member State / Eumetsat missions, GSC routine operations,

evolution of GSC: ~ 450-500 M€/year (2008 e.c.), to be consolidated

GMES Space Component funding aspects

GSC next programmatic steps

• Prepare Segment 2 for ESA Ministerial Conference in Nov 2008

• Update EC-ESA Agreement for Segment 2

• Consolidate GSC Long Term Scenario

• Prepare GMES/GSC Governance, for build-up and operational programme

• Obtain operational funding, required before and after 2014

Segment 1 Procurement features• As per the ESA/EC agreement, the Segment 1

procurements are divided into two funding “pots”:a joint ESA-EC funded “pot” where ESA procurement rules

apply but with modifications to account for EU Financial Regulations (open to all FP7 contributing states and with no geographical targets)

An ESA-only funded “pot” where the geographical targets can be applied

• Approximately 30-40% of the best practice elements still to be contracted to complete the industrial work for the Sentinels

• Majority of GS work, within EC agreement, still to be released

• ESA will define, progressively and before the issuance (by the concerned prime or issuing contractor) of the relevant ITT, the allocation of each element to either “pot”

Opening to FP7 countries

• Part of the contract opportunities will be opened to FP7 participants based on:

the EC/ESA agreement signed on 28 Feb 2008

the updated geo-return targets for the Member States participating in the ESA GSC Programme

• This will be identified in the cover letter

• For companies in the FP7 Contributing States, announcement on CORDIS http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/space_en.html and publication of the ITT on a dedicated website https://gmesfp7emits.esa.int/ (access after registration).

• Amendments to the standard selection process:ITT open to ESA GSC Participants plus EC FP7 Participants

no geo-return rules in the evaluation (nowhere in the whole selection process, from ITT requirements to Contract award)

Points of contact

• Points of contact for further info regarding upcoming opportunities:

Sentinel-1 Guido.Levrini@esa.intSentinel-2 Francois.Spoto@esa.intSentinel-3 Bruno.Berruti@esa.intGround Segment Eugenia.Forcada@esa.intOverall GSC programmeJosef.Aschbacher@esa.int