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Ülevaade ESA tegevusest

Ülevaade ESA tegevusest. Hillar Tork hillar.tork@regio.ee. Teine Eesti Kaugseire Seminar Tartu Observatoorium , 11 oktoober , 2005. Presentation Overview. ESA Overview ESA Earth Observation Programme Doing business with ESA. ESA Overview. The purpose of ESA.

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Ülevaade ESA tegevusest

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  1. Ülevaade ESA tegevusest Hillar Torkhillar.tork@regio.ee Teine Eesti Kaugseire Seminar Tartu Observatoorium, 11 oktoober, 2005

  2. Presentation Overview • ESA Overview • ESA Earth Observation Programme • Doing business with ESA

  3. ESA Overview

  4. The purpose of ESA An inter-governmental organisation with a mission to provide and promote - for exclusively peaceful purposes - the exploitation of: • Space science, research & technology • Space applications ESA achieves this through: • Space activities and programmes • Long term space policy • A specific industrial policy • Coordinating European with national space programmes 03/2005 - 3

  5. ESA Members • ESA Member states: • Associated countries: Canada • PECS (Plan for European Cooperating States): Hungary, Czech Republic • Next in line: Poland, Romania

  6. ESA Establishments • ESA Headquarters, Paris • programmes and policy-making • ESTEC, Noordwijk • European Space Research and Technology Center • technology development • programme management • test center • ESOC, Darmstadt • European Space Operations Center • controlling ESA satellites in space • ESRIN, Frascati • European Space Research Institute • ESA’s information technology center • collection, storage and distribution of earth observation data • Launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana

  7. ESA world locations 03/2005 - 9

  8. Budget & Funding • 2005 budget: 3 billion Euros • Member states contribute to mandatory activities on basis of GNP • Space Science programme • General budget • Each country decides itself on level of participation in optional programmes • Geographical return • ESA investment in each country is proportional to the country’s contribution

  9. ESA Programmes • Space science • Earth observation • Navigation • Telecommunications • Launcher development • Microgravity research • Human space flight and exploration

  10. M€ : Million of Euro 03/2005 - 16

  11. M€ : Million of Euro 03/2005 - 17

  12. Industrial policy About 90% of ESA's budget is spent on contracts with European industry. Industrial policy objectives: • ensure that all Member States participate in an equitable manner corresponding to their financial contribution • improve the worldwide competitiveness of European industry • maintain and develop space technology • encourage the development of an industrial structure appropriate to market requirements, making use of existing industrial potential of all Member States. 03/2005 - 19

  13. The birth of commercial operators ESA is responsible for research and development of space projects. • On completion of qualification, these projects are handed over to outside bodies for the production/exploitation phase. Operational systems are transferred to new or specially established organisations: • Launchers : Arianespace - launcher production phase • Telecommunications : Eutelsat & Inmarsat - international communications services via ECS/MARECS • Meteorology : Eumetsat - Meteosat weather satellites • Satellite Navigation : Galileo, Joint Undertaking (with the EU) 03/2005 - 20

  14. Partners - EU • High level cooperation to develop and implement European space policy • Common aim to strengthen Europe and benefit its citizens • Collaboration on specific programmes • GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment and Security • Galileo Joint Undertaking (Navigation) • Digital Divide (Telecomms)

  15. Other Partners • National space agencies of member states • CSA - Canadian Space Agency • CNES – Centre Nationale d’Etudes Spatiales (F) • ASI – Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (I) • DLR – Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (D) • Russian Space Agency • ISS, Soyuz manned spacecraft launcher • Chinese Space Agency • “Double Star” scientific mission to study effects of the sun on earth’s environment • NASA • JAXA - Japanese Space Agency • ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation

  16. ESA Earth Observation Programme

  17. The quest for information about the Earth ESA has developed the Meteosat and MSG series of weather satellites, the environmental and climate research and monitoring satellites ERS-1 & 2 and Envisat, and prepares for the future with METOP, to provide tools for : • Meteorology • Environmental & climate monitoring • Earth resource management & other applications 03/2005 - 49

  18. Europe's first weather satellites The first Meteosat was launched in 1977. Five more followed and the seventh was launched in 1997. Placed in geostationary orbit they are designed to : • Take pictures of the Earth every 30 minutes • Distribute meteorology data • Collect environmental data recorded by automatic ground stations Eumetsat owns and exploits the Meteosat satellites. 03/2005 - 50

  19. Cooperation with Eumetsat ESA is cooperating with Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites on the development of two new series of meteorological satellites : • MSG (Meteosat Second Generation) : is a sequence of geostationary meteorological satellites with improved performance with respect to the current Meteosat series. The first satellite was launched in August 2002. • METOP (Meteorological Operational Polar Orbiting Satellites) : A European series of polar orbiting spacecraft. 8 instruments including Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT). The first launch is foreseen in 2006. 08/2005 - 51

  20. Metop A view of the Earth Meteosat MSG 03/2005 - 52

  21. A radar view of the Earth: ERS, ENVISAT ERS (European Remote Sensing satellite) uses radar instruments (SAR, radar altimeter) to survey the Earth's surface in all weather conditions ERS-1 launched in 1991 finished its mission in March 2000 A second ERS satellite (ERS-2) was launched in 1995. • Same missions as ERS-1 • Additional ozone monitoring instrument (GOME) A continuous flow of data provides information on status and changes of: • Ocean currents, sea surface temperatures and ocean winds • Polar ice caps & ice movement • Atmospheric ozone 03/2005 - 53

  22. ENVISAT: focusing on the environment ENVISAT is the most ambitious Earth observation satellite ever designed in Europe and weighs over 8 tons. It was launched on 01/03/2002 by an Ariane-5 into polar orbit at an altitude of 800 km. It carries a payload consisting of 10 instruments of advanced design, and provides: • a smooth transition from the measurements taken by ERS-1 and ERS-2 • ASAR (Advanced SAR), MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) • new data on marine biology land processed and atmospheric chemistry. ENVISAT, along with ERS-2, provides a continuous supply of services to scientists and operational users over a period of more than 15 years: • Crop inventories and forest management • Tropical deforestation • Biodiversity • Natural disasters / damage assessment (flooding, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.) • Generation of digital terrain models (DTMs) • Ozone layer / monitoring of ozone layer depletion and green house effect. 03/2005 - 54

  23. A radar view of the Earth: ERS, ENVISAT ERS-1/2 ENVISAT 03/2005 - 55

  24. Living Planet Programme: looking at the Earth in a different way The Living Planet Programme was created in consultation with key players • Europe’s scientists • Industry • European Commission • EUMETSAT and many others It comprises Earth Explorer and Earth Watch missions 03/2005 - 56

  25. Earth Explorer: to better understand the Earth Earth Explorer missions: • Research oriented, focused on specific topics/techniques, • Regular flight opportunities, • Lead by ESA (core missions) or other organisations (opportunity missions). The first approved missions: • Core missions • • GOCE: gravity and ocean circulation explorer (2006), • • ADM-Aeolus: (Atmospheric Dynamics Mission) measures winds at all altitudes (2007). • EarthCARE: interactions between cloud, radiative and aerosol processes (2012) • Opportunity missions • • Cryosat: assessing the polar Ice  destroyed by launch failure 8 Oct 2005 • • SMOS: soil moisture and ocean salinity (2007), • • Swarm: survey of geomagnetic field (2009) 03/2005 - 57

  26. Earth Watch: to initiate a long term monitoring of the Earth Earth Watch missions: • (pre-)operational, service oriented • Partners will take responsibility for long-term service continuity • Partnership with European or national institutions Candidate missions: • Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative, • National missions (InfoTerra-TerraSar, Pleiades, Cosmo SkyMed, Radarsat 2/3, Fuegosat), • Operational meteorology (post-MSG, post-MetOp). 03/2005 - 59

  27. Focus for the distribution of environmental data ESA-Frascati (ESRIN) Earth Observation Data Handling Centre Focal point for distribution/ archiving of data acquired via Earth stations from different satellites: - ESA (ERS-1, ERS-2 and ENVISAT) - non-ESA (Landsat, Tiros, JERS, MOS, etc.) Activities also include: • planning ERS-2 and Envisat payload use • interfacing with users • pre-processing of data and product control • development of quick online access to data, catalogues... 03/2005 - 60

  28. Doing business with ESA

  29. Access to EO data (1) • Category 1 proposals • for scientific research, applications development or R&D in preparation for future operational use • accredited Cat 1 users – Principal Investigators – receive EO data at cost price • PIs must submit detailed proposal via ESAs EO Principal Investigator portal • PI must demonstrate availability of funds for carrying out the proposed research • progress reports 2 times per year

  30. Access to EO data (2) • Category 2 proposals • data for operational or commercial use • available from 2 competing resellers • eurimage (www.eurimage.com) • spot image (www.spotimage.fr) • Announcements of Opportunity (AOs) • issued by ESA on regular basis • calls for proposals in particular fields • in some cases data can be made available at no cost

  31. ESA Funding Opportunities • ESA funding is available only to entities from Member States or Associated States • EMITS - ESA Electronic Mail Invitation to Tender System (http://emits.esa.int) • provides online information on all Intended and Current ITTs from all ESA programmes • in order to have access to EMITS, and to the restricted area of the ESA Industry Portal, it is mandatory to register as an ESA potential bidder member states only

  32. Funding opportunities in EO • DUE – Data User Element Programme (2003-2007) • Objectives: • foster the development of user communities • support the development and demonstration of information products • support industry in establishing useful services • EOMD – Earth Observation Market Development • Objective: • To foster the emergence of a European Downstream Industry offering EO-based services, with the prospect of becoming sustainable, to Public & Private customers on the global market

  33. Useful links • www.esa.int – ESA portal • http://eopi.esa.int/esa/esa - ESA Earth Observation Principal Investigator Portal • www.eoportal.org – Earth Observation Portal • www.eohandbook.com – Earth Observation handbook

  34. Thank you!

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