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The Romanian GMES Context – an update

rosa. JRC Information Day and S&T Workshops Bucharest, Romania, 11 May 2006. The Romanian GMES Context – an update. Marius-Ioan Piso Romanian Space Agency (ROSA). Contents. Romanian Space Agency National update International update GMES related RTD projects Space Applications

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The Romanian GMES Context – an update

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  1. rosa JRC Information Day and S&T WorkshopsBucharest, Romania, 11 May 2006 The Romanian GMES Context – an update Marius-Ioan Piso Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)

  2. Contents • Romanian Space Agency • National update • International update • GMES related RTD projects • Space Applications • Security research • Space and Security agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  3. Romanian Space Agency • Established in 1991, ROSA become in 1995 an independent public institution under the authority of the Ministry of Education and Research • Mission*: • Coordinate the national space research and applications programs • Promote space development • Be the Government representative in the international space cooperation • Develop specific project oriented research through its own centres • Coordinate the Inter-ministerial group on Security Research • *Law 40/93, Govt. Decisions 923/95 and 1574/2004 agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  4. Romanian Space Agency agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  5. Romanian Space Agency • Attributes: • Acting under the Authority of the Romanian Government - Ministry of Education and Research • Interagency coop. : MoD, M. Foreign Affairs, M. Agriculture and Environment, M. of Interior, M. Telecomm. and IT • Contract authority and PMU for the national AEROSPACE R&D Program • Contract authority and PMU for the national SECURITY R&D Program • Executive president for the Inter-Ministerial Board on Security Research (2004) and Inter-agency INSPIRE Group of experts • Authorized to establish research and development Centers oriented on specific objectives of the Romanian Space Program • Government representative (mandated) for: ESA, EC (FP6 AEROSPACE), UN-COPUOS, others (NASA, Russian Federation, . .) • Representative for COSPAR, other int. organizations . . agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  6. Romanian Space Agency • Integral extra-budgetary financed; sources: • R&D contracts, consultancy, international cooperation, management • Staff: 35 (21 research professionals) • ROSA Headquarters in the centre of Bucharest • Offices, information retrieval and processing facilities, GRID • http://www.rosa.ro • ROSA Research Centre • Core technologies and assets: data mining, knowledge management, GRID, nanosatellite technologies • Shared facilities with INCAS and the Institute of Space Science • Laboratories, Library, Data processing and GRID • Ground station for EO satellites • Space Applications Centre (CRUTA) • Established 1993, fully equipped for satellite data processing • Data bases of EO and ground data, Land use / Land Cover for Romania agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  7. Romanian Aerospace Programme • Contribute to the national and global scientific development by participation to international space missions and development of new projects • Improve the national and regional security by means of peaceful space applications (2001) • Contribute to the infrastructure of the information society • Develop new space technologies, space spin-offs and commercial space applications • Human resources building to meet the space science and technology development for the 21st Century • Give a model of capacity building and support the national effort to continental and international integration agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  8. Romanian Aerospace Programme Component sub-programs: • Policy and infrastructure • Capacity building: technology park, centres of excellence, quality management, GRID, concurrent engineering • Space exploration • Space missions: (INTERBALL, CLUSTER, PLANCK, COROT, AMS . . ) Space science, microgravity & life science • Space applications • Satellite communications, Earth observation, GNSS, precision farming, disaster management, telemedicine, GMES, GALILEO, LPIS, software • Aerospace science and technology • Aerodynamics and flight dynamics, C3 systems, onboard technology • Industrial development and spin-off • Aerospace platforms (UAV’s, IAR-99, AEROTAXI), components, high speed facilities, infrastructure. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  9. Romanian Aerospace Programme • Number of current projects: • 108 (39 – 2001, 40 – 2002, 20 – 2003, 72 - 2004) • Participant organizations (Romanian) : 121 • Professional staff involved: 630 full time equivalent • Funding: • Budget engagement limit 2001 – 2006 – 31,25 Meuro • Budget engagement (present) 18,75 Meuro (2001-2005) • Co-financing: 31% - private and public partners • Actors: R&D institutes, universities, companies, NGO’s, SME’s – public and private, most of them in consortia agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  10. GMES – related projects agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  11. GMES – related projects agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  12. GMES Pathfinder Projects • ROSA coordinated Projects included in the National RTD CEEX Program • LUCIUS: Building a National Network for GMES Applications Support by Setting Up a Land Use Land Cover Information Unified System • exploit experience acquired by consortium members and build a network providing the scientific and technological regional support for the development of GMES applications through institutional development and capacity building in geospatial data (space and in-situ) acquisition, processing and management • INSPAM: Spatial Data Infrastructures with Applications in Environmental Protection • initiate and develop an interoperable framework able to contribute to establishing a national spatial data infrastructure following the European initiatives in this domain (GMES, INSPIRE, ORCHESTRA etc.) • SPIM: Centre for disaster monitoring by space technology • Generate the infrastructure, procedures and knowledge management for flood and other natural disasters monitoring Update 2005! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  13. Security research programme • National R&D Programme SECURITY • Drafted under the authority of GIMS • Included by Govt. Decision 2080/ Nov. 2004 in the National Research, Development and Innovation Plan • Goals: • Research, technology and systems for security and defence • Prepare the national actors for the participation in the FP7 security research areas • Support for the integration in EU, NATO, WEO, other programs and organizations relevant for security and defence • Development of national capacity building and support for cooperation between research, industry and users • Increasing awareness and the new security culture among citizens and decision makers agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  14. Romanian Security Research Programme • Inter-ministerial Group for Security Research (2004) • Ministry of Education and Research, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Romanian Intelligence Services, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romanian Space Agency • RTD programme launched in 2005 • 84 projects and 114 organizations involved (Universities, RTD institutes, major companies and SME’s, NGO’s) • In concordance with FP7 Security, NATO and National priorities • ROSA – coordinator and contract authority Update 2006! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  15. Romanian Security Research Programme • Subprogrammes • Security policy and strategy • Protection against terrorism and security of infrastructures • Situation awareness and reconnaissance • Crisis management and interoperability • Industrial development agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  16. GMES-related projects agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  17. International Cooperation ROSA is the national representative for: • European Space Agency (ESA) – by law • United Nations – COPUOS – by mandate from the Foreign Ministry • NATO – Scientific Committee and RTO – Space Advisory group • EC – FP6 – AEROSPACE PC, INSPIRE – by mandate from the Ministry of Education and Research • NASA – Government representative • CNES (French Space Agency), Russia (negotiations), Hungary, Bulgaria Azerbaijan – Bilateral agreements • ASI (Italian Space Agency), DLR (German Space Agency) - projects • International organizations membership: COSPAR, IAF, IAU, EURISY, SAF, GDIN, others, bilateral agreements with research organizations agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  18. European Space Agency • On 17 February 2006 Romania strengthened its relations with ESA by signing the European Cooperating State Agreement, becoming the third European country to join this status. Hungary was the first in April 2003 followed by the Czech Republic in November of the same year. Update 2006! • The ceremony took place in Bucharest with the participation of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Prime Minister of Romania, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Anton Anton, Romanian Secretary of State for Science and Technology, Marius-Ioan Piso, President and CEO of the Romanian Space Agency, and cosmonaut Dumitru Dorin Prunariu, Chairman of the Board of the Romanian Space Agency. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  19. European Space Agency • During the coming months Romania will define with ESA the specific areas and projects for cooperation, and the budget for the next five years. • Major participation will be in ESA’s space science programme and the ESA/EC joint GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative. • Other areas of cooperation will include ESA’s microgravity and exploration programme and technology activities. • Participation in GMES will strengthen the country’s use of Earth observation data for agricultural planning, crop forecasting and flood monitoring. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  20. European Space Agency GMES • 1. The space component, which includes development and operations of all satellite and ground segment infrastructure providing the required data streams • 2. The in-situ component, which includes development and operation of all ground based and airborne data gathering networks. This also includes socio-economic data such as demographic data, industrial output data and epidemiological data. • 3. Data harmonisation and standardisation, including infrastructure for data assimilation, standardised processing, data fusion, modelling and forecasting and service support infrastructure such as data access, catalogue, archive and customer support facilities • 4. User oriented services, including data procurement, information generation and delivery, product quality assurance and monitoring compliance with user domain working practices, standards and legislative requirements • The ROSA – ESA common projects would include some of those components agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  21. United Nations COPUOS • COPUOS - The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was set up by the General Assembly in 1959 ( resolution 1472 (XIV)) to review the scope of international cooperation in peaceful uses of outer space, to devise programmes in this field to be undertaken under United Nations auspices, to encourage continued research and the dissemination of information on outer space matters, and to study legal problems arising from the exploration of outer space. • Two standing Subcommittees of the whole: • Scientific and Technical Subcommittee • Legal Subcommittee • Number of Member States in the Committee: 67 • Romania – Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (2004-2006) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  22. United Nations COPUOS - DMISCO • Recommendation UNISPACE III +5 Action team 7 • An international space coordination body for disaster management nominally identified as the 'Disaster Management International Space Coordination Organization (DMISCO)' should be established • Such a body would have the mandate to provide the necessary means to optimize the efficiency of services for disaster management. • It would ensure affordable, comprehensive and universal space-based delivery by fully utilizing existing and planned space and ground assets and infrastructures, and with the full participation of organizations and mechanisms currently in place. • The proposed organization would act as a focal point for global space efforts in support of disaster management. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  23. United Nations COPUOS - DMISCO • Experts were nominated as members of the ad hoc expert group and have participated in the elaboration of the DMISCO study: • Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Morocco, Nigeria, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, United States of America, • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). • The work of the ad hoc expert group was supported by the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the Secretariat. • Romania – by ROSA - in charge with the DMISCO Implementation Action group agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  24. United Nations COPUOS - DMISCO • International functions • One-Stop Shop for Information • Awareness Raising and Outreach Activities • Knowledge Management and Transfer • Coordination functions • Platform for Fostering Alliances • Bridge the gap between the disaster management and space communities - Communities of Practice • Support to Capacity Building • Operational functions • Regional and Country Profiles • National Disaster Management Planning and Policies • Implementation of National Activities defined by National Focal Points. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  25. NATO Security through Science • The Security Through Science Programme offers grants to scientists in NATO, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate on priority research topics. • The aim of the Security Through Science Programme is to contribute to security, stability and solidarity among nations, by applying science to problem solving. • Topics in priority research areas • Defence Against Terrorism • Countering Other Threats to Security • Partner-Country Priorities. • ROSA – representing Romania in the SCOM Update 2004! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  26. NATO Security through Science • ENVSEC • The OSCE, UNEP and UNDP set up the Environment and Security Initiative in 2002 with the aim of identifying, together with regional stakeholders (such as governmental representatives and NGOs), environmental issues that are a threat to stability and peace and using environmental co-operation as a confidence-building exercise in vulnerable regions. • Since 2004, NATO - associated with ENVSEC through the NATO Programme for Security through Science and the activities of the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society • The NATO Science Committee (October 2005) agreed to provide financial support through the Security through Science Programme for the extension of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) to Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine). ENVSEC has so far focused on Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Southeast Europe Update 2005! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  27. NATO Security through Science • Defence against Terrorism • Rapid Detection of Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Agents or Weapons, and Rapid Diagnosis of their effects on people • Novel and rapid methods of detection (e.g., chemical and biosensors, multisensor processing, gene chips) • Physical Protection against CBRN agents • Decontamination of CBRN agents • Destruction of CBRN agents and weapons (e.g., chemical and vaccine technologies) • Medical Countermeasures • Explosive Detection • Eco-Terrorism Countermeasures • Computer Terrorism Countermeasures agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  28. NATO Security through Science • Countering Other Threats to Security • Environmental Security (e.g., desertification, land erosion, pollution, etc.) • Water Resources Management • Management of Non-Renewable Resources • Modeling Sustainable Consumption (e.g., food, energy, materials, fiscal measures and environmental costings) • Disaster Forecast and Prevention • Food Security • Information Security • Human and Societal Dynamics (e.g. new challenges for global security, economic impact of terrorist actions, risk assessment, management of science, science policy, security-related political science, and international relations in general) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  29. NATO Space Science and Technology Advisory Group (SSTAG) • NATO uses information from space assets in most of its military operations from situational awareness to space weather. Better understanding and improved situational awareness has been extended to space operations. The improvements in both ground and space based sensing to accomplish the full operational picture are required. Coalition forces must also understand the utility of new sensing techniques. Small satellite techniques will allow most nations to develop space assets and to launch ‘on demand’. • Space Science and Technology Advisory Group (SSTAG) – created in May 2005 within the NATO Research and Technology Agency (RTA) • ROSA expert – member in the 10 nations SSTAG • Established recommendations via peer review process for new technical activities in the research panels related to use of space • First Specialist Meeting to be held in Romania – September 2006 Update 2005! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  30. NATO Space Science and Technology Advisory Group (SSTAG) Update 2005! • Recommended topics related to GMES • Space Based Multi- and Hyperspectral Sensors Technology and Applications • Space Based RADAR Technology and Applications • Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying in the Networked Environment • Use of Commercial Satellite Remote Sensing Information for Maritime Surveillance and Oceanography • 3D Urban Mapping • Exploitation of Satellite Remote Sensing Data for Change Detection • Radar Polarimetry from Space • Ground Segment Antenna for Multi-Mission Applications • Systems of Systems for Early Warning • Image and Data Compression Algorithms for Remote Sensing and Communication • Near Real-Time Automatic and Semi-Automatic Multi-Sensor Data Fusion • Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  31. Regional cooperation in space applications • UNISPACE III Regional Preparatory Conference for Eastern Europe, UN/Romania (ROSA), Bucharest, 25-29 January 1999 • A total of 89 persons attended the Preparatory Conference, from 21 countries and 8 international organizations • The Earth and its environment; • Communication and navigation systems; • Benefits of space exploration, including the role of Microsatellites and • Information, education and cooperation. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  32. Regional cooperation in space applications • United Nations Regional Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management for Europe , 19-23 May 2003, Poiana Brasov. • Joint initiative of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) and the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), on behalf of the Government of Romania, and co-sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). • Brought together practitioners, space agencies and those responsible for dealing with disaster management to present experiences and best practices on the space technology-based solutions to disaster management in Europe agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  33. United Nations Regional Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management for Europe , 19-23 May 2003, Poiana Brasov. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  34. Regional cooperation in space applications • UN/ESA/Eurisy/ROSA • The Danube and Europe : Integrated Space Applications in the Danube Basin, 23-25 June 2004 - Mamaia, Romania • Environment, Security and Space Applications • Integrated Space Applications to Water Resources Management • Natural Resources Related Issues • Human Security agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  35. Space and Security – National • ROSA – further development as a technology development and capacity building organization • Integrate gradually the national space exploration and industrial programmes to ESA • Keep the role of a single national voice for the EU programmes on space, security and aerospace • Concentrate the national public and private resources to critical masses and develop its own niches • Maintain the wider field of international cooperation with the major global actors in space and security • Build gradually its space applications center towards the EU and become a regional partner for JRC agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  36. ROSA Update • The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) • National: Space, Aerospace and Security Research • International: Space programs (ESA), Space applications (EU FP’s), Space for security (NATO) • Regional partner for GMES and JRC Update 2007+! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  37. Floods 2005-2006 • International Charter Space and Major Disasters • July 2005 • Charter Call 91 • CNES – ROSA – SERTIT • April 2006 • Charter Call 121 • DLR – ROSA • Data from: ERS-2, RADARSAT, SPOT 4, SPOT 5, DMC, FORMOSAT, IRS, MODIS • Local data: CRUTA, ROSA, DTM agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  38. Floods 2005-2006 • From space technology . . agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  39. To Practical results! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

  40. ROSA GMES Update • Questions? • Thank you for your attention! agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

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