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ESA’s Living Planet Programme: Overview & Status

ESA’s Living Planet Programme: Overview & Status. Mark R. Drinkwater European Space Agency Earth Observation Programmes. †. ESA’s E.O. Toolkit. Living Planet Programme (LPP). Earth Explorers - I. The Science and Research Component of the Living Planet Programme. To:.

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ESA’s Living Planet Programme: Overview & Status

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  1. ESA’s Living Planet Programme: Overview & Status Mark R. Drinkwater European Space Agency Earth Observation Programmes

  2. † ESA’s E.O. Toolkit M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  3. Living Planet Programme (LPP) Earth Explorers - I The Science and Research Component of the Living Planet Programme To: Focus on: • Improve the understanding of the interactions between components of the Earth System • Understand the impact of human activities on natural Earth processes Hydrosphere Atmosphere Cryosphere Geosphere Key Scientific Challenges identified in “The Changing Earth”, ESA SP-1304 Biosphere M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  4. 1991 1995 2002 + Global Ozone + Land Surface + Ocean Colour + Atmospheric Constituents History of ESA Earth Observation Europe’s expanding EO capability Earth Explorers ERS 1 ERS 2 ENVISAT Still alive! Earth Watch GMES Oceans Cryosphere Land Surface Climatology M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  5. ? Earth Explorer 7 2016 + 6 Candidate Core Explorers ESA’s Living Planet Programme www.esa.int/livingplanet Earth Explorer Earth Watch Research driven Operational Service driven Opportunity Missions Core Missions EUMETSAT GMES Meteosat MSG EPS (MetOp) MTG Post EPS Sentinel 1 GOCE 2008 CryoSat 2 2009 Sentinel 2 Sentinel 3 Sentinel 4 Sentinel 5 ADM-Aeolus 2009 SMOS 2008 EarthCARE 2013 Swarm 2010 M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  6. SMOS Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity ESA Earth Explorers 1 - 6 GOCE EarthCARE ADM-Aeolus Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer Atmospheric Dynamics Mission Cloud, Aerosols & Radiation Explorer Core 2008 20092010 2011 20122013 Opportunity Cryosat 2 Swarm Sea Ice thickness and Ice sheet topography Geomagnetic field survey M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  7. GOCE: ESA’s Gravity Mission The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) Its objectives are to improve understanding of: • global ocean circulation and transfer of heat • physics of the Earth’s interior (lithosphere & mantle) • sea level records, topographic processes, evolution of ice sheets and sea level change www.esa.int/livingplanet/goce M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  8. CryoSat: ESA’s Ice Mission Its objectives are to improve our understanding of: - thickness and mass fluctuations of polar land and marine ice - to quantify rates of thinning/thickening due to climate variations www.esa.int/livingplanet/cryosat M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  9. SMOS: Water Mission Its objectives are: • to provide global maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity for hydrological studies • to advance our understanding of the freshwater cycle - to improve climate, weather and extreme-event forecasting www.esa.int/livingplanet/smos M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  10. ADM-Aeolus: Wind Mission Its objectives are: • to provide global observations of wind profiles from space • to improve the quality of weather forecasting • to enhance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate processes www.esa.int/livingplanet/adm-aeolus M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  11. The objectives of the Swarm constellation are: - to provide the best-ever survey of the Earth’s geomagnetic field and its variation in time - to use these data to gain new insight into the Earth’s interior and climate. Swarm: Magnetic Mission Courtesy GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam GFZ Courtesy EADS, Astrium www.esa.int/livingplanet/swarm M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  12. EarthCARE is a joint European - Japanese mission Its objectives are: - to improve process understanding of cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions - to measure parameters to be included in models - to improve climate and weather model predictions EarthCARE: Cloud & Aerosol Mission www.esa.int/livingplanet/earthcare M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  13. The Six Candidate EE7 Missions • BIOMASS A BIOMASS Monitoring Mission for Carbon Assessment • FLEX FLuorescence Explorer • Core-H2O Cold Regions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory • A-SCOPE Advanced Space Carbon and Climate Observation of Planet Earth • PREMIER PRocess Exploration through Measurements of Infrared and millimetre-wave Emitted Radiation • TRAQ TRopospheric composition and Air Quality Mission Advisory Groups formed and several rounds of meetings taken place since Nov. 2006 (Mission Requirement Document preparation => derivation of technical requirements). Two parallel Industrial Mission Assessment studies underway – to assess each concept M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  14. ESA GMES Space Segment Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging Continuity of established SAR applications Sentinel 2 – Superspectral imaging Continuity of Landsat/SPOT class land measurements Sentinel 3 – Ocean and Global Land monitoring Wide-swath multi-spectral sensors, SAR altimeter Sentinels 4/5 – Geostationary & LEO atmospheric atmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary pollution Close cooperation/coordination with European Commission and Eumetsat EarthWatch: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  15. Conclusions • The Living Planet Programme features exciting new missions focusing on specific scientific or operational goals • Six science-driven Earth Explorers are approved and under development (7th EE under consideration) • 3 operational GMES Sentinel missions (1A, 2A, 3A) approved and under development • Sentinel-4/-5 presently under consideration • ESA to launch a succession of EO satellite missions over the next decade – with which to address key elements of the Earth system M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

  16. Access to EO Data A constant objective:  ease access to Earth Observation data • Common objective for all missions data handled by ESA: Envisat, ERS, Earth Explorers, and Third Party Missions (e.g. ALOS, SPOT-4, PROBA, …) • Simplified online application for scientific data use • Internet access to all Near Real Time (NRT) data • Internet access to archived data gradually implemented • Development of alternative ways to provide data (e.g. processing on demand, toolboxes) via http://earth.esa.int M. Drinkwater - May 2008- GODAE IGST XIII

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