ESA Status Report. ET-SAT-11, WMO, Geneva, CH, 4 April Prepared by Earth Observation Programmes Directorate

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1 ESA Status Report ET-SAT-11, WMO, Geneva, CH, 4 April 2017 Prepared by Earth Observation Programmes Directorate Presented by Ivan Petiteville, ESA, Earth Observation Programmes Issue/Revision: 0.0 Reference: Status: ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use

2 Ministerial Council, 1-2 Dec 2016: Results ESA Member-State commitment exceeds 10 billion Earth Observation receives 1.55 billion consisting of: EOEP-5:1.158 M GMECV:83 M InCubed: 35 M Altius: 95 M Seosat: 50 M Earthnet and LTDP (Basic Activities): 130 M Slide 2

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4 Sentinel - Tentative Launch Schedule Slide 4

5 Sentinel Expansion It is assumed that the following Sentinels are confirmed as a result of the EU user consultation process and following a gap analysis : Sentinel-7: a anthropogenic CO 2 monitoring mission Sentinel-8: a Thermal Infrared Imager (companion to Sentinel-2 C/D) Sentinel-9: components: S-9 ICE: Enhanced Ice and Snow Continuity mission S-9 HEO: Polar Weather Payload on a Highly Elliptical Orbit Sentinel-10: a Hyper-spectral mission Slide 5

6 First Image of Sentinel-2B: Brindisi, Italy Slide 6

7 Sentinel-3A Routine Operations approaching Sentinel-3A going into full routine operations in May 2017 All Sentinel-3A SRAL (L1 and L2) core data products officially released ESA and EUMETSAT sharing Sentinel-3 operations Sentinel-3A measures height of Antarctic ice sheet; contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2015), processed by UCL MSSL Sea level anomalies, 10 days March 2016; for each of the currently working altimetry satellites (HY-2 is at this time having incidents). Credit: CNES. Slide 7

8 Copernicus: A Success Story status as of 28 March 2017 Slide 8

9 Copernicus: User Uptake Slide 9

10 Earth Explorers launched so far Slide 10

11 SMOS: Soil Moisture processed in two ways Slide 11

12 Sea Ice Thickness from SMOS Copyright: University of Hamburg Slide 12

13 SMOS & Cryosat: Expanding Horizons Copyright: AWI Slide 13

14 Greenland: Elevation Change and Regional Trends Courtesy J. Nilsson, JPL / DTU Space Slide 14

15 CryoSat: Near Real Time Ice Thickness 2 days 14 days 28 days Oct Mar Tilling et al. (2016) Slide 15

16 CryoSat CryoSat Antarctica digital elevation model 2 km grid resolution Covers 99% of the continent Fully validated and accurate to within 25 m on average Distributed to all conference attendees Slide 16

17 Upcoming Earth Explorers ADM-Aeolus Global observations of wind profiles for analysis of global 3D wind field Launch planned for end 2017 EarthCARE Global observations of clouds, aerosols and radiation Launch planned for 2019 Cooperation with JAXA Slide 17

18 Further Earth Explorer Missions 7 th Earth Explorer: Biomass Biomass estimates based on global interferometric and polarimetric P-Band Radar observations 8 th Earth Explorer: FLEX global maps of vegetation fluorescence, which can be converted into an indicator of photosynthetic activity Slide 18

19 Earth Explorer 9 Call Revised Call endorsed by PB-EO in Dec => 260 M CaC, launch by 2025 Call published 13 Dec Letters of Intent (LOI) received by 17 Feb Full Proposals due by 15 June 2017 PB-EO decision for 2 candidate missions to enter phase A in Nov Slide 19

20 Meteorological Missions ESA develops prototype satellites MSG and, on behalf of EUMETSAT, procures MTG recurrent satellites EUMETSAT operates the satellites Currently Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) in GEO and MetOp in LEO in orbit MetOp Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and MetOp Second Generation under development, launch in next decade MetOp SG Slide 20

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22 Climate Change Initiative Extension CCI+ New subscriptions for CCI at CM-16 totalled 83M for period. Four lines of activity*: New GCOS Essential Climate Variables: Salinity, Sea State, High Resolution Land Cover, Snow, Lakes, Above-Ground Biomass, Permafrost, Land Surface Temperature, Water Vapour R&D on CCI ECVs: Aerosol, Cloud, CO2 & CH4, Ozone, SST, Ocean Colour, Sea Level, Sea Ice, Glaciers, Ice Sheets, Land Cover, Fire, Soil Moisture Cross-ECV Scientific Exploitation Knowledge Exchange Eleven ITTs to be released in Q3 2017: NB: Contracts for the operational production of 8 CCI ECVs have been awarded to CCI teams by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. 9 new ECVs, Climate Modelling User Group, Knowledge Exchange Slide 22

23 Thank you for your attention! Issue/Revision: 0.0 Reference: Status: ESA UNCLASSIFIED - For Official Use