Copernicus Space Component Status & Evolution ESCAP, Bangkok 09 October 2017 Simon Jutz Head of the ESA Copernicus Space Office Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes 28 satellites in development Slide 2
European Earth Observation System, led by the EU Copernicus Space Component European response to global needs: to manage the environment, to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure civil security European independence, contribution to global system (GEOSS) Copernicus Services Component Slide 3 What is Copernicus? Slide 4
Copernicus dedicated missions: Sentinels Sentinel 1 (A/B/C/D) SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry Sentinel 2 (A/B/C/D) Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT Sentinel 3 (A/B/C/D) Ocean and global land monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry Sentinel 4 (A/B) Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary pollution; instrument embarked on MTG-S satellites Sentinel 5 (A/B/C) and Precursor Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring; instrument embarked on MetOp-SG A satellites. Sentinel 6 - Jason CS (A/B) Altimetry reference mission Slide 5 Slide 6
Upcoming Launches Sentinel-5P launch 13 Oct 2017 Sentinel-3B launch Q1/Q2 2018 Slide 7 Sentinel Data Policy Sentinel data are available: Free, Full and Open* Over very long term Systematically, Operationally Copernicus Sentinel data 2015 ESA UNCLASSIFIED SI IE D- For ro Official fi ia lu Use S Slide 8
Sentinel Data Uptake S Slide 9 Data Access Stats: 04 October 2017 Any user can self-register at sentinels.copernicus.eu +++ many other users, e.g. SAP Earth Observation Analysis Microservice With 1223 SAP customer subscriptions since January 2017 Slide 10
Copernicus Data & Information Access Services Slide 11 EU Policy context and priorities - The user driven Copernicus Programme is a key European asset for the economic well-being and prosperity of European citizens in line with EU Council decisions - The Copernicus Programme is coherent with the principles of the Joint Declaration of Space signed in 2016 by EC and ESA - Copernicus Evolution fulfills main actions of EC Space Strategy for Europe - Copernicus and Copernicus Evolution, with a strong user oriented approach, is a tool for Europe to support political priorities of the EU and its sectorial policies Copernicus is operational and has already many millions of users! close to 100 000 registered users on the Sentinel Open Data Hub and vastly more accessing via secondary data access services! Slide 12
Sentinel Evolution 2014 2028/2029 In the long run, Sentinels current and expansion missions will be replaced by Sentinels Next Generation missions. Slide 13 Initial Concept for CSC Evolution S1 S2 S8 S10 S3 Current Sentinels and New Sentinels Altim. + opt. in SSO S6 S9 TOPO Reference Altim. C-band SAR MSI (VNIR/SWIR Imaging) TIR Imaging g OPT TOPO Altim. ice snow (TBC) Hyper- Spectral Next Generation C-band SAR SG L-band SAR Low-frequ. (eg L/Cband) radiometers and bistatic passive SARs MSI SG OLCI+SLSTR SG TIRI Hyper-spectral SG OPT GEO ALT SSO (WS) SG ALT reference SG ALT ice snow SG S1 NG S2+S3 NG GEO TOPO EO Capability Earth Microwave (4D) Imaging commercial + national nal EO Earth Optical Imaging Earth Topography by Altimetry S4 S5P, S5 S7 GEO LEO CO2 Earth LEO / CO2 + ATM Atmosphere GEO / CO2 +.. HEO Arctic atm. by Spectroscopy Slide 14
New Observation Priorities Conclusions on major gaps : CO2 measurements to estimate anthropogenic emissions High-Resolution Thermal observations SAR L-band observations Monitoring of sea ice and ice sheets in the polar region (various measurements and instruments) Hyper-spectral measurements Ancillary measurements of gravity field (addressed by GRACE 2) Slide 15 Hurricane Harvey seen by Sentinel 3A The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite saw the temperature at the top of Hurricane Harvey on 25 August 2017 at 04:06 GMT as the storm approached the US state of Texas. Slide 16
Copernicus: Hurricane Irma (Florida) Slide 17 Accelerating Take Up of New Ideas Slide 18