GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

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1 GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Mikko Strahlendorff Programme manager at GMES Bureau DG Enterprise & Industry - Euu ropp eaa n C omm mii sss ionn

2 Need for information Need for information in support of: European policies: environment & climate change, Common Agriculture, Maritime Policy, Common Foreign and Security, European Security and Defence... EU international commitments: protocols and conventions (eg Kyoto, Montreal, CLRTAP ) National or regional «adaptations» of these policies or commitments GMES: Autonomous capacity to generate & deliver Earth observation-derived information on environment & security: strategic for EU

3 Objective GMES is a joint initiative of the European Commission and ESA. Its objective is to provide relevant information to policy-makers and other users, particularly in relation to environment and security EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS (space, airborne, in-situ) Information Needs (policy driven) PUBLIC POLICIES (Environment & Security) Space Agencies In-situ Observing systems Scientific Community EO Value Adding Industry National Governments and Agencies European Union Institutions Inter-Governmental Organisations (IGOs) Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)

4 GMES is a user driven initiative Various categories of users European institutions and agencies National and regional authorities Policy makers and support organisations International bodies in support of conventions European citizens and NGOs Downstream industry, especially SMEs GMES Users

5 EU Added value Integrated system approach Relevance of EU level taking into account subsidiarity Overall information chain : from observation to information required by the users System of systems : mutualisation & long term sustainability of capacities & resources Build on existing capacities in MS and European organisations

6 GMES Architecture OBSERVATION INFRASTRUCTURE Space Infrastructure In Situ Infrastructure Added Value Chain CORECOR E SERVICESSERVICE S DOWNSTREAM SERVICESSERVICE S Marine Land Atmosphere Air quality Security Emergency ICZM Farming Users

7 Downstream role important User pull has to be prioritized and resourced according to need importance and user amounts A market economy makes this naturally The importance is expressed in the readiness to pay for services More customers make more resources available for services where interest is broad To truly work, the downstream has to live only on resources from clients Development can be supported in the beginning, but has to become self-sustained

8 GMES, INSPIRE & SEIS Mutually supportive & complementary approaches to tackle challenges Have a European impact but also global reach eg climate change INSPIRE = metadata, interoperability (what data is out there? how to make it useful..) SEIS = data and product availability, decentralised network (how to have (quality) data available, even NRT..) GMES = it s all about services.. (Increase the amount of data produced and put the available data to good use and add value..)

9 GMES Services Three Service areas based on Earth systems: Land Monitoring: initially European land cover & urban spots Marine Monitoring: sea state & ecosystem characteristics over global ocean & European regional seas Atmospheric Monitoring: atmospheric composition for air quality (European) and climate forcing (global), ozone monitoring (global) and solar energies For climate change these will take care of the non-meteorological GCOS Essential Climate Variables Further, horizontal components: Emergency Response Security Climate Change

10 Land Monitoring Service Main information over Europe 3-5 yearly updates of core land cover / land use data with minimum mapping units of 1-5 ha Land cover / land use data of 500 functional urban areas ( 100,000 inh.), minimum mapping units 0.1 ha Annual low resolution updates and elevation dimension t.b.d. until 2008 Example: Prague (GSE Urban Services, 2004) Four level legend from MOLAND SPOT -5 data (2.5m) Scale 1:10,000 Addition of a global component = Essential terrestrial climate variables Evolution to extend the user base: agriculture, forest, soils, water resources

11 Marine Core Service Systematic reference information on the state of the ocean over global ocean & European regional seas Observational and model data Now- and forecasting Re-analyses Ocean scenario simulations (with climate modelling centres) Evolution towards marine resource & coastal zone management Component of the EU Maritime Policy

12 Atmosphere Service Main information within & outside Europe Air quality Climate forcing Stratospheric Ozone & UV Renewable energy support Pilot service starting later, but maturing quickly User workshop in December 2006 Implementation group set up in June 2007 Strategic Implementation Plan due for mid-2008 (on track)

13 GMES Space component 5 Sentinel lines of missions Sentinel 1 SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry First launch 2013 Sentinel 2 Multispectral imaging for land applications, e.g. urban, forest, agriculture, etc. First launch 2011 Sentinel 3 Ocean & Land monitoring Wide-swath ocean color, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, ocean altimetry First launch 2012 Sentinel 4 Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, transboundary pollution First launch 2017 on EUMETSAT MTG-S Sentinel 5 Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring Precursor launch 2013, S5 first 2020 on EUM Post-EPS

14 Climate Change and GMES Address the topic horizontally in the Earth System components of Core Services (Marine, Land, Atmosphere) Scope Generation of long time series of consistent observation datasets and reanalyses of past observational data provide added value on essential climate variables identified by GCOS and drive the development of climate change (earth system) modelling to be performed by existing capacities outside of GMES GMES supports interfacing geo-information into socio-economic models FP7 Space call for 2009 includes specific topic on CC: extending Core Services for climate change monitoring Further funding in FP7 for CC research

15 Added value for you GMES will - enable to sustainably and operationally monitor long-term trends of global change -> long, uninterrupted time series of quality data, continuous satellite series monitoring environment and security in the future - ensure a free and open access to the GMES services - enable downstream services in a variety of areas at national, regional and local level (GMES economy) - clearly also address the policy needs of member states and their institutions (not only needs at EU policy level) - help member states meet their reporting obligations under EU laws (e.g. marine directive) and their international obligations (e.g. Kyoto, Montreal) - be an effective means of supporting national agencies, NGOs, citizens in assessing and understanding problem related to our environment

16 FP7 Space; Call 24/07/08, closing 27/11/08 Relevant calls LIFE+ LIFE+ ( ) 2013) Development & implementation of Community environmental policy & legislation, in particular 6th EAP ~2B for the whole duration GMES-relevant: Information & Communication (~20% of the resources) Next ll 15/06/08 l i 21/11/08 Interreg IVc: Regions for Economic Change Interregional cooperation + Urban development network 375 Mio for 30 themes GMES-theme: Improving monitoring of environment and security by and for the regions Next call in October 2008

17 The Local & Regional Administrations are the source of 60% of public investment in the EU European Framework Interregional cooperation Ongoing processes of devolution, decentralisation and reform of federalism in more and more member states NEREUS (=Network of EU Regions Using Space technology) founded Dec.2007