The GMES Programme

Galileo Application Days

GMES Masters Award Brussels, 04 March 2010

Dr Thomas Beer, GMES Policy Coordinator in the GMES Space Office, ESA- ESRIN
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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

GMES is established to fulfil the growing need amongst European policy-makers to access accurate and timely information services to better manage the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure security.

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GMES overall view

USERS Policy Makers

&

Public

&

Private, Commercial

What is their need?

Example Services Provided Farming Oil Spill Tracking Air Quality Flood Surveillance

Land

Marine

Atmosphere

Emergency

Security

Core Services

Space Infrastructure

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In Situ Infrastructure

Information Service

OBSERVATION

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GMES Components

GMES is an EU led initiative

Services Component led by EC

Produces information services in response to European policy priorities in environment and security Relies on data from in-situ and space component

In-situ component led by EEA

Observations mostly within national responsibility, with coordination at European level

Space Component led by ESA

Sentinels - EO missions developed specifically for GMES: Contributing Missions - EO missions built for purposes other than GMES but offering part of their capacity to GMES (EU/ESA MSs, EUMETSAT, commercial, international)
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GMES Services
Monitoring Earth sub-systems: Land: land use and land cover changes Ocean: sustainable ocean resources and impact of environmental hazards Atmosphere: effect of greenhouse gases and aerosols on climate change, air quality, and ultraviolet radiation Other Services: Emergency: rapid mapping services in case of humanitarian crises and natural or man-made disasters Security: maritime surveillance, conflict prevention and mitigation outside Europe Climate change is cutting across the above domains
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Connecting the dots: GNSS and GMES

GMES is a prime example of a critical European Programme with clear potential links to Galileo and EGNOS. The European GNSS programmes will be important partners in GMES, due to their complementarity. Role of GNSS in emergency services such as SAR, disaster relief and environmental monitoring: Tracking floods, fires, oil spills and earth quakes Support of relevant EU/ ESA projects within GMES: MARISS (controlling and monitoring maritime traffic, coastal monitoring) SAFER ( Validates the pre-operational versions of the GMES Emergency Response Service: rapid mapping, assessment maps, etc) RESPOND (humanitarian, disaster and security topics) Potential role in support of CFSP/ ESDP operations G-MOSAIC (geo-spatial information in support of EU external actions)
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ESA Funded GMES Services

MarCoast

PolarView

GSE Land

Forest Monitoring

Promote

Risk-EOS

GMFS

100 M by ESA MS Period 2003 2008 (2009) 400+ user organisations EC has invested another 100 M

Terrafirma

Respond

Mariss

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Global Fire Monitoring

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Oil Spillage Monitoring

Envisat ASAR 11 December 2007 Hebei Spirit tanker oil pollution

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ENVISAT ASAR

Gibraltar

Strait of Gibraltar
7 January 2007
Tarifa

Internal waves

Ship detection
Ceuta

Ostend

Tanger

In yellow: clear-cuts = probable coca plantations

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Maritime Security applications

Illegal trafficking: - X-band SAR shows vessel structure and enables improved identification - High resolution X-band enables detection of small vessels close to larger vessel for monitoring of illegal transfer activities

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TerraSAR-X potential security related applications

Vehicle movement: Border Control & Migration Monitoring False Colour analysis of vehicle movements

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GMES dedicated missions: Sentinels

Sentinel 1 SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry

2012 2014+

Sentinel 2 Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT Sentinel 3 Ocean and global land monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry Sentinel 4 Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, transboundary pollution Sentinel 5 and precursor Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring

2013 2014+

2013 2014+

2018+

2015, 2020
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Potential Contributing Missions to GMES

Jason

SPOT

Pliades

Cosmo-Skymed

Radarsat

TerrasarX

RapidEye

DMCs

METOP

MSG

National, Eumetsat and Third Party Missions for GMES (list not exhaustive it will evolve based on Services requirements)

+ Seosat, Tandem-X, Enmap, Vens, Altika, etc.

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GMES Space Component Phasing

ESA Prep. Programme

ESA Segment 1

ESA Segment 2

EU Init-Ops

EU Operational programme

2004

2006

2009

2011

2013 2014

2017

2023

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Further information

For further information please visit ESA GMES website (GSC) http://www.esa.int/gmes EC GMES website (GMES) http://www.ec.europa.eu/gmes

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