SC7 Workshop 1: Space Data For Secure Societies (An Introduction to Copernicus)

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Space Data for
Secure Societies -
An Introduction to
Copernicus
Sakellaris Hourdas
DG GROW, I3 Unit
Big Data in Secure Societies - 1st Workshop,
Brussels, 30/9/2015

Space30/09/2015, Brussels
in Brief
 The Copernicus programme is a cornerstone of the European
Union’s efforts to monitor the Earth and its many ecosystems,
whilst ensuring that its citizens are prepared and protected in the
face of crises and natural or man-made disasters.
 The Copernicus programme places a world of insight about our
planet at the disposal of citizens, public authorities and policy
makers, scientists, entrepreneurs and businesses
on a full, free and open basis.
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Introduction
 The Copernicus programme entered its operational phase with the launch
of Sentinel-1A in 2014 and its governance is based on the Copernicus
Regulation adopted the same year which establishes the Commission as the
Programme manager owning the infrastructure and data rights on behalf of
the Union;
 Copernicus Services are based on information from a dedicated constellation
of satellites, known as “Sentinels”, as well as tens of third-party satellites
known as “contributing space missions”, complemented by “in situ”
(meaning local or on-site) measurement data;
 By making the vast majority of its data, analyses, forecasts and maps
freely available and accessible, Copernicus contributes towards the
development of new innovative applications and services, tailored to the
needs of specific groups of users, which touch on a variety of economic and
cultural or recreational activities, from urban planning, sailing and insurance
to archaeology.
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Objectives

Copernicus Funding
GIO: Initial
Operations
GMES: R&D funded activities
under FP7
Copernicus
operational
programme
2014 2020
Preparatory
actions
Dedicated satellites
Operational services
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From research
to operations:
2008 2011
€ 1.3 Bn € 4.3 Bn

Infrastructures: satellites and ground segment
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 Sentinels (EO satellites) are currently
being developed.
 They will consist of six different families.
 Sentinels-1A and -2A have already been
launched and are providing data.
 The ground segment, which is spread
geographically, relies on existing national public and private facilities
along with international agencies with the total infrastructure being
coherently managed.

Sentinel 1 – radar imaging
All weather, day/night applications
Sentinel 2 – Optical imaging
Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,..
Sentinel 3+6 – Ocean and global land monitoring, high precision
ocean altimetry
Sentinel 4+5 – Atmosphere composition monitoring, from a
geostationary (-4) and a polar orbit (-5)
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Sentinels

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Infrastructures Governance

Services
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 Land Monitoring;
 Marine Environment Monitoring;
 Atmosphere Monitoring;
 Emergency Management;
 Security;
 Climate Change.

Land Monitoring Service
 The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service provides
geographical information on land cover and on
variables related, for instance, to the vegetation state
or the water cycle. It supports applications in a variety
of domains such as spatial planning, forest
management, water management, agriculture
and food security, etc. The service became
operational in 2012. It consists of three main
components:
 A global component;
 A Pan-European component;
 A local component.
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Marine Environment Monitoring Service
 The Marine Environment Monitoring Service
provides regular and systematic reference information
on the state of the physical oceans and regional
seas. The observations and forecasts produced by the
service support all marine applications. For instance,
the provision of data on currents, winds and sea ice
help to improve ship routing services, offshore
operations or search and rescue operations, thus
contributing to marine safety.
 The service is delivered in an operational mode
since 1st May 2015. The products delivered by the
service today are provided free of charge to
registered users.
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Atmosphere Monitoring Service
 The Atmosphere Monitoring Service
provides continuous data and information
on atmospheric composition. It describes
the current situation; forecasts the
situation a few days ahead; and analyses
consistently retrospective data records for
recent years.
 The service supports many applications
in a variety of domains including health,
Environmental monitoring, renewables
energies, meteorology, and climatology.
 The service is now fully operational.
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Emergency Management Service
 The Emergency Management Service provides
all actors involved in the management of natural
disasters, man-made emergency situations,
and humanitarian crises with timely and accurate
geo-spatial information derived from satellite
remote sensing and completed by available in situ or
open data sources.
 Mapping can support all phases of the Emergency
Management cycle: preparedness, prevention, disaster
risk reduction, emergency response and recovery.
 The service is provided free of charge and it can
be activated only by authorised users.
 Started operations on 1st April 2012.
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Security Service
 Services for Security applications support
European Union activities in the context of policies
such as the Common Foreign and Security
Policy (CFSP), the Common Security and
Defence Policy (CSDP) and the protection of EU
external borders as established by the EUROSUR
regulation.
 Three application areas have been identified
in which Copernicus can play a role and portfolio of
services and modus operandi defined:
 Border Surveillance;
 Maritime Surveillance;
 Support to the External Action of the EU.
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Climate Change Service
 The Copernicus Climate Change Service responds
to environmental and societal challenges associated
with human-induced climate Changes.
 The service will give access to information for
monitoring and predicting climate change and will
help support adaptation and mitigation.
 Benefits from a sustained network of in situ
and satellite-based observations, re-analysis of
the Earth climate and modelling scenarios, based on a
variety of climate projections.
 Under implementation, the operational capacity
of the service will be reached during the third year of operations (i.e. 2017/18)
and it will be preceded by a pre-operational stage.
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Services Governance

Economic and Societal value added
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 Copernicus constitutes a cornerstone of the broader EU space
and industrial policy, and will generate significant economic and social
benefits.
 Driver for research, innovation and the creation
of highly skilled jobs, with direct and indirect benefits
for the EU economy.
 The bottom-line can be summarised as follows:
 Cost per EU citizen = ~€1,07/year;
 Every €1 spent generates a return of ~€3,2;
 Expected minimum financial benefits by 2030 of ~€30 bn. on Europe's GDP;
 An estimated 50.000 jobs will be maintained or created over the next 15 years.

Budget and Governance
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 The current MFF period
2014-2020 will see the full
operationalization for the
Copernicus infrastructure and
Services.
 Adequate budgetary provisions
have been made to reach the key
milestones by 2017, to ensure the smooth running of the
programme on a 24/7/365 basis, and to lay the necessary
groundwork for the future.

Summary key points
and in the Juncker priorities
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 A New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment;
 A Connected Digital Single Market;
 A Deeper and Fairer Internal Market
with a Strengthened Industrial Base;
 Towards a New Policy on Migration;
 A Stronger Global Actor

Data
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 Copernicus collects, processes,
and archives massive amounts of
data (approx. 8 Terabyte/day or
almost 3 Petabyte/year when
Sentinels-1, -2 and -3 are fully
operational).
 Dedicated Sentinel-data and
Copernicus information are being
made available on a full, open and
free-of-charge basis.

Credit: ESA
Sentinel Data
Access
sentinels.copernicus.eu
Full, free
and open
Access for
everybody

Big Data Challenge
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 Different types of dissemination infrastructures for Copernicus data
and information.
 New technology developments in many segments, ICT and EO
cross-fertilisation
 Cross-fertilisation/interoperability with non-EO datasets
 Competitive environment in EO worldwide
 Growth and jobs in the downstream sector

Big Data Challenge
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 Efforts will have to be devoted on setting up a flexible environment,
capable of:
 collecting existing assets and coordinating synergic initiatives,
and
 opening up possibilities for the future, this meaning establishing
an architecture that will allow for integration of innovative tools
as long as these are developed in the area of dissemination,
archiving and computing technologies.
 These possibilities will have to provide for conservation of past
data, information and processes, as well as exploit forward
looking technologies as much as possible.

 Two complementary approaches:
 Bringing the data to the user:
web portal, mirroring of the data – high bandwidth connection
needed (e.g. Géant)
 Bringing the user to the data:
cloud computing ('hosted computing') – upgrade of the Copernicus
core ground segment needed
 Provide the conditions for the best exploitation of Sentinel and
Copernicus service information by the European downstream services
for the benefit of EU citizens
Big Data Challenge

Conclusion
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It is quite evident that can produce significant
socioeconomic, as well as strategic and political benefits for
Europe.
Due to its services decision makers and citizens today are provided
with better, more complete, consistent, timely and reliable
information.
It puts Europe at the forefront globally in having credible space
systems and initiatives, which provide bargaining power and more
successful implementation of external policies in areas such as
climate change mitigation and adaptation; humanitarian aid;
conflict prevention and sustainable development in Europe
and beyond.

Thank you
for your attention

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