End-to-end Earth Observation Overview Capabilities and Opportunities

Cross-Government Earth Observation Working Group (EOWG) Discovery Day, Harwell, 20 November 2015

Presented by Chetan Pradhan and Sam Adlen on behalf of:

Contents

• Why Earth Observation?

• Relevance across Government

• Practical examples of EO (Emergencies, Change Detection, Surveillance)

• A vision for Government use of EO

• Why the time is right for making changes

• Seeing the bigger picture

• Achieving economic growth

• Help us to help you

Annex

• Risk-reducing business model

• Barriers are being overcome

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Why Earth Observation?

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• Earth Observation is remote monitoring of the Earth from space-based platforms

• Application potential is substantial, wide ranging and growing

• Characterised by a number of key strengths:– Wide area coverage

– Repeatability

– Accessibility

– Objectivity

– Flexibility

– Cost effectiveness

• Traditional strengths are increasingly enhanced by evolving capabilities:– More data

– Better data

– Open access

– Faster processing

– Long term planning

– Better integration

Potential role for EO

Policies common across multiple departments

EO is relevant across Government

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Potential role for EO

Policies common across multiple departments

Example: emergency management & response

Near Real Time Flood Extent Mapping

• Exploiting space radar that can see through the clouds and provide national coverage

• Accurate picture of flood extent, combined with agency data for flood responders

Asset Mapping and Vulnerability Assessments

• Asset mapping to assign £ values to buildings and infrastructure to support quantified damage assessment

• Vulnerability analyses to support enhanced civil protection capabilities

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Example: change detection

Landscape change

• Latest techniques enable identification of relevant changes (from hours to decades)

• Can directly inform policy or be used to target subsequent monitoring (efficiency)

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Urban change• High resolution urban

change detection can support in-field resources

• Repeatable, reliable data acquisition is changing the dynamics of urban monitoring

Example: surveillance

Geo-Intelligence pattern of life mapping

• Autonomous monitoring of human activity in remote regions, safely

• Complementary to local monitoring

• Supports situational awareness

Persistent surveillance from high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) platforms

• Focus of an aircraft, endurance of a satellite

• Persistent monitoring plus excellent observational capabilities for enhanced situational awareness

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A vision for Government

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Specify and procure servicesrather than just buying data or

running specific (short term)

projects

One-stop-shop where departments come for geo-information, and SMEs

feed in their services

Local and central government needs serviced

at national scale

In the longer term, industry capitalises on UK approach by

growing and exporting services

Data as a service

Information as a service

Platform as a service

The time is right…

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Faster processing

and delivery

Cost-efficient service delivery

Increased observation capabilities

Seeing the bigger picture

• Data integration

• Mobilisation and fusion of data.

• Big data

Earth Observation

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Economic Growth – a key government policy

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• Space Innovation & Growth Strategy published in 2010

• Ambition to grow the space sector to £40bn by 2030

• Actions taken stimulated growth from £6.5bn to £11.3bn in the first 5 years

• Space recognised as one of the “Eight Great Technologies”

• “Smart” government procurement seen as one of the key enablers

Consolidate requirements for greater productivity

Identify synergies across departments

Open up challenges, techniques and knowledge

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Help us to help you

Procurement Framework

Requirements Gathering

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Partnership

Industry Government

A reusable, scalable business

model for export

Annex

Risk-reducing business model

UK Customers

Service Operator 1 Service Operator 2

Service requests go to all service operators:Can be one-off ad hoc, or regular service.Governed by SLA.

Service Operators, engaged by Government using competitive tender process. • Deliver single service or

integrated package• Aware of diverse EO data

sources available, and of SME capabilities

• Aware of existing government data, eliminating duplication

• Access to processing and dissemination infrastructure to avoid need for govt investment

EO service providers

EO data providers/vendors

Service Operators engage others and procure EO data if needed

Packaged services delivered to customers

Data, products and servicesdelivered back to service operator

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GovernmentCommercial

Export Customers

GovernmentCommercial

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Barriers are being overcome

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Departmental Level

Cross-Government

Industry

Cost

Trust & Awareness

Priorities

Long Term Policy

Coordination, standardisation

Procurement Approach

Understanding needs

Accessibility & openness

Complexity

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