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ESA’s Living Planet Programme: Overview & Status. Mark R. Drinkwater European Space Agency Earth Observation Programmes. †. ESA’s E.O. Toolkit. Living Planet Programme (LPP). Earth Explorers - I. The Science and Research Component of the Living Planet Programme. To:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ESA’s Living Planet Programme: Overview &
Status
Mark R. DrinkwaterEuropean Space Agency
Earth Observation Programmes
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2ESA’s E.O. Toolkit
†
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The Science and Research Component of the Living Planet Programme
Focus on:
Atmosphere
Cryosphere
Biosphere
Geosphere
Hydrosphere
To: Improve the understanding of the interactions between components of the Earth System
Understand the impact of human activities on natural Earth processes
Earth Explorers - I
Key Scientific Challenges identified in “The Changing Earth”, ESA SP-1304
Living Planet Programme (LPP)
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OceansCryosphere
Land SurfaceClimatology
+ Global Ozone+ Land Surface
+ Ocean Colour+ Atmospheric Constituents
ERS 1ERS 1 ERS 2ERS 2 ENVISATENVISAT
1991 1995 2002
Europe’s expanding EO capability
Earth WatchGMESEarth WatchGMES
Earth ExplorersEarth Explorers
History of ESA Earth Observation
Still alive!
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Operational Service drivenResearch driven
Earth Explorer Earth Watch
Core Missions
Opportunity Missions EUMETSAT GMES
MeteosatMSGEPS (MetOp)MTGPost EPS
Sentinel 1GOCE2008
EarthCARE2013
ADM-Aeolus2009
CryoSat 22009
SMOS2008
Swarm2010
Sentinel 2Sentinel 3Sentinel 4Sentinel 5
www.esa.int/livingplanet
+ 6 Candidate Core ExplorersEarth Explorer 72016?
ESA’s Living Planet Programme
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Core
Opportunity
GOCE ADM-Aeolus EarthCARE
Cryosat 2Swarm
Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer
Atmospheric Dynamics Mission
Cloud, Aerosols & Radiation Explorer
Sea Ice thickness and Ice sheet topography
Geomagnetic field survey
ESA Earth Explorers 1 - 6
SMOS
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
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9GOCE: ESA’s Gravity Mission
Its objectives are to improve understanding of:– global ocean circulation and transfer of heat– physics of the Earth’s interior (lithosphere & mantle) – sea level records, topographic processes, evolution of ice sheets and
sea level change
The GGravity field and steady-stateOOcean CCirculation EExplorer (GOCE)
www.esa.int/livingplanet/goce
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10CryoSat: ESA’s Ice Mission
Its objectives are to improve our understanding of:
- thickness and mass fluctuations of polar land and marine ice - to quantify rates of thinning/thickening due to climate variations
www.esa.int/livingplanet/cryosat
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11SMOS: Water Mission
Its objectives are:- to provide global maps of soil moisture and ocean salinity for hydrological studies- to advance our understanding of the freshwater cycle - to improve climate, weather and extreme-event forecasting
www.esa.int/livingplanet/smos
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12ADM-Aeolus: Wind Mission
Its objectives are: - to provide global observations of wind profiles from space - to improve the quality of weather forecasting- to enhance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate processes www.esa.int/livingplanet/adm-aeolus
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13Swarm: Magnetic Mission
Courtesy GeoForschungsZentrum
Potsdam GFZ
The objectives of the Swarm constellation are:- to provide the best-ever survey of the Earth’s geomagnetic field and its
variation in time- to use these data to gain new insight into the Earth’s interior and climate.
www.esa.int/livingplanet/swarm
Courtesy EADS, Astrium
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14EarthCARE: Cloud & Aerosol Mission
EarthCARE is a joint European - Japanese mission
Its objectives are:- to improve process understanding of cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions- to measure parameters to be included in models- to improve climate and weather model predictions
www.esa.int/livingplanet/earthcare
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15The Six Candidate EE7 Missions
• BIOMASSA BIOMASS Monitoring Mission for Carbon Assessment
• FLEXFLuorescence Explorer
• Core-H2OCold Regions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory
• A-SCOPEAdvanced Space Carbon and Climate Observation of Planet Earth
• PREMIERPRocess Exploration through Measurements of Infrared and millimetre-wave
Emitted Radiation
• TRAQTRopospheric composition and Air Quality
Mission Advisory Groups formed and several rounds of meetings taken place since Nov. 2006 (Mission Requirement Document preparation => derivation of technical requirements).
Two parallel Industrial Mission Assessment studies underway – to assess each concept
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EarthWatch: Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security ESA GMES Space Segment
• Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging– Continuity of established SAR applications
• Sentinel 2 – Superspectral imaging– Continuity of Landsat/SPOT class land measurements
• Sentinel 3 – Ocean and Global Land monitoring– Wide-swath multi-spectral sensors, SAR altimeter
• Sentinels 4/5 – Geostationary & LEO atmosphericGeostationary & LEO atmospheric– atmospheric composition monitoring, trans-boundary pollution
Close cooperation/coordination with European Commission and Eumetsat
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19Conclusions
• The Living Planet Programme features exciting new missions focusing on specific scientific or operational goals
• Six science-driven Earth Explorers are approved and under development (7th EE under consideration)
• 3 operational GMES Sentinel missions (1A, 2A, 3A) approved and under development– Sentinel-4/-5 presently under consideration
• ESA to launch a succession of EO satellite missions over the next decade – with which to address key elements of the Earth system
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A constant objective: ease access to Earth Observation data
Common objective for all missions data handled by ESA:Envisat, ERS, Earth Explorers, and Third Party Missions (e.g. ALOS, SPOT-4, PROBA, …)
Simplified online application for scientific data use
Internet access to all Near Real Time (NRT) data
Internet access to archived data gradually implemented
Development of alternative ways to provide data (e.g. processing on demand, toolboxes)
Access to EO Data
via http://earth.esa.intvia http://earth.esa.int