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Copernicus
the EU's Earth
Observation
Programme
Peter Breger
DHoU, Copernicus Unit I2
DG GROW
Status Overview, Sept 2016
Horizon 2020 Info Day - Lisbon
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Objectives
Space
Copernicus
architecture
6 services use
Earth Observation
data to deliver …
Sentinels
Contributing missions
…added-value products
Space
in-situ
Copernicus Space
Component: Dedicated
Missions
S1: Radar Mission
S2: High Resolution Optical Mission
S3: Medium Resolution Imaging and Altimetry Mission
S4: Geostationary Atmospheric Chemistry Mission
S5P: Low Earth Orbit Atmospheric Chemistry Precursor Mission
S5: Low Earth Orbit Atmospheric Chemistry Mission
S6 (Jason-CS): Altimetry Mission
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Continuity until 2030
S1A
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S2A
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S3A
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Successful S1B launch 25 April
2016
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Sentinel-1A & 1B now at Full Operational Capacity
This interferogram combines a Sentinel-1A radar scan from 9 June
2016 over southern Romania with a Sentinel-1B acquisition from 15
June over the same area
Sentinel-2A
Observation plan is published online ahead of every
repeat cycle as kml at
https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel2/acquisition-plans
Sentinel-3A
now in its operational qualification (ramp-up)
phase. Expected to be completed at IOCR+9
months, i.e. spring 2017
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Copernicus Contributing Missions
COSMO-Skymed
SPOT (VGT)
TerraSAR–X
Tandem-X
PROBA-V
Radarsat
DMC
Pléiades
Copernicus
Contributing
Missions
Deimos-2
RapidEye
Atmospheric
missions
Cryosat
Jason
SPOT (HRS)
MetOp
December 2015
Meteosat 2nd Generation
Access to satellite data – see Copernicus.eu
http://www.copernicus.eu/main/data-access
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6 operational
Services
Monitoring the State of
the Earth System
Environment …
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… cross-cutting Thematic
Services
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Space
Copernicus
Land Monitoring
Service
+
Overall In-situ
Coordination
Land Monitoring Service
From global…
e.g. Vegetation dynamics, Biophysical parameters, energy
balance
…to pan-European…
e.g. bio-diversity, water bodies,
land-use, land change
…to local
e.g. urban land-use
EEA – pan-European
& local component
A.
Copernicus land monitoring service: Pan-European Continental Component
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HR + VHR image mosaics + bio-geophysical parameters
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Production of 5 thematic high resolution layers (imperviousness, forests,
grasslands, wet lands, small water bodies)
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Production of HRL Green Linear features
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Set up of a regular European snow & ice cover service
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Providing land cover and land cover change information at Pan-European scale
B.
Copernicus land monitoring service: Local Component
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Riparian Zones mapping
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Natura 2000 sites: evolution of LC/LU + Threats
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Coastal zone monitoring
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Urban Atlas
Crosscutting-service in situ coordination
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Improve access to national/regional in situ data (CORDA) and maintain panEuropean Reference data (EU-DEM, EU-hydro, contribute to LUCAS)
Global Land Service
DG JRC
Continuity and more biophysical variables for more application fields
13 products (vegetation-energy-water-snow) providing a picture of the world every ten
days, with move from 1km resolution to 300m, soon to be expanded to 29 products,
Product
Product (Variable)
Family
Full name
Vegetation Leaf Area Index
Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation
Fraction of vegetation cover
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
Vegetation Condition Index
Vegetation Productivity Index
Greeness Evolution Index
Dry Matter Productivity
Phenology metrics
Evapotranspiration
Radiation fluxes
Global Land Cover
Active Fires
Burnt Areas
Energy
Top Of Canopy Reflectance
Budget
Surface Albedo
Land Surface Temperature
Acronym
LAI 
FAPAR 
Fcover 
NDVI 
VCI 
VPI 
GEI
DMP 
PHENO
ET
GLC
AF
BA
Toc-R
SA
LST
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Product
Product (Variable)
Family Full name
Water Surface Soil Moisture
Soil Water Index
Water Bodies
Snow Snow water extend
Snow water equivalent
Lake
Lake ice coverage
Lake surface water temperature
Lake and river water level
Lake surface reflectance
Lake turbidity
Lake trophic state
Coastal Erosion
Acronym
SSM
SWI 
WB 
SE
SWE
Global Dissemination
Website and ftp access :
http://land.copernicus.eu/global
EUMETCast – GEONETcast Stations (365
registrations in South and Central
America)
• Free and open product access
Copernicus
Marine
Environment
Monitoring
Service
Marine Environment
Monitoring Service
Ice
Sea Level
Currents
Biogeochemistry
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Temperature
Salinity
A 3D and consistent
estimation of the ocean
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Global and Regional
Real time and
Reanalyses
Satellite & In Situ obs.
and Models
Marine Environment
Monitoring Service
Service portfolio: 11 product groups with ~140 data products
covering Ocean state
Product groups
Analysis and
Forecast
Global Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Baltic Sea
Atlantic-European North West Shelf Ocean
Atlantic-Iberian Biscay Irish Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Observation
Sea Level
Ocean Colour
Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Ice, Wind
In-situ (Temperature, Salinity, Bio)
Marine application areas
Examples of Marine application areas
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Ship routing
Support to offshore activities
Coastal management
Oil-drift forecasting
Search and rescue
Fisheries
Algal bloom
Water-quality management
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But also Climate Change…
 Sea-level rise (one of the main indicators for Climate Change)
 Heat storage capacity
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Copernicus
Atmosphere
Monitoring
Service
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Forecasts and
informs on impacts
Climate
forcing
Air quality
Ozone layer
Detects
emissions and
estimate
surface fluxes
Quantifies transport, removal
and transformations of
atmospheric constituents
Radiation
Emissions
CAMS in three figures
280 million observations processed every 12 hours
Data from 70 satellite instruments are received and
used
delivers everyday 14,000 maps online
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Examples:
Fires
CAMS estimates the
emissions from biomass
burning daily and globally. A
striking figure on the
importance of such
information for climate: 2015
emissions of CO2 from fires
in Indonisia were higher than
(estimated) total annual
industrial emissions from
Japan or Germany.
Air Quality
CAMS air quality forecasts
provide quantitative information
on episodes daily and up to 4
days in advance. They support a
wide range of applications
(apps, press, city-scale
downscaling, emissions
reduction scenarios…). Longrange transported plumes
(volcanoes, desert dust, fires...)
are captured by CAMS and can
inform national and local
authorities.
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Solar Industry
CAMS information on airborne
particles, which affect the
amount of solar radiation
reaching the surface, is useful
to assess the productivity of
solar power plants. CAMS has
for instance supported
GeoModel Solar, a company
specialising in site
qualification, planning,
financing and operation of
solar energy systems.
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Copernicus
Climate Change
Service
Copernicus Climate
Change (C3) service
Objectives
to be an authoritative source of
climate information for Europe
How is the
climate
changing?
Observations &
Re-analysis
What are the
societal
impacts?
Climate indicators
&
Sectoral
information
Space
What is the
rate of
change?
Forecasts &
Projections
http://climate.copernicus.eu/
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The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
C3S: Monitors and analyses the Earth System to build a global picture and provide the data, tools
and products needed by policy makers, societal and economic sectors to mitigate and adapt to a
changing climate.
• The climate is changing and
with it an increase in extreme
weather events such as
flooding, heat wave and
drought.
• The data captured,
analysed and tailored by
C3S helps sectors
affected to identify the
risks, to adapt and
identify business
opportunities.
• C3S data provide the evidence.
• Released online, the C3S maps
show the trends clearly and
provide key indicators of climate
change.
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Copernicus Climate
Change (C3) service
Indicative road map
Stage II & III
Consistent Climate Data Store - ~ 33 ECVs & indicators Observed, re-analyzed and model projected products
ATMOSPHERE
Surface Air Temperature
Surface Precipitation
Water Vapor
Surface Radiation Budget
Earth Radiation Budget
Carbon Dioxide & Methane
Ozone & Aerosols
Cloud properties
Wind Speed & Direction
Upper Air Temperature
Other Long-Lived GHGs
LAND
OCEAN
Ocean Color
Sea Ice
Sea Level
Sea Surface Temperature
Global Ocean Heat Content
CO2 partial pressure
Ocean Activity
Sea Surface Salinity
Current Salinity
Snow Cover
Glaciers & Ice Caps
Albedo
FAPAR
Fire Disturbances
Ice Sheets
Lakes
Permafrost
Land Cover
Leaf Area Index
Soil Moisture
Sectoral Information System – ~ 8-10 sectors
Insurance
Energy
Infrastructure
Health
Water management
Tourism
Coastal areas
Agriculture and forestry
Marine and fisheries
Disaster risk reduction
Metrology
for
Climate,
Teddington, UK
Biodiversity
Transportation
Bernard Pinty, DG GROW, K.2 UNIT
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Space
21-22 May 2015.
Copernicus
Emergency
Management Service
Mapping Component
Early Warning
Component
Space
The Emergency
Management Service
EMS service covers the 3 phases of emergencies:
preparedness, emergency and recovery
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Emergency
Management service
Flood and forest
fire risk forecasts
Providing support to
emergency response
services
Situation maps, reference
information
Space
Mapping service
Earthquake Aug 2016, Italy
Tropical Cyclone, Vanuatu
Refugee Camp, Al Mafraq Jordan
Floods, Ostlandet Norway
Space
Ebola epidemic, Guinea
Early Warning: European Forest Fire Information System
(EFFIS)
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The 2016 fire campaign still ongoing in Europe – EFFIS reports slightly above
average number of fires and burned areas in the EU (status until 12/8 in red)
Burnt Areas
Number of Fires
Early Warning: European Flood Awareness System (EFAS)
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71 EFAS notifications have been
sent during Jun – Aug 2016 to
the partners warning about
potential floods
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Copernicus
Security Service
Space
CSS Moving to Operations
Copernicus – essentialOperators
information(plan)
to Agencies
Border
Surveillance
(DA) November
2015
Support to
EU External
Actions
(DA) October
2016
Inter-Agency cooperation
Industrial Base
Space
Maritime
Surveillance
(DA) December
2015
Access to service data – see Copernicus.eu
http://www.copernicus.eu/main/data-access
http://land.copernicus.eu/
http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/
http://marine.copernicus.eu/
http://emergency.copernicus.eu/
http://climate.copernicus.eu/
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Cross-cutting
support activities
USER AND MARKET UPTAKE
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First Copernicus Accelerator launched (6 month coaching
application now closed for 2016
programme for start-ups)
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Ongoing calls for interest for the Copernicus Relays and Copernicus
Academy
User support office to open in October
Info sessions in Member States
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 First contract signed for 9 countries
 First info sessions in Greece (Oct 7) and DE (Oct 11)
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(6 month coaching programme for start-ups)
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Deadline 13
October
http://copernicus.eu/news/lets-shape-future-copernicus
Deadline 23
September
http://copernicus.eu/news/become-a-copernicus-relay
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http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/News/DAT_3171181.html
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http://copernicus.eu/main/tenders-grants
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Data & Information Access
Service (DIAS)
Next steps – in planning
User Domain
Commission
Member States
ESA /
EUMETSAT
Private sector
User
Data
Regional/Local
Administration
Citizen
Processing & Other
Value Added
Services &
Data
How to bring users
to the data?
Information Access & Download
R & D initiatives
Land
Data/Information
Access on Cloud
Foster
commercial
activities?
Data for Download
Data Distribution service
Data and Information Access Service
Scientific users
Processing & Other
Value Added
Services &
Data
Copernicus Core
Services
Marine
Atmospher
e
Emergency
Copernicus Domain
Security
S1
S2
S3
S4
Sentinels
Sentinel Data
ESA
S5
S6
ASentinel
place forService
new
Data
Information
Business
models?
Sentinel Data
EUMETSAT
Contributing
Missions
Space
Climate
Service Information
In-Situ
National,
International &
Commercial Data
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DIAS
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A service approach – placed downstream
of Copernicus
Front-office
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Offers access to Copernicus data and
information
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Mutualisation of costs
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Possibility for additional data
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Combining European supply & demand to
provide critical mass
Non-exclusive
Back-office
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Thank you
for your
attention!
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