Ground Segment Evolution Vision and Strategy 02 September 2015 ESA - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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GSCB Workshop 24th September EARSC Views agreed with ESA Results of EARSC-ESA Workshop on Ground Segment Evolution Vision and Strategy 02 September 2015

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European Association of Remote Sensing Companies : EARSC

• 1. EARSC is the European trade association looking after the EO services

industry

• 75 members in 23 countries
• Satellite operators, data providers, value adding companies
• Focus to help companies develop by opening new business opportunities
• 2. EARSC Mission: to foster the development of the European EO geo-

information services industry

• 3. EARSC Ambition:
• to support the creation of a “Marketplace” whereby the industry can do

business

• single marketplace supporting multiple merchants
• respecting IPR, security, privacy, and innovative business models
• providing a European solution alternative to the US IT giants.
• primary offer turns to “services” and away from “projects”

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In the Context of ESA GSCB

• 1. EARSC has reviewed current ESA GS Evolution Strategy
• impression very positive
• Opportunities for industry recognised and industry ready to invest

alongside institutional players

• keen to work with ESA to promote and realise vision; plan CMin2016
• 2. Agreed principles:
• moving user to data; connecting stakeholder communities;

interoperability of systems and communities; common tools and infrastructure; defined set of values; procurement focus on services

• 3. Key EARSC concerns:
• Stronger alignment with overall ESA EO-strategy
• Clarification of role of value-adding sector vs. institutional players
• Alignment with initiatives and programmes of European Commission
• Industry voice and governance
• International competition is acting now

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European EO Services Industry

• results from 2015 survey

63% = Proportion of companies with less than 10 EO employees: 96% with less than 50 employees 451 companies in Europe 6811 direct employees €910m revenue

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Driving a European Industrial Policy

Identify and agree key elements of a future EO industrial strategy including:

• 1. Drive an industrial strategy to create a European Marketplace for EO services
• Overcome fragmentation while maintaining diversity (supply & demand)
• Provide common/easy access to data/information for the potential users
• Provide a network of collaboration sites with e-commerce
• Develop appropriate links to ICT initiatives (Big Data, cloud etc) such as

Helix-Nebula, ELIXIR, EPOS, Etc

• Promote agreed governance structure for further defining roles of private,

academic and public actors.

• Develop operating rules to protect; IPR, security, privacy, and the legal

aspects of access to free and open data.

• Move the public sector from defining solutions in favor of defining

information needs (user federation & anchor tenancy)

• 2. Increased institutional focus on R&D and private sector enablement; create
• pportunities and safe investment environment for commercial players

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Roles for the EO Industry Sector – For Example:-

• An intelligent supplier to the Core GS
• Provider of complementary, commercial elements in all other domains
• Analyse and mobilise the markets and user base
• Contribute commercial components in non-commercial platforms
• Establish commercial Platforms in Outreach and Stimulating Element
• Contributing EO Data Expertise in platforms of Stimulating Element
• Contribute with technical solutions and in consultations to Enabling Element
• Define objectives in industrial/economic domain, measure, assess and report
• Support of initiatives and programmes for export markets
• Develop requirements on ESA Core GS function services to best support EO

Innovation Europe in particular industry needs

• Detail Open Source ambitions and approaches to reflect correct balance

Open Source/Proprietary within EO Innovation Europe

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Concrete next steps

Organise industrial perspective to:

• Develop common and shared perspective of the infrastructure (EO Innovation

Europe) and how it should be governed

• Include all stakeholders; industry, EC (Grow, RTD, Connect), ESA
• Establish a transparent process of regular dialogue, alignment,

complementing related EC and (EC and ESA-) Member State initiatives

• Coordination as part of generation of implementation plan
• Coordination as part of rules, policy, legal definition process
• Complement existing institutional fora through industrial consultation

mechanism: Regular meetings (every 4 months and including EC) to jointly monitor progress and discuss options