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• N. Hanowski, EOP-G, Ground Segment and Operations Department,

nicolaus.hanowski@esa.int

24 September 2015

GSCB-Workshop on Ground Segment Evolution Strategy

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Common Subjects:

• Technical architecture,

standards, I/F

• Data & information policy
• Industrial management &

partnership schemes

• Funding schemes

Big Data Initiatives

• driven by challenge of US

IT commercial providers

• EC led

The Pillars

• f European

EO Ground Segment Evolution

Copernicus Space Component GS Evolution

• driven by needs of Copernicus

services

• follows EC/ESA management process
• EC/ESA Copernicus Agreement

National Sentinels Collaborative GS Right-scoping

• driven by ambition to

stimulate new services in MS beyond core services

• Cooperation Agreements

ESA-MS/ESA

ESA/MS GS-Evolution

• driven by desire to enable

current and new users; part

• f ESA EO Strategies
• Preserving & fostering

Europe’s EO Data and Knowledge

• ESA Programme
• MS Programmes

EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy

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• Bottom-up approach
• Evolution of 4 architectural building blocks
• enabling users using new ICT capabilities (exploitation platforms)
• introducing missions concept to explore heritage data wealth
• improving the core GS functionality incl. Data Preservation
• harmonisation, standardisation and coordination
• Contracts evolution towards “Services”
• Focus on data, knowledge, competences &

exploitation assets The vision is an overall architecture that ensures coherence between the pillars of the European EO Ground Segment

ESA/MS GS-Evolution

• driven by desire to enable

current and new users; part

• f ESA EO Strategies
• Preserving & fostering

Europe’s EO Data and Knowledge

• ESA Programme

EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy

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1. Assure availability of data & associated information for future working practices

• f the growing geo-information user communities.

2. Provide modular architecture for high-volume & high-diversity data preservation, access, management, processing, fusion & exploitation. 3. Harness new opportunities and tools to derive information (based on accessible and reliable data). 4. Integrate EO data utilisation development into innovation/information technology community (as in the US). 5. Increase flexibility of Core GS functions to cope with evolving data demands in this environment. 6. Foster and coordinate existing mission & data management competences and reduce operations cost.

EO Ground Segment Evolution Objectives

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EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy HIGHLIGHTS

• In the future, the EO-Innovation Europe will make possible

the federation of the stake holders assets of European EO ecosystem.

• This should avoid duplication of means, insure autonomy and

will bring the users to the data to foster the development of downstream services.

• Data policy, industrial propriety rights, and governance to be

taken into account.

• Canada, as an ESA Member State, is hosting a Copernicus

Core Ground Segment Ground Station.

• Canadian industry will work with ESA and European

companies to evolve the ESA Ground Segment.

• Canadian EO data infrastructure has been upgraded and will

be interoperable with ESA.

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EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy HIGHLIGHTS

• EUMETSAT’s infrastructures are directly tailored to the data access

needs of our Member States (true real time data distribution).

• EUMETSAT will continue as part of its roadmap continuously

improving its core GS functionality including the access and data preservation to its valuable meteorological EO datasets.

• EUMETSAT recognises the notion of "Users to the data" as just one

pillar in the broad range of data access scenarios.

• EUMETSAT will further participate and support with the

harmonisation, standardisation and coordination of EO data.

• Be flexible, avoid single source solutions & services; keep control over

your assets

• Consider long term consequences, long term data, beyond mission

duration; beyond commercial interest

• Beware of and keep the „EO Know How“, also in the ground segment
• Finally, EO is sensor technology & Earth science, not just bits & bytes

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EO Ground Segment Evolution Strategy HIGHLIGHTS

• UK Sentinel Data Access Service web portal allows access to

Copernicus data (could be expanded) and hosted processing for commercial and public use.

• Governance is in place to which takes into account academic

and commercial interests supported by public and private sector actors.

• ESA EO Evolution Strategy should align with EC Copernicus

programme and reuse assets and exploit capabilities already in place.