With the adoption in April and the launch of S1A, the European Programme for Earth Observation, Copernicus, will deliver European information services based on satellite Earth Observation and in-situ data analyses. It is the first time that vast amounts of global data from satellites and from ground-based, airborne and seaborne measurement systems are being used to provide information to help service providers, public authorities and other international organisations improve the quality of life for the citizens of Europe. The information services provided will be freely and openly accessible to users. The services address six thematic areas: land, marine, atmosphere, climate change, emergency management and security. Copernicus Services support a broad range of environmental and security applications, including sustainable development, transport and mobility, climate change monitoring, civil protection, urban area management, regional and local planning, agriculture and health. The wealth of space based data is an important opportunity to develop innovative space applications. Copernicus Services will have to evolve to remain in tune with the state-of-art, adjusting to user's requirement and new developments need. Thanks to H2020, the Europe's research Programme, this will be guaranteed.

1. Copernicus
Programme &
H2020 - Earth
Observation Calls
Mauro Facchini
Head of Unit Copernicus Services
DG Enterprise and Industry
19th June 2014, Brussels

2. Outline
• Introduction to Copernicus
Programme
• What is Copernicus?
• Governance, financing, legislative
basis
• User uptake: from core to downstream
• The role of research – H2020
• EO calls and services evolution

3. Monitor the
environment
Facilitate
adaptation to
climate change
Improve environmental
policy effectiveness
Increase general knowledge
on the state of the Planet
Protect people and
assets
Foster downstream
applications in a number
of fields
Help managing emergency
and security related
situations
Objectives
"The Union Earth
observation and
monitoring
programme"

4. 4
…added-value products
6 services use
Earth
Observation
data to make …
Sentinels
Contributing missions
In situ
observations
contributing
missions
in-situ

5. 5
…added-value products
6 services need
Earth
observation
data to make…
Sentinels
Contributing missions
In situ
observations
contributing
missions
in-situ

6. One of the first images from Sentinel
1A showing glaciers in Antarctica

7. One of the first images from Sentinel
1A showing glaciers in Antarctica

8. • Objective: to provide information in relation to different type of
disasters in Europe and beyond
• EMS mapping service: to measure the impact and respond to natural
and man-made disasters, on a 24/7/365 basis
Rush mode: immediate response needed,
activation on demand standardized product
Non-rush: prevention, disaster risk analysis, recovery;
activation on demand, tailored products on user needs
• EFAS European Flood Awareness System: First operational alert
system for floods and hydrological network
Added value: better preparedness and improved disaster and crisis
management in Europe with trans-national flood early warning information to
EC civil protection and Member State authorities
Emergency
Monitoring Service

9. Providing support to
emergency response
services
Situation maps, reference
information
Flood and forest
fire risk forecasts
http://emergency.copernicus.eu

10. Sealed soil
Forest type
Tree cover density
Grassland
Wetlands
Water bodies
Corine Land
Cover 2012
Image mosaics
LC Biodiversity
Urban
Atlas
Land Monitoring Service
EU component

11. 0 200 water
kgDM/ha/day
Vegetation Index
Dry Matter Productivity
Land Surface Temperature
Burnt Areas
FaPAR
Albedo
Leaf Area Index
Land Monitoring Service
Global component
http://land.copernicus.eu/

12. Atmosphere
Monitoring Service
Objective:
To provide information on air quality on EU scale and of chemical
composition of the atmosphere on a global scale.
For air quality monitoring system at local to national scales, and to
contribute to the monitoring of atmospheric chemistry climate
variable.
Service Domains:
 Air quality & atmospheric composition
 Climate forcing
 Ozone layer and UV
 Solar radiation
 Emissions and surface fluxes

13. D-Copernicus - 08.04.2014 - M.Rohn
UV Information
Stratospheric
Ozone
Emissions
Global
Forecasts
NO2
http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu
13
Air Quality
forecast
and
(Re-)Analysis

14. Marine Environment
Monitoring Service
Objective:
To provide information on the state and dynamics of the physical
ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the EU
regional areas.
To ensure EU capacity for marine monitoring, forecasting and re-
analysis.
Service Domains:
 Marine safety
 Marine & coastal environment
 Marine Resources
 Weather, seasonal forecasting & climate

15.  Global and
Regional
 Real time and
Reanalyses
 Satellite & In Situ
obs. and Models
Ice
Temperature
Salinity
Sea Level
A 3D and consistent
estimation of the ocean
Currents
http://marine.copernicus.eu
Biogeochemistry

16. 16/
• Objective:
• To provide information in response to the following key
areas
• Border surveillance
• Maritime surveillance
• Support to EU External Action
Security Service

17. • Objectives:
• Monitor the climate system
• Detect climate change behaviours to allow projections
• Assess impacts of, and support adaptation to climate
variability & change
• Consistent Climate Data Store
• Sectoral Information System
Climate Change
Service
Space & in-situ
Observations
Climate data & re-
analyses
Climate model
projections

18. Climate Change
Service /2

19. Transfer to
operations
EU operational
programme
GIO
R & D
2004 20102006 2012
R & D & Innovation
Preparatory
actions
2008 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022
From 2000 to 2013:
ESA – Space Segment
(ESA + EU budget)
EU – Development of Applications
EU contribution mainly through R&D Budget
(FP6,7 …) – annual CALLS, several EU partners
As from 2014 :
ESA – Space Segment
(ESA + EU budget)
EU Operational budget
(4,3B€ 2014-2020)
Delegation Agreements, Tenders, Service
specifications
Horizon 2020 RD&I support for Copernicus:
- Continuity in transfer (particularly in 2014)
- Downstream applications & uptake
- Service evolution R&D based on op.
service feedback (especially post 2015)

20. • Data policy promotes the
access, use and sharing of
Copernicus information and
data on a full, free and
open basis
• One of the main objectives
is to support downstream
segment and research,
technology and innovation
communities
• Business, citizens and
environment are to
benefit from free access
to EU satellite data and
service information
Data Policy
Science Community is called upon to make good
use of the available data, acting as value
multipliers

21. Adopted budget appropriations 2014-2020
Space component 3.394 M€
Service & In-situ component 897 M€
• Until end-2013
funding for
Copernicus comes
from GMES Initial
Operations (GIO) and
FP7 funded pre-
operational projects
• From 2014 Copenicus
entered its
operational phase
• 24.04.2014 adoption
of the Copernicus
Regulation – legal
base for the
implementation of
the programme
GMES / Copernicus
Evolution

22. • Cost per EU inhabitant will be ~€1.07 per year
• Expected cumulative financial benefit by 2030 is ~€30 Bn
- comparable to 0.2% of the EU GDP
• For every €1 spent we get a return of ~€3.2
• An estimated minimum of ~48,000 jobs will be created –
over the period 2015 -2030
• Estimated downstream market potential turnover will be
~€1.8 Bn by 2030
Job & Growth:
Cost-benefit analysis

23. Examples of mechanisms could be:
• Information / Match-making events – intermediate
and end users
• Use cases / good practises
• User uptake workshops to identify the needs
• Capacity building
• E.g. Educational and training workshops –
train the trainers, eLearning
• Service voucher schemes
• Competitions (e.g. App Camp, …)
User Uptake

24. A number of non-Space sectors benefits from the
programme.
Copernicus can be seen as a driving force creating
highly skilled job opportunities and can have
indirect effects on the wider economy by 2030.
Copernicus demonstrated that ecological and
economical goals can be mutually beneficial;
environmental sustainability can promote economic
development.
Sector analysis
Downstream

25. Agriculture Value Chain and EO Contribution
Case study: commercial precision farming "FARMSTAR"
Downstream Example

26. Launched for 2012
Olympics, London
obsAIRve
Downstream opportunities
“Air quality information
where people live”
airTEXT

27. Outline
• Introduction to Copernicus
Programme
• What is Copernicus?
• Governance, financing, legislative
basis
• User uptake: from core to downstream
• The role of research – H2020
• EO calls and services evolution

28. *
~72
From
FP6  FP7  H2020
SPACE
1.42 B€
1.42 B€
2014-15
Science ~5%
Prod./Serv. ~40%
Technology ~51%
Others ~4%
Noinflation
adjustment

29. User
needs &
feedback
User needs,
gap analysis,
prioritisation,
cost assessment
Latest
research
results/
technical
advances
"short term" user requirements:
immediate system evolutions
possible
"long term" user
requirements: new
developments need to be
initiated
"very long term" user
requirements: research
needs to be launched
User needs impossible to take
into account
(rationale for continued
downstream implementation)
29
Copernicus services will
have to evolve to remain in
tune with state-of-the art
Scope for Horizon 2020
Yes – we can
No – for others to do

30. Navigation solutions powered by Europe
~ 6.300 M€
~ 3.800 M€
New Multiannual Financial Framework
2014-2020
SPACE Programmes
and Research
~ 1.400 M€

31. There is a place
for SPACE
everywhere

32. Your creativity is asked for…
• EO in Horizon 2020 « SPACE »
• Foster uptake of space based EO data in
commercial applications, and supporting market
introduction of downstream services activities
• To address capability gaps identified by service
operators for service evolution
• To maintain the lead in European EO capabilities,
research into remote sensing technologies and
instruments, and space systems
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal

33. 2014-2015
First Call “Earth Observation” - Copernicus
58,5 M€
 New ideas for Earth-relevant space applications
 Bringing EO applications to the market
 Transition towards Copernicus (Marine & Atmosphere)
 Climate-change relevant space-based data reprocessing…
 Observation capacity mapping for climate-change
 Stimulating wider user of Copernicus Sentinel data
 Technology developments for commercial imaging
H2020 & future
development
2015
2015

34. EO 1 2015
EO 1: Bringing EO applications to the market
"Innovation
actions (70%)"
10 M€
It is essential that EO products and
information generation are taken out
of the research environment and
products are put into the market. The
outcome of these innovation projects
should be a commercial service
platform, sustained by a production
process capable to deliver to the user
a product which is validated and
accepted as a marketable product.

35. EO 2 2015
Stimulating wider research use of Copernicus
Sentinel data
"Research and
innovation actions
(100%)"
11 M€
Europe’s investment in the Copernicus Sentinel satellites will provide Europe
with an unprecedented source of operational satellite data. Data streams are
expected to amount to several terabyte per satellite orbit, thereby delivering
unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution and data continuity. To utilise
the high scientific potential of the Sentinel data, stable and predictable access
methods need to be developed, such as:
 Efficient data retrieval from repositories
 Software for reading/transforming data for
access by scientific users
 Data fusion (various Sentinels/contributing
missions)
 Advanced visualisation
techniques

36. EO 3 2015
Research should be undertaken to
review the emerging fractionated
observation system concepts. The
required technology challenges as
regards interfacing, formation flying,
communication within the
constellation or with ground stations
are to be identified. Potential
benefits for EO are to be examined.
EO 3: Technology developments for
commercial imaging
"Research and
innovation
actions (100%)"
5 M€

37. Thank you
for your
attention!
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