Development of New GEO workplan 2009-2011

Earth Observation Capacity Building

at CNES

Aurélie SANDStrategy & Program Directorate

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■ CNES is a R&D space agency. Its vocation is two folds: It is the French national space agency in charge to propose and to

implement the French national space programme It is also at the same time the French national technical center in charge

of space technologies development in order to give access to space to all communities of users which could need it, researchers as well as other groups dealing with application programmes.

■ CNES is a member of the European Space Agency (ESA)

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales,CNES : a “R&D Space agency”

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CNES commitment to GEO/GEOSS

■CNES works with other space agencies, through CEOS in particular, to set up the space component of the GEOSS 10-year implementation plan

■CNES is an active member of CEOS Education group (Gérard Bégni)

■WP 2007-2009, CNES participates to 11 tasks in Architecture, Biodiversity, Data management, Disasters, Health, Water

■WP 2007-2009 : NO participation on CB tasks

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Potential contributions to CB tasks

■CB 0701e: Open Source Software ORFEO Tool Box

■CB 07 02 : Knowledge Sharing for Improved Disaster Management and Emergency ResponseCNES expertise: international charter, Preview, software

development,…,

■Contributions to the CB Portal/GEO Portal Thematic Centre

■GEOSS data sharing principles kalideos, an example of success story? http://kalideos.cnes.fr

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■Generic tools (library) in order to facilitate the use of Remote Sensing data

Data processing functions Orthorectification of images Superposition Image/map or image/geographic DB Superposition of multi-scale images Fusion of optical and radar data 3D Navigation ...

Information extraction tools detection and objects recognition land cover classification change detection

■Free dowload through the Pleiades web site:http://smsc.cnes.fr/PLEIADES

■Complementarity OTB/TERRALib

FOSS : The ORFEO TOOL BOX

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■GEO 2007-2009 workplan (steven.hosford@cnes.fr) Di-06-07 : Multi hazard Zonation and Maps

Based on International Charter for Natural Disasters experience DI-06-09 : Use of satellites for Risk Management

To contribute to the definition of a virtual constellation for Risk Management by developping a software to analyze the characteristics of a given constellation

■ International Charter for Natural Disasters

■European integrated project PREVIEW (FP6) to provide new or enhanced information services for risk management in three thematic domains: atmospheric, geophysics and man-made

General services coordination: assets mapping, damage assessments, rapid mapping Rapid mapping : the CNES RISK CHAIN Data server for new image processings development http://preview-risk.web.cern.ch Space data web site with EO sensors characteristics for Risk Management stored in a

data base (easy comparison and request) http:// www.space-risks.com

Disaster Mgt & Emergency Response Expertise

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Thematic Centres: Concept & Objectives

■CNES, together with other French research organizations, have developped the concept of «thematic centers» based on the need to give an easy access to the different components of an Observing system: space component, in-situ networks & set of numerical models to be used to derive the pertinent information or parameters from the measurements.

■To Implement a link between primary archive centres and user communities

to design and improve algorithms for deriving geophysical parameters using mono- or multi-source data space (mono- or multi-sensors, in situ, airborne, ...)

to process & archive elaborated geophysical products or indicators to distribute data, products and softwares to allow unique access to long time series to offer user support services

■Open to international user communities

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French thematic centres

■ physical oceanography : SSALTO, CORIOLIS, MERCATOR http://www-aviso.cls.fr

TOPEX-POSEIDON, JASONGEOSAT, GFO, ENVISAT

■ atmospheric chemistry products & services: ETHERhttp://ether.ipsl.jussieu.fr

ENVISAT, TERRA, ADEOS, AURA, METOP

■ land surfaces : POSTEL http:// postel.mediasfrance.org/

AVHRR, MERIS, POLDER, ATSR, ASAR, MODIS, SeaWifs, MSG, VEGETATION

■ aerosols, clouds, radiation and water : ICARE http://www-icare.univ-lille1.fr/

TERRA, AQUA, ADEOS, CALIPSO, CLOUDSAT, PARASOLGOES, HIMAWARI, INDSAT, METEOSAT, MSGGPM

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■ Aviso portal dedicated to altimetry, orbitography and precise location missions

complete overviews of the processing techniques the way they worktheir uses

access to data & products from various missions (multi-sensor merged products)

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Duration of cloudy periods (mean values derived from 1983-1999

Meteosat data

From POLDER dataDrop size in mm (up)

Aerosol contain (bottom)

Elabored geophysical products on aerosols, clouds, radiation & atmospheric water

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■ to support and stimulate R&D in Remote Sensing by collecting over a small amount of geographic areas As many images as possible (past, present and future…), From different sensors (optial, radar, hyperspectral...), with the best quality as possible, Superimposable and Intercomparable (geometry & radiometry), Documented, (different versions and processing information) Including other data (maps, in-situ measurements,GPS,…, statistics,...) Free access for scientist (Research and Education), excluding commercial developments

ADAM (Roumania), Assimilation of spatial Data into Agronomic Models Reunion Island (IO), multi-thematic DBArcachon Basin, (AO), Integrated Coastal Zone Management

To Provide with temporal series of multi-sensors data superimposable and intercalibrated

KALIDEOS, the conceptKalideos.cnes.fr

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- Volcano monitoring and eruptive phenomena comprehension (IPGP : Earth physics research institute)- Sugar cane growth modelling and agricultural decision-making (CIRAD : agronomy research)- Coastal line & Landslides monitoring; Erosion impact assessment (BRGM : geological research office)- Coastal environment monitoring (IRD: environment/agriculture development)- Urban development spatial dynamics analysis (CIRAD/IRD)- Coral reefs cartography and monitoring(CREGUR/University La Réunion)

Multi-Thematic research programsin Reunion Island

Ortho-image used as Reference Image

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Kalideos : A « success story »

■Since 2000, more and more worldwide access demands, sites still active and enriched with new sensors data: Formosat, TerraSarX, CSK,…,according to scientists requests

■From thematic to methodology : intercalibration, atmospheric corrections, data mining & change detection including temporal evolution criterion , multi- resolution decomposition, …,

■Operational services developed : sucrette dedicated to the sugar cane industry

■Decision from Reunion Island local gouvernment to fund a satellite reception station in 2006 (operational in 2009)