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Earth Observation for

Development

Stephen Coulson

Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes (ESA)

World GeoSpatial Forum

23 April 2012

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ESA – World Bank Collaboration 15 Projects now completing (www.worldbank.org/earthobservation)

• Land (Urban Infrastructure, Land Cover, Forest, Crops, Soil erosion, In-land Water)

• Marine (Oil-spill, Coral Reef, Coastal Change, Sea-level Height, Ocean Currents)

• Risk (Land Motion Histories)

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Initial 15 Projects : Lessons Learned (special EO session in World Bank SDN Forum Feb 2012)

1. Need Clear Information Requirements,

2. Involvement of Local Users / Stakeholders,

3. Time to Fully Assess Impact of EO within the Project,

4. Important to Have Adequate IT Infrastructure/Tools.

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What Next ? : The Bigger Possibilities….

• Urban (Sustainable Cities)

• Disaster Risk Reduction / Management

• Forestry

• Oceans / Coastal

• Fragile States

Larger-Scale, Longer-Term activities

in WB priority areas, eg

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Urban Mapping : EC DG-Regio Urban Atlas

• 305 Cities,

• 22 Thematic Classes (CLC)

• MMU 0.25 ha Urban, 1 ha

Other

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Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

• ESA leading

new DRM User

Initiative within

CEOS

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Forestry : Forest Carbon Tracking Initiative

FCT Pilot

Countries

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Oceans/Coastal (for Global Oceans Partnership)

First global map of soil moisture

and ocean salinity, August 2010

from SMOS.

© CESBIO, IFREMER, CATDS

Water Quality :

Weekly

monitoring of

Europe’s

Coastal Waters

Global Sea

Surface

Temperature

HAB

monitoring

off-shore

fish farm,

Chile

GMES dedicated missions : Sentinels

2013, 2014+

Sentinel 1 – SAR imaging All weather, day/night applications, interferometry

2013, 2014+

Sentinel 2 – Multispectral imaging Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT

2013, 2014+

Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoring Wide-swath ocean colour, vegetation, sea/land surface temperature, altimetry

2018+

Sentinel 4 – Geostationary atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring, trans- boundary pollution

2015, 2020

Sentinel 5 and Precursor – Low-orbit atmospheric Atmospheric composition monitoring

• Carpet coverage,

Data monsters !

• Development &

Deployment A & B

units (2.3 B€),

• Free, open & easy

access to data,

• Long-term

continuity of

observations (25+

years),

• Used together with

VHR national

European missions

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Marine & Coastal Polar & Sea Ice Soil, Water & Urban Forest Monitoring

Atmosphere Flood & Fire Risk Food Security

Land Motion Humanitarian Aid Maritime Security

• Services with formal

specifications, standards,

validation,

• Developed in

collaboration & agreement

of 400+ national User

organisations,

• Qualified service

suppliers,

• 2003-2012 (130 M€)

EO Service Portfolios (in preparation of GMES)

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ESA Earth System Modelling Summer Schools 240 Applicants, 70 Students http://earth.eo.esa.int/eosummerschool

2010

2008

2006

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ESA – China : DRAGON 4 Symposia since KO in 2008 (http://dragon2.esa.int/) Annual reporting by PIs and young scientists

2009 Barcelona

Symposium

142 participants 2010 Guilin

Symposium,

252 participants

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ESA – Africa : TIGER 70 research projects, Focus on Water

Launch following the

WSSD

UNESCO Research

Publication

Endorsement by

AMCOW

“Initiatives such as TIGER, which

will deliver enhanced and timely

information for water resource

management, are therefore of

critical importance to developing

nations.”

Recommendation at

1st African Water

Week

“International initiatives like TIGER

which provide useful tools to the

countries to strengthen their

capacities for ensuring water

security should be encouraged and

supported”

Launch of TIGER-NET

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Next Few Years …… Green Development

• Multi-Lateral Development Banks, NGO’s

• Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation,

• Strategic Climate Fund, Green Climate

Fund, Rio+20, ….

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Where are the business opportunities ? -> the Developing Countries

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Thank You !

The ESA Earth

Observation

programmes

… understanding our planet

… securing our environment

… benefiting our economy

For further Info : www.esa.int