cams ga regional ongoing activities by gerasopoulos

CAMS 1st General Assembly, Athens, 14-16 June 2016

http://www.greekgeo.noa.gr/

The Greek GEO Office and regional ongoing activities/projects The Greek GEO Office and regional ongoing activities/projects

E. Gerasopoulos, [email protected]

The

Greek GEO Office

and

regional ongoing activities /projects

The

Greek GEO Office

and

regional ongoing activities /projects

Dr. Evangelos Gerasopoulos, Research Director

Director of the Greek GEO Office

National Observatory of Athens

GREECE





The GreeK GEO Office ... since 2007





StructureStructure





• Organization of the 8th GEO

EUROPEAN PROJECTS WORKSHOP

(Jun. 2014)

• Co-organization of the 2nd South-

Eastern Europe GEO Workshop on

Integrating Earth Observation Data

and Services for monitoring the

Environment, protecting the

citizens and stimulating the

regional economic growth (Oct.

2014)

Organization of eventsOrganization of events





• GEOSS 2016-2025 Implementation Plan (IPWG)

• 5th GEOSS Evaluation (SBAs of Water, Weather and Climate)

• 6th and final GEOSS Evaluation

• GEO Programme Board

• GEOSS Task Team for FT CD-02 Reinforcing Engagement at National

and Regional Level

Participation in international

boards/groups

Participation in international

boards/groups





Contribution to Research Programs mainly in tasks related to

GEOSS and COPERNICUS Implementation:

1. GEOmon: Global Earth Observation and Monitoring

2. Amfic: Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in China

3. DARECLIMED: Data Repositories and Computational Infrastructure for

Environmental and Climate Studies in the Eastern Mediterranean.

4. BEYOND: Building Capacity for a Centre of Excellence for EO-based

monitoring of Natural Disasters

5. GEO-CRADLE: Coordinating and integRating state-of-the-art Earth

Observation Activities in the regions of North Africa, Middle East, and

Balkans and Developing Links with GEO related initiatives towards GEOSS

6. ERA-PLANET: The European network for observing our changing planet





Regional ongoing

activities /projects

Regional ongoing

activities /projects





At the regional level …

ONE step BEYOND workshop, 15 October 2015 ESA - Frascati, Italy FP7-Regpot-2012-23-1





Collection, homogenisation, archiving and integration of

ground-, air- and space-based EO data, accessible through

the GEO-CRADLE Regional Data Hub

Provision of timely and accurate services related to

atmospheric hazard forecasting and climate projections

(e.g. desert dust, fire smoke, volcanic ash, air quality

extremes, weather extremes, heat waves).

Assessment of the regional climate change impacts

based on region-optimised projections and establishment

of a climate data hub, to support decision makers on

mitigation and adaptation policies.





Space-borne: NOA's Sentinel Data Hub, NOA and

TUBITAK X/L band antennas for real-time EO satellite

missions acquisitions, NOA EUMETSAT DVB2 acquisition

antenna

Airborne: Data from airborne campaigns performed in

the region (e.g. FENIX-SPECIM, CHARADMexp, ACEMED,

Aegean Game)

In-situ: Sensors operating in the framework of AERONET,

ACTRIS, EARLINET, ICOS, GAW/WMO, ENSEMBLES,

CORDEX, E-OBS, PANACEA.

Atmospheric and Climate Models: MACC, WRF,

NMME/DREAM, FLEXPART, HYSPLIT, RegCM4, RAMS.





Solar Energy Nowcasting SystEm (SENSE) pilot: provision

of an operational, satellite-driven, real time system for

solar energy now-cast.

Satellite missions: MODIS Aqua & Terra, CALIPSO, MSG3-

SEVIRI, EarthCARE, Sentinel-3/4/5p

In-situ networks and European Infrastructures:

AERONET, CloudNet, GAW, EARLINET

Atmospheric models: libRadtran radiative transfer model

(RTM), domestic (NOA) neural network (NN) model of the

spectral irradiance from cloud and aerosol inputs, DREAM,

GOCART





Approach

Community Portal

Regional Node

Enhanced RDH

Collaboration

GCI APIs

Implementation

Extension

• User Needs

• System Specs

• Data

Collection

• GCI, DAB APIs

• Architecture

• Source Code

• Regional

Implementation

• API extensions

• RDH

Improvements





paving the

ground for a potential regional

large initiative

Laying out

actions for the

long-term response

to major regional

challenges

Weighing in the

readiness and

maturity of each

country

Implementation of

GEOSS and the

wider uptake of Copernicus

in the RoI

Roadmap