ESA DUE GlobCurrent Olivier Arino and Craig Donlon European Space Agency

Outline

– ESA Data User Element

(DUE)

– GlobCurrent UCM Aims

and Objectives

– User Consultation

– Expected Outcomes

2 December 2011 MERIS bloom S Atlantic

Data User Element in EOEP

DUE is a User driven process DUE engaged more than 400 Users in 2003-2010 DUE organized 30 User Consultations in 2003-2009 DUE developed 30 large application projects in 2003-2011

DUE existed in EOEP-2 2003-2007 (17 Meuro of projects) DUE existed in EOEP-3 2008-2012 (17 Meuro of projects) DUE is proposed in EOEP-4 2013-2017 (11 Meuro of projects)

DUE GlobSeries

DUE Marine Component

DUE eSurge DUE GlobWave DUE GlobColour

www.ghrsst.org (GPO)

www.medspiration.org (SST project)

www.globwave.info (Ocean Waves)

www.globcolour.info (Case-I Ocean Colour)

www.coastcolour.info (Case-II Ocean Colour)

www.storm-surge.info (Storm Surges)

www.oceanflux-ghg.org/ (Ocean Carbon Flux)

…

DUE - the User Commitment

User Requirement Document

The Service required include the provision of

the following geo-information products:

• XXX

• XXX

The area of interest is the following: ….

The timeframe of interest in the following ….

The format of the products should be the

following: ….

The National User Network is made of…

Letter of Commitment

I will commit X men/month of work to:

Coordinate the work of local agencies;

Consolidate the User Requirements;

Provide access to data and information

useful for the project;

Organize dedicated ground data

collection campaigns for the project;

Support the validation of the results;

Assess the final service from a user

perspective;

To initiate a project, ESA requests to participating user organizations:

a Letter of Commitment;

a User Requirements Document (URD);

The User The User

DUE Consults Users in EOEP-4

GlobCurrent, 7-9 March, Ifremer (FR)

Sent2Agri, 23-27 April, Frascati (IT)

GlobTemperature, 27-28 June, Edinburg (UK)

GlobBiomass, 8-12 October, Jena (DE)

Two User Consultation in 2013 on a subject TBD:

GlobWetland III, Aquaculture, Dust Storm, Peatland. Epidemio II,

DesertWatch II, BioDiversity III, GlobDrought, GlobFlux, GlobCoral,

GlobRoughness …

DUE Consults Users in EOEP-4

New potential and synergetic interpretation of upper layer dynamics from Earth Observation Products

General ocean circulation highlighting wind-

driven and density (mixing) driven upwelling

regions

Climatology of near-surface currents for the world, at 1/2 degree resolution, derived from satellite-tracked surface drifting buoy observations

(Lumpkin and Johnson

(2012), submitted to J.

Geophys. Res)

08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Sentinel-1A, -1B

Sentinel-2A, -2B

Sentinel-3A, -3B

Sentinel-5P

Sentinels & other ESA missions

EarthCARE

SMOS Extension Requested

Swarm

ADM-Aeolus

CryoSat Extension Requested

1991

ERS-1, ERS-2

Several extensions Requested GOCE

2002

Envisat

EO can only measure surface

expressions…

SST Ocean colour

Sun glitter

Roughness

Challenge: To Exploit Synergy and Mesoscale Processes (Kudryatsev et al, JGR 2012 in press)

SAR radial currents

Overview of the Loop current in the Gulf of

Mexico and its Gulf Stream extension on

the US East coast.

Radial current velocities (east-west

component of velocity only) are estimated

from the ENVISAT Advanced Synthetic

aperture Radar (ASAR) in this one-year

composite image.

The main path and trajectory of the Loop

current and Gulf Stream is highlighted by

the red trajectory (CLS)

Max Cross-Correlation using IR imagery

Thermal IR brightness temperature image and corresponding MCC

currents derived from an image sequence in the Gulf Stream

(http://ccar.colorado.edu/colors/mcc.html)

What about the sub-mesoscale?

11 micron night-time image

acquired on 9th May 1992;

the area covered is 512 x

512 square km by the ERS-

1 ATSR

MERIS17 August 2011

image stretches across

the Barents Sea

Chains of small-scale

cyclonic eddies (size

3-5 km) in the Japan

Sea on the ERS-1

SAR image of October

22nd, 1992

User Communities…

– Shipping

– Offshore energy

– MetOcean Services

– Oil and Gas Industries

– Numerical Weather Prediction and Numerical

Ocean Prediction (NWP/NOP)

– Coastguard, Search and Rescue (GMDSS)

– Maritime Pollution services

– Ports and Harbours

– Hydrographic survey

– Aquaculture and fisheries

– Insurance Industry

– Offshore sailing

– Ice Services

– Local authorities

– Space Agencies

– Defence agencies

GlobCurrent potential users

NOAA Atlantic

Oceanographic and

Meteorological Laboratory

(AOML)

GlobCurrent signed users

– UKMO (UK)

– DMI (DK)

– Italian Coastguard (IT)

– Wallingford (UK)

– University Newcastle (UK)

– CSIR (SA)

– University Cantabria (ES)

– NOAA AOML (USA)

– NOAA NCEP (USA)

– Oceananalysis (UK)

– CMS Shipping (CN)

– MeteoFrance (FR)

– Groupama Sailing team (FR)

– PoleFinistere Sailing teams (FR)

– still not a user

GlobCurrent project

– A new ESA Data User Element project for 2013

– €1.5 Million earmarked for a 3 year project

Aim:

– Develop and demonstrate R&D activities for EO

derived ocean surface currents…

– over a 3 year period…

– based on the innovative use of satellite and in situ

data…

– linked to external user applications that will

demonstrate their utility.

– Increase the use of ESA and ESA Third Party

Mission EO data.

Potential GlobCurrent scope

– Data: Integration, harmonisation and cataloguing of existing (satellite and in-situ)

data streams,

– Products: processing and delivery of new types of products, based on existing

research,

– R&D: Development and testing of new retrieval techniques for ocean surface

currents from EO data including the use of complementary EO data in synergy,

– R&D: development of uncertainty estimates for EO ocean surface current

estimates,

– R&D: activities supporting data inter-comparisons and validation,

– Demonstration: Products and activities supporting the needs of surface drift

applications, ocean modelling teams, data assimilation schemes, model

validation, scientific research or commercial exploitation.

– Communication: Development of a web portal, a data archive, or software tools

to assist the user community in the discovery and application of EO derived

surface ocean current data,

User Commitments

The User Consultation Meeting

– The purpose of the GlobCurrent User Consultation Meeting, is to bring

users and experts together to

– Define user requirements for the project, identify the

priority Earth Observation information, innovative EO

products, R&D activities and priority regions of interest.

– A set of templates are available for you to use to feedback what you need

– We also need a number of Champion Users that will use the outputs of the

project, help to guide the project, to review the project outcomes and to

provide ESA with advice during the project.

– Dealine: 15th November 2012: Contact

Craig.donlon@esa.int for a template

– What does your user application want? – Products, data delivery, timeliness, tools, documentation,

access, product uncertainties?

– What can be done? – Develop/Implement/Transfer R&D activities/products to

consolidated, systematic, robust demonstration activities with user engagement.

– What are the project boundaries? Location, duration, reprocessing, interfaces, access, data amount…