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ESA Report on ESA EO missionsESA Report on ESA EO missions CEOS CEOS Budapest, Budapest,

WGISSWGISS May 2006May 2006

I. PetitevilleI. Petiteville

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Topics

Earth Explorer Missions

3rd Party missions: ALOS

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smos

Aeolus

Goce

EARTH EXPLORERSCryosat-2

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Earth Explorer MissionsCore missions:

GOCE: Gravity and Ocean Circulation.

ADM-Aeolus: Measuring the winds at all altitudes.

Opportunity missionsCRYOSAT: Sea-Ice Monitoring

SMOS: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity.

Floating sea ice NOAA

Salinity in the Mediterranean

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CRYOSAT Ground Station

Kiruna Salmijarvi

CRYOSAT-1 equipment

Cryosat-2: • Replacement of Cryosat-1 (launch failure) • Launch in March 2009.

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Earth Explorer missions (2/3)• ADM Aeolus:

– GS PDS development KO in Jul. 2005,

– PDS completed in 2007. – Launch in Sep. 2008.

• SMOS:– Ground Segment Phase

C/D just starting– Launch 19 Sep. 2007

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Svalbard Ground Station

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Earth Explorer missions (3/3)

• SWARM:– Launch in 2009

• GOCE:– Ground Segment kick-

off in Sep. 2003– Launch beginning of

2007.

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3rd Party mission: ALOS

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ALOS

• 3 sensors: 1 SAR L-band and 2 optical

• ALOS Data European Node (ADEN): – Successful Launch on Jan 24, 2006

(beginning of 2006. TBC by JAXA)– First optical image PRISM on Feb 14,

2006

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Shimizu Port

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• First AVNIR-2 image acquired by ESA at Kiruna (Sweden) on April 24, 2006