Romanian Contributions to GMES and European EO Infrastructure

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Romanian Contributions to GMES and European EO
Infrastructure
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Marius-Ioan PISO, Alexandru BADEA, Ion NEDELCU,
Florin SERBAN Romanian Space Agency
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Contents

• Romanian Contributions to GMES and European EO
  infrastructure via PECS and National RD
  programs
• ROSA
• National infrastructure (including actors)
• Projects (National, ESA, EC)
• Policy

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Romanian Space Agency

• Established in 1991, ROSA become in 1995 an
  independent public institution under the
  authority of the Ministry of Education and
  Research
• Mission
• Coordinate the national space research and
  applications programs
• Promote space development
• Be the Government representative for
  international space cooperation
• Develop specific project oriented research
  through its own centres
• Coordinate the Inter-ministerial group on
  Security Research
• Law 40/93, Law 1/2007, Govt. Decisions 923/95
  and 1574/2004

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Romanian Space Agency

• Attributes - National
• Acting under the Authority of the Romanian
  Government - Ministry of Education and Research
  (1995)
• Reporting to the Sub-commission for Space RO
  Parliament (2007)
• Contract authority and PMU for the national RTD
  Programs on Space, Aeronautics, Security
  (1995-2006)
• Executive president for the Inter-Ministerial
  Board on Security Research (2004) and
  Inter-agency INSPIRE Group of experts
• Interagency coop. Ministry of Defence, M.
  Foreign Affairs, M. Agriculture and Environment,
  M. of Interior, M. Telecomm. and IT, Romanian
  Intelligence Service
• Component of the National Emergencies Council
  (2000)
• National Certification Authority for GRID
  information infrastructures (2006)
• Certified security and classification
  organizational structure
• Authorized to establish research and development
  Centers oriented on specific objectives of the
  Romanian RTD Plan

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Romanian Space Agency
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• Attributes International (GMES )
• ROSA is the appointed national representative
  for
• European Space Agency (ESA) by Laws 40/1993 and
  01/2007 (1992 p)
• United Nations Committee on the Peaceful uses
  of Outer Space (COPUOS) by mandate from the
  Foreign Ministry (1994 p)
• Consultant for the EU Space Council / European
  Space Policy
• EC FP6 AEROSPACE PC (2001-2006)
• EC FP7 SPACE PC, SECURITY RESEARCH PC,
  TRANSPORTS PC (Aeronautics and Galileo)
• EC GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), GMES
  Advisory Council (GAC) (2007)
• INSPIRE by mandate from the Ministry of
  Education and Research (2005 p)
• COSPAR ICSU National secretariat (1994 - )
• GEO Principal representative
• NATO Scientific Committee Science for Peace
  and Security (2004 p)
• NATO - RTO Space ST Advisory Group (SSTAG)
  (2005 p)
• Space agencies NASA, CNES (French Space Agency),
  Russia ROSKOSMOS (negotiations), Hungary,
  Bulgaria, Azerbaijan . . . Bilateral
  agreementsInternational organizations membership
  and / or national representative COSPAR, IAF,
  IAA, EURISY, ACARE, EREA, ASD, EDA, others,
  bilateral agreements with research organizations

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Romanian Space Agency

• Public organization, integral contract-based
  financed sources
• RTD contracts, consultancy, international
  cooperation, management
• Staff 45 (31 full-time eq. research
  professionals)
• ROSA Headquarters in the centre of Bucharest
• Offices, information retrieval and processing
  facilities, GRID
• http//www.rosa.ro
• ROSA Research Centre
• Space technology
• Space applications
• Core technologies and assets ERP and Knowledge
  Management systems, data fusion, change
  detection, data mining, GRID certification
  authority, nano-satellite technologies
• Geospatial Intelligence Centre (in development)
• Shared facilities with INCAS, the Institute of
  Space Science, CRUTA, Univ. Bucharest Dept of
  Physics
• Laboratories, Library, Data processing and GRID,
  Ground station for EO satellites
• ISO Integral certification, certified NATO
  supplier

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Romanian Space and Aeronautics Research
Programme2001 - 2006
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Romanian Space ProgrammeSubprogrammes

• Component sub-programs
• Policy and infrastructure
• Capacity building technology park, centres of
  excellence, quality management, GRID, concurrent
  engineering
• Space exploration
• Space missions (INTERBALL, CLUSTER, PLANCK,
  COROT, AMS . . ) Space science, microgravity
  life science
• Space applications
• Satellite communications, Earth observation,
  GNSS, precision farming, disaster management,
  telemedicine, GMES, GALILEO, LPIS, software
• Aerospace science and technology
• Aerodynamics and flight dynamics, C3 systems,
  onboard technology
• Industrial development and spin-off
• Aerospace platforms (UAVs, IAR-99, AEROTAXI),
  components, high speed facilities, infrastructure

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Romanian Space ProgrammeAbstract

• Number of projects 2001-2006
• 171 (39 2001, 40 2002, 20 2003, 72 - 2004)
• Participant organizations (Romanian) 121
• Professional staff involved 680 full time
  equivalent
• Funding
• Budget engagement limit 2001 2006 31,25 Meuro
• Budget engagement (present) 28,75 Meuro
  (2001-2006)
• Co-financing 31 - private and public partners
• Actors RD institutes, universities, companies,
  NGOs, SMEs public and private, most of them
  in consortia

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Romanian Security Research ProgrammeEstablishment

• National RD Programme SECURITY (2004-2006)
• Included by Govt. Decision 2080/ Nov. 2004 in the
  National Research, Development and Innovation
  Plan
• Goals
• Research, technology and systems for security and
  defence
• Development of national capacity building and
  support for cooperation between research,
  industry and users
• Support for the integration in EU, NATO, WEO,
  other programs and organizations relevant for
  security and defence
• Prepare the national actors for the participation
  in the FP7 security research areas
• Increasing awareness and the new security culture
  among citizens and decision makers

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Romanian Security Research Programme 2005 - 2006

• Covering most aspects defined within PASR
• Including some national specific defence and NATO
  priorities

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Romanian Security Research ProgrammeData after
1st Call

• December 2006
• 84 projects selected for negotiations and 82
  contracted
• 114 organizations involved
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-organizational
  consortia (Universities, RTD institutes,
  Companies and SMEs, NGOs)
• Average 3.2 organizations / project
• Public-Private-Partnership most common
• Co-financing around 29
• Main actors RTD institutes of MoD and Special
  services, largest companies in RO with security,
  aerospace and defence profiles, military and
  civilian universities, National RTD Institutes,
  National Professional Organizations (OPIAR
  Aerospace industry and PATROMIL Defence
  industry)

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Romanian Space and Security Research
ProgrammeSecond National RTD Plan

• The RO Government took a major political decision
  to almost triple the RTD public expenses
  between 2007 and 2010 with the goal 1 of the GNP
  in 2010
• The second RTD Plan PN2 has been drafted in
  2005-2006 by means of a foresight exercise,
  achieved by a large consortia (25) of national
  organizations
• The RTD Strategy for 2007-2013 has been approved
  by the Government on 28 February 2007

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Romanian Security Research ProgrammeNext steps
Second National RTD Plan
Ministry of Education and Research National
Authority for Scientific Research Romanian RTD
Plan 2007-2013
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Romanian Space and Security Research
ProgrammeArea 8. Space and Security
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Romanian Space Programme8.1 Space Exploration

• Participation in circum-terrestrial space
  missions and in the solar system
• Research and results in theoretical, experimental
  and computational models for phenomena specific
  to the Earth environment, Solar system, Universe
  and interactions between them, based upon space
  missions experimental and observation results
• Microgravity experiments
• Research and instruments, scientific equipment
  and on board systems design for spatial
  platforms, on board and ground-based experiments
• Microsatellites for operational exploration and
  utilization
• Launch, operational and recovery systems for
  suborbital flight
• Formation flying in a networked environment
• Space data and knowledge management
• Acquisition, processing and data analysis
  specific methods and algorithms GRID, data
  mining, data fusion, change detection
• Radar and multi-spectral data measurement and
  processing technologies
• Tangible and intangible space strategy and
  infrastructure

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Romanian Space Programme8.2 Space Applications

• Earth observation from satellites and aerospace
  platforms
• Satellite global navigation and positioning
  systems. GALILEO
• Spatial communication and relevant ground-based
  systems
• Space applications integrated for telemedicine,
  precision agriculture, natural hazards
  monitoring, global information systems
• Geospatial techniques
• Automatic and semi-automatic algorithms for
  spatial data
• Global monitoring systems. GMES
• Positioning-based systems and services
• Observation and monitoring systems and platforms

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Romanian Space Programme8.3 Aerospace technology

• Aeronautics techniques, flight dynamics, CFD
• Launch, operation and recovery systems for
  sub-orbital missions
• Launching and orbiting techniques
• Manned and unmanned specialized platforms and
  spaceflight devices
• Sensors, on board and ground-based systems and
  equipments research and development, space
  results spin-off development
• Advanced methods and techniques for simulation,
  command and control, aerial, aerospace and space
  flight devices design and production
• Aerospace flight dynamics systems and methods,
  platform altitude control. Optimal control
  systems. Aerospace traffic control and
  ground-based systems
• Quality analysis, testing and control systems,
  specifics to the space, aerospace and aeronautics
  fields
• Aerospace and space technologies, systems,
  devices and equipments

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Romanian Security Research Programme8.4 Security
technology

• Detection, localization, positioning,
  communication, tracking and identification
  systems, techniques and equipments
• Technology development for countering
  bioterrorism and CBRN (Chemical, Biological,
  Radiological and Nuclear) aggressions
• Situation awareness, reconnaissance and
  surveillance techniques (including IMINT)
• Systems and technologies for protection against
  any terrorist action
• Global space infrastructure utilization
  (communications, positioning, observation) in
  security and defence applications
• Techniques and technologies for terrestrial,
  maritime and aerial borders
• Sensors, systems, equipments and techniques for
  local crisis generating factors detection,
  identification and neutralization (dangerous
  substances, chemical and biological agents,
  mines, armaments, explosives, vehicles and
  improvised explosive devices)
• Methods, systems and technologies to provide
  security for data communication data networks
  (distributed systems, GRID, data mining, local
  network, authentication techniques, encryption)
• Support techniques for actions and measures to
  combat threats addressing security, organized
  crime and illegal trafficking

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Romanian Security Research Programme8.5 Security
systems and infrastructures

• Development of interoperable technologies,
  systems and defence techniques, in accordance
  with operational requirements of the national
  safety and defence system structures
• Systems and equipments for personal protection,
  security enhancement and rescue, including
  diagnosis and treatment means
• Systems to provide the efficient crisis
  management and interventions in case of
  disasters, detection systems, warning and alert
• Protection of physical and information
  infrastructures
• Systems, techniques and methods for restoration
  in case of crisis integrated, fixed and mobile
  security systems, for strategic importance
  objectives (industrial units, airports, military
  units, oil tanks and pipelines, etc.)
• Support to the development of security culture
  and for countering the cultural and social
  terrorist actions
• Security strategies and policies at local,
  European and global level

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Romanian Space and SecurityResearch Programme

• The overall public funding for the RTD Plan is
  15,000 MRON (2,900 MEuro) for 2007-2013
• SPACE and SECURITY are included as a thematic
  area and provided for 8 of the thematic funding
• 480 MRON 160 MEURO for 2007 2013
• Including basic research and infrastructure and
  except ESA contribution
• GMES included both in Space and Security
  research sub-areas

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ROSA / National Core Projects

• ROSA Research Centre own current projects
• GOLIAT Nanosatellite mission and developments
  in formation flying, including networked
  environment PLURIBUS and FORMUAV (2007)
• RO-SAR, SEOKIMS Advanced data procesing data
  mining, data fusion, automated algorithms, KM
  technology,
• MARKS, ACCCIN Knowledge management system for
  space-related activities
• GEOINT Centre for Geospatial intelligence
• LUCIUS, INSPAM Building a National Network for
  GMES Applications, Support for the INSPIRE EU
  Directive EU FP7 Geoland 2 (2007)
• SPIM Centre for disaster monitoring by space
  technology EU FP7 RISK 2 (2007)
• BANG, LOCOMAX GNSS / Galileo applications,
  Location based Services
• . . . . . . others

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ROSA / National Core Projects

• ROSA Research Centre own current projects
• HELIOTER Heliospherical variations
  applications for space weather
• SIGUR Satellite information service for
  emergency management
• GeoINF Interactive geo-spatial information
  retrieval
• RO-SAR Applications on data from new SAR sensors
• LCCS07 EO/GIS based hybrid thematic mapping
  updating method for Land use / cover
• RISCASAT EO derived products for hydro-meteo
  hazard management for end-users
• LPIS RO Quality control and information
  management for the IACS Land parcel Information
  System
• . . . . . . others

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GOLIAT- Nanosatellite for science and operational
purposes

• Objectives
• Develop a nanosatellite complete mission
• Flight model
• Ground station and control center
• Science payloads
• Micrometeorite detection
• Integral radiation dose measurement
• Optical camera swath 30 km
• Formation flying in a networked environment
• Generate profesisonals (training)
• Develop core competencies

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MARKS Knowledge management system for
space-related activities

• Partners ROSA, Institute of Space Science,
  INCAS, INTEGRATOR
• Objectives
• Develop knowledge niches
• Nanosatellites in formation flying in a networked
  environment
• Dynamics of small bodies in the Earth Environment
• Space policy
• Develop a system for knowledge evaluation, design
  and management

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National GMES RTD actors

• ROSA Research Centre
• National Meteorological Administration
• CRUTA
• Institute for Space Science
• National Institute for Earth Physics
• Danube Delta Research Institute
• National Institute of Hydrology
• Institute for Soil Science
• GEOECOMAR, Institute for Marine Science
• Universities UP Bucharest, U Bucharest
  Geography, Physics, Univ. Timisoara, Cluj
• SME-s ASRC, CSA-INCAS, BitNet, INTERGIS

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ESA ROPECS GMES Projects

• RO-KEO Romanian Centered Knowledge Earth
  Observation
• ROSA RC, Univ. Politehnica Bucharest, ASRC
• OnDGS-HE On Demand Grid Services for Higher
  Education and Training in Earth Observation
• Western Univ. Timisoara, ROSA-RC, CSA-INCAS, ASRC
• LEOWorks-Image processing/GIS software for
  educational purposes
• ASRC, ROSA-RC

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EC FP7 GMES Projects

• SAFER
• ROSA, Institute of Geodynamics, EUROSENSE Romania
• MACC
• National Meteorological Administration, RO
  Environmental Protection Agency
• MyOcean
• Institute for Marine Research
• Geoland2
• ROSA

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National GMES Projects

• SIGUR Satellite information service for
  emergency management
• HELIOTER Heliospherical variations
  applications for space weather
• GeoINF Interactive geo-spatial information
  retrieval
• ROSA-RC
• RO-SAR Applications on data from new SAR sensors
• ROSA-RC
• LCCS07 EO / GIS based hybrid thematic mapping
  updating method for Land use / Land cover
• ROSA-RC LCCS07
• RISCASAT EO derived products for
  hydro-meteorological hazard management for
  end-users

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GMES Infrastructure

• Physical
• Satellite receiving stations
• Meteorological radars, surface and hydrological
  sensor stations, data processing and forecaster
  decision/display systems and telecommunications/sa
  tellite broadcasting.
• Seismic measurement and alert network
• Distributed computing and data management GRID
  network
• Databases and history

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GMES Infrastructure

• Actors
• Ministry of Education and Research
• Ministry of Environment
• Interministerial Group for Security Research
• Ministry of Interior General Emergency Council
• Romanian Space Agency
• Specialized institutes, academia groups, SMEs

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GMES Infrastructure

• Experience and resources
• Land use / Land Cover
• Meteorological and hydrological data
• Earth Observation coverages and intensive local
  databases
• Geographic information data (DEM, maps)
• Large projects accomplished by space technology
  (Danube basin DTM, LCCS, LPIS, Environmental
  information system etc.)

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Policy Summary

• Romania considers together Space and Security as
  a strategic and operational RTD priority
• Romania is rapidly increasing the public
  investment in RTD for 2007-2013
• ROSA is the public technology and reprezentation
  organization, acting as the horizontal manager
  for specific RTD
• Space and Security RTD, due to the
  multi-disciplinarity, gives engines for the
  overall scientific, technology and industrial
  development and competitiveness
• The participation to ESA, FP7 and international
  cooperation is a major priority, supported by the
  capabilities, the status of EU MS and the
  national policy

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Further steps

• International cooperation
• Participation to European Space Agency space
  missions and projects with a view to full ESA
  membership 2010
• Keeping in harmony the contribution to FP7 of the
  EU
• Developing further involvement within European
  and NATO Agencies (EDA, EUSC, RTO)
• Wide bi-lateral cooperation (NASA, CNES, DLR,
  third countries)
• Further develop global initiatives (UN-SPIDER . .
  )

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RO International events GMES - related

• UN UNISPACE III Regional Conference for Europe,
  Bucharest (1999)
• UN/ESA Space Technology for Disaster Management
  for Europe, Brasov (2003)
• Eurisy / ESA Conference Danube Target for
  Integrated Space Applications, Constantza (2004)
• EU-JRC Info Days on GMES, Bucharest (2004, 2006,
  2007)
• NATO-RTO SSTAG Conference on Space Science and
  Technology, Bucharest (2006)
• INSPIRE Thematic conference, Bucharest (2007)
• Eurisy / ESA Conference Space applications for
  disaster management for local and regional
  administration, Sinaia (2008)
• Romanian Parliament / ROSA Romanian Conference
  on Space Applications, Bucharest (2008)

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Further steps

• National level
• Keeping the substance objectives lead by the
  National RTD Plan
• Further developing its national space
  infrastructure and human resources to reach the
  European average level,
• Investment in its own areas of core competencies.
• Involvement of national private and public actors
  towards business and societal oriented
  applications
• Define metrics for 2008 2020

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