WATERHM activities: CNES programmatic status

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WATER-HM activitiesCNES programmatic status

• Prepared by Eric Thouvenot Pascale
  Ultré-Guérard
• Direction for Strategy and Programs - CNES

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Earth observation programme (multilateral)

• Phases C/D
• Jason-2 (juin 2008)
• Smos (nov 2008)
• Megha-Tropiques (2009)
• Pléiades (2009)
• Vénms (2010) pb de filtres
• SARAL/Altika (2009-2010)
• Swarm (2010)
• Phase A
• SIFTI
• SWIM/CFOSAT

• Phase E
• Déméter
• Jason
• SPOT, Végétation
• Parasol,
• Calipso
• Iasi/Metop

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Pre-Phase A 2007- 2008

• MTG
• Vegetation-Gap Filler with ESA/DTEC and Belgium
• Water/SWOT (coop. NASA)
• E-Corce (constellation of satellites HR)
• Trade Off LEO-GEO for coastal regions and risk
  management (coop. JAXA)
• Infra red sounder for post EPS (IASI F/O, coop.
  Eumetsat)
• 3MI (Multiviewing Multichannel Multipolarization
  Imager) (Polder F/O)
• TIR MISTIGRI (study of vegetation cycle high
  resolution and high revisit, coop. Spain)
• Lidar for altimetry and bathymetry
• Hyperspectral
• Microméga (Grace F/O)
• CO2 Minicarb
• Pollution from geostationnary orbit

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WATer Elevation Recovery Hydrosphere Mapper

• Mission combining research needs associated to
  hydrology and oceanography mapping of water
  level for rivers, lakes, and oceans (including
  coasts)
• Principle Wide-swath interferometric, Ka-band
  altimeter
• Cooperation scheme TBD (NASA/CNES/NOAA/)
• Status
• Phase 0 underway
• Phase A possible in mid-2008
• Launch 2015

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Phase 0 status

• Exchange of letters between NASACNES
• Agreement on conducting a cooperative preliminary
  study about WATER-HM
• In the spirit and in the continuation of 20
  years of cooperation in space altimetry
• Agreement to constitute a common Science Working
  Group
• Points of Contact for Programmatics and Science
  designated
• CNES phase 0 study in progress, fully funded
• SWG created, Terms Of Reference agreed

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Follow-on activities

• CNES/NASA and CNES/NOAA meetings at
  CEO/Administrator levelgt WATER-HM is a high
  priority in France/US space cooperation
• Formal review of proposals at CNES end of
  September, 2007gt WATER-HM ranked first for
  entering phase A in 2008gt CNES will be able to
  fund phase A in 2008/2009
• dedicated project team
• industrial science activities
• Conditions/constraints to enter phase A in 2008
• Phase 0 has to be ok
• no showstopper
• science goals requirements in agreement with
  phase 0 design(s)
• Cooperation/coordination with NASA to be
  discussed
• CNES does not intend to perform the whole set of
  phase A activities
• Preliminary responsibility/task sharing to be
  discussed