Operational Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring Missions CAPACITY

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Operational Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring
Missions (CAPACITY)   Final Presentation ESA-E
STEC, Noordwijk / NL, 2 June 2005
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Introduction
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• Two branches of ESAs Earth Observation Programme
• Earth Explorer
• research and demonstration missions
• programme based on science community proposals
  and scientific evaluation
• 4 missions under development and 2 in
  preparation
• 7th mission to emerge from current call for
  ideas
• Earth Watch
• operational (or commercial) missions
• applications to serve user community beyond
  science
• possible partners EU (GMES), Eumetsat, others
• CAPACITY is directed towards the Earth Watch
  programme.

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• Earth Watch / GMES
• Five Sentinels considered between EU and ESA
• C-band SAR (interferometry)
• Superspectral imager (Landsat, SPOT continuity)
• Radar altimeter and multispectral sensor for
  ocean watch and global land monitoring
• Geostationary atmospheric composition for
  pollution monitoring
• Atmospheric composition sounding in low Earth
  orbit
• Definition studies for sentinels 1-3 starting
• Phase 0 studies for sentinels 4-5 starting late
  2005
• GMES programme proposal in preparation
• ESA Ministerial Council Dec. 2005, EU end of 2006

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• Eumetsat future programmes
• Meteosat Third Generation (geostationary orbit)
• Pre-phase A system studies ongoing
• Current payload imager(s), IR sounder, lightning
  detector
• UV-vis sounder study on instrument level, no
  satellite accomodation studied (funding
  envelope)
• 2nd user workshop held recently
• Post-EPS (polar orbit)
• User consultation starting (Application Experts
  Groups)

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• Sources of user requirements
• IGOS-IGACO Theme report
• EU GMES-GATO report
• Eumetsat user consultation in the frame of MTG
• GMES service element PROMOTE
• EU FP projects, e.g. Create-Daedalus, Evergreen
• GCOS implementation plan, WCRP-SPARC long-term
  observation requirements
• Environment and climate protection protocols,
  directives etc. (EU, international)
• CAPACITY workshop Jan. 04
• ESA studies on CO2 monitoring
• ESA study on atmospheric chemistry observation
  requirements (research)

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• Practical arrangements
• no handouts
• final report will be made available to all
  participants of this meeting
• meeting room will be locked during lunch break
• drink after meeting
• taxi list being circulated