ERS

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ERS ENVISAT for the Ice Community
Andrea Celentano IICWG Meeting 2001 Norway
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Overview what is Eurimage ?

• Founded in 1989 current shareholders

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Location Rome (Italy)
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Eurimage Mission

• To be a content provider in the world-wide Geo
  Information business, offering fast, easy and
  cost-effective access to multi-satellite data and
  derived products with global coverage

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Satellite Missions Distribution Rights

• QuickBird
• Exclusive Master Distributor for DigitalGloble
  for Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
• LANDSAT
• World-wide exclusive for data from ESA stations
• World-wide distribution of all other archived
  data at USGS
• Distribution agreements with IGS
• ERS /Envisat
• World-wide distribution for data from ESA
  stations and International stations on behalf of
  EMMA

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Satellite Missions Distribution Rights

• IRS
• World-Wide distribution for data from Space
  Imaging Inc. archive
• Distribution rights from Euromap archive
• Radarsat
• Distribution rights for EU countries
• Ikonos
• Distribution rights from Space Imaging Inc.,
  Space Imaging Europe and Space Imaging Eurasia

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Network More than 150 Application Providers

• VA companies offering Geo-Information solutions
  to end users
• To maximise segment and geographic area coverage
• Increased in Europe from 80 to 100 (150 in 2001)
• Growing presence world-wide (ERS/Envisat JV with
  IGS)

Europe 102
N. America 18
Asia 18
Africa 4
S. America 10
Australia 5
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EMMA and the ESA SAR missions

• Leader of the EMMA Consortium, one of the two
  distributing entities appointed for the
  world-wide distribution of data from the ESA
  missions
• ENVISAT (launch first quarter 2002)
• ERS 1-2

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EMMA Master Distributor

• Eurimage
• Data and Services Provider
• Satellite Tasking Interface with ESA and Ground
  Stations
• Access to data archives Natl and Intl Ground
  Stations
• Co-ordination with ESA and Ground Stations to
  develop NRT data dissemination systems (FTP,
  DVB)
• Catalogues Einet and DESCW (on-line, off-line)
• Tailored pricing conditions
• Dedicated Support Team

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EMMA Value Adders

• ASI, Astrium, DLR, InfoTerra, QinetiQ,
  Telespazio
• Marketing and implementation of Value Added
  products and services
• specific segments
• key geographic areas
• multi-source data
• Product innovation and product development

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EMMA Ground Stations

• DLR, QinetiQ, Telespazio
• Special/fast acquisition response
• Fast dissemination of NRT products and services
• Acquisition outside visibility masks

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The next ESA SAR mission ENVISAT

• Dimensions
• Launch configuration
• length 10.5 m
• envelope diameter 4.6 m
• In-Orbit configuration
• 26m x 10m x 5m
• Mass
• Total satellite 8140 Kg
• Payload 2050 Kg
• Power
• Solar array power
• 6.5 kW (EOL)
• Average power demand
• Sun Eclipse
• (watts) (watts)
• Payload 1700 1750
• Satellite 3275 2870

ENVISAT payload
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ENVISAT ASAR Imaging Modes

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some ASAR applications
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NRT Services to Ice Centres

• Direct Down-Link at
• Ground Receiving Station
• At Customer Location
• ARTEMIS Direct Down-Link for fast data reception
• Raw or Processed Data Delivery via
• FTP
• DVB
• Data/Service delivery through NGS Partners DLR,
  QinetiQ, Telespazio

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The next ESA SAR mission ENVISAT
Payload Data Recovery
KIRUNA
ESA/ESRIN
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Comments on Concept Paper

• Eurimage has understood and is ready to work with
  the Ice Service Community
• Single Services
• Ice Service Community
• Data Access
• Volume
• Licenses of Use
• Format
• Delivery

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Comments on Concept Paper cont

• Single Service Ice Service Community
• Competitive Prices
• Ad-Hoc Service fitted to personalized
  requirements
• Data Access (Volume, Sharing, Format)
• Discounts based on volume orders
• Multi-user/site License
• Std. ESA Formats, VA products from the EMMA
  Members (with own products services ).
• Delivery
• To each user community
• Single database for multiple retrieval

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Conclusions

• Eurimage is willing to start negotiations and
  discussions with Ice Organizations to setup
  agreements for both ERS and future ENVISAT
• We also wish to continue our participation to Ice
  Organization events and initiatives which
  require
• Co-ordinated actions between
• Users Community, Data Providers, VA Sector,
  Satellite Operators