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1 Best Practice: GMES Activities at DLR German Aerospace Center, DLR, Earth Observation Center, EOC German Remote Sensing Data Center, DFD Gunter Schreier Deputy Director Prague, CZ, May 29th, 2012 Folie 1 Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum Earth Observation Center 1

2 German Aerospace Center, DLR Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space. Space Agency Project Management Agency 7000 employees 32 research institutes and scientific/technical facilities at 16 sites Hamburg Bremen- Neustrelitz Trauen Berlin- Braunschweig Göttingen Köln Bonn Lampoldshausen Stuttgart outposts in Brussels, Paris, Washington and Singapore Weilheim Oberpfaffenhofen Aeronautics Space Transport Energy Security Folie 2 Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum Earth Observation Center 2

3 Galileo Control Center (GfR mbh) Space Operations and Astronaut Training Flight Operations DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (LZR) Institute of Communications und Navigation Institute of Microwaves and Radar Institute of Atmospheric Physics German Remote Sensing Data Center Institute of Remote Sensing Technology Earth Observation Center employees qm terrain - Connected to airport Folie 3 Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum Earth Observation Center 3

4 DLR Earth Observation Center (EOC), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany - German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) - Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) Staff: 220/110 (DFD/IMF) Turnaround 2011: 34,2 mio / 15,7 mio External contracts rate: 53% / 48% Folie 4 German Remote Sensing Data Center 4

5 Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Sentinels Space Segment Contributing Missions Stations Processing Archiving Networks Land Emergency Oceans Atmosphere Climate Civ. Security Ground Segment Services Collaborative Ground Segment Downstream Services Folie 5 5

6 GMES Sentinels Sentinel 1: C-Band SAR Interferometry, maritime surveillance, global land Sentinel 2: superspectral imager (13 Bands, 10-60m) land cover/ change, vegetation, water bodies Sentinel 3: OLCI, SLSTR, SRAL OLCI: 21 Bands (MERIS Cont.); SLSTR: Radiometer 0,3K; SRAL: 300m global, daily land- und ozean surveillance Sentinel 4: geostationary, atmosphere Ultraviolet Visible Near-infrared (UVN) spectrometer & EUMETSAT Instr. Sentinel 5/ (Sentinel 5PC): LEO, atmosphere 5 PC: UVNS/ Tropomi & EUMETSAT Instr.. Folie 6 Chart 6 6

7 German Earth Observation Missions SAR Imaging TerraSAR-X TanDEM-X TerraSAR-X Sats HRWS-X superspectral Imaging 01 BIRD TET-1 TET-2 (BIROS) Firebird-constellation RapidEye Earth System Monitoring EnMAP EnMAP..2 Sciamachy on ENVISAT MERLIN CHAMP GRACE Civil and dual-use; no military systems shown C-band SAR X-band SAR Low res. opt & alt. Med res opt Hi Res opt hyperspectral atmospheric Folie 7 7

8 TerraSAR-X & TanDEM-X Launched June 15, 2007 & June 21, 2010 Folie 8 German Remote Sensing Data Center 8

9 Data Reception: The global station network of DLR-DFD Light circles: Existing and planned stations Blue circles: former station locations Permanent Neustrelitz (Germany) 3 LSX-band 7.3 m, LS-band 4.0 m, VHF Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) X-band 3.6 m, L-band 2.4 m, L-band 4.0 m X-band (5,6 m) on behalf of European Space Imaging O Higgins (Antarctic) LSX-band 9.0 m Chetumal (Mexico) LSX-band 9.0 m Inuvik (Canada) LSX-band 13.0 m Transportable Ny Álesund (with GFZ, Spitzbergen) X-band 4.0 m Mobile Recife (Brazil) L-band 0.9 m Folie 9 German Remote Sensing Data Center 9

10 European Data Relay Satellites: EDRS-A and EDRS-C Supporting real time access to Sentinel-Missions Page Folie

11 ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT PACs (Processing and Archiving Facility/Center) since 1991 Folie 11 11

12 Sentinel Processing and Archiving Centers (PAC) and Stations from 2013 Prudhoe Bay; USA Station Svalbard, NOR Station S1 S 2 EDRS S1 S3 OLCI S5 PC Farnbgh/ Harwell, UK PAC Station Op hfn DLR, D PAC Matera, egeos, I Station MaspalomI NTA, ES Station S Antipol. ACRI/F PAC Brest CLS/F PAC Torrejon INDRA, ES PAC S3 SLSTR S3 SYN S3 SRAL S 2 Folie 12 12

13 collaborative G/S and synergy with other missions Inuvik Prudhoe Bay; USA Station Svalbard, NOR Station Chetumal O Higgins TSX EnMAP WorldView Res.Sat TDX FireBird S1 Mar Sec LDCM Radarsat TSX-2 MERLIN ADM Radarsat S1 S 2 S1 EDRS S3 OLCI S5 PC S1 Mar Sec Fbgh/Harwell, UK PAC Station Op hfn DLR, D PAC/Stat. N strelitz DLR, D Stat./PAC Matera, egeos, I Station MaspalomI NTA, ES Station S Antipol. ACRI/F PAC Brest CLS/F PAC Torrejon INDRA, ES PAC S3 SLSTR S3 SYN S3 SRAL S 2 Folie 13 13

14 Data Archive: D-SDA (German- Spatial Data Archive) Petabyte TanDEM-X 0.25 TerraSAR-X 0 Folie 14 German Remote Sensing Data Center 14

15 Data Information and Management System Multi Mission Scientific & Commercial Users and Applications Related Systems DIMS Order Management User Information Services EOWEB / Geodata Access Product Archive Library Online/Offline Delivery SRTM PAF MODIS PAF ENVISAT VA WDC RSAT O3M-SAF TerraSAR-X TanDEM-X EnMAP MMFI Operators TSXX UMARF Product & Order I/F Mission Planning Ifc Production Control Receiving Station Ifc Operating MMFI Multi-Mission Facility Infrastructure TSXX Commercial TerraSAR-X Exploitation UMARF Unified Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility Optical Atmospheric Radar Processing Systems Folie 15 Earth Observation Center EOC 15

16 EOWEB UMARF GMES related activities Architecture, Archiving, Processing, Retrieval, provision of interfaces specific - OGC GMES Service Component Core Data Access System CDS - for heterogeneous Mission Accessibility (HMA) ESA GMES Space Component Coordinated Data Access System (GSC-DA) W W specific - OGC DLR DIMS W ESA MMFI W EUMETSAT S3 SANSA W EODC NOAA S1 W S3 W Folie 16 16

17 Die GMES LAND Dienste ATMOSPHERE DISASTERS RAPID MAPPING CLIMATE CHANGE OCEANS CIVIL SECURITY Folie 17 17

18 Folie 18 18

19 Folie 19 19

20 SENDAI change map TerraSAR-X, March 12, 2011 (c) DLR - ZKI Folie 20 20

21 Tsunami Inundation Assessment Folie 21 21

22 The German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System SeisComP3 CGPS Sensor Systems Tide Gauges OBU / PACT GPS-Bouys Sensor System Integration Simulation System Situation Assessment and Decision Support Risk- & Vulnerability Modelling BMKG 5in1 Dissemination System Geospatial Data Repository Folie 22 22

23 Folie 23 23

24 Folie 24 DLR-Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) 24

25 Center for satellite based Crisis Information (ZKI) Folie 25 25

26 Flood in Bulgaria 10. Feb 2012 Folie 26 German Remote Sensing Data Center 26

27 230 Km Emergency: Wide area Interferometry with Sentinel Km Wide Area -PSI Results based on ERS-1/2 Nico Adam / A. Parizzi Folie 27 27

28 Land: Global Soil Moisture with Sentinel-1 Global Product produced by TU Vienna, based on ERS-SAR Folie 28 Chart 28

29 Land: Global Urban Footprint with Sentinel-1 Naples, Italy, TerraSAR-X Folie 29 29

30 > Folie 30 Land: Imperviousness with Sentinel- 2: Sealed soil per administrative Unit Thomas Esch Folie 30 30

31 EO-MINERS demonstration sites Preparation for GMES Applications: EO Miners demonstrate EO-based methods and tools in reducing the environmental and societal footprints during all phases of a mining project, from the exploration to the exploitation and closure stages. Contribute making reliable and objective information about affected ecosystems, populations and societies Czech Republic - Sokolov lignite mining area: area is largely affected by mining activities: open casts, closed mines and dump sites acid mine drainage (AMD) and related heavy metal contamination Hyperspectral campaign by DLR Sokolov Czech Republic Makmal Kyrgyzstan Witbank South Africa Folie 31 31

32 Flight campaigns at Sokolov, CZ, site hyperspectal flights 2009 & 2010 using HyMap VNIR + SWIR (126 bands, μm) multispectral flight 2011 using AHS TIR (10 bands, 8 12 µm) extensive ground reference data & lab analysis (operated by DLR) (operated by INTA) HyMap 2009 AHS 2011 Folie 32 32

33 Standardized preprocessing results HyMap 2010, reflectance AHS 2011, emissivity Folie 33 33

34 GMES-Center Central Point for Actors and Clients in GMES GMES Center in Bavaria an initiative of the German Federal Freestate of Bavaria partnering DLR and industry linking ground segment data access to earth observation services Folie 34 34

35 Gunter Schreier Business Development & GMES DLR German Aerospace Center EOC Earth Observation Center DFD German Remote Sensing Data Center Oberpfaffenhofen D Wessling Germany DLR station at ISSF in Inuvik Photo provided by CCRS Folie 35 35

36 Folie 36 German Remote Sensing Data Center 36

37 Man must rise above the Earth, to the top of the clouds and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. - Quote attributed to Socrates Gunter Schreier Business Development & GMES DLR German Aerospace Center EOC Earth Observation Center DFD German Remote Sensing Data Center Oberpfaffenhofen D Wessling Germany Gunter.Schreier@dlr.de Folie 37 German Remote Sensing Data Center 37

38 Disaster Extent Map - Pre- and Post Disaster Pre-disaster RapidEye Image September 05, 2010 Post-disaster RapidEye Image March 12, 2011 Inundation area derived from TerraSAR-X imagery acquired on March 12, 2011 Folie 38 38

39 Man must rise above the Earth, to the top of the clouds and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives. - Quote attributed to Socrates, quoted in Into that Silent Sea (p. 127). Folie 39 German Remote Sensing Data Center 39

40 Munich urban classification 3D DLR Folie 40 40

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