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Copernicus – Yesterday,Today
and Tomorrow! – An Overview
Stefan Nilsson, SMHI
Rymdforum 9-10 March 2015
Copernicus is now in Operations – after 17 years!
Copernicus
Regulation
Emergency Management
Service
Land Monitoring
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Copernicus - an Introduction
 European response to global needs
 to manage the environment,
 to mitigate the effects of climate change and
 to ensure civil security.
 An integrated Earth Observation system
combining
 space-based and in-situ data with
 Earth System models and services.
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Copernicus Components
Space
Component
Services
Component
Overall
responsibility
&
coordination of
MS
contributions
In-Situ
Component
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Copernicus Space Infrastructure
Sentinels
Six EO missions developed specifically for
Copernicus
Sentinel 1
Sentinel‐2
Sentinel‐3
PLUS
Contributing Missions
Third party EO missions offering their
data to Copernicus (EU/ESA MSs,
EUMETSAT, commercial, international)
Sentinel‐4
Sentinel‐5
AND
High Precision Ocean
Altimetry (HPOA) mission
Jason CS =
Sentinel 6
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Copernicus Dedicated Missions & Launch Schedule
Sentinel-1 (A/B) – SAR imaging
All weather, day/night applications, C-band SAR,
interferometry
1A 3 April 2014
1B Feb-April 2016
Sentinel-2 (A/B) – Multi-spectral imaging
Land applications: urban, forest, agriculture,…
Continuity of Landsat, SPOT
2A March 2015(*)
2B April 2016(*)
Sentinel-3 (A/B) – Ocean and global land monitoring
Wide-swath ocean color, vegetation, sea/land
surface temperature, altimetry
3A Aug 2015(*)
3B Q1 2017
Sentinel-4 (A/B) – Geostationary atmospheric
Atmospheric composition monitoring, transboundary pollution
To MTG 2018
4A 2021
Sentinel-5 precursor/ Sentinel-5 (A/B) – Low-orbit
atmospheric
Atmospheric composition monitoring, air quality
5P Feb 2016(*)
5A 2022
Sentinel-6 (A/B) – Low inclination Altimetry
Sea-level, wave height and marine wind speed
In 2020
(*) FAR
Data for the Copernicus Services –
Sentinels
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Copernicus
Copernicus
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Potential Functional Blocks in CGS
Sweden
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Copernicus Data Policy
• The Copernicus data policy was adopted via a Delegated
Regulation (into force Dec 2013);
• The Data policy is compliant with:
• The EU INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC;
• The EU Public Sector Information – PSI Directive
2003/98/EC;
• The definition of GEOSS Data-CORE.
• This policy promotes the access, use and sharing of
Copernicus information and data on a full, free and open basis;
• One of the main objectives is to support downstream segment
and research, technology and innovation communities.
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Six Copernicus services
Services monitoring Earth systems
Land Monitoring
Marine Monitoring
Atmosphere Monitoring
Horizontal services
Emergency Management
Security
 Output: Value-Added Information
Climate Change
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Climate change monitoring
Rise of sea level
Thomas Klein will present more examples in his presentation for different services
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Transfer to operations
From 2000 to 2013:
ESA – Space Segment
(ESA + EU budget)
EU – Development of Applications
EU contribution through R&D Budget FP7/H2020
As from 2014 :
ESA – Space Segment
(ESA + EU budget)
EU Operational budget
(~4.3 b€ incl. escalation 2014-20)
Delegation Agreements, Tenders, Service
specifications
R&D
R & D & Innovation
Horizon 2020 RD&I support for Copernicus:
- Continuity in transfer (particularly in 2014/2015)
- Downstream applications & uptake
- Service evolution R&D based on op. service
feedback (especially post 2015)
Preparatory
actions
GIO
EU operational
programme
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
Horizon 2020
Earth Observation (EO) 2015 Call
Copernicus related topics (~26 M€): :
• EO 1 - 2015: Bringing EO applications to the market
(innovation actions);
• EO 2 – 2015: Stimulating wider research use of Copernicus
Sentinel data;
• EO 3 -2015: Imaging technologies from space.
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Tenders: Atm,
Marine, EMS;
C3S, etc.
Service Deployment
Operator
EEA
JRC
Land
GIO pan-EU & local Land services
GIO global land
Mercator
Marine
MyOcean2
ECMWF
Atm
MACC-II
EC/
JRC
EMS
GIO EMS
Security
G-NEXT
G-SEXTANT
EMSA,
FRONTEX,
EUSD
ECMWF
Climate Div. FP7 projects
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Budget 2014 - 2020 (4,3 b€ Euro incl. escalation)
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Copernicus Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Cost per EU inhabitant will be ~ € 1 per year
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Expected minimum financial benefit by 2030 is ~ € 30 Bn
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For every €1 spent we get a return of ~ € 3.2
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An estimated minimum of ~ 48,000 jobs will be created
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Potential roles of the Swedish Institutes &
Companies in Copernicus
 Contribution to the space (and ground) segment;
 Contribution to the provision of services;
 Development of innovative applications using Copernicus
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data and information which will be available on a free, full
and open basis;
Participation in H2020 calls (Earth Observation and security
research).
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Cooperation on Copernicus
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A well working collaboration between
different Swedish Authorities
Should provide:
• a better cooperation between users and service providers;
• a better and broader representation in different foras and
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Committies;
better user requests & requirements;
more efficient use of satellite data and products from the
services;
increased economic benefits from the space infrastructure.
But it is based on voluntary basis (with some pooled money
for coordination) 
• More resources are needed in order to take the
full advantage of the Copernicus programme!
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Swedish Delgates in Copernicus
Full Members
Alternative Members
Committee
Göran Boberg, SNSB
Karin Holmquist,
SNSB
User Forum
Stefan Nilsson, SMHI
Thomas Klein, HaV
Security Board
Göran Boberg, SNSB
Karin Holmquist,
SNSB
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Thank you for your attention!
[email protected]
Web: www.copernicus.eu
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