Please find here in attachement the “management plan 2010” of DG ENTR of the EC.
See, in particular, chapters on “Space and Security” (p. 26) and “EU Satellite Navigation programmes” (p. 30)
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“management plan 2010” of DG ENTR of the EC
Please find here in attachement the “management plan 2010” of DG ENTR of the EC.
See, in particular, chapters on “Space and Security” (p. 26) and “EU Satellite Navigation programmes” (p. 30)
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Outcome of the European parliament’s first reading (17 June) on the Proposal for a Regulation on GMES/GIO.
The amendments adopted correspond to what was agreed between the three institutions and ought therefore to be acceptable to the Council. Consequently, once the legal linguists have scrutinized the text, the Council should be in a position to adopt the legislative act (the text of the amendment adopted and the European Parliament’s legislative resolution are set out in the Annex).
The 70th Council meeting of EUMETSAT (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) took place on 21-22 June 2010 in Rome, Italy.
Among other issues, the Council discussed the role of EUMETSAT in the European Space Policy and in GMES through the adoption of a dedicated resolution. This resolution emphasises the need to recognise that user-governed entities, such as EUMETSAT, play an important role in structuring space activities, particularly when these activities address operational services, like in the case of GMES. EUMETSAT Member States agreed on a definition of the activities that can be carried out by user-governed entities and proposed that, in the case of GMES, EUMETSAT is involved from the federation of user requirements at European level up to and including the operations of the related satellites.
The above mentioned activities would come in support of the European Commission. In the case of GMES the Commission is responsible for the interaction with user communities to specify European space systems in support of European policies. EUMETSAT could be thus the European entity supporting the EU for the GMES activities related to operational oceanography, atmospheric composition monitoring and climate monitoring.
“More information at:“http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/Press_Releases/718683?l=en
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ESA and the European Maritime Safety Agency have signed a further Agreement to ensure that satellite data are available to enhance maritime safety and help combat pollution from shipping.
The Agreement was signed at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 2 July by ESA’s Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, and the Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), Willem de Ruiter. This Agreement, which covers cooperation between the two agencies for the use of space-based systems and data in support of maritime activities, follows an earlier Agreement that expired in March this year.
The signing of the new Agreement further strengthens collaboration between ESA and EMSA for the development and use of space-based technologies with respect to keeping European seas safe.
The role of EMSA is to contribute to the enhancement of the overall maritime safety system within the European Union and support the implementation of European policy in the field of maritime safety and security. As such, one of its goals is to reduce the risk of marine pollution and to assist Member States in tracing illegal discharges at sea using satellite monitoring.
As EMSA is a key user of satellite data, ESA takes into account their requirements, both in establishing mission requirements for future operational satellite missions and instruments such as those being developed for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative, and in establishing exploitation plans for data of current and future missions.
ESA is also responsible for advising EMSA as to data available from its missions and from satellites operated by third parties for which ESA is granted rights of distribution.
While maritime transport is of fundamental importance to the world’s economy, the devastation that can result from oil spills at sea is all too obvious – as the spill in the Gulf of Mexico currently demonstrates.
The availability of satellite data in near-real time, particularly from radar such as the Advance Synthetic Aperture Radar on Envisat and in the future from the GMES Sentinel-1, is an essential way of monitoring such events. They provide wide area coverage and have the capability to detect oil slicks on the sea surface both in daylight and darkness, and through clouds.
This Agreement between ESA and EMSA and the resulting services takes significant steps in keeping European seas clean and safe.
With experts and scientists discussing space and continued scientific developments at a recent conference at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the conversation had less to do with interstellar travel and distant galaxies, and more to do monitoring strategies and systems to better understand the impacts humans are having on the world.
At the July 1 “Let’s Embrace Space” conference at the European Union/Belgium joint pavilion, the EU brought in several scientific experts and researchers from Europe and China to discuss the programs both regions are developing to better understand Earth, including the use of satellites and orbital sensors to monitor climate change, air quality, ocean mapping and disaster areas, as well as the steps Europe and China are taking to advance scientific research in those fields.
“I am amazed at the level of cooperation between Europe and China at the technical level. We are also only at the beginning of cooperation,” said Chris de Cooker, head of the European Space Administration’s international relations department. “We have better data, and we are helping each other with data. Another part to this is being able to analyze previous data so we can learn from it, and can be more up front with forecasting.”
In addition, de Cooker noted the continued growth of the ESA program, which is currently comprised of 18 European countries, and the push it is making to fully integrate all European nations into the scientific organization.
Several panelists also spoke on China’s Dragon Program, a scientific research program now in its second phase, which includes stimulating scientific exchange, symposiums and published studies between China and Europe.
“I benefit from international cooperation not just for scientific knowledge but also in terms of my own growth,” said Peng Zhang, a member of the National Satellite Meteorological Center in China. “There are certain fields of study in China with very few scientists. The Dragon Program provides us with a good platform to know the European scientists in a given field. We do benefit from European scientists, and with these agreements we not only benefit from technology, but also the funding to continue our research.”
Peng’s discussion noted China’s efforts to effectively monitor air pollutants in the country, and the current proposals being made to broaden existing ground level monitoring and air quality assessments in China.
Other panelists included Reinhard Schulte-Braucks, head of space research and development for the European Commission, who reviewed current Earth monitoring systems in place for European countries, Gao Zhihai, National Remote Sensing Center in China, who discussed Chinese satellites related to climate observation, He Ming-Xia, honorary director of Ocean Remote Sensing Institute in China, who reviewed the observatory systems in place around China for monitoring oceans, Philippe Ciais of Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et I’Environnement, and Piao Shilong, professor at Peking University, who jointly presented an overview of research related to carbon cycles around the world, and Tobias Skovbjerg Gras, a member of the space research communication for the European Commission.
The GMES Space Component (GSC) Data Access system is the interface for accessing the Earth Observation products from the GMES Space Component.
The system overall space capacity relies on several EO missions contributing to GMES, and it is continuously evolving, with new missions becoming available along time and others ending and/or being replaced.
The GMES Space Component Data Access (GSCDA) provides a comprehensive and coordinated access to all GMES space data, allowing the capacity:
-To link transparently the different EO Data Providers and the various GMES Service Providers using coordinating functions;
-To create synergy and sustainability across the various contributing missions;
-To facilitate the data access for the services and aim at long-term data reliability beyond single missions.
The GSCDA data and services are accessible in the form of DataSets, which are pre-defined collections of coherent mono- and multi-mission product. The complete list of foreseen DataSets is available in the Data Access Portfolio (click here to download the version 1.0 of the document). These DataSets have been derived from the requirements of the GMES Service Projects, and after trading-off with the overall system capacity.
The Data Access Portfolio defines the Datasets that are going to be made available to the GMES Service Projects until September 2010 and is based on the agreements reached with the GMES Contributing Missions. Available missions/sensors/product types as well as data access mechanism and delivery timeliness are desribed for each Dataset.
The GSC-Data Access project is managed by the European Space Agency as an integral part of the GMES Space Component Programme.
The project has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement no 223001.
Requests and suggestions for improvements to the presentation of information can be submitted via the ContactUs form to gmesdata@eo.esa.int for evaluation.
GMES Space Component Data Access:http://gmesdata.esa.int/web/gsc/home
The European Parliament will host within its Hemicycle in Brussels, on 26th and 27th October 2010, a high-level two-days Conference on the European space policy.
It will address the following issues: the future governance of the European space infrastructures, the evolution of the industrial policy for the space sector, its financing and, finally, its applications to serve security, defence, civil society, enterprises, climate and the environment needs. Organised for the third year in a row by Business Bridge Europe (BBE) (www.b-bridge.eu) and under the auspices of the SSIG (Sky and Space Intergroup) of the European Parliament, this event is supported by this Institution and others such as the Commission, the European Council, the European Investment Bank and ESA, as well as by numerous enterprise, large and small.
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Eurospace is pleased to announce the first release of Eurospace facts & figures 2010 survey results (with data relevant to 2009).
You can download from Eurospace internet site the complete presentation, either in PPTX format) either in PDF format
- Eurospace facts and figures complete presentation Issue 2 (expanded with methodological notes, definitions and an overview of the SME situation).
- Eurospace facts and figures, long series (1991-2009) in Constant Million Euro.
- Eurospace facts and figures questionnaire and guidelines (for reference).
- An information note explaining what is in our figures and how to understand them.
The print report is being prepared and will be released during the summer.
Eurospace would like to warmly thank all the companies in Europe that support our effort in the data collection phase.
Events Summer 2010
| Start Date | End Date | Event | Web | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28-jun-10 | 02-jul-10 | ESA Living Planet | web | Bergen, Norway |
| 29-jun-10 | 02-jul-10 | GEOBIA2010 | web | Ghent, Belgium |
| 01-jul-10 | 07-jul-10 | ISPRS Centenary Celebration framed by ISPRS Commission VII Symposium & German-Austrian-Swiss Conference for photogrammetry, remote sensing, & spatial information science | web | Vienna, Austria |
| 04-jul-10 | 04-jul-10 | 100 Years ISPRS Centenary Celebrations including ISPRS TC VII Symposium “100 Years ISPRS – Advancing Remote Sensing Science“ | web | Vienna, Austria |
| 05-jul-10 | 09-jul-10 | Space & Global Security of Humanity | web | Riga, Latvia |
| 06-jul-10 | 09-jul-10 | GI_Forum 2010 | web | Salzburg, Austria |
| 10-jul-10 | 16-jul-10 | ESRI 2010 Summits | web | San Diego, CA, U.S.A |
| 20-jul-10 | 23-jul-10 | Accuracy 2010 | web | Leicester, UK |
| 18-jul-10 | 25-jul-10 | COSPAR | web | Bremen, Germany |
| 26-jul-10 | 30-jul-10 | GeoWeb 2010 | web | Vancouver, Canada |
| 28-jul-10 | 30-jul-10 | International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT\‘10) | web | Maryland, USA |
| 03-ago-10 | 06-ago-10 | AGSE 2010 | web | Arequipa, PERU |
| 07-ago-10 | 12-ago-10 | GIslands 2010 – International Summer School on Marine Spatial Planning | web | Ponta Delgada, Azores |
| 09-ago-10 | 12-ago-10 | ISPRS Technical Commission VIII Symposium | web | Kyoto, Japan |
| 14-ago-10 | 19-ago-10 | HUNGEO 2010 World Meeting of Hungarian Geoscientists | web | Szombathely, Hungary |
| 19-ago-10 | 28-ago-10 | The 1st EUFAR Training Course “ADvanced Digital Remote sensing in Ecology and earth Sciences Summer School” | web | Tihany, Hungary |
| 26-ago-10 | 27-ago-10 | WG IV/5 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Web Mapping, Geo-processing & Services (WebMGS 2010) | web | Como, Italy |
| 26-ago-10 | 27-ago-10 | International Interdisciplinary CODATA Workshop on RISK Models and Applications | web | Berlin, Germany |
| 01-sep-10 | 03-sep-10 | RSPSoc 2010 | web | Cork, Ireland |
| 01-sep-10 | 03-sep-10 | PHOTOGRAMMETRIC COMPUTER VISION and IMAGE ANALYSIS Conference ISPRS Technical Commission III Symposium |
web | Paris, France |
| 02-sep-10 | 02-sep-10 | AGI Marine and Coastal Zone SIG | web | London, UK |
| 06-sep-10 | 09-sep-10 | FOSS4G | web | Barcelona, Spain |
| 07-sep-10 | 10-sep-10 | Forestsat 2010 | web | Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 09-sep-10 | 10-sep-10 | 2nd Symposium on Earth Observation business | web | Paris, France |
| 10-sep-10 | 18-sep-10 | The 2nd EUFAR Training Course “Training & Education for Turbulence Research via Airborne Data” | web | Hyères, France |
| 11-sep-10 | 16-sep-10 | 15th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress | web | Vancouver, Canada |
| 13-sep-10 | 15-sep-10 | 8th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications | web | Gent, Belgium |
| 13-sep-10 | 15-sep-10 | 2010 BAE Systems GXP Regional User Conference | web | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 14-sep-10 | 15-sep-10 | ESA oil and gas workshop | web | Frascati, Italy |
| 15-sep-10 | 17-sep-10 | International Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructures 2010 | web | Skopje, Macedonia |
| 15-sep-10 | 15-sep-10 | Compass10 – Annual Conference | web | Dublin, Ireland |
| 20-sep-10 | 23-sep-10 | Xth Anniversary International Scientific and Technical Conference | web | Gaeta, Italy |
| 20-sep-10 | 23-sep-10 | SPIE 2010 | web | Toulouse, France |
| 20-sep-10 | 24-sep-10 | EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference | web | Córdoba, Spain |
| 21-sep-10 | 24-sep-10 | 2nd United Nations/Austria/ESA Symposium on Small Satellite Programmes for Sustainable Development | web | Graz, Austria |
| 22-sep-10 | 24-sep-10 | GEO India 2010 | web | New Delhi, India |
| 22-sep-10 | 24-sep-10 | 2nd Joint EARSeL Special Interest Groups Workshop | web | Ghent, Belgium |
| 23-sep-10 | 23-sep-10 | CLGE General Assembly | web | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 23-sep-10 | 24-sep-10 | XX International Symposium “Modern Technologies, Education and Professional Practice in Geodesy and Related Fields | web | Albena Resor, Bulgaria |
| 24-sep-10 | 25-sep-10 | 20th United Nations/ International Astronautical Federation Workshop on GNSS Applications for Human Benefit and Development | web | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 26-sep-10 | 27-sep-10 | Air Transport: What Route to $ustainability? | web | Montreal, Canada |
| 27-sep-10 | 30-sep-10 | Remote Sensing & Hydrology Symposium 2010 | web | WY, USA |
| 27-sep-10 | 01-oct-10 | 9th EUMETSAT User Forum in Africa | web | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| 28-sep-10 | 28-sep-10 | HUMBOLDT Open Day | web | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 28-sep-10 | 28-sep-10 | 11th United Nations/International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Workshop on Small Satellites in the Service of Developing Countries | web | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 28-sep-10 | 30-sep-10 | Geospatial Intelligence Summit | web | Vienna, Austria |
| 28-sep-10 | 30-sep-10 | AGI GeoCommunity 10 | web | Stratford-upon-Avon, UK |
| 28-sep-10 | 30-sep-10 | Geospatial Defence Asia | web | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 28-sep-10 | 01-oct-10 | GIS-Pro 2010: URISA’s 48th Annual Conference for GIS Professionals | web | Florida, USA |
| 05-oct-10 | 07-oct-10 | INTERGEO | web | Köln, Germany |
| 08-oct-10 | 09-oct-10 | Conference on International Aviation Liability & Insurance: Current Issues and Controversies | web | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 11-oct-10 | 13-oct-10 | ISPRS WG I/4 Workshop on Modeling of Optical Airborne & Space Borne Sensors | web | Istambul, Turkey |
| 12-oct-10 | 12-oct-10 | Resources for your EO research, application or service | web | Frascati, Italy |
| 12-oct-10 | 14-oct-10 | “The 4C – Challenge: Communication – Coordination -Cooperation – Capacity Development” | web | Bonn, Germany |
| 13-oct-10 | 13-oct-10 | Monitoring Europe’s biodiversity in a post 2010 era:the role of remote sensing for Natura 2000 reporting and ecosystem assessment |
web | Brussels, Belgium |
| 13-oct-10 | 13-oct-10 | 1st TELEIOS User Community Workshop | web | Frascati, Italy |
| 14-oct-10 | 15-oct-10 | Fourth Coastal Altimetry Workshop | web | Porto, Portugal |
| 14-oct-10 | 17-oct-10 | Joint FIG Commission 3 and Commission Workshop “Information and Land Management. A Decade after the Millennium” | web | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 14-oct-10 | 19-oct-10 | WG V/2 Workshop on “Advances in Cultural Heritage Measurement Techniques” with International Conference on “Digital Preservation of Archaeological Heritage” | web | Kanpur, India |
| 19-oct-10 | 20-oct-10 | Be Inspired | web | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 19-oct-10 | 21-oct-10 | ENC GNSS – The European Navigation Conference on Global Navigation Satellite Systems | web | Braunschweig, Germany |
| 19-oct-10 | 22-oct-10 | GSDI 12 World Conference : Realizing Spatially Enabled Societies | web | Singapure, Singapure |
| 20-oct-10 | 22-oct-10 | The 16th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference | web | Milan,Italy |
| 20-oct-10 | 22-oct-10 | CSSP International Workshop | web | Tuscany, Italy |
| 20-oct-10 | 23-oct-10 | The 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia | web | Seoul, Korea |
| 24-oct-10 | 27-oct-10 | GIS for National Security, Defence & Emergency Management Conference | web | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 25-oct-10 | 29-oct-10 | 8th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE2010) | web | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| 26-oct-10 | 27-oct-10 | Crucial issues of the European Space Policy | web | Brussels, Belgium |
| 26-oct-10 | 28-oct-10 | ESRI, EMEA User Conference | web | Rome, Italy |
| 28-oct-10 | 29-oct-10 | Geomatics Atlantic 2010 conference | web | New Brunswick, Canada |
| 01-nov-10 | 01-nov-10 | Earth Observation Satellites | web | London, UK |
| 01-nov-10 | 05-nov-10 | 31st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS2010) | web | Hanoi, Vietnam |
| 03-nov-10 | 05-nov-10 | Earth Observation for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Science | web | Frascati, Italy |
| 08-nov-10 | 12-nov-10 | ‘Dynamic interlinkages between social and ecosystem changes: Towards a Europe-Africa partnership’ | web | Hulshort, the Netherlands |
| 09-nov-10 | 10-nov-10 | Smart Grids, Smart Cities – Smart Future | web | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 10-nov-10 | 10-nov-10 | GeoDATA 2010 | web | Glasgow,UK |
| 15-nov-10 | 18-nov-10 | ASPRS 2010 Fall Conference | web | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| 16-nov-10 | 19-nov-10 | United Nations/Thailand/European Space Agency (ESA) Workshop on Space Law “Activities of States in Outer Space in Light of New Developments: Meeting International Responsibilities and Establishing National Legal and Policy Frameworks” | web | Bangkok, Thailand |
| 18-nov-10 | 19-nov-10 | Remote Sensing Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling – Workshop | web | Cologne, Germany |
| 23-nov-10 | 23-nov-10 | Learn how to turn innovation into commercial success | web | Brussels, Belgium |
| 29-nov-10 | 29-nov-10 | IET Earth Observation Satellites seminar | web | London, UK |
| 29-nov-10 | 03-dec-10 | The Fifth Session of the International Conference Geotunis 2010 | web | Tunisia |
| 30-nov-10 | 01-dec-10 | European LiDAR Mapping Forum | web | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 30-nov-10 | 02-dec-10 | NAV10: Position, Location, Timing: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere | web | London, UK |
| 07-dec-10 | 10-dec-10 | GEO India | web | New Delhi, India |
| 17-jan-11 | 21-jan-11 | 1st Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry | web | Frascati, Italy |
| 18-jan-11 | 21-jan-11 | Geospatial World Forum | web | Hyderabab, India |
| 24-jan-11 | 27-jan-11 | Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI) 2011 | web | London, UK |
| 24-jan-11 | 28-jan-11 | PolInSAR 2011 Workshop | web | Frascati, Italy |
| 07-feb-11 | 09-feb-11 | 6th EARSeL Workshop REMOTE SENSING OF LAND ICE AND SNOW – Remote Sensing of Snow and Glaciers: Cryosphere, Hydrology & Climate interactions | web | Bern, Switzerland |
| 15-feb-11 | 17-feb-11 | ISU 15th Annual International Symposium: “The International Space Station: Maximizing the Return from Extended Operations” | web | Strasbourg, France |
| 15-mar-11 | 18-mar-11 | 8th International Specialized Forum GEOFORM+\‘2011 | web | Moscow, Russia |
| 30-mar-11 | 01-apr-11 | ESA EUSC JRC 2011 Conference on Image Information Mining | web | Ispra, Italy |
| spring-10 | spring-10 | Development and cooperation in the Mediterranean region using satellite services | web | Rabat, Morocco |
Within the execution of its functions, ESA regularly monitors and analyses the European space industry. Those studies are intended to provide information in support of ESA’s industrial, procurement and programmatic policies.
The Industrial Policy Division (Procurement Department, Directorate of Resources Management) intends to issue around October 2010 an Invitation To Tender in Open Competition, having as subject EUROPEAN SPACE INDUSTRY: ACTIVITY FORECAST.
The price range for the envisaged study is 200-300Keuro and the study should be completed by September 2011.
Companies from all ESA Member States may submit a bid.
The main objective is to study the evolution and perspectives of the European space industry and its main activity domains.
The starting point will be individual questionnaires completed by space companies, the analysis performed in the context of a parallel study, and the data and analysis from previous surveys of the European Space Industry, the latest covering 2003-2007.
The study activities will include the analysis, modeling of scenarios and estimation of the future evolution (range 10-15 years) of markets, funding, capacity, workload, industrial organization… affecting the situation of the European space industry and the national situation of each ESA Member State.
Forecasts, together with their respective assumptions and confidence, shall be produced on trends and their evolution, markets (accessible and total), workload (recurring, development, other activities), structural evolution and reorganizations.
The estimation should be made for the whole space sector, for each of its activity domains and address each of ESA’s member states.
The likely constraints under which the space industry will have to conduct its activities in the near-mid term shall be considered. The study shall conclude with reasoned recommendations on industrial, procurements and programmatic measures having as objective the improvement of the European Industry situation and a better balance of returns.