Systematic and Coordinated Satellite Observation Plan for GEO Forest Carbon Tracking

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1 Systematic and Coordinated Satellite Observation Plan for GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Frank Martin Seifert CEOS POC for GEO FCT European Space Agency

2 ESA, the European Space Agency, is an international organisation responsible for: Space science, research & technology Space applications ESA is running: space activities and programmes a long term space policy a specific industrial policy coordination with national space programmes 10/2004-3

3 ESA member states 18 ESA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Canada takes part in some projects a cooperation agreement. 30 years experience 3 billion per year 5 centres in Europe 60 satellites developed 2000 staff members 15 missions in operation 01/2004-7

4 GEO FCT Requirements

5 GEO FCT Requirements GEO FCT internal request for CEOS support arrived 29 May 2009 from GEO Secretariat CEOS Agencies have been aware on up-coming GEO request since March 2009 (SIT-23) Requests for data: Observation starting in Summer 2009: all sensors over all geographical zones (7 national demonstrators) Provision of archived data / products for past years Covers only satellites operated by CEOS Agencies

6 National Demonstrators Guyana Borneo Cameroon Mexico Tasmania Brazil Forest cover from ESA s GlobCover project Tanzania 20*20 km 2 FRA 2010

7 CEOS Response to FCT Requirements

8 CEOS Organisation CEOS POC: Frank Martin Seifert (ESA) SAR and Optical data provider Agencies LSI support for optical data SAR co-ordination between ASI, CSA, DLR, ESA, JAXA Involvement of both CEOS Chair and SIT Chair Telecons with CEOS Principals (Providers Agencies) Additional support in various CEOS Agencies e.g. 3 other persons at ESA to support CEOS POC

9 CEOS Response to FCT Req.: Schedule June 22: coordination meeting of SAR providers (ESRIN) ASI, CSA, ESA, JAXA, DLR (presentation) June 23: involvement of both CEOS Chair and SIT Chair: Telecons with CEOS Principals (Providers Agencies) June 25-26: meeting other CEOS optical providers (INPE, ISRO) July 1-3: 2nd GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium (Chiang Rai) Early July: issue of CEOS Response to FCT Requirements doc. Focus on short term activities in 2009 End August: 2nd coordination meeting of SAR providers (JAXA) Sept.: issue of Long-term CEOS Acquisition Strategy document Focus on longer term activities for 2010 onwards

10 Coordination - Optical Sensors -SAR Sensors

11 CNES CONAE GISTDA INPE ISRO JAXA, METI NASA, USGS 2 nd GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium CEOS LSI Constellation Space Agency Members

12 Single Landsat scene coverage: 104 scenes Hansen, et al With single scenes, cloud cover makes tropical forest monitoring nearly impossible

13 Adding 3-5 images per path/row clears most clouds but this has been cost prohibitive Hansen, et al scenes

14 Provision of Optical Data / Products CNES: Response expected beginning of July USGS: USGS proposed EROS as data hub free access to Landsat archive INPE: assessment has started CBERS-2B data also over Tanzania & Cameroon Need to cope with CBERS-2B recent problems ISRO: IRS data discussion GISTDA: THEOS data over SE Asia KARI: Kompsat-2 not in LSI constellation not suitable for NDs, but for Commercial providers will be contacted directly by GEO

15 SAR Horizontal Collaboration L-Band C-Band X-Band JAXA ESA CSA ASI DLR - C-Band coverage (3-day snapshots ) for the Arctic Ocean - Winter Pole to Coast InSAR coverage of the Antarctic - Greenland and Major Canadian Icefields - Super

16 ALOS/PALSAR (ascending) Observation Plan Covering National Demonstrators CYCLE 28 12th Jun. - 27th Jul CYCLE 29 28th Jul. - 11th Sep Observation mode: Fine Beam 34

17 NDs Data Acquisition Status - Borneo island 17

18 Envisat s nominal mission scenario (Kiruna-Artemis) The yellow area shows the ASAR wide swath coverage for which a Real Time transmission with Artemis is theoretically possible Area get smaller every year due to Artemis orbital movement White areas: Recorder is needed Real Time acquisition via Artemis This coverage is indicative and assumes the capability to acquire at ESRIN all potential visible Envisat-Artemis orbits High Bit Rate (ASAR WS, IM, AP) - Real Time

19 ASAR Capacity Analysis - Americas No station / DRS coverage Hurricane monitoring Cal/Val Site Duty cycle availability determined by large projects However, after checking capacity Brazil (some ) and Guayana can be acquired

20 July SAR 1-3, 2009, Summary Chiang Rai, Thailand National Demonstrators Brazil (parts) Guyana Mexico Cameroon Tanzania Borneo Tasmania ALOS - PALSAR planned planned planned planned planned planned planned Radarsat - 1 / 2 discussion (partially) full area coverage full area coverage full area coverage Envisat ASAR feasible (partially) feasible Not feasible feasible feasible Not feasible feasible (TBC) Cosmo - Skymed full area coverage full area coverage full area coverage full area coverage TerraSAR-X o.k. some restrictions not feasible discussion

21 CEOS Response to FCT Req.: Status Provision of SAR data / products JAXA acquisition plan July-September: full ND coverage CSA-ESA coordination of C-band is on-going X-Band (ASI, DLR) internal capacity check, access via AO requests filled by GEO FCT Provision of Optical data / products Response from CNES expected beginning of July USGS: proposed EROS as data hub & Landsat archive INPE: assessment has started. CBERS-2B data also over Tanzania & Cameroon. Need to cope with CBERS-2B recent problems. ISRO: discussion KARI: Kompsat-2 not in LSI constellation

22 Future Schedule Early July: issue of CEOS Response to FCT Requirements document Focus on short term activities in 2009 Summer: bi-weekly acquisition check End August: 2nd coordination meeting of SAR providers (JAXA) / optical sensors (LSI)? 8-10 Sept.: CEOS SIT-24 meeting (Eumetsat) Sept.: issue of Long-term CEOS Acquisition Strategy document Focus on longer term activities for 2010 onwards