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COPERNICUS SPACE COMPONENT DATA OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION BY ESA FOR

THE AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY

Steffen Dransfeld, Véronique Amans

CSCDA operations

Pierre Potin, Bianca Hoersch

Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Mission Managers

ESA Earth Observation Ground Segment and Mission Operations Department

Table of Contents

1. Overview of the Copernicus Space Component

2. Status of the Sentinel Dedicated Missions

3. Copernicus Contributing Missions

4. Data Warehouse phase 2 (2014-2020) data offer

5. Access rights

6. How to access Copernicus Space Component (CSC) data

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The Copernicus Space Component

- Copernicus Dedicated Sentinel missions

- Copernicus Contributing Missions (CCMs), offered by entities having a contract with ESA for the

delivery of EO data

S1: Radar Mission

S2: High Resolution Optical Mission

S3: Medium Resolution Imaging and Altimetry Mission

S4: Geostationary Atmospheric Chemistry Mission

S5P: Low Earth Orbit Atmospheric Chemistry Precursor Mission

S5: Low Earth Orbit Atmospheric Chemistry Mission

S6 (Jason-CS): Altimetry Mission4

S2A : 23.06.2015

S1A : 3.04.2014

S1B : 25.04.2016

S3A :

16.02.2016

Sentinels: Copernicus dedicated missions

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Sentinel–1: C-band SAR mission

� Data continuity of ERS and ENVISAT missions

� Copernicus radar imaging mission for ocean, land, emergency

� Applications:

• monitoring sea ice zones and the arctic environment

• surveillance of marine environment (e.g. oil spill monitoring)

• maritime security (e.g. ship detection)

• wind, wave, current monitoring

• monitoring of land surface motion (subsidence, landslide, tectonics, volcanoes, etc.)

• support to emergency / risk management (e.g. flooding, etc.) and humanitarian aid in crisis situations

• mapping of land surfaces: agriculture, forest, water and soil, etc.

SENTINEL-1 Mission Profile

� C-band Radar instrument� Sun-synchronous orbit� 12-day repeat cycle at Equator

(6 days with 2 satellites)� 4 exclusive SAR modes

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• BLUE: European coverage EEA-39

Acquisitions in IW mode, VV+VH

polarisation (5m x20m), every cycle,

ascending and descending

• BLACK: Acquisitions in IW mode, VV+VH

polarisation, every 12 days either

ascending or descending.• Repeat over parts of SE-Asia IW VV+VH

currently every 24 days, plus

complementary acquisitions in IW VV

• North Andes and Tanzania covered with

lower frequency (dedicated campaigns

for forestry monitoring)

• Agriculture outside Europe: mainly

based on requirements from

international initiatives (e.g. GEOGLAM)

• Forestry outside Europe: mainly based

on requirements from• GFOI

• regions with high risk for illegal logging

• Mostly cloudy tropical rainforests

Sentinel-1 observation scenarioAgriculture and forestry priority areas

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use

Sentinel-1 observation scenarioExample of one 12-day repeat cycle

Regularly published online at: https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-1/observation-scenario

Europe covered systematically every cycle in both ascending and descending passes (IW mode, dual polarisation VV+VH)

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Sentinel-1 MissionReaching Full Operations Capacity

SENTINEL-1A� Launched 3 Apr 2014� Fully operational

CORE GROUNDSEGMENT:� 3 X-band stations

EDRS-A:�Launch: 29 Jan 2016 � In Commissioning�User commissioning

with S1A starting May 2016

�Service use summer 2016

� + additional downlink flexibility

SENTINEL-1B� Launched 25 Apr 2016� + 100% observation capacity

CORE GROUNDSEGMENT:� 4th X-band station� additional

downlink capacity and flexibility

EDRS-C:� Launch:

2017

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Example of Land Cover application

UK map of crop classification 2015 based on Sentinel-1 data

« … coverage frequency compensates resolution… »

• Sentinel-1 has already proved to be a very relevant source of data

for agriculture monitoring, providing a very good accuracy for crop

classification (~ 90%, or better for certain classes)

• Sentinel-1A already routinely provides a full mapping of Europe

(EU/ESA/EEA-39):• Every 12 days both in ascending and descending orbits, in dual

polarisation VV+VH

• In practise, depending on latitudes / swath overlaps, more frequent

coverage is ensured in Europe

• Sentinel-1B will allow to increase this European coverage by a factor 2,

ie the S1 constellation will provide a full coverage at least every 6 days,

both in ascending and descending

• Relevant agriculture areas are regularly covered worldwide

• Global land coverage frequency will be increased in full operations

capacity, early 2017

Sentinel-1 Concluding remarks

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use

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The Sentinel-2 Color “Vision”

sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-1/observation-scenario

• 13 spectral bands in the Visible

(VIS), Near Infrared (NIR), Short

Wave Infrared (SWIR)

• Ground pixel resolution of 10m,

20m, 60m (for atmospheric

correction) across a 290 km swathSPOT-5 117 km

Landsat-8 180 kmSentinel-2 290 km

Sentinel-2 Observation Scenario

Regularly published online in KML format at: https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-2/acquisition-plans

� Full capacity: � 10-day revisit at the equator with one satellite, 5 days with two satellites (2-3 days at

mid-latitudes)� Systematically all land surfaces (56° South latitude - 84° North latitude),

� Current capacity: � Europe, Africa & Greenland systematically on every orbit � Rest of the world currently within 20 days, will be progressively reduced over the coming

months to reach 10 days.

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Agricultural fields, 6 May by Sentinel-2:Sharp details on sub-field level!

Lake

Circles

Products quality status summary

Quality report regularly updated on-linehttps://sentinels.copernicus.eu/documents/247904/685211/Sentinel-2_Data_Quality_Report_03

Last update 04/05/2016

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Sentinel-2 mission outlook

1. Continued increase of data acquisition: 10 days revisit on all land masses is the goal before end 2016, using EDRS-A & 4th X-band station

2. Ease data access: MOVE TO SINGLE TILES concept (and other measures); possibility to download only a True Colour Image (RGB) ~summer 2016

3. Reprocessing of Commissioning Phase data by ~ Q3/2016

4. Feasibility study on surface reflectance (L2A) processing ->pre-operational pilot planned for summer 2016

5. Complete the constellation:…Sentinel-2B launch early 2017

ESA Data Hub provides an OPEN SOURCE Web interface

Users can set own scripts to automatically retrieve, filter

and download products

Sentinel Toolbox available as open source

software https://github.com/senbox-org

• All Sentinels acquired data are systematically downlinked and processed to generate the core products (For S1: L0, L1 GRD and L1 SLC and S2: L1C)

• ESA CSC data access is ensuring that all Sentinels core products are accessible to all usersonline

• Any user can self-register at https://scihub.copernicus.eu

• ESA delivers all Sentinel data on 24/7 basis as Near Real Time products (3 hours fromsensing) as well as Non Time Critical products (24 hours from sensing)

Sentinels Data Access Overview

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https://sentinels.copernicus.eu

Sentinel Online web portal

Copernicus users support

Data Access from previous slide

Copernicus Contributing Missions (CCMs)

Atmospheric missions

DMC Pléiades

ProbaLandsat

ALOS

DeimosSPOT-4-7

RapidEye

WV-1/2/-3GE-1

Ikonos

Quickbird

IRS-P6/P5

PROBA-V

Envisat

ERS-2

Envisat COSMO

Skymed

Radarsat

TerraSAR–X

Tandem-X

Cryosat

Jason

MetOp

Meteosat2nd Gen.

GOSAT

Scisat

ODIN

11 European/Canadian Entities (+ their partners)

…and related ground

segments, operations + data policies

More missions expected to

join, e.g. PAZ, Ingenio,

Blacksky and others.

In total access to >100

(physical) satellites

Risat

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CORE datasets procured during DWH Phase 2: 2014-2020

CORE DATASETS Description

VHR_IMAGE_2015 1 very high resolution coverage 2014-2016 (<=1m pan, ±2m MS) (Pleiades, GE-1, WV-2, WV-3, Deimos-2)

VHR_IMAGE_2018 TBD (New ITT in 2016)

VHR1-2_Urban_Atlas_2011-2013 310 Functional Urban Areas (40cm WV-2, 8-band)

HR_IMAGE_2015 2 high-resolution coverages of EEA-39 within vegetation season 2014-2015 (Spot-5, Resourcesat-2)

HR_IMAGE_2018 systematic Sentinel-2 data supply assumed

EUR_HR2_MULTITEMP 7 monthly coverages from Apr-Oct 2015 (Deimos-1, UK-DMC2)

MR_IMAGE_2015 8 monthly coverages in 2014 (Resourcesat-2 )systematic Sentinel-2 data supply as of 2015

MR_IMAGE_2018 systematic Sentinel-2/-3 data supply assumed

HR1_OPT_GLOBAL systematic Sentinel-2 data supply assumed

HR2_OPT_GLOBAL systematic Sentinel-2 data supply assumed

MR_OPT_GLOBAL/LR_OPT_GLOBAL Proba-V, systematic Sentinel-3 data supply assumed

HR2-MR1/LR_SAR_GLOBAL systematic Sentinel-1 data supply

HR2-MR1_SAR_Sea_Ice systematic Sentinel-1 data supply over CMEMS AOIs, complemented by Radarsat, TerraSar-X, Cosmo Skymed

“Single” optimised coverages

Repetitive coverage

Systematicdata supply

Data offer and access conditions are described in the “Data Access Portfolio” (DAP) document, available at

https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/web/cscda/data-offer

License perimeter for access to CORE datasets

DD

+ Download of 2014-2020 ADDitional datasets

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Optical VHR multispectral and panchromatic coverage over Europe

(VHR_IMAGE_2015)

� 137 large regions to be covered 100% cloud-free

� Acquisition years 2014-2016� <=1m pan, ±2-4 m MS� 3 data providers and 6 missions:

Pléiades, Deimos-2, Dubaisat-2, WorldView-2, WorldView-3 and GeoEye-1

� to be possibly repeated with reference year 2018

� 177 regions covered by SPOT-5 and SPOT-6 at 2.5 to 1.5 m resolution pansharpened: all zones > 95% cloud-free

Optical VHR2 Europe coverage (2011-2013)

Completed and available in CDS

archive

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Narrow

window 94%

Optical HR Pan Europe coverages

Extended

window 95%

SPOT data are already available from CDS

Contribution to Optical HR Pan Europe coverage 2015

Sentinel-2 will help fill the gaps in 2015 and will be themission fulfilling the 2018 HR Pan Europe dataset

Note: UTM projection/WGS84 and not national projection

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Optical High Resolution Pan Europe coverages

Completed and available in CDS

archive

Online license

acceptance!

Password provision for SSO account

From registration to

CCM data download

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How to access EO data available in CDS archive

FTPS for large volumes Copernicus Client (Eoli-SA) for single products

Both accessed with single user SSO account

https://spacedata.copernicus.eu

eosupport@copernicus.esa.int

(Unique CCM and Sentinel

Helpdesk)

Copernicus Space Component

Data Access Web Portal

Copernicus users support

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DWH 2.0 update

Process starting in 2017: COM collecting new/updated requirements from Copernicus Services and via User Forum/Copernicus Committee for:• Updating the current requirements document if needed• Defining the requirements for DWH2020+

� Take the opportunity to provide your requirements!