Earth Observation Discovery Day20 November 2015
Introduction to Space & the Harwell Campus
Catherine Mealing-JonesDirector of Growth
UK Space Agency
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The UK and Space
Over 50 years involvement in space
- As a provider of systems
- As a user of data services
The UK Space Agency leads our civil space Programme
- active Internationally, in Europe and
Nationally
The space sector in the UK is recognised as a
- critical national infrastructure (CNI)
- and a major contributor to UK Growth ambitions
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Three discrete segments: • upstream space industry (infrastructure and technology),
• downstream space industry (direct space services)
• the wider “space-enabled” economy (value-added applications)
What is the Space Economy?
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Why are we holding the event here?
A vibrant international community
– Knowledge & people exchange
– Collaborative working: industry, academia and public
sector
– From start-ups to corporate HQs
Direct employment:
– 200 space-sector workers in 2010
– 500+ in 2015
– Targeting 1000+ by 2020, 5000 by 2030
But much wider impact as a focal point:
– Providing expertise and facilities to support industry
and academia (RAL Space, ESA ECSAT & Satellite
Applications Catapult)
– Links across the UK to regional centres of expertise
– Internationally significant, attracting companies to the
UK
A physical representation of the UK’s strategy
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Innovate UK etc)
Harwell’s role in the UK Strategy ?
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Space for Smarter Government
The How: Dialogue - Processes – Outputs – Outcomes
Developing awareness
of space solutions,
data and products
Finding & establishing
mechanism to deliver
space solution
Operational
services
Consolidate
requirement across
the government
“We want to help public sector save money,
innovate and make more effective policy
decisions”
and
“Enable growth through: early public sector
adoption and utilisation
UK Government leadership by providing
support to exports”
What we do:
- Raise Awareness,
- Demonstrate feasibility
- Explore and consolidate reqts
- Create the relationships and
conditions for satellite
enabled data & services
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Stephen Lovegrove Permanent Secretary
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chair of cross-Government Earth Observation Working Group (EOWG)
• “Satellites and Commercial Applications of Space” identified as one of 8
Great emerging technologies (2013)
• Government’s Horizon Scanning Programme steered by Cabinet
Secretary’s Advisory Group
• Ministerial-chaired meetings on challenges and opportunities of emerging
technologies identified the need to improve and join up government use
of satellite observation data
• Earth Observation Working Group convened (Summer 2015)
• Against the background of considerable work underway in Government
already
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Background and Context
Flood Analysis
Aims of the Day
A shared understanding of the opportunities & barriers
• Better awareness and understanding of the policy needs
• Better understanding of how earth observations can meet those challenges, now and
in the future
Greater use of earth observations across HMG
• explore common Government requirements to harness efficiencies and co-ordinate
existing activity
• break down barriers to uptake and improve collaboration and reuse
• understand delivery and procurement models
Identification of tangible actions or deliverables
• to be developed into an action plan by EOWG
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Galileo Satellite (artists impression)
Launched 11 Sept 2015
Themes of the Day
• Is there a capability?
• What is the policy ask – now or in the future?
• What can be done to meet the gap / policy ask?
• How could that be delivered?
- effectively and efficiently
- collaboration
- funding/procurement
- new models / structural change
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Satellite image of Kathmandu
following the Nepal earthquake
(Government use of satellite
data for emergency response):
Professor Ian Boyd Chief Scientific Adviser
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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The Public Sector Policy Ask
Overview of public policy involvement
• Government departments involved: BIS, CO, DECC, Defra, DCLG, DFID, DfT, HO,
Go-Science, MoD and UKSA
• Different levels of EO understanding across departments
Progress of the cross Government EOWG
• Identifying generic and specific public sector needs and requirements
• Government - a skilled customer?
• Towards step change improvement in public policy delivery and driving sectorial
growth in the UK
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Introductionwww.thinkdefence.co.uk
Drivers of changeWhat has stimulated us to start thinking differently?
• Policy challenges
• Recognition of the ongoing capability revolution
• The need for Government to embrace this - budget constraints, improving efficiency
• Technological change
Operational EO becomes a reality
• integration/assimilation of multiple sources of data including EO
• Regular updates and reliable, consistent delivery
• Greater definition and higher quality of information
• Cloud computing involving enhanced data handling
• Better business models
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Direction of travelThe current use of EO across Government
• Small sectors of policy, often at sub-departmental levels
• Usually involving in-house technical skills
An example of the transition required for future use of EO
• Step 1: Defra has gathered EO skills and expertise in a CoE in EO. This model could
be extended to include other capability across Government
• Step 2: Re-task this CoE to be the ‘intelligent customer’, transducing the policy needs
in to a user specification that can elicit a helpful industry response
• Step 3: Build a strong collaborative interaction with industry
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Thinking so far
Set up policy-relevant problem for industry to solve
• Define generic capabilities in terms of problems that present themselves at different
temporal and spatial scales, and also their dynamism
Three generic capabilities that might need different EO solutions
• Emergency Response and Management - planning, response and recovery decision
making
• Change Detection - environmental monitoring and definition of initial state
• Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance - real time monitoring situations
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The business model of the future
• Government (non) ownership of capability and market building?
• Open data policy in Government and bespoke products
• Making the most of increasingly available public data sets
• UK Government as an early adopter
• Pay for information, not capability and only pay for what we need
• Source once use many times
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RPA: UK Hedge data
The Ask
Government
• How can we be a better customer?
• Are there specific examples that we could ask industry to deliver on that could be used to
illustrate the advantages of EO across multiple policy areas simultaneously?
Industry
• What are the barriers industry face in providing EO services to the UK government?
• What kind of business models can you offer that would meet government requirements?
• Are you preparing to provide services based on assimilating multiple data sources with EO?
• Under the current financial climate how can we work best together that would enable the UK
government to become early adopters of your EO products and drive sectoral growth?
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Applications
End-to-end Earth Observation
Overview
Open Floor
Q&A Session
Facilitated by Mark HampsonSatellite Applications Catapult
Q&A Session and Ground Rules
Based on the high level policy ask and the industry overview, this is your opportunity to:
- clarify your understanding
- delve a bit deeper into topics of interest
- challenge what you have heard so far
- explore any underpinning assumptions, obstacles and opportunities
If you have a question or wish to answer, please:
- raise your hand
- wait until the Session Facilitator invites you to speak
- use the microphone offered
- clearly state your name, your organisation and which sector of the audience your question is directed to
i.e. Government, Upstream, Downstream, Value added, Industry
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What next……?
Lunch!
- Buffet Lunch in Demo Room and Spectrum
- Visit the Operations Room Demonstration behind reception desk
Demos running at 12:15 & 12:30
- Ask a Question/Talk to a Catapult expert – “Happy to Help” desk by the stairs
Logistics:
- Moving between rooms this afternoon and dividing wall going up
- Please place bulky personal belongings at back of Jupiter
Timings:
- Starting promptly at 12:45
And it gets more interactive!!!!!!
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LUNCH BREAK
BACK IN HERE @12:45
FOR SYNDICATE SESSION BRIEFING
Welcome Back
Sara Huntingdon and John Vesey
Space for Smarter Government Programme
Syndicate Session Overview
AIM Expose cross cutting requirements/challenges for three topic areas & generate ideas of how they could be addressed
OUTPUTS Summary of key findings from each group and suggested priority areas for actions to take forwards
Syndicate 1 – Emergency Response - Stay here (Saturn)
Chair - Stuart Wainwright (Cabinet Office)
Syndicate 2 – Change Detection - Next door (Jupiter)
Chair - Ian Davidson (Defra)
Syndicate 3 – ISR Real time monitoring (Mars)
Chair - Chris Millward (MOD)
Coffee Break at 14:30 and back in here to give feedback to everyone at 14:45
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Agenda for Syndicates (~90 mins)
Rough timings below:
- Introductions (~5 mins) - All
- Aims and Policy Overview (~5-10 mins) – Chairperson
- Clarification/Questions on Policy Overview (~5-10 mins) – All
- Brainstorm ideas (now, future, barriers/opps) (~15-20mins) – All (with Facilitator)
- Prioritise (~20-25 mins) – All (with Facilitator)
- Action Planning (~ 20 mins) – All (with Facilitator)
- Agree feedback mechanism – All (if not Chair/Facilitator)
Coffee Break 14:30 – 14:45 and then promptly back to Saturn
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