Andrea Minchella29 June 2009, D1L1

How to Access EO Data

How to become an ESA EO Principal Investigator

More Information at http://eopi.esa.int/

Data policy defined by ESA Member States:

to stimulate a balanced development of Science, Public Utility and Commercial Applications, consistent with the mission objectives, to maximize the beneficial use of data from ESA EO satellites.

Project purpose

Category 2 use

Commercial use

Category 1 use

Research, Applications, Development

Distribution responsible

competing Distributing Entities

using ESA facilities and/or agreements with

non-ESA stations

esausing ESA

facilities/stations

Data costs

Data costs defined by competing Distributing Entities

Costs of reproduction

Most of ESA data (e.g. MERIS)available only through Cat.1

Most of ESA data (e.g. MERIS)available only through Cat.1

(A)SAR data available in Cat.1 or Cat.2

(A)SAR data available in Cat.1 or Cat.2

Free on InternetFree on Internet

Cat.1 use Terms & ConditionsCat.1 use Terms & Conditions

ESA EO Data Policy

Category 1 use: Terms & ConditionsPre-condition for access to Category-1 data. Main points:

• to use the data provided for Category 1 use only within the project team(i.e. PI and co-PIs) and only for the purpose described in the project proposal

i.e. no data redistribution outside the Cat.1 use project team

• to widely publish the project results in scientific publications or presentations

with data citation: “[mission or instrument] Data provided by European Space Agency” (to facilitate web retrieval of publications, and subsequent ESA reporting on mission/instrument achievements)

Each PI shall sign the Category 1 use Terms & Conditions (http://eopi.esa.int/files/terms )

Types of Category-1 Access

Products systematically available on the Internet

Fast Registration, any time, free of charge (Internet access)

Products available on specific request

Full Proposal, any time, reproduction cost

Products offered within an Announcement of Opportunity

Full Proposal fitting set objectives, time restrictions, normally free of charge

Products available via a Registration

• Complete list available at: http://eopi.esa.int/files/regproducts

The list currently includes:• MERIS RR and AATSR worldwide• MERIS FR data over Europe and North

America• All ASAR Medium resolution products• Altimeter data• Atmospheric sensors data• Access to TPM collections (e.g. Landsat or

MODIS in European coverage, Proba…)

Depending on product type, access can be provided to the last weeks of acquisitions or to the overall archives

Registration/Proposal Contents

Cover Page

Data Requirements Products

Team Composition, Experience, Innovation and Contribution

Detailed Description and Schedule

Other Data used

Upload a file

Participants to the project, Team expertise, Anticipated results

Scientific rationale, Proposed methodological and technical approach, Schedule

Additional information

http://eopi.esa.int/category1

Project title, study-area and contact information

Type and amount of needed products

Full proposal

Registration

Cover Page

Data Requirements Products

Terms and Conditions online

Project title, study-area and contact information

Type of needed products

http://eopi.esa.int/registration

http://eopi.esa.int

Registration/Proposal Feedback Time

Registration

Full proposal

Immediate acceptance,Access to data provided typically within 2 working days from acceptance

Scientific ReviewNotification about review outcome and information about eventual amount of data authorised to the project (“quota”) provided within 6-8 weeks, typically

Cost of the data

• Prices are published online (EOPI):– ENVISAT: http://eopi.esa.int/files/ENVISATcost– ERS: http://eopi.esa.int/files/ERScost– TPM: http://eopi.esa.int/files/TPMcost

15 + 80 €*15 €MERIS FR (650 Km length)

100 €75 €PALSAR/PRISM/AVNIR-2 (out of zone)75 €50 €PALSAR/PRISM/AVNIR-2 (in zone)25 + 60 €25 €SAR

25 + 80 €25 €ASAR IM/AP (100 Km length)FutureArchive

* Free (FTP) over Europe and North America, as part of the systematically available data

Reporting

• PIs shall submit an annual progress report, giving the current project status and informing about results and achievements.

• Submission of progress reports is done either directly to ESA (EOPI Portal) or via presentations to ESA workshops or conferences (duly recorded in the proceedings) or via delivery to ESA of a copy of publication(s) in scientific reviews.

• Reporting can be used to request additional data not originally foreseen in the accepted proposal or to request an increase in the amount of agreed data (in both cases a justification for the new request shall be provided).

Results

Published results may be advertised on the EO PI or ESA portal nature GRLGRL

How to get data provided from ESA

More Information at http://earth.esa.int/

EOLI is the Earthnet OnLine Interactive catalogue. It is the ESA client for the Earth Observation (EO), multi-mission, catalogue and ordering services.

The EOLI – Stand Alone (SA) Client provides access to the online ESA catalogues of EO products, allowing the visualisation of quick-looks and online ordering.

http://earth.esa.int/EOLi/EOLi.html

Browsing & Ordering data

Rolling archives:

The multi-mission On-line Archive (Rolling Archive) consists of servers available at the three ESA acquisition stations of Kiruna, ESRIN and Matera. Access is given to ERS, ENVISAT and TPM data

Envisat Web File Server (EWFS):

It allows users to download a subset of ASAR, MERIS or AATSR data available online covering only a selected geographic region

Accessing online data [1]

MERCI web interface, gives access to global MERIS Reduced Resolution data and Envisat/ERS (A)ATSR archived data

25 TBytes of MERIS RR data

25 TBytes of MERIS RR data

Accessing online data [2]

Tools & Events for ESA PIs

More Information at http://earth.esa.int/resources/softwaretools/

Basic ERS & Envisat (A)ATSR

and MERIS Toolbox(BEAM)

Basic ERS & Envisat SAR

Toolbox(BEST)

Basic ERS & Envisat

Atmospheric Toolbox(BEAT)

Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Tool(POLSARPRO)

GOCE User Toolbox (GUT)

ESA EO User Toolboxes

• Software ‘Toolboxes’ instigated by ESA contracts.• Each Toolbox is a collection of software tools to help the remote

sensing community to exploit ESA-TPM data.• New generation to contain scientific tutorials prepared with

Universities and practical case studies using real EO data.• Offered to the user community free-of-charge

SMOSToolbox

in planningBasic Radar Altimeter Toolbox

(BRAT)

Next ESASAR Toolbox

(NEST)

Forthcoming events

The 6th International Workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry” will be hosted in ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy from 30th of November through 4th December 2009.

More information: http://earth.esa.int/fringe09/

The 2010 European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium follows the previous successful ENVISAT Symposia in Montreux (2007), Salzburg (2004), Gothenburg (2000), Florence (1997), Hamburg (1993) and Cannes (1992). The event will be held in Bergen, Norway from 28 June to 2 July 2010.

More information: http://www.esa.int/LivingPlanet2010/