Welcome to the National Centre for Earth Observation

UKSA/ISRO Joint Working Group

Andy ShawDirector of Knowledge Exchange

University of Reading

29 March 2011

Mission statement

• To be a world leading centre in exploiting Earth Observation (EO) to address the challenges of climate and environmental change.

Introducing NCEO - key roles:

... ~£6M per annum investment

... to develop UK national capability in EO science and applications:- directed research programme

- informatics

- EO services and facilities

- training and outreach

... focal point for international collaboration

Network of 100+ UK

researchers

Directorate at University of

Reading

Cryosphere

NCEO Science: the big picture

Cryosphere

& flooding

Dynamic Earth

Carbon,

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Core challenge: using EO to test Earth system models stringently

so that we can help develop them to make better predictions

Geohazards

HazardousWeather

&Flooding

Cryosphere

Atmospheric Composition

CarbonCycles

EO for Climate (Earth system)Diagnosis & Prediction

Data Assimilation

Christchurch Earthquake• Improving our understanding of earthquake dynamics

Monitoring Polar Oceans

• Ocean topography from Cryosat-2

OBSERVATIONS MODEL PREDICTION

ESA Climate change initiative

- €75million programme

- Major UK leadership

ECV Science Leadercloud_cci DWD (OU/RAL)

ozone_cci BIRA (RAL, U Cam)

aerosol_cci DLR/FMI (RAL,OU,U Swan)

ghg_cci U Bremen (U Leic)

sst_cci U Edinburgh

landcover_cci UCL (UKMO Hadley)

sealevel_cci CLS (Logica, ECMWF)

oceancolour_cci Plymouth Marine Lab

glaciers_cci U. Zurich (U Leeds/Bristol)

fire _cci U.Alcala (U Leic)

International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC)

at Harwell

- £40m investment- focus for international

collaboration- major focus on EO and

climate monitoring

Earth Observation at ISIC

ISIC Visualisation and Application Centre

Facility for Climate and Environment Monitoring from

Space

Thank you ...

andy.shaw@nceo.ac.uk

www.nceo.ac.uk