Prof. Stephen Briggs
Senior Adviser, Earth Observation

European Space Agency
Slide 1

Industry Revenue Profile
€911m
€786m

€419m

Total revenue has grown from €419m
in 2006 to €911m in 2014

8 year growth rate of
11.8% p.a. (cagr)
2012:2014 = 7.6%

Large and medium companies
account for 60% of revenues.

Credit: EARSC/ESA
Slide 2

Percentage Revenues by Activity
European Companies are active
throughout the value chain
Data selling activities represent a 29%
share of the market at €270m.
This represents a growth of 5% since
2012
The information services part of thebusiness represents 51% of the market
or €462m.

This represents a growth of 72% since2012 (31% per annum).
Credit: EARSC/ESA

Slide 3

Types of Customer
50% of revenues are coming from public
sector operational customers at different
levels (plus 15% R&D).
Around 4% comes from Internationalorganisations.
Around 30% of revenues is coming fromsales to other industrial customers.
This shows an aggregate picture of 2012 &2014 as a few large contracts are changing
the year-to-year picture quite significantly.

Credit: EARSC/ESA
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From Science to Applications and ServicesServices Development

Applications Development

Science and Methods Development

1990

2000

2010

Slide 5Customised Services for Energy ….
• Renewable Energy• Resources assessment (Solar, Wind, Snow),• On-Shore Operations• Seismic Quality Mapping• Precision Land Motion• Off-Shore Operations••••

Wind/wave/tide/current climatologies
SAR based Bathymetry Mapping
Iceberg detection and tracking
Sea ice analysis• Environmental Impact• Land (Oil Sands - Shell), Marine (Gulf of Mexico - BP)• Sustainable Development Reporting• ESAPopulation
dynamics
in line with Global Reporting Initiative
UNCLASSIFIED – ForOfficial Use(GRI) guidelines (Dam construction, Brazil - Suez)

Slide 6

Example : Ice/Wind/Wave/Current- Off-shore Operations

Fully CommercialServices Contract
2009 – 2014
Caspian Sea• EO Services• For seepage slick mapping now a (modest) commercial market,• Routine utilisation by oil & gas operators of••••

EO derived wind/wave/tide/current climatologies for offshore operations
SAR based Bathymetry Mapping
Iceberg detection and tracking
Sea ice analysis

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use• One Large Services contract in place – AGIP KCO

Slide 7Renewable Energy : Hydropower
Digital Elevation Model
Land Cover (ENVISAT/SAR)

Weather Conditions (MSG)

Snow Cover Extent (ENVISAT/MERIS)

via Hydrological Model

Water Run Off Forecast

Austrian Alps
Scandinavia
Slide 8

GOCE for pinpointing Hydrocarbons

Reguzzoni et al. Geophysical Journal International (2013)

Slide 9

EO Services : New Developments

Land Motion for Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)
100%

LegendProduction Wells

90%

Maintenance Sites• TerraSAR-X : increased Spatial& Temporal resolution,

Fault Structures
Fault Structures

80%

Phase 2 - Velocity, Masked

70%

Surface Movement Rate [mm/year]-25,4 - -24

60%-23,9 - -20-19,9 - -16

50%• Gas storage site in Germany(E.oN),-15,9 - -12-11,9 - -8

40%

-7,99 - -4
-3,99 - 030%

0,001 - 4
4,01 - 8

Rel. Bodenbewegung [%]20%

8,01 - 12

Rel. Druck [%]10%

12,1 - 16
16,1 - 20

Rel. Druck - Abgetastet [%]20,1 - 24

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10.08.2010

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06.07.2009

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33353448°3'0"N0%14.11.2007

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Vergleich PSI - DGPS (Berner Software, Fixe Basis)

Surface Movement [mm]14,0000
12,0000

Berner Software Update

10,0000

PSI Result

8,00006,0000• Technically challenging – nonlinear surface motion &heterogeneous surface
conditions,• Comparison with known fault
structure, in-situ gas pressure
and improved DGPS
processing,• EO-based land motion
correlates well with known
spatial & temporal in-situ,• Complete geo-mechanicalmodel of reservoir needed
for full understanding.

4,00002,00000,000014.11.2007-2,0000

22.02.2008

01.06.2008

09.09.2008

18.12.2008

28.03.2009

06.07.2009-4,0000
Date

14.10.2009

22.01.2010

02.05.2010

10.08.2010

18.11.2010

Slide 10

Industrial follow-on contract
Transport infrastructure monitoring–ESA project - Use of PS InSAR to monitor land
deformation related threats to railway
infrastructure (250K€ )–Follow-on contract:– Historic baseline assessment and monitoring
impact of construction activities for Grand
Paris metro construction project (200kmtrack and 68 new stations)– Service Provider CLS (Altamira)– Contract value – 4.5M€

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official UseSlide 11

Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2A launched on 23 June 2015

Data available publicly after end ofcommissioning phase in Oct. 2015
https://sentinel.esa.int/

290 km

Slide 12Forest Monitoring for REDD+ (GFOI)
e.g.Amazon: S-2 full resolution

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13 spectral bands in VIS/NIR/SWIR
Spatial resolution: 10m / 20m / 60 m
Swath: 290 km
5 days revisit at the Equator (with 2 spacecrafts)
Systematic coverage between 84°N and 56°SSlide 13

Certification of Sustainable Forest
Management (FSC)
Clear cuts & retention
trees (SPOT)No retention trees
Retention trees
TotallyRetention trees on clear-cuts
Number236184

Accuracy %
87.0
77.0
79.8

Error (m)-50-40-30-20-1001020304050
SumStandard
error

Buffer zon
Number
00
000
14
16332
139
10.5

Error (m)
-50
-40
-30
-20
-100
1020
30
4050
Summa
Standard
error

Status of fire breaks(Cosmo-SkyMed)

Denis Alder
Consulting

Eyreconsulting• Evaluate EO “operationalbest practices” for FSCcertification• Possible integration in FSC
Principles and Criteria• Certification is one mechanism
for the economical valuation ofecosystem services

Forest Stewardship Council(FSC)• Voluntary certification ofsustainable forestmanagement• > 130 millions ha certified• in over 80 countries

Slide 14

Agricultural monitoring with S-1 and S-2
supporting GEO initiatives
Contributing to JECAM•••

Local to global scales
S2 algorithm benchmarking over 12 global sites (3 publications)S1 rice monitoring algorithm development
S-1A: Rice crop stages
S2-A: Summer crops discrimination

04-04-2015

Sunflower

Contains Copernicus data (2015)27-0223-0303-022015

Maize

Infrared false color composite

Mekong Delta, Vietnam
300 km x 300 km
20 m resolution

New red-edge color composite

Slide 15

An Example : Atmospheric Pollution
From GLOBAL …
Image of global tropospheric NO2
as derived from GOME / ERS and
SCHIAMACHY / ENVISAT.

To LOCAL …
Street Map in London.
© ESA, Uni Bremen., CET

Slide 16

Perparing for sentinels 4, 5P and 5
Emissions inventories: bottom-up vs top-down

http://www.globemission.eu/Stavrakou et al. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 9057-9082, 2013

Slide 17

Market Expansion : Flood Demonstration for Insurance, June2013•

NRT (daily) Flood maps (wide area synoptic and local
VHR), + Maximum Flood Extent for Central European
Flood in June (S. Germany, Austria, Czech Republic),

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use

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Ecosystems Services
ESA Objective• Valuation of ecosystem services -> promote economic
Why EO ? sustainable development and green growth

Valuation needs objective assessment and monitoring tools.
EO independent, validated and unbiased information
Earth Observation has previously been used for FSC certification,wetlands management, EIA…
ESA activities scaling up !
• Start January 2013 - End of activities December 2014
• Trials – 6 world wide trials ongoing 11 more to come• Market expansion - study of uptake of EO for new users• User consultations complete : Washington DC and London•••

Selected attendance to user consultations(70+ organizations and companies attending):• Althelia, Unilever, ESPA, FSC, Shell, BP, EIB, WBSCD, Carbon
Neutral Co, Forum for the Future, World Bank….
Press: June 2013Althelia Ecospherecompletes first closing
for Althelia Climate
Fund with over EUR60
million (US$80m)
raised for forest
ecosystems
Read more at www.space4ecosystems.com

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65 small-scale demonstrations :Responding to specific geospatial information needs• Land• Marine• RiskUrban Infrastructure, Land Cover, Forest, Crops, Soil erosion, In-land Water,Oil-spill, Fishing, Coral Reef, Coastal Change, Sea-level Height, Ocean Currents,Floods, Land Motion Histories for subsidence, landslides, seismic,

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use

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Sustainability, Innovation, Growth

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Thank you

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