EUMETSAT Contributions to Global Earth Observation Initiatives
- Paper number
IAC-06-B1.6.02
- Author
Dr. Werner R. Balogh, United Nations/OOSA, Austria
- Coauthor
Dr. Piero Valabrega, Eumetsat, Germany
- Coauthor
Dr. David Williams, Eumetsat, Germany
- Year
2006
- Abstract
The objectives of EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, are to establish, maintain and exploit European systems of operational meteorological satellites, and to contribute to the operational monitoring of the climate and the detection of global climate changes. In the pursuit of these objectives EUMETSAT cooperates with governments, agencies and international organisations either bilaterally or within the framework of international initiatives. Its Meteosat and Meteosat Second Generation series of geostationary satellites are part of the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Global Observing System and are coordinated in the Co-ordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS). The establishment of a joint European-US Initial Joint-Polar System will commence in 2006 with the launch of the first of three satellites in the EUMETSAT Polar System. It will be followed in 2008 by the launch of the Jason-2 satellite in the Ocean Surface Topography Mission, a cooperative effort between EUMETSAT, CNES, NASA and NOAA. Many of the planned services in the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative will rely on the use of EUMETSAT’s operational ground- and space based infrastructure for the acquisition and dissemination of their data. A substantial part of the European contributions to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) initiative will be made through GMES. GEONetCast a global system for the dissemination of in-situ and space-based observational data proposed within GEOSS will be able to build on the experiences gained with EUMETCast, EUMETSAT’s own data dissemination scheme presently covering Europe, Africa and the Americas. EUMETCast is playing a central role in the PUMA and AMESD projects in Africa, which are supported by the European Commission. EUMETSAT also contributes to a number of other organisations and initiatives, such as the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), the Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) and the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS).
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