A New Paradigm for Earth Observation with the E-Corce Project : One Earth, One Day, One Meter
- Paper number
IAC-08.B1.2.6
- Author
Mr. Jean-Pierre Antikidis, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
- Coauthor
Mr. Jean-Jacques Favier, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
- Year
2008
- Abstract
Space applications are to-day participating to our everyday life on a continuous fashion and most of the time in an invisible way. Meteorology, telecom and more recently GPS driven applications are these days fully participating to our modern and comfortable way of life. Therefore a new revolution is underway by which Space Remote Sensing technology, while known since several decades, will reach a new societal status with the advent of mass geocoded information portals like Google-earth or MSN local search engines. These are bringing the full of our planet to the reach of more than 400 millions internauts and a new question is to be raised: What could be the most appropriate space technology to supply these new needs in the most attractive fashion. Servicing the internauts society with geocoded information turn out not to be trivial and present requirement are pushing space technology to a new frontier that could be called the: 1 day, 1 Earth, 1-meter challenge. 1 meter because any internaut will require as a bare minimum such an accuracy for looking to buildings, streets and even cars but also in a nearly daily time frame bringing a natural way for users to address their continuous needs for human and natural activities discovery. The presentation will not only address this new space technological challenge illustrated by the e-CORCE vision (e-Constellation d’Observation Recurrente Cellulaire) but also cover some of the in-depth modifications resulting from the striking cross-fertilization soon to take place in between space and Internet society users.
- Abstract document
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