Ground Segment Facilities of the European Earth Observation Program Copernicus at the German Aerospace Center

Paper number

IAC-13,B1,4,4,x17409

Author

Mr. Gunter Schreier, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Coauthor

Prof. Stefan Dech, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Coauthor

Dr. Erhard Diedrich, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Holger Maass, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Eberhard Mikusch, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Egbert Schwarz, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Hans Weber, DLR, German Aerospace Center, Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Thomas Hahmann, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

Year

2013

Abstract

Copernicus (former GMES, Global Monitoring of Environment and Security) is the European Earth Observation Program, conducted jointly by the European Commission, ESA, EUMETSAT and the member states. The space segment of Copernicus, the Sentinels series of satellites, will start to be launched end of 2013, with the SAR imaging Sentinel-1 satellite, followed by Sentinel-2 and -3 a year later.

The core payload data ground segment is managed by ESA and established and operated by national partners. In this core ground segment, the DLR German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) was selected to install and operate Processing and Archiving Centers (PACs) for Sentinel-1, Sentinel-3 and for developing and operation of the Sentinel-5 precursor mission respectively. Major data management functions and systems of this PAC are based on DLR developments and facilities.

Besides the sentinel core ground segment, Copernicus also relies on the integration of national earth observation missions and collaborative ground segment. Within the national collaborative ground segment services, DLR ground stations in Germany and in polar areas will establish the acquire and process Sentinel-data, primarily to satisfy the need for near real time performance, as those in maritime domain awareness 

The paper describes the DLR systems to be operated for the Sentinel ground segment and gives an overview of the collaborative ground segment and services to be established by DLR with national and international partners.

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