OST-VC Progress towards established CEOS-GEO Priorities Juliette Lambin (CNES) Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT) Presented by : Juliette Lambin (CNES) CEOS SIT-29.

OST-VC Progress towards established CEOS-GEO Priorities

Juliette Lambin (CNES)Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT)

Presented by: Juliette Lambin (CNES)CEOS SIT-29 MeetingCNES, Toulouse, France9th-10th April 2014

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CRYOSAT-2 Europe

Complementary Missions - Medium Accuracy/Higher Inclination

Broad-Coverage Mission

Saral France/India

HY-2B ChinaHY-2A China

Reference Missions - Higher Accuracy/Medium Inclination

Jason-2 Europe/USA

LaunchDate

12/01

GFO-2 USA02/98

03/02

Jason-1 France/USA

ENVISAT Europe

Recentl In operation ProposedApproved

Sentinel-3C/D Europe

Sentinel-3B Europe

SWOT USA/France

Jason-CS A/B Europe/USA

Sentinel-3A EuropeLost

Lost

COMPIRA Japan

06/08

GFO USA

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Jason-3 Europe/USA

Lost

OST – VC: Constellation status

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Events and activities

• 25 February 2013: Successful launch of SARAL.

• April 2013: SWOT start of phase B on CNES side in Apr 2013 KDP-A in Nov 2012 on NASA side,,

• May 2013: Cryosat-2 Ocean Surface topography products released to users

• 20 June 2013: SARAL OGDR-T and IGDR-T dissemination to all users.

• 17 June 2013: Jason-1, Geodetic cycle completed.

• June 2013: Bilateral working meeting between SOA/NSOAS and EUMETSAT on data exchange

• 26-27 June 2013: SAR altimetry expert meeting, NOC-Southampton UK,

• 1-2 July 2013: Safe hold mode and subsequently decommissioning of Jason-1.

• 7-12 October 2013:Coastal altimetry workshop and OSTST meeting, Boulder USA.

• Dec 2013: wind/wave user workshop (together with OSVW-VC), Pretoria South-Africa. 

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Organisational

• VC Terms of References are in draft: • Alignment with other VC Terms of References.• ToR’s need another loop for review among all the OST-VC participating agencies and

organizations.

• VC co-chairs update : • Juliette Lambin (CNES) replacing Eric Lindstrom (NASA)• Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT) replacing Francois Parisot (EUMETSAT)

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“Bad Cop” vs OST-VC

Advancement of the CEOS Virtual Constellations: 2014-2016Objective/Deliverable Projected

Completion Date

Background Information Responsible CEOS Entity

VC-1: List of Relevant Datasets from VCs

Results of study will be fed into WGISS IDN to ensure coverage of all VC data.

VCs with support from WGISS

VC-7: Catalogue of Cal/Val infrastructure and activities

This will help in identifying risks, the needs for advancement and to promote agency calibration.

OCR-VC

VC-8: Action Plan for GEO Blue Planet Components

Q1 2015 Components as identified in the revised Blue Planet Task White Paper (November 2013).

OCR-VC

VC-9: Updated OST CEOS Constellation URD

Update will encompass SAR Mode Altimetry.

OST-VC

VC-10: Catalog of Cal/Val infrastructure

This catalog will help with Cal/Val planning and promote agency coordination. A major interest of the OST-VC is the sustainability of critical Cal/Val elements.

OST-VC

VC-11: Reprocessing strategy for TOPEX/Jason-1 (ENVISAT?) missions

OST-VC

Bad Cop

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• Ocean Surface Topography is a key parameter in the Blue Planet, already widely available: de-facto high interest from OST-VC

• Integration with other parameter: very active works at research and operational level. Not specific requirements yet coming from OST user community: will certainly change in the near future

• => OST-VC will take those into account

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OST-VC implementation an coordination issues: Finalize ToR

Find some formal meeting occasions: next OST-ST Meeting in Konstanz, Oct 2014

Engage more actively agencies from India, China (CNSA, NSOAS), Japan in the OST-VC activities cannot be reduced to OSTST meetings

OST-VC implementation and coordination issues