INSPIRE CONFERENCE 2014Copernicus state of play: an

overview of the EU Earth Observation programme and

Copernicus Data Policy

Catharina Bamps (DG ENTR) / Hans Dufourmont (EEA)EC – DG ENTR (G2) Copernicus Services Unit/EEA – Copernicus Land Services

Copernicus-Inspire session 19 June – 11.00-15.30, Aalborg, Denmark

Outline

IntroductionCopernicus State of PlayData Policy

Copernicus Serviceshttp://www.copernicus.eu/pages-principales/services/

Land Marine Atmosphere

Monitoring of Earth systems

Emergency Climate Change

Security

Horizontal applications

Output: Value-Added Services

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GMES/Copernicus Projects overview

* Finished** Under negotiation

Copernicus has evolved from a research based programme to reach full operational capacity.

Initial Operations

R&D

EU Operational programme

2004 20102008 2014 20202011

Preparatoryactions

2013

Dedicated infrastructure

Six operational services

2009 2012

Outline

IntroductionCopernicus state of playData Policy

• REGULATION (EU) No 377/2014•OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

•of 3 April 2014•establishing the Copernicus Programme

•and repealing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010

• Budget for 2014 - 2020Space component 3.394 million €Service & In-situ component 897 million €

• Sentinel 1 : the 2.3 tonne satellite lifted off succesfully on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST) on 3rd April 2014.

• the radar on Sentinel-1 is able to ‘see’ through clouds, rain and in darkness, making it particularly useful for monitoring floods;

• the radar on Sentinel-1A is currently being calibrated to become fully operational later this year;

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1

Copernicus Regulation - some relevant points• Copernicus as a European contribution to GEOSS

Rec. 8, Art. 4: Objectives

• Copernicus compliant to INSPIRERecital 9

• EEA – the overall coordination of the in situ componentArt. 7 Copernicus in situ component

• Data PolicyArt. 23-24

• International CooperationArt. 26

• EC to be assisted by a Copernicus Committee (21/05/2014, 26/06/2014)Art. 30 Committee procedure

• The Copernicus Committee to set up 'User Forum' (10/07/2014)Art. 30 Committee procedure

Sentinel Deployment Schedule

JRC

MERCATOR OCEAN

FRONTEX

EMSA

EUSC

ECMWF

EEA

JRC

ECMWF

EEA

Outline

IntroductionCopernicus State of PlayData Policy

Legal frameworkof the data and information policy

• COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 1159/2013• of 12 July 2013

• supplementing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Earth monitoring

programme (GMES) by establishing registration and licensing conditions for GMES users and defining criteria for restricting access to

GMES dedicated data and GMES service information

Key elements of the data and information policy

Free, full and open access• No restriction on use nor on users

Reproduction, redistribution with or without adaptation Commercial and non-commercial purposes

• A free of charge version of any dataset is always available (under pre-defined format on Copernicus dissemination platform)

• Worldwide without limitation in time

Key elements of the data and information policy – Obligations

Attribution clause:

• Citation of source of data and information: "Copernicus"

• Notification of any modification made to data

No warranty made on data and information provided

This policy applies toA. Data (and information) generated inside

CopernicusSentinel mission dataService information

This policy does not apply toB. Data (and information) generated outside

CopernicusContributing Mission dataIn situ and reference data and information

Copernicus sets the rule for A and follows (or negotiates) the rules for B set by the data providers

Limitations of access - Conflict of rights • IPR from third parties : potential cascading effect of conditions

imposed on input data used in the production of Copernicus service information

• Rights and principles recognised by the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union

Limitations of access - Security• Where the Copernicus open dissemination affects• the security of the Member States of the European Union

Different levels of Registration

• No registration for discovery and view services

• Light registration for download service• Stricter registration conditions where

restrictions apply (e.g. protection of security interests)

This data policy is compliant with:

The EU INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC The EU Public Sector Information – PSI

Directive 2003/98/EC The definition of GEOSS Data-CORE

User awareness and uptakehttp://www.user-uptake-portal.org

- Copernicus user uptake events: - Training material;- overview of the Copernicus services and products per theme;- webinars on product access for land, marine, emergency and atmosphere;

User awareness and uptakehttp://www.user-uptake-portal.org/webinars/

•Applications, examples

MyOcean iPhone appocean forecasts for water temperature, salinity and currents, for three depth

levels.

Japan tsunami

Italian earthquake

Large scale demonstrators (EMMIA)

Floodis : flood information servicehttp://www.floodis.eu/

Geo-pictures: service portal that integrates EO (Copernicus) and visual in-situ observations (position-based images) http://www.geo-pictures.eu

Scientific exploitation of operational missionsSentinel 1/2/3 toolboxes facilitating the exploitation of Sentinel 1/2/3 data: first release Sept 2014

• Conclusions:• - Copernicus: entering into full operational

phase: continuity, sustainability; • once completed, one of the largest integrated

Earth Observation systems•

- Data policy: Free, full and open access, no restriction on use nor on users

• - User uptake awareness and uptake

• Thank you,• http://www.copernicus.eu/• entr-copernicus-services@ec.europa.eu