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Copernicus topics
                                      WP2020

                                      CAMS General Assembly
                 Cristina ANANASSO
DG GROW – Internal Market, Industry
       Entrepreneurship and SMEs
         GROW I2 – Copernicus Unit
Copernicus topics WP2020 - CAMS General Assembly Cristina ANANASSO DG GROW - Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs
H 2 0 2 0 : S PA C E - E a r t h O b s e r v a t i o n

                                                                                                Space call 2020: € 43 million
                                                                                                   Deadline: 5 March 2020

Maximising benefits of space                          Globally competitive and                     Access to space & Secure
for society and EU economy                            innovative space sector                      and safe space environment
SPACE-EO                    SPACE-EGNSS               SPACE-TEC               SPACE-SCI            SPACE-TEC

• EO market uptake          • EGNSS market uptake     • Technologies for European non-depend.      • Access to space
• Copernicus mission        • EGNSS infrastructure,     and competitiveness
  and services                mission and services    • Strategic research clusters
  evolution                   evolution               • Generic space technologies                 SPACE-SEC
                                                      • EO and SatCom technologies
                                                      • In-orbit validation/demonstration          • Space weather
SPACE-BIZ
                                                                                                   • Exploring concepts for space traffic
                                                      • Scientific instrumentation and               management
• Support to space hubs                                 technologies for exploration               • Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST)
• Space outreach and education                        • Scientific data exploitation               • Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
• EIC Horizon Prize on "Low cost Space Launch"
• InnovFin Space Equity Pilot (ISEP)
• SME-instrument
• FTI – Fast Track to Innovation
Copernicus topics WP2020 - CAMS General Assembly Cristina ANANASSO DG GROW - Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Earth Observation

                                                                     Topics                                    Type of     Indicative budget
                                                                                                               Action          (€ million)

                                                                                                                         2018   2019     2020

                                                                     LC-SPACE-05-EO-2019:
                                                                     Copernicus evolution - a gap analysis
                                                                                                                CSA               2
Topics                               Type of    Indicative budget
                                                                     to prepare future activities for
                                     Action         (€ million)      Copernicus data…..

                                               2018   2019    2020   LC-SPACE-06-EO-2019:
                                                                     International Cooperation Copernicus
                                                                     – Designing EO downstream                  RIA              5.0
DT-SPACE-01-EO-2018-2020:
                                       IA      9.0    9.0      9.0   applications with international
Copernicus market uptake
                                                                     partners

LC-SPACE-02-EO-2018:                                                 LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020:
Copernicus evolution –                CSA      8.0                   Copernicus evolution – Research
                                                                                                                RIA                      10.0
Mission exploitation concepts                                        activities in support of the evolution
                                                                     of the Copernicus services
LC-SPACE-03-EO-2018: Copernicus
evolution – preparing for the next
                                      RIA      5.0                   LC-SPACE-19-EO-2020:
generation of Copernicus Marine
                                                                     Copernicus evolution: new concept of
Service ocean models                                                                                            CSA                       3.0
                                                                     an innovative and holistic solution for
LC-SPACE-04-EO-2019: Copernicus                                      Sentinels calibration & validation
evolution – Research activities in
support of cross-cutting              RIA             8.0      8.0   LC-SPACE-24-EO-2020:
applications between Copernicus                                      Copernicus evolution –
                                                                                                                CSA                       3.0
services                                                             Mission exploitation concept for
                                                                     WATER

                                                                     LC-SPACE-25-EO-2020:
                                                                     Big data technologies and Artificial       RIA                      10.0
                                                                     Intelligence for Copernicus
Copernicus topics WP2020 - CAMS General Assembly Cristina ANANASSO DG GROW - Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs
LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020: Copernicus evolution – Research activities
              in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services (1/2)

Specific Challenge: emerging user requirements and EU policies; integration of space          Recommended
research with other non-space domain                                                          project size
                                                                                              1 to 3 M€
Scope: identify one (or more) core product(s) to be developed taking into account the
existing portfolio of the services and clearly define to what extent main model, algorithm,   Indicative budget
tool and technique should be improved to generate new or better products (*).                 10 M€

• demonstrate technical operational feasibility                                               Type of action
                                                                                              Research and
• proof-of-concept or a prototype modular and scalable and should guarantee the               Innovation Action
 expandability required for the integration of new data from potential space or non-space
 new mission/sensors.                                                                         The participation of at
                                                                                              least one industrial
• New IT tools for a better data exploitation, processing and distribution, e.g.: cloud and
                                                                                              partner is mandatory,
 HPC computing, distributed computing, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, ensemble    and the participation
 modelling, model coupling & nesting, software as-a-service.                                  of SMEs and start-ups
                                                                                              is encouraged
Expected Impact:
• Focused projects scientifically validated and ready for pre-operations;                     A business plan and
                                                                                              evidence of user
• Increased coverage of EU user requirements and EU policies                                  engagement is
                                                                                              compulsory
Copernicus topics WP2020 - CAMS General Assembly Cristina ANANASSO DG GROW - Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs
LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020: Copernicus evolution – Research activities
                 in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services (2/2)
(*) Copernicus R&D interests:

 - Copernicus Emergency Monitoring Service: new risks, resilience to climate risk, population
   exposure risk in coastal areas (tsunamis, hurricanes…)
 - Copernicus Monitoring Atmosphere Service: Up-to-date emissions of reactive gases and aerosol,
            Copernicus Monitoring Atmosphere Service:
   Improve atmosphere monitoring using data assimilation and preparation for upcoming sentinels (with
   a focus on Sentinel-4), emission and deposition of atmospheric pollutants.
            • Up-to-date emissions of reactive gases and
 - Copernicus Climate Change Service: exploitation of seasonal forecasting systems, enhancement of
                  aerosol
   predictive skills at seasonal timescales, consistent climate re-analysis, improvement in predicting
   variations of the climate system over the next few years and decades, extreme weather (droughts,
            • Improve atmosphere monitoring using
   heat waves or floods)
 - Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Service: Advanced marine data assimilation
   techniques fordata         assimilation
                    physics, improvement  of biogeochemicaland       preparation
                                                              products for the carbon cycle (CO2for
                                                                                                 ocean
   component), water quality and food security, improved biogeochemical models, coupled physics and
   biogeochemistryupcoming               sentinels
                      models and use of new                     (with
                                              in-situ observations            a focus
                                                                   (e.g. BGC Argo)  to validate on
   biogeochemical models
                  Sentinel-4)
 - Copernicus Land Monitoring Service: essential ecosystem variables for natural capital accounting,
            • emission and deposition of atmospheric
   HRL for agriculture, and forest and urban, CLC+, environmental compliance, support to sustainable
   development goals, exploitation of mid and high resolution satellite combination for continuous
                  pollutants.
   environmental change monitoring.
 - Security integration of relevant information derived from space or no-space sources to better support
   civil protection and security. New algorithms for automated monitoring and detection of changes and
   patterns of life, to bridge the gap between demand and supply
Copernicus topics WP2020 - CAMS General Assembly Cristina ANANASSO DG GROW - Internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs
LC-SPACE-19-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: new concept of an innovative
                            and holistic solution for Sentinels cal/val

Specific Challenge: Importance of a proper calibration of the instruments and
                                                                                    Recommended
validation of the products for operational services. Global monitoring over
                                                                                    project size
extended periods is expected to require even more rigorous inter-calibration
in the future.                                                                      3 M€

Scope : define an innovative and holistic strategy for the cal/val activities for   Indicative budget
and across all existing and planned Sentinels in an operational perspective         3 M€
with specific reference to the “Copernicus supersite(s)”
• The clear identification of cross-Sentinels calibration requirements (from        Type of Action
 level 0 to level 1 data) and of validation requirements (from level 1 to level     Coordination and
 2 data); clear identification of different cal/val sources; The comparative        Support Action
 evaluation of various methodologies; An evaluation of the direct impact on
 level 3 products when relevant.
• Linkages with the international community (CEOS Working Group on Cal/Val
 Quality Assurance for Earth Observation framework (QA4EO), WMO Global
 Space-based Inter-calibration System (GSICS)).
Expected Impact:
• consistent approach for the calibration and validation for and across
 Copernicus Sentinels
• Coordination of networks and space agencies and institutions contributing to
 Copernicus Sentinels cal/val activities
LC-SPACE-24-EO-2020: Copernicus evolution
                           Mission exploitation concept for water
Specific Challenge: Data and product information related to water and
hydrological / hydrodynamic processes are already developed or used in several       Recommended
Copernicus services → to better tackle all what relates to the global water cycle.   project size
Copernicus portfolio should be reinforced with the view of monitoring with a         3 M€
better consistency inland waters (mapping and hydrodynamic water processes,
hydrological cycle, connection with ocean processes, …) providing a real             Indicative budget
support to policy actors and to decision-makers including possible innovative        3 M€
expansion missions and the enhanced continuity of Sentinels.
Scope: The main goal is clearly to analyse current and planned EO space              Type of Action
capacities together with innovative processing, modelling and computing              Coordination and
techniques to reinforce the existing portfolio and to propose an integrated          Support Action
approach for a coherent and consistent inland water monitoring system.
Through this Copernicus evolution action, specific topics should be addressed:
• improved quality of inland water variables with EO and mixed EO / model
 approach
• development of high level biogeochemical products, beyond basic variables
 for water quality and food web modelling or analysis
• Development of temporal and change detection approaches based on the
 analysis of existing times series of satellite
Expected Impact: To support existing and new policies
DT-SPACE-01-EO-2020: Copernicus market uptake
Specific Challenge
                                                                                                    Recommended
• Copernicus produces a wealth of data and information services                                     project size
• Importance of the integration with data assets from other domains - not necessarily from the      1 to 3 M€
    space/geospatial sector - and synergies with EGNOS/Galileo.
•   State-of-the-art ICT technologies (e.g. big data processing and linking technologies, machine   Indicative budget
    learning and artificial intelligence) to offer user-friendly solutions                          9 M€

                                                                                                    Type of action
Scope
                                                                                                    Innovation Action
• to help European companies to create business using Copernicus data and addressing
    European and global challenges
• Use of existing European data infrastructure (e.g. DIAS) is encouraged making sense of large
    volumes of diverse data from distributed sources
➢Role of industry: to define project’s industrial requirements and take ownership of the results
➢Role of end-user: to test the proposed solutions                                                   The participation of at
                                                                                                    least one industrial
• access to other data sets (not Copernicus) shall be demonstrated already at the proposal          partner is mandatory,
    preparation                                                                                     and the participation
• Business model plan to demonstrate user engagements and sustainability                            of SMEs and start-ups
                                                                                                    is encouraged
Expected Impact
• Establish new sustainable data value chains with Copernicus data + commercial value
• Increase in the market of the number of products and services
• Generate growth and new jobs
DT-SPACE-25-EO-2020: Big data technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Copernicus

Specific Challenge:                                                                         Recommended
                                                                                            project size
• Big Data technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to analyse and manage      2 to 4 M€
  Copernicus large data volumes:
  - performance and automation of processes to improved capabilities to deliver timely      Indicative budget
    services                                                                                10 M€
  - Integration, processing and analysis of Copernicus data and other distributed data
    sources                                                                                 Type of Action
                                                                                            Research and
• Promoting collaboration of ICT and EO/Space stakeholders                                  Innovation Action
Scope:
                                                                                            Participation of
• To develop NEW, enabling, operational solutions to improve capabilities and               industry, in particular
  performance of the Copernicus value chain.                                                SMEs
                                                                                            Involvement of post-
• Proposals are strongly encouraged to make use of existing European data infrastructures   graduate scientists,
  such as (but not limited to) Copernicus’ DIAS and to involve end users to drive the       engineers and
  research with their requirements and test the developed solutions.                        researchers and
                                                                                            promotion of gender
• Explore the synergies with EGNOS/Galileo                                                  balance Encouraged
Expected Impact:
• Increased capacity of processing and analysing large volumes of Copernicus- EO data
• Increased performance and/or automation of processes
Call opening: 1st november 2019

Call closure: 5th of March 2020

Space research and guidance documents
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/research/horizon-2020/

Published work programme 2018-2020
http://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/
Brief update on Horizon Europe   11

              Space
Space under Horizon Europe                                                                                        12

Support the creation and diffusion                  Strengthen the impact of R&I           Foster all forms of innovation and
   of high-quality knowledge                          in supporting EU policies             strengthen market deployment

                Optimise the Programme’s delivery for impact in a strengthened ERA

       Pillar 1                                          Pillar 2                                 Pillar 3
       Open Science                                      Global Challenges and                    Open Innovation
                                                         Industrial Competitiveness
                                                   • Health
                                                   • Culture, creativity and inclusive

                                        Clusters
  European Research Council                          society                                 European Innovation Council
                                                   • Civil security for society
                                                   • Digital, Industry and space
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions                     • Climate, Energy and Mobility          European innovation ecosystems
                                                   • Food, bioeconomy, natural
                                                     resources, agriculture and             European Institute of Innovation
         Infrastructures                             environment                                  and Technology
                                                       Joint Research Centre

                                Strengthening the European Research Area
                   Sharing excellence                                   Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I system

                                                                                                                                12
                                                                    Space
Horizon Europe – Consultation process with stakeholders - Space

                            Horizon Europe Space
                                 Programme Committee

                                  Commission Proposal

             Programme evolution and                   Space Technologies
                   applications
                                                           Final SRIA

          Galileo   Copernicus   SSA   Govsatcom              SPEG
                                                           Sub-group on
                                                            Space Tech

                                                           Draft SRIA
                        Dedicated
                       consultation
                        processes                         Consultation
                                                            Platform
                                                              EC Led
                                                          in coordination
                                                             with ESA

                                               Space
Copernicus Stakeholder consultation process

Copernicu                       Horizon Europe-Space Programme Committee
    s

                                                                                                            Stakeholders
                                                               R&D                                          consultation
                                                          Recommendations                                    workshops
     EU and
  International                                                                                          collection, analysis,
    research                                                                                              matching with EU
  New available                                     COPERNICUS PROGRAMME                                       policies,
  technologies                                                                                                 research
                                                                                                              overview..
   Commercial
    landscape

                                           methods dev.
                                           Products and

                                                            products and
                                                            Downstream
                  New service

                                                                           and regional
                                                                           Space-hubs

                                                                                          Data, AI and
                                                                            initiatives
                                approach
                                Thematic
                   element

                                                                app

                                                                                              HPC
                        Working
                         Services document: “Copernicus
                                              Downstream programme:
                                                                 IT
                         evolution              sector
                        R&D recommendations for Horizon Europe.”
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