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Space and sustainability
Marek Banaszkiewicz
Space Research Centre
Polish Academy of Sciences
May 14, 2012
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
A PILLAR OF EU POLICY
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What is sustainable
development?
• Brundtland (UN) report, 1987
• "Sustainable development is
development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.„
• The fourth element: culture
• Renewable resources: a key to
survival
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Main global issues
• Climate change
– Limit greenhouse effect
– Protect environment
• Energy and raw material resources
– Renewable energies
– Raw materials from space?
• Food crisis
– Water, commodity that is getting scarce
– Efficient agriculture is a must
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Can space-based tools help?
• Space applications:
– Telecommunication; yes, through better and
faster dissemination of information, through
reliable link in emergency situations (disasters)
– Navigation: yes, through efficient management of
transportation fleets, through localization of people
that need assistance
– Earth observations: yes, through global and
frequent acquisition and dissemination of data
about land, oceans, atmosphere and infrastructure
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GMES – AN EUROPEAN
ANSWER
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GMES – European flagship in
Earth Observations
• GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security) is a joint initiative of EC and
ESA that has started in 2000
• It has got three components: satellites, insitu, and services
• Costs so far amount to 2.4 BEuro, and are
are expected to be 5.8 BEuro in 2014 –
2020
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GMES - Satellites
• Sentinels: 1 to 5, launched in series (A, B,
C…). Always two series on orbit.
• Characteristics:
– Sentinel 1: radar satellite in C band for
monitoring ice, sees and vegetation
– Sentinel 2: multichannel optical system (res
>10 m) for wide swath land monitoring
– Sentinel 3: multispectral optical system (med.
Res. 250 m) for global vegetation monitoring
– Sentinel 4 & 5: atmosphere monitoring
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GMES - Services
• Groups of services:
– Land monitoring
– Monitoring of oceans and sees
– Monitoring of the atmosphere
– Emergency service
– Service for security
– Climate change monitoring (a new one)
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Examples
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POLAND’S CONTRIBUTION
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Participation in GMES
• Projects of 6th and 7th FP
– Land monitoring: geoland and geoland2 (IGiK
and SRC)
– Ocean monitoring: Myocean (Marine
Institute)
– Atmosphere monitoring: MACC (Institute of
Environment Protection)
– Security: G-MOSAIC (SRC)
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PECS projects
• Flood warning system for a single
catchment
• Carbon balance assessment for Polish
forests
• Biebrza wetlands as a ecosystem in
transition
• Biofuels: where to grow them and how
efficient it can be
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Examples: geoland2
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Examples: G-MOSAIC
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Emergency: Safer activation in
2010 for flood monitoring
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ANOTHER ASPECTS OF
SPACE CONQUEST
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Thank you for your attention
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