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Meteorology (Portugal), University and Technological
University of Wien (Austria), EARS (the Netherlands), and
Universities of Bonn and Karlsruhe (Germany).
CSP aims at demonstrating pre-operational capabilities of
production of a series of biogeophysical parameters in scveral
fields : vegetation, radiative budget at surface level, fire and
water bodies, soil moisture, and precipitation.
There is a strong complementarity between CSP and the Land
SAF (Satellite Application Facility) funded by Eumetsat. The
Land SAF products are adapted to real time operational
meteorology needs, and are centered on the operational
application of meteorological sensors : MSG (Meteosat Second
Generation), EPS (European Polar Platform). The service
implementation is in progress at the Institute of Meteorology
(Portugal). Whereas CSP products are adapted to GMES service
needs (see below), with an emphasis on differed time products,
including the production of historical series. Also, the
multisensor character is an important feature of CSP. However,
the location of the future service implementation of CSP is still
to be defined.
3.2 Users
The main users of CSP are the GEOLAND global
observatories.
Natural Carbon Flux is dealing with the global assimilation of
remote sensing data for monitoring water & carbon fluxes on
land. Its main products are the daily terrestrial biospheric CO2
and water fluxes at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface,
globally at 0.5? resolution. The end users are international
organisations in charge of assessing the carbon balance and
consulting political decision makers (IGBP, IGOS-P, PIK,
GCP).
Food Security & Crop Monitoring produces crop production
assessments for Europe and regions of Central Asia and China,
as an input to Food Security Services and trade policies. The
end users are FAO, and EU General Directorates for
Agriculture and Aid in Cooperation (DG Aid Co).
Land Cover & Forest Change produces decadal-seasonal
indicators for change and degradation of land cover & forests.
The end users are international partners of the EU that
implement their own environmental monitoring system (FAO,
UNEP), and decision makers for services with responsabilities
in policy orientation, project management and environmental
reporting in the regions covered by the obervatory (DG Aid Co,
PUMA, IKI).
The other users of CSP belong to the science community.
Contacts have been undertaken with a variety of groups,
including LSCE, CNRM (France), MPI Jena, MPI Hamburg,
PIK (Germany) CTCD (England), University of Louvain
(Belgium), University of Valencia (Spain), and others.
In the mid-term, it can be envisaged that CSP could play a role
analogous to the International Satellite Land Surface
Climatology Project (ISLSCP) and beyond address large
scientific organisation needs, such as IGBP, GEWEX or GTOS.
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3.3 Structuration
CSP is built by integration of existing efforts, at the operational
level, since the CSP consortium includes VITO and IM
Portugal both experienced in operational processing, and at the
project level, since the results of previous and ongoing related
projects such as FPS / CYCLOPES, FP5 / ELDAS, ESA / DUP
/ GLOBCARBON are considered as assets in the CSP project.
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The CSP consortium gathers both service providers (MEDIAS-
France, VITO, EARS, NOVELTIS, IM Portugal) and research
groups (U. Wien, TU Wien, U. Bonn, U. Karlsruhe, Météo-
France).
The CSP project aims at prototyping a Network of Thematic
Competences, including a Core Service tightly linked to
upstream research, with fast and efficient feedback cycle loops
between research and operations (Figure 4).
3.4 Development logic
The development plan (Figure 5) has been conceived in such a
way that a product portfolio be available as soon as possible, so
that the main users (global Observatories) and the providers can
enter a feedback loop in the product development cycle.
The products offered by CSP have different levels of maturity.
For the more mature products, the date of availability of a first
version of the products has been set to the end of 2004. This
date has been shifted to mid-2005 for products which
necessitate more research and development activities.
At the end of the project, a demonstration of pre-operational
capability for each product line should be made.
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