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Testimonies of Portuguese participation on ESA activities
Info day on EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMMES for ESA Ministerial Council
11th of June 2012
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IntroductionCritical Software at a Glance
• Spin-off of the University of Coimbra,
established in 1998
• Space, Military and Civil Markets with
customers around the globe
AERONAUTICS SPACE DEFENCE TRANSPORTS
DUAL USE TECHNOLOGY
customers around the globe
• Offices in Europe, US, South America,
Africa and Asia
• More than 330 engineers at with
20M€ turnover in 2011
• CMMI level 5 quality certification
since 2009
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EUROPE
PSACBRAZIL
USA
SINGAPORE
MANUFAC.TELECOMGOVENERGYFINANCIAL
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Safety Critical Development
• Real-time and embedded software
development
Introduction
ESA programmes and most relevant competencies
SPACE TECHNOLOGIES (General
This presentation focus on Critical’s participation on ESA’s Earth Observation activities
from two perspectives:
Safety Critical Validation Services• Verification & Validation
• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Analysis
development
• Simulators
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Earth Observation Services• Monitoring and Management of Natural
Resources
• Natural and Anthropic Risks & Emergency
• Data modelling and GIS solutions
EARTH OBSERVATION
APPLICATIONS (EOEP)
SPACE TECHNOLOGIES (General
Programme, TRP, GSTP)
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Space TechnologiesESA Reference projects
• Sentinel-2 - development
Onboard Software
Development:
• Sentinel-1 - ISVV
V&V, RAMS,
Qualification:
• Development of
csXluna RTEMS/Linux
based kernel:
• Galileo constellation
Ground Operational
Simulators:
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• Sentinel-2 - development
of the on-board Central
Software
• Sentinel3 - development
of the on-board Central
Software
• Galileo – development of
Payload Security units
• GAIA – support
development of Focal
Plane Assembly (FPA)
• Sentinel-1 - ISVV
• Herschel Planck – RTEMS
Qualification
• Verification and validation
of various other
missions including GOCE,
SWARM, Cryosat,
EarthCare
• Development of
RTEMS/Linux based kernel
for both payload and
avionics applications
• Co-existence of real and
non real time tasks
• Allow porting applications
from Linux to perform tasks
such as science data
processing or autonomous
mission planning
• Galileo constellation
simulator validation
• SWARM constellation
simulator design,
implementation
• BepiColombo simulator
development
Earth Observation relevant missions
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Space TechnologiesFrom ESA Space Technologies to other geographies and sectors
• Experience with ESA Space sector allowed to become supplier of other Space agencies /
organizations: NASA, JAXA, CASC, INPE, EUMETSAT
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• Competencies and methodologies developed at ESA (ISVV and Embedded Software) allowed
to enter on other sectors:
• Aeronautic
• e.g. Airbus - Flap Control Certification Support, Certification of GPS Receivers,
Certification of On-board Equipment, Development Tactical Displays (AW)
• Transportation
• e.g. Verification & Validation Support (Bombardier, GE Rail)
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Earth Observation Applications
ESA Reference projects (EOEP)
Landslides and floods
Land Monitoring
Services for Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Fire Prevention and
Mitigation, Europe
Delivery of geo-
Risk-EOS – Multi-risk
Automatic Earth
DesertWatch for
Portugal, Brazil and
Mozambique
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Landslides and floods
risk mapping.
Land use monitoring
namely informal
settlements and
construction activities.
Development of a C&C system to support forest fire combat in southern Europe, including operational forest fire risk mapping
Delivery of geo-
information services to
support the management
of floods, fires (burnt
areas) and other risks
throughout all phases:
Prevention, Early warning,
Crisis, Post crisis.
Automatic Earth
Observation (EO) data
processing for
producing Land Cover
cartography and
Desertification
Indicators
www.premfire.net www.riskeos.com Earth Observation for
Development Partnership
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Earth Observation Applications
Examples of EO applications: Premfire, Risk-EOS and NOD
Fire monitoring
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Forest Fire Risk
Daily Burnt Areas
Provided since 2006
Fire monitoring
Penela 2012
Burnt Area near Torres NovasBurnt Areas in 2011
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Earth Observation Applications
Examples of EO applications: DesertWatch-E
Land Degradation
Indicator
Land Degradation
IndicatorLand Cover Status
Indicator
Land Cover Status
Indicator
Land Cover: 2005
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• Envisat Meris, Landsat,
and Kompsat images
• Climatic data
Land Assessment, Portugal, 2000-2010
Monitoring Land Trends, Portugal, 2000-2010
Susceptibility to Desertification: 2005
Indicator of
Susceptibility to
Desertification
Indicator of
Susceptibility to
Desertification
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Earth Observation Applications
Examples of EO applications: Rio Vulnerability Project
Spot multispectral and
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Land Use - Urban Mapping and
Monitoring
Slopes mapping
Flood scenarios at Rio Grande
Landslides susceptibility mapping
based Land deformations
Spot multispectral and
stereo pairs; ALOS SAR
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Conclusions
Critical Software Testimony of Portuguese participation on ESA activities
• Increase of Portuguese industry competitiveness
• Development of new capabilities
• Human Resources Requalification
• Promotion of further business
• New opportunities on other Vertical Markets
• such as industry, energy, aeronautics or transportation
• New geographies (Africa & South America)
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• New geographies (Africa & South America)
• International partners and mind-set
• Increase involvement of Portuguese Users
• Users are fundamental on the developing process
• Clear benefit of using methodologies and applications developed in ESA
• Significant advantages comparing to in-situ data collection
• Cost savings, wide area coverage, non restricted access to data, easy and affordable updates, affordable data handling & processing
• Spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions are continuous increasing to meet the most demanding requirements
• Meaningful data for assessing multiple subjects
• Desertification, biodiversity, climate change, forest, agriculture, water, urban environment dynamics, Land Cover / Use changes, emergencies, maritime, etc..
Forest Management for
Pulp & Paper Industry
Sentinel OBSW to Railway
ISVV to Aeronautics
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ConclusionsContacts
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Nuno DuroBusiness Development Manager
Earth Observation and GIS [email protected]
Sentinel 2 - high-resolution optical images
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Portugal
Coimbra, Lisbon, Oporto
www.criticalsoftware.com
UK
Southampton
www.critical-software.co.uk
Romania
Bucharest
www.criticalsoftware.ro
Brazil
Sao Jose dos Campos
www.criticalsoftware.com.br
Mozambique
Maputo
www.criticalsoftware.co.mz
USA
San Jose
www.criticalsoftware.com