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Space Situational Awareness Programme

Statement of Work

for

Space Weather Segment Precursor Services - Part-1:

Definition and Service Consolidation

SSA-SWE-SOW-SNI

1.1

13-04-2010

Document title: Space Situational Awareness Programme

Statement of Work for Space Weather Segment Precursor Services - Part-1: Definition and Service Consolidation

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 6

1.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE DOCUMENT ......................................................................................... 6

1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE ACTIVITY......................................................................................................... 6

1.3 SSA SWE SEGMENT SERVICE TOPOLOGY ........................................................................................ 7

1.3.1 SWE Service Coordination Centre............................................................................................. 7

1.3.2 SWE Data Centre ...................................................................................................................... 8

1.3.3 Expert Service Centres.............................................................................................................. 8

1.3.4 Expert Groups ........................................................................................................................... 9

1.3.5 Links to local customers ............................................................................................................ 9

1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE ACTIVITY ........................................................................................................... 9

1.5 DEPENDENCIES ............................................................................................................................... 9

1.6 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................ 11

1.6.1 Applicable Documents............................................................................................................. 11

1.6.2 Reference Documents............................................................................................................. 11

1.7 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS..................................................................................................... 13

1.8 TERMINOLOGY ............................................................................................................................... 14

2 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS......................................................................................................... 15

2.1 SERVICES ITEMS TO BE CONSIDERED ............................................................................................... 15

2.2 ASSETS TO BE CONSIDERED............................................................................................................ 16

2.3 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS....................................................................................... 19

2.4 GOVERNANCE AND DATA SECURITY ................................................................................................ 20

3 WORK TO BE PERFORMED......................................................................................................... 21

3.1 WORK LOGIC ................................................................................................................................. 21

3.2 TASK 1: REVIEW OF ASSETS AND SERVICE DEFINITION....................................................................... 21

3.2.1 Purpose of the Work Package ................................................................................................. 21

3.2.2 Inputs to this task..................................................................................................................... 21

3.2.3 Outputs from this task.............................................................................................................. 22

3.2.4 Work to be performed.............................................................................................................. 22

3.3 TASK 2: SWE SERVICES REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION....................................................................... 24



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3.4 TASK 3: DEPLOYMENT OF THE INITIAL SET OF SWE PRECURSOR SERVICES ........................................ 27





Service Closure Phase Requirements.................................................................................................. 29

3.5 TASK 4: INITIAL OPERATION OF THE SERVICES .................................................................................. 30





3.6 TASK 5: ASSESSMENT OF THE SERVICE CONCEPTS AND USER FEEDBACK............................................ 30





4 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................ 33

4.1 REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING.......................................................................................................... 33

4.2 ARCHITECTURE AND INTERFACE DESIGN.......................................................................................... 33

4.3 SOFTWARE DELIVERY..................................................................................................................... 33

4.4 SOFTWARE ACCEPTANCE ............................................................................................................... 36

4.5 MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................... 37

5 GENERAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASPECTS ............................................................................ 38

5.1 RISK MANAGEMENT........................................................................................................................ 38

5.2 WORK LOCATION AND ENVIRONMENT .............................................................................................. 38

5.3 RESPONSIBILITY............................................................................................................................. 38

5.4 STAFFING...................................................................................................................................... 38

5.5 REPORTING ................................................................................................................................... 39

5.6 MEETINGS ..................................................................................................................................... 39

6 DELIVERABLES ......................................................................................................................... 40



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6.1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS .............................................................................................................. 40

6.2 TASK 1: REVIEW OF ASSETS AND SERVICE DEFINITION...................................................................... 41

6.3 TASK 2: SERVICES DEVELOPMENT PLAN ......................................................................................... 41

6.4 TASK 3: DEPLOYMENT OF THE INITIAL SET OF SWE PRECURSOR SERVICES ........................................ 41

6.5 TASK 4: INITIAL OPERATION OF THE SERVICES .................................................................................. 41

6.6 TASK 5: ASSESSMENT OF THE SERVICE CONCEPTS AND USER FEEDBACK............................................ 42

7 CUSTOMER FURNISHED ITEMS .................................................................................................. 43

8 SCHEDULE, MILESTONES AND PAYMENTS ................................................................................. 44

ANNEXE I: TABLE OF SPACE WEATHER SERVICES .............................................................................. 45

ANNEXE II: TABLE OF SPACE WEATHER ASSETS IN EU AND ESA STATES........................................... 53



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1 INTRODUCTION The SSA (Space Situational Awareness) work plan 2010, describing all the activities planned to be executed in 2009-2010, has been presented in the first Programme Board meeting in accordance with the SSA Preparatory Programme approved at the Ministerial Council 2008 in November 2008.

The SSA Preparatory Programme is composed of four elements:

- The Core element (covering also the Space Surveillance domain)

- The Space Weather element (covering also the NEO domain)

- The Radar element

- The Pilot Data Centres element (implementation to be started only as from 2010).

The work plan 2010 for the Space Weather element includes activity: SN-SWE-001: Analysis and evaluation of existing SWE assets and SN-SWE-003 – Definition and detailed design of space weather services prototypes. The tasks proposed in this statement of work (SOW) cover these activities.

1.1 Purpose and Scope of the Document

This document describes the activity to be executed and the deliverables required by the European Space Agency (referred to as "ESA" or "the Agency"). It shall serve as an applicable document throughout the execution of the work.

The document is structured as follows:

Chapter 1 introduces the background and main objectives of the work, and quotes applicable and reference documents

Chapter 2 presents the general requirements and constraints on the work to be performed

Chapter 3 defines the work to be performed in the contract to produce the required outputs

Chapter 4 contains the requirements on software engineering

Chapter 5 defines the deliverables

Chapter 6 explains the Customer Furnished Items (CFI) provided by the Agency

Chapter 7 defines the schedule, milestones and payments.

The Annexes of the document provide information about the planned SSA Space Weather Segment services and the assets that are potentially available for providing these services.

1.2 Background of the activity

Space Weather can be defined as "conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and can endanger human life or health" [US National Space Weather Programme].

Changes in the space environment, resulting mainly from changes on the Sun, include modification of the ambient plasma, particulate radiation (electrons, protons and ions), electromagnetic radiation (including radio, visible, UV and X-ray light) and magnetic and electric fields. In addition to the Sun, non-solar sources such as galactic cosmic rays, micron size particulates (from meteoroids and space debris) can all be considered as altering space environment conditions near the Earth and are also covered by the space weather element of the SSA programme.



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The effects of Space Weather are observed in the degradation of spacecraft communications, performance, reliability, and lifetime. In addition, it generates strong risks to human health in manned space missions. Space weather also has numerous effects on the ground, e.g. damage to aircraft electronics, radiation doses to air passengers and crew, damage and disruption to power distribution networks and pipelines and degradation of radio communications.

Under the Space Situational Awareness programme, a system to monitor, predict and disseminate Space Weather information is to be created and hand over to an operator by 2019 for a period of operation of about 20 years. Precursor Space Weather services are planned to be developed during the Space Situational Awareness preparatory programme which runs from 2009 to 2011.

Results of previous studies of the Agency on Space Weather service developments in Europe [RD-ESA-study-1, RD-ESA-study-2] have been used to produce an inventory of existing space weather assets [Annexe 2] which will be an important input for this study.

1.3 SSA SWE Segment Service Topology

The planned layout of the SWE Segment service topology is presented in Figure 1. The main principle of the proposed topology is that the provision of the user services will be federated over a number Expert Service Centres (ESCs). ECSs are consortiums of expert groups with scientific and operating expertise in a particular service or a group of services. ESCs are intended to be located in SSA Space Weather Element participating States (see the ITT cover letter). All activities in an ESC are lead by a Coordinating Expert Group.

1.3.1 SWE Service Coordination Centre

The SWE Service Coordination Centre (SSCC) operated by the Service Operation Team (SOT) coordinates the service provision and handles the day-to-day operations and provides the first level of user support. It relies on the Expert Service Centres forming the federated element of the SWE Segment.



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Figure 1. SSA SWE Segment service topology.

1.3.2 SWE Data Centre

The SWE Data Centre is the location where a large part of the SSA SWE Segment hardware will be installed. The hardware includes the servers for some of the applications, hard disks for data storage, communication links, power supplies, etc. The SWE Data Centre will also include all necessary backups to ensure that the service fulfils the specified availability and reliability levels. As noted before, the Data Centre does not have to be co-located with the SSCC. It is planned that both Centres will be located in Belgium and that the data centre will be located in ESA control station in Redu. The Redu station already fulfils a large fraction of the security, redundancy, maintenance and availability requirements. In addition, Redu is already linked to the BELNET, the high-speed Belgian research network.

1.3.3 Expert Service Centres

The links between the existing National Centres of expertise in Europe and the SSA SWE Segment are the Expert Service Centres (ESC). ESCs will provide users services for the SWE Segment according to Operational Service Agreements with ESA. ESCs are consortiums of expert groups that will together provide the SWE Segment services related to their area of expertise. The expert groups already exist in the participating States and some of them are also already providing user services. In an ESC one group takes a coordinating role and a commitment to provide the agreed services for the SWE Segment. The commitment will be formally agreed on in the respective Operational Service Agreements.

SWE Expert

Service Centre

SWE Service Coordination Centre

Service Operation Team

(Coordination of the Services) SWE Data

Centre

(server)

SSA SWE Users

SWE Expert Service Centre

SWE Expert Service Centre

Expert

group

Expert

group

Coordination

elements

Federated

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Local customers

Expert

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Coordinating expert group



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Based on the existing expert groups and services, it can be expected that ESCs will be formed at least for Solar weather, Space radiation environment, Ionospheric weather and Geomagnetic environment.

During the SSA Preparatory Programme, it is planned to start at least one or two ESCs. The presented topology allows starting of new ESCs later during the full SSA programme in an incremental manner. This also allows the involvement of the potential new participating States into the SSA activities. The Expert groups in the new participating States can join existing ESCs or act as hosting entities for a new ESC.

1.3.4 Expert Groups

Expert Groups are individual groups or companies holding particular expertise in the fields related to the SSA SWE Segment services. The Expert groups will participate to the SWE service provision through ESCs. The Expert groups can be the hosting entity and coordinate an ESC or they can provide their expertise, services or applications to the SWE Segment as an ESC consortium member. Some expert groups may also be linked with more than one ESC.

1.3.5 Links to local customers

Some Expert Groups in Europe have already developed space weather related commercial services. The SSA programme will aim at a deployment strategy where the newly established services do not compete with existing commercial services. The objective is to find ways for these entities to both continue their business-to-business services and also to be able to participate to the activities of the SWE Segment ESCs. The SWE Segment service portal can offer a link to the commercial services in order to allow their customers a single access to the SWE services.

1.4 Objectives of the activity

It is the objective of this activity to prepare the ground for the development of space weather precursor services and especially to consolidate the service definition with the users in the loop. This includes in particular the following activities:

to investigate the suitability of existing assets to provide SSA SWE services and identify gaps in existing assets to provide services;

to elaborate a development plan for the space weather services;

to re-deploy an initial set of precursor services based on existing operational applications and data sources and provide access to them through a common service portal;

to develop relevant service mock-up’s for the purpose of service concept assessment.

1.5 Dependencies

The activities to be performed under this contract action are related to other contract actions of the SSA preparatory programme as described below.

1. A Service Management tool to support the service providers and the users of the SSA services will be procured under a separate SSA activity. The SSA Technical Web portal and the infrastructure for the the SWE Service portal will be provided by the Agency. The SWE content of the web portal shall be provided and managed by the contractor of the SN-I activity. SN-I activity will also include the integration of the SWE applications to the web portal.

2. An intermediate solution for providing the helpdesk support for the SWE users directly from the SWE Service portal may be necessary if the SSA Technical Web portal is not available at the time when the operation of the initial precursor services is started. The intermediate solution can be for example an



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email address and a telephone number to the SWE Service Coordination Centre. In this case the email address shall be provided by the Agency and the telephone by the contractor of the SN-I activity.

3. A database software intended to be used for all SSA assets will be developed under the SSA activity CO-I [RD-ITT-CO-I]. This database is intended to be used and updated in the framework of this contract for the asset evaluation.

4. The ESA premises fully equipped with hardware and network connection for the Data Centre are to be provided by ESA as a CFI.

5. ESA will provide the ICT infrastructure for the Data Centre at the ESA Redu station.

6. The acceptance testing of the re-deployment of the EOAs shall be performed by ESA in the Integration and Reference Environment (IRE) in ESOC.



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1.6 References

1.6.1 Applicable Documents

Ref. Document Title Reference

[AD-SWE-CRD] SSA Space Weather Segment – Customer Requirements Document

SSA-SWE-RS-CRD-1001, Issue 4, Revision 0, dated 02/11/2009

SSA Common Customer Requirements Document

SSA Security Customer Requirements Document

SSA-GEN-RS-CRD-1002

SSA-GEN-RS-CRD-1001

[AD-E-40] ECSS-E-ST-40C Space engineering - Software: Tailoring for Ground Segment Systems

ECSS-Q-ST-80C Space product assurance - Software product assurance: Tailoring for Ground Segment Systems

QMS-EIMO-GUID-CKL-9500-OPS, Issue 1.0 - July 2009

QMS-EIMO-GUID-CKL-9501-OPS, Issue 1.0 - July 2009

[AD-QMS] OPS-QMS Quality Manual QMS-OPS-QMAN-MAN-0100-OPS

[AD-BSSC-XML] Design &Style Guide for XML Data and Schema BSSC 2004(3), version 10.0, 31/03/2005

[AD-ESecP] Implementation of the ESA Network Security Policy for OPSNET

DOPS-COM-POL-34555-OPS-ECT, version 2.3, 09/11/2007

[AD-ESD] ESA Security Directives ESA/ADMIN/IPO(2008)6 ANNEX2, 20/10.2008

[AD-CMP-SSA] SSA Configuration Management Plan To be available at kick-off

[AD-TWP-SSA] SSA Technical Web Portal Description To be available at kick-off

1.6.2 Reference Documents


[RD-SSA-PROP] Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Programme Proposal

ESA/C(2008)142, 12 November 2008

[RD-SEDAT] SEDAT web site http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/sedat/

[RD-EDID] EDID web site http://gate.etamax.de/edid/

[RD-SREM] SREM DB web sited http://srem.web.psi.ch/html/srem_home.shtml

[RD-SPENVIS] SPENVIS web site http://www.spenvis.oma.be/

[RD-SWENET] SWENET web site http://esa-spaceweather.net/swenet/index.html



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[RD-SEIS] SEIS-SEISOP web site http://www2.uninova.pt/ca3/en/project_SEIS.htm

[RD-SEDAT] IONMON web site http://nng.esoc.esa.de/gps/ionmon.html

[RD-ODI] ODI web site http://www.lund.irf.se/odi/

[RD-SSA-SWE- ASSETS-DELEG]

Inventory of ESA's and the Member States Assets SSA-CS-SYS-LI-1001 Issue 1.1, 3/11/2009

[RD-SSA-SDBS] SSA Precursor Services Software Development Baseline Specification

SSA-DC-SW-SRB-0001 Issue 1.0 December 2009

[RD-ESA-Study-1] ESA Space Weather Feasibility Studies (parallel RAL and Alcatel studies)

http://esa-spaceweather.net/spweather/esa_initiatives/spweatherstudies/public_doc.html

[RD-ESA-Study-2] Space Weather Pilot Project Coordination and Software Infrastructure Development, contract number: 18042/04/NL/JA, Final Report.

R047-065rep_01_01_Final Report_SWENET.doc



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1.7 Acronyms and Abbreviations

AD Applicable document

CCC ESOC Computer and Communications Centre

CDR Critical Design Review

CFI Customer Furnished Item

COTS Commercial-off-the-Shelf (product)

ECSS European Co-operation for Space Standardisation

ESA European Space Agency

ESC Expert Service Centre

EOA ESA Owned Application

FA

FAT

Final Acceptance

Factory Acceptance Testing

FFP Firm Fixed Price

FOC Full Operational Capability

GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit

GSTP General Support Technology Programme

GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit

ICD Interface Control Document

ICT Information and communication technologies

IPR Intellectual Property Right

IRE

J2EE

JSF

JSP

NEO

Integration and Reference Environment of the Agency

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

Java Server Faces

Java Server Pages

Near-Earth Object

NEO Near Earth Objects

OLA Operational Level Agreement

PA Provisional Acceptance

PDF Portable Document Format (an Adobe standard)

PDR Preliminary Design Review

PEO Polar Earth orbit

PM Progress Meeting

PR Problem Report

RFC Request for Change



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SCR Software Change Request

SDD Software Design Document

SLA Service Level Agreement

SDE

SLMT

Software Development Environment

Software Lifecycle Management Tools

SoW Statement Of Work

SRelD Software Release Document

SRS Software Requirements Specification

SSA Space Situational Awareness

SSCC SWE Service Coordination Centre

SSR SWE Service Requirements

SSO Sun-Synchronous Orbit

SST Space Surveillance and Tracking

SVerP Software Verification Plan

SVS System Validation Specification

SWE Space Weather

US United States

WP Work Package

XML Extensible Markup Language

1.8 Terminology

Third Party Product The definition given by the applicable ESA contract of which the present SoW is part of.

Nth line support It refers to the level of expertise of the support staff providing a service.

It should not to be confused with the type of service or activity provided like for example corrective or evolutionary maintenance, user support, etc.



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2 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

2.1 Services items to be considered

Req. Id. Description

GEN*01 The service domains and end users for these domains listed in Table 1 shall be used as the baseline for the precursor services in the framework of this activity.

GEN*02 The service elements identified and listed in the Customer Requirement Document [AD-SWE-CRD] and reproduced in Annexe 1 shall be used as the baseline for the precursor services for each service domain in the framework of this activity.

Table 1. SSA SWE Segment service sub-domains.

Service sub-domain End user

Spacecraft design Personnel involved in generating space environment specifications for the design of spacecraft.

Spacecraft operation Flight Control Teams, operations support engineers, and science operations centre teams of European and national space agencies, public and private spacecraft operators.

Human space flight The operation teams of human spaceflight including during launch, activities inside and outside of the ISS, future space tourism flight operators and future human mission in outer space.

Launch operation Personnel involved in launch operation.

Transionospheric radio link Service users from space-based systems using electromagnetic waves propagating through the ionosphere which service performance may be affected by ionospheric disturbances due to space weather events. The main users are GNSS but also some satellite communication and earth observation services are included.

SSA Space Surveillance and Tracking

Personnel involved in the Space Surveillance and Tracking operation of SSA system. This is therefore a space weather service internal of SSA.

General data service Expert users in the space industry, third party service providers in a range of domains, the education sector and the general public (including amateur radio/disaster monitoring-communication)

Non-space systems operation Such as pipeline, power grid operators, surveying industry, airlines.

Global Space Weather Modelling Expert users, third party service providers in a range of domains



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2.2 Assets to be considered


GEN*03 Consideration of assets that shall be used as components of precursor services (e.g., sensors, models, data sets, operating procedures and software) shall include as a baseline, the assets described in Annexe 2 and in the document [RD-SSA-SWE-ASSETS-DELEG].

GEN*04 As a minimum the ESA owned applications listed in Table 2 shall be considered for re-deployment during this activity.

GEN*05 Consideration of applications that are potentially suitable for early re-deployment shall include as a baseline, the assets described in Table 3.

Table 2. ESA-owned applications suitable for redeployment (as part of CAT-1 services).

Re-deployable ESA owned applications

Description of Application Applicable SWE Segment Service

Service Domain

Space Environment Data System (SEDAT)

Programmable application and space environment database allowing expert user environment analysis

European Impact Detector Database (EDID)

Resource for information on European impact detectors

Space Environment Information System (SPENVIS)

Web based access to space environment models and data

Environment specification archive

Spacecraft Design

Standard Radiation Environment Monitors (SREM) in flight sensors + database

Operational European monitors and database

Environment specification in orbit verification

Spacecraft Design

Space Weather European Service Network (SWENET) portal

Web based application including analysis tools, alerting functions and other services, database access and interface to federate services hosted remotely.

Latest data guaranteed service

General data service

Space Environment System for Operations (SEIS-SEISOP)

Application providing combined access to space environment and spacecraft housekeeping data in near-real time in support of spacecraft operations decision making.

In orbit environment and effects monitoring

Spacecraft Operation

Ionospheric Monitoring Facility (IONMON)

Software producing TEC maps in near real-time and product archive based on dual-frequency GPS data collected from IGS ground stations.

Near- Real-Time TEC map

Transionospheric Radio link, Non-space system operators & General data service:

Open Data Interface (ODI) Database in MySQL that is common to the three systems SAAPS, SEDAT, and SPENVIS

Environment specification archibe

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Table 3. Non ESA-owned operational applications potentially suitable for SSA SWE services.

Application Description of the Application

Applicable SWE Segment Services

Applicable Service Domain

Operator Country of operator

Auroras Now Auroral forecast service for Northern Finland

Service to auroral tourism sector

General Data, Non-space system operators

FMI Finland

BINCASTS Indices now and forecast

Space weather nowcast and forecast products (daily, weekly), Forecast of geomagnetic and solar indices for drag calculation

General data service, space surveillance and tracking

BGS UK

GAFS Geomagnetic disturbance forecast

Service to resource exploitation system operators

General data service, non space system operators

DMI Denmark

GIC Forecast GIC forecast for Southern Sweden

Service to power systems operators

non space system operators

IRF Sweden

GIC Now GIC forecast for Southern Finland



FMI Finland

GIC simulator GIC nowcast for Canadian network



NR Canada

Canada

GIFINT Indices now and forecast

Space weather nowcast and forecast products (daily, weekly), Forecast of geomagnetic and solar indices for drag calculation

General data service, non space system operators, space surveillance and tracking

IFSI Italy

GPS Validation Validation of GPS data products, removing influence of space weather disturbances

Quality assessment of ionospheric correction

Transionospheric radio link

DMI Denmark

ISGI Provision of reference geomagnetic indices

Space weather data archive, Archive of geomagnetic and solar indices for drag calculation

General data service, space surveillance and tracking

CETP France

MuSTAnG Identification of Earthward directed CMEs through cosmic ray anisotropy

Space weather nowcast and forecast products (daily, weekly), event based alarms

General data service Univ. Greifswald

Germany

Pipeline SWS Nowcast geomagnetic field variations in vicinity of high latitude pipeline

Service to pipeline operators


NR Canada

Canada

SWIMIC Nowcast and forecast GIC in



BGS UK



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Scottish power grid

ASAP Forecast solar flare activity


General data service Univ Bradford

UK

DIFS Nowcast and forecast HF and SATCOM signal propagation conditions

Monitoring and forecast of ionospheric disturbances

transionospheric radio link

Bae Systems

UK

Ionosfera Nowcast HF communication conditions for Radio amateurs



AMSAT Italia

Italy

Scintillation Quickmaps

Nowcast global maps of scintillation activity

Near-real time ionospheric scintillation maps


CLS France

SFC Solar activity forecast subscription service


General data service CLS France

SIDC Solar nowcast and forecast products, GPS users services and Space Weather Yellow Pages


General data service, space surveillance and tracking, transionospheric radiolink

STCE/ROB, RMI, BISA

Belgium

SOARS Service for airlines focussing on radiation and communication issues

Service to airlines non space system operators, transionospheric radio link

UCL/MSSL

UK

SPECTRE TEC Maps of European region

Near-real time TEC maps


Noveltis France

STIF Ionospheric propagation parameters for European region



STFC/RAL

UK

SWIPPA TEC Maps of European region and activity forecast

Near-real time TEC maps, Monitoring and forecast of ionospheric disturbances


DLR Germany

TSRS Solar radio indices nowcast

Space weather nowcast and forecast products (daily, weekly)


INFN Italy

GEISHA Radiation environment nowcast at GEO

Environment specification: in orbit verification, post event

Spacecraft Operators, Spacecraft Designers, launch

ONERA France



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analysis operators

GEOSHAFT Radiation hazard nowcast and alert at GEO

post event analysis, In orbit environment and effects monitoring, In orbit environment and effects forecast

Spacecraft Operators, Spacecraft Designers

QinetiQ UK

SAAPS analysis tools of space weather data relating to satellite anomalies

Post event analysis Spacecraft Operation, Spacecraft Design

IRF Sweden

DIAS TEC maps and ionospheric propagation parameters for European region

Near-real time TEC maps, Monitoring and forecast of ionospheric disturbances


NOA Greece

2.3 Software Engineering Requirements


GEN*06 The Agency mandates the usage of the following software lifecycle management COTS for SSA precursor services:

IBM Rational DOORS for requirements Management

IBM Rational Change for change management

IBM Rational Synergy for configuration management

Magic Draw for UML design

HP Mercury Quality Centre for test management

Microsoft SharePoint for document management

Note: The above mentioned software lifecycle management COTS are deployed, maintained and managed by the Agency and provided as CFI to the Contractor.

Most of the above-mentioned tools have a web interface with the exception of DOORS for which the Agency will provide the Contractor with the software client as CFI.

For convenience the term Software Lifecycle Management Tools, SLMT will be used in this SoW for referring for this set of tools.

GEN*07 The Contractor shall exclusively use the SLMT for performing all tasks related to the software lifecycle management.

GEN*08 The Contractor shall perform all required tasks for the usage of the SLMT tools. In particular he shall install and configure all required client tools for the usage of the SLMT.



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GEN*09 The Contractor shall train the maintenance team for the usage of the SLMT.

GEN*10

The Agency reserves the rights to evolve the SLMT (e.g. deployment of a new version of the tools composing the SLMT). The Contractor shall adopt the evolution of the SLMT for SSA precursor services. The Contractor shall in this context perform all tasks required at his side for the usage of the new version of the SLMT, including the training of the maintenance team for the new version of the SLMT.

2.4 Governance and Data Security


GEN*11 The governance policy and all acquisition, handling and distribution of data shall follow the rules defined in [AD-ESD].



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3 WORK TO BE PERFORMED

3.1 Work logic

The underlying logic of the work to be performed is to establish a phased approach for the deployment of space weather services starting with SSA Precursor Services based on re-using and federating existing assets in Europe (e.g. expertise, applications, sensors) and later extending them and completing with new services. The precursor services will help in consolidating the service concepts through interacting with the users and getting practical experience in providing SSA SWE services. For services not mature enough to deploy precursor services user feedback will be collected through service simulation either based on full scale mock-up or virtual representative service provision. Full scale mock-ups mean in this context for example scientific software or models that can be used to generate similar services or products as the operational system eventually will generate. Thus, the products and services produced by the full scale mock-ups are based on real observation data and validated scientific software. The virtual representative services or products are based on high-level computer scripts (for example MS Excel or similar). The representative services can be based on real or synthesised measurements. The objective is that the users can have a realistic feel on what the services will provide and how they could be improved to better match the needs of the users.

The following activities are foreseen:

Review of the assets;

Review of the list of SWE services from the SWE CRD.

Identification of constraints and condition of use of the assets.

Identification of gaps from available assets for SWE service provision.

Definition of a deployment plan for the SWE services.

Establishment of the SWE Service Coordination Centre.

Re-deployment of the initial precursor services.

Operating the initial precursor services.

Service assessment with the user in the loop.

Specification of service enhancements.

These activities are detailed in the tasks description below.

3.2 Task 1: Review of assets and service definition

3.2.1 Purpose of the Work Package

The purpose of this task is to update the SWE service definition list and to review the existing assets from ESA member states, identify all possible constrains that determine their suitability to be used for the purpose of the SSA programme as part of precursor services and/or services to be provided by the final SSA system.

3.2.2 Inputs to this task

1. List of assets Annexe II et [RD-SWE-ASSETS-DELEG]

2. SWE CRD [AD-SWE-CRD]



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3. List of services [Annexe 1]

4. EOA’s as CFI

3.2.3 Outputs from this task

1. Consolidated list of assets and assets database;

2. Technical Note 1 including:

- the information required for each assets for its potential use during the SSA programme;

- a description of the content of CAT-1, CAT-2, and CAT-3.

3.2.4 Work to be performed


Task1*01 The Contractor shall review the list of SSA Space Weather services from the Customer Requirements [AD-SWE-CRD] and reproduced in Annexe 1 and propose additional services and updates where appropriate and in agreement with ESA.

Task1*02 The Contractor shall review existing European space weather assets especially including existing and planned sensors, models, algorithms and operational applications.

Task1*03 The Contractor shall base this review on the list provided by ESA in Annexe II and in Document [RD-SSA-SWE-ASSETS-DELEG] and expand and refine it as deemed appropriate in agreement with ESA.

Task1*04 The contractor shall define a suitable set of criteria for the evaluation of the suitability of the assets reviewed in Task1*02 for the provision of the services produced in Task1*01 and submit it to ESA for approval.

Task1*05 For all assets, the contractor shall compile the relevant information required for their use in the SSA Preparatory Programme and for their potential integration into the SSA SWE Segment system architecture.

The list shall contain at least the following items:

- performance;

- availability during the preparatory programme, and beyond;

- licensing scheme and cost;

- accessibility;

- IPR of each constitutive elements;

- existing documentation including interface description;

- running cost.



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Task1*06 For the software applications the Contractor shall compile the additional information required for future harmonising of the hardware, Operating Systems and COTS of these applications.

The additional information list for applications shall include at least:

- The exact configuration of the Hardware on which the Software System is deployed

- IPR of each element of the subject Software System

- The version and the configuration of each COTS

- The licensing scheme and the licence document for each element of the Applications

- The Operation System with the detailed versioning and its configuration

- Including all required OS services by the Software System (which must be installed at the top standard installation)

- Development platform and Software technologies, used in the implementation of the Software System.

Task1*07 The contractor shall determine the suitability of the assets for the consolidated list of services produced in Task1*01 by using the criteria produced in Task1*04 and approved by the Agency.

Task1*08 The Contractor shall organise the list of services produced in Task1*01 in three categories defined as follows:

Category 1 (CAT-1): Services for which there is at least one application already running in an operational environment (i.e., providing a service based on SWE measurements to an end user).

Category 2 (CAT-2): Services for which there is currently no end-to-end operation but the building blocks for the services exist.

Category 3 (CAT-3): Services for which at least one critical building block for service provision is missing.

and identify for each service the current users and potential future users of the service.



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Task1*09 The Contractor shall note in Task1*08 that:

1. Services listed in Table 1 above and based on ESA Owned Applications (EOA) shall be considered for inclusion in Category 1.

2. Non-EOA’s shall be considered for Category 1 services. These applications shall either be owned and operated by the contractor or be provided on the basis of contracts with third party providers. Examples of possible operational applications that are currently federated through the SWENET system are given in Table 3.

3. End user confirmation of the utilisation of the service is required for CAT-1 services.

Task1*10 The contractor shall investigate the suitability of the database produced under CO-I activity [ESA-ITT-CO-I] and propose update requirements (Change Requests) to store all information required for the SWE assets.

Note: the database software produced as a result of the CO-I activity will be provided by the Agency as a CFI.

Task1*11 The contractor shall enter all relevant SWE assets information in a database software to be agreed with the Agency.

Task1*12 The contractor shall specify the gaps in assets availability to provide the SWE services.

3.3 Task 2: SWE Services Requirements definition


The purpose of this Task is to produce requirements documents for the SWE services, including the SWE precursor services. A stepped approach described below is foreseen. Existing assets will be considered as possible building blocks for SWE services. Identification and requirements for the Data Centre, the Service Centre and the web service portal will be performed.


1. Consolidated list of assets and assets database,

2. Technical Note 1.


1. SWE Services Requirements (SSR) documents including as a minimum:

- Consolidated plan for the development and deployment of the initial SWE precursor services to be deployed in Task 3 of this SOW,

- Requirements and a roadmap to develop and deploy other CAT-1 SWE services,

- Requirements and a roadmap to develop CAT-2 services,

- Requirements and a roadmap to develop CAT-3 services,



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- Requirements specification for the SWE Service Coordination Centre.

- Software Requirement Specification (SRS) for each SWE service.

- Costing estimate for the development and operation of each SWE service,

- SWE Service Portal user requirements and implementation document.



Task2*01 The Contractor shall produce a SWE Services Requirements (SSR) documents for the SSA SWE Segment. SSR shall include three main deployment phases as:

Phase 1: 1. Deployment of suitable EOA as part of CAT-1 services at Redu ESA Station.

2. Federation of suitable non-EOA as part of CAT-1 services.

3. Provision and management of the SWE content of the SSA web portal and the integration of the SWE applications to it.

Phase 2: 1. Harmonisation of the hardware, Operating Systems and COTS of the CAT-1 services based on the output of Task 1,

2. Development of selected CAT-2 services.

Phase 3: 1. Development of suitable CAT-1, 2 and 3 services (includes potential new services identified during SSA Preparatory Programme).

Task2*02

SSR shall take into account that:

- Only Phase 1 shall be executed under the present contract,

- Phase 1 and 2 will be executed during the SSA preparatory programme while Phase 3 shall be considered for the next Phase of the SSA programme (i.e., beyond 2012).

- SWE Service Portal management and integration of the SWE applications to it will continue throughout the SSA programme including Phase 3.

- The SSR shall focus on the deployment and development of software applications, end user products and primary data access, while the development plan for the establishment of the ICT main infrastructure, e.g. hardware, Operating Systems, communication network, LAN setups and firewalls in the Data Centre and in the Service Coordination Centre will be performed by the Agency under other activities,

- The Data Centre will be provided by the Agency as a CFI.

- All EOA are intended to be re-deployed into the Data Centre. If a reason why an EOA cannot be re-deployed to the Data Centre is identified, a plan for operating this EOA as part of the federated applications shall be presented in the SSR.

- A distributed approach is foreseen for the space weather service operations and the non ESA owned elements will have to be federated as part of the overall service provision system.



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Task2*03 SSR shall take into account that the location for the SSA SWE Data Centre shall be at the ESA Station Redu.

Task2*04 SSR shall include specifications for the requirements for backup Data and Service Coordination Centres and proposals for suitable premises for them.

Task2*05 The contractor shall specify in SSR the foreseen ESC’s and Expert Groups.

Task2*06 The contract shall produce a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) for each identified service according to the standard specified in [AD-E-40].

Task2*07 SSR shall be submitted to ESA for approval.

Task2*08 The SSR shall include a dedicated document addressing the SWE Service portal provision as a part of the SSA Technical web Portal. This document shall specify the SWE Service portal customer requirements collected form the Agency. The document shall contain a plan for the provision and management of the SWE content of the SSA web portal and the integration of the SWE applications to it.

As a minimum the following requirements are applicable for all web portal content provision, management and service integration:

- the default language shall be British English, - it shall provide access to all SWE services, - it shall allow addition of new services, - it shall include a link to the common SSA helpdesk, - it shall allow registration of service users, - it shall allow management and configuration of the system, - it shall include a service brokering function (identification of suitable services according

to user needs), - the web-based interface shall be compliant with the baseline specified in [RD-SSA-

SDBS], - the location of the application server hosting the web-based interface shall be defined by

the Agency, - the web-based interface implementation shall be based on J2EE technology, - the presentation layer shall be implemented using JSPs, Servlets and/or JSF, - the web-based interface shall implement authenticated access which can provide user

access to specific data, - the Contractor shall use industry-standard methods to guarantee the security of the web

portal access, All communications must be protected (integrity protection and encryption) between the user and the SST web portal.

- the contractor shall ensure that the web-based interface is accessible from the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5, 6 and greater, Firefox version 3 and greater, Apple Safari version 2 and greater,

- the contractor must ensure that the web based interface can be backed up on a scheduled and automated basis without disrupting client access,

- The design of the web based interface shall comply to the ESA layout as provided in the ESA Corporate Identity Kit (CFI*03)



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Task2*09 The SSR shall include cost estimates for each service as:

Service development,

Service implementation,

Service maintenance,

Service operation and service delivery.

3.4 Task 3: Deployment of the initial set of SWE precursor services


The objective of this work package is to deploy the suitable ESA owned SWE applications “as is”, i.e. without significant change at the ESA Redu station and operate them together with the other CAT-1 services.


1. SSR documents,

2. Suitable ESA Owned Applications


1. SLA’s and OLA’s for CAT-1 services suitable for initial operation.

2. Redeployed EOA’s including SSA Service portal.



Task3*01 The Contractor shall setup a development and integration environment, which is representative to the operational environment of the target SWE data centre.

Task3*02 The Contractor shall put each SWE software system under configuration control in the corresponding SLMT COTS.

Task3*03 The Contractor shall import all existing requirements for each SWE software system into the SLMT COTS.

Task3*04 The Contractor shall import all existing tests for each of the SWE-EOA into the SLMT COTS.

Task3*05 The Contractor shall import all known and not resolved defects of each SWE software system into the SLMT COTS.

Task3*06 The Contractor shall deploy the suitable SWE-EOA’s and data access interfaces in the development and integration environment.

Task3*07 The Contractor shall perform the minor software developments required to operate and provide to users the services based on the EOA’s.

Task3*08 The Contractor shall develop the SSA SWE Service Portal which will be considered as an EOA in Category 1 for the rest of the activity.



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Task3*09 The Contractor shall validate the successful deployment of the systems based on non-regression testing against the initial systems.

Task3*10 The Validation tests shall be automated.

Task3*11 After successful deployment and validation of the SWE-EOAs in the Intergration and Reference Enviroment (IRE) by the Agency, the Contractor shall deploy and operate the SWE-EOA’s in the operational data centre and provide the relevant services to users.

The Agency will provide the hardware and ICT infrastructure of the Data Centre.

Task3*12 The Contractor shall install, configure and start the deployed SWE-EOAs in the operational environment of the SWE data centre.

Task3*13 The Contractor shall validate the successful deployment of the systems in the operational environment based on non-regression testing against the initial systems.

The Validation tests shall be automated.

Task3*14 The Contractor shall review the existing documentation of the SWE-EOAs and update them where required to ensure the achievement of the following objectives:

Validation of the deployed software system

Operation of the deployed software system

Maintenance of the deployed software system

The Contractor shall produce any missing documentation, required for the achievement of the above mentioned objectives. As a minimum the following documents shall be available for each software system:

1. Software Requirements Specification (SRS)

2. Interface Control Document (ICD)

3. Software Users Manual (SUM)

4. Software Validation Specification (SVS)

5. Software Verification Report (SVR)

6. Software Configuration File (SCF)

7. Software Release Document (SRelD)

The Content of each document is specified in the [AD-E-40]

Task3*15 The Contractor shall provide an automated installer for each software system for re-deployment of the software system.

Service Initiation and Maintenance Requirements



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Task3*16 The Contractor shall perform all the tasks required in preparation of the service provision based on the EOA’s and other suitable CAT-1 services owned by the contractor or by third party providers. He shall in particular propose to the Agency a suitable contractual approach for the service provision to the users based on SLA’s and OLA’s between the parties involved and which include:

The team operating the service centre.

The teams operating the services and the applications

The data providers

The users

The Agency

Task3*17 The SLA’s and OLA’s shall include provision for processing all incoming

- Incidents in the provision of the service

- Service Requests

- Access Requests.

Task3*18 Upon approval by the Agency, the Contractor shall establish the SLA’s and OLA’s for the identified CAT-1 services suitable for initial operation.

Task3*19 The Contractor shall validate the readiness of the service through end-to-end simulation of the service provision.

Task3*20 The SLA shall include provisions for service closures as detailed below.

Service Closure Phase Requirements

Task3*21 The Contractor shall prepare the ground and foresee additional effort for hand-over of the operations of the service to another entity, upon request from the Agency. In particular the Contractor shall:

Provide support to the successor Contractor(s) during familiarisation;

Ensure access to the successor Contractor(s) to the electronic version of all the service documentation, in particular the key service documents, including the right to copy part or all of its content for future use;

Ensure and facilitate access to the successor Contractor(s) to all the tools, data and facilities used for providing the service, including the right to copy part or all of its content for future use

Task3*22 At the closure of the service the Contractor shall archive all data and documents in a format agreed by the Agency and return all CFIs to the Agency.

Task3*23 On request from the Agency, the Contractor shall perform the Service Closure of a service.

Note: Service Closure stage can overlap with the Service Operation stage.



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3.5 Task 4: Initial operation of the services


The purpose of this task is to initially operate the EOA deployed in Task 3 and to provide services based on EOA and non EOA until hand-over of the operation and service delivery to a new contractor under activity SN-IV. The total duration of the initial operation of the services is foreseen to be of about 4 months.


1. Deployed EOA’s including SSA SWE Web Portal and federated services

2. SLA’s and OLA’s for each services


1. Hand over report.

2. Update software documentation



Task4*01 The Contractor shall operate the SWE-EOA’s and provide the SSA precursor services based on the SWE-EOA’s and the other approved CAT-1 services to the service users under the supervision of the Agency.

Task4*02 From the start of the service operation stage, the Contractor shall assume full responsibility for provision of the subject service according to the SLA’s and OLA’s established in Task 3.

Task4*03 The Contractor shall maintain all the services’ documentation up-to-date.

Task4*04 The Contractor shall configure and operate the SWE services related elements of the SSA helpdesk.

Task4*05 The Contractor shall provide the user support via the SSA helpdesk.

Task4*06 The contractor shall hand-over the Service operations and service deliveries at the end of this activity according to the SLA’s.

3.6 Task 5: Assessment of the service concepts and user feedback


The purpose of this task is to assess and refine all the the anticipated SSA SWE services as defined in Task 1 with the user in the loop in an ‘as realistic as possible’ environment


1. SSR

2. Assets database

3. Technical Note 1.

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1. Service Definition and Assessment Plan

2. Service Assessment Report for each service.

3. SN-I Final Report



Task5*01 For each SWE service precursors listed in Annexe 1, the Contractor shall shall produce a Service Definition and Assessment Plan to consolidate the service concept with well identified users and a service review either based on the re-deployed CAT-1 service applications, or a mock-up based on actual components (sensors, data streams, running software) or on a computer based virtual service architecture. The Service Definition and Assessment Plan document” is subject to ESA review and approval.

Task5*02 The assessment plan shall include: the identification of the relevant users, a commitment from one or several representative user to participate to the service assessment, the number and duration of the service assessment campaigns, the objectives of the service assessment campaigns and the evaluation criteria to reach these objectives.

Task5*03 All reasonable efforts shall be made by the contractor to assess the services from the previously identified categories 1, 2 and 3 in a best representative operational environment. Therefore, the following environment shall be considered as the baseline:

Assessment of Category 1 services in their operational environment;

Assessment of Category 2 services as full scale mock-up’s based on as many existing building blocks as possible

Assessment of Category 3 services in a virtual environment (e.g., computer script based services, CDF, interviews).

Task5*04 The contractor shall establish the relevant contractual agreements with owners or operators of assets used as building blocks to guarantee the availability of the assets for the duration of the assessment campaign.

Task5*05 Upon acceptance of each assessment plan, the contractor shall organise the service assessments campaigns with the identified user.

Task5*06 For each precursor service, the results of these assessment campaigns shall be put in a Service Assessment Report.

Task5*07 As a minimum. the report shall include:

The detailed roles and responsibilities,

The interfaces,

The service provision logic,

The work flow,

Nominal and Contingency procedures,

Administration and maintenance requirements.



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Performance gaps

Indetified gaps or needs for updates in the customer requirements.

Identified gaps or needs for updates in the SSR documents.

Task5*08 The contractor shall update all relevant SSR documents based on the Service Assessment Reports.

Task5*09 The contractor shall produce a Final Report of the SN-I activity summarising the performed work, main results and including a catalogue of all documentation produced in the activity.



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4 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS

4.1 Requirement Engineering


SWE-01 The Contractor shall review the applications and the corresponding requirements documentation. The Contractor shall complete the requirements specification for each application by specifying the missing requirements and update them in each step of the evolution of the precursor services.

SWE-02 The Contractor shall be responsible for the update and change management of the requirements using the tools described in GEN*06.

4.2 Architecture and Interface Design


SWE-03 The Contractor shall maintain all existing Architecture and Interface Design documents for the duration of the project. It is the responsibility of the Contractor to ensure that these outputs are always consistent with the source code and its comments. This implies reissuing documents, if needed, at each delivery.

SWE-04 The Contractor shall be fully responsible for the correctness of the design documents, which is therefore not subject to the Agency's approval. However, the SDD/ICDs shall be subject to Agency formal review (taking place at the Agency’s premises) and the RIDs shall be implemented by the Contractor as per the review dispositions.

Note: the Contractor shall be responsible for the ICDs whose data originate from the System and shall participate in the reviews of ICDs under the responsibility of other parties.

SWE-05 The Contractor shall ensure that the Applications are compliant to all relevant ICDs, in each step of the evolutionary approach described in this SoW.

4.3 Software Delivery


SWE-06 A successful Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) at the contractor’s premises will be a prerequisite for each software delivery.

SWE-07 If required by the TO, the Contractor shall install, configure and build each delivery in the IRE of the Agency and in the operational environment of the data centre. The complete procedure shall be documented in the Software Release Document (SRelD).



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SWE-08 Delivered applications shall be packaged such that they include test files and anything else required for testing and deployment.

The test and validation documentation shall be written in such a way that no prior knowledge of the System is required in order to carry out the tests.

SWE-09 The Contractor shall be responsible for the complete installation and correct configuration of each delivery in the operational environment of the data centre.

SWE-010 For each delivery, the Contractor shall provide automated test cases which can be repeated in the development and in the operational environments. The tests shall allow the verification of either the initial functionality of the application or the closure of fixed PRs.

SWE-011 For all software developed under this contract the source code shall be delivered. This includes all files required to build the system (e.g. "include" and "make" files, design files for CASE tools, etc.) as well as all test software used for acceptance testing.

The list of software items specified here is tentative only:

Both source code and executable of the application software/firmware; Software needed for system installation; Any test software and Simulators developed for testing (e.g. test scripts, test data,

etc.); Target platforms' system software (e.g. additional software tools needed for correct

operation of the system, etc.); Any 3rd Party Products software required to run the application and to develop the

system is deliverable. The Software Development Environment (SDE) and CASE tools used for

development.

Clear instructions on how to compile, install and deploy the developed software.



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SWE-012 All software and computer programmes to be delivered under this Contract shall be defined as Operational Software in the sense of Part II (Option A) of the General Clauses and Conditions for ESA Contracts (GCC). All source code, test tools, harnesses, input data samples and test script procedures to be delivered as part of this work shall be delivered at each milestone as Operational Software with full ESA Intellectual Property Rights. The same applies also to all related documentation. The Contractor shall confirm upon delivery of the deliverables that the deliverables do not contain any third party Intellectual Property Rights.

In case the inclusion of third party Intellectual Property Rights cannot be avoided for economic or technical reasons and, therefore, the use of third party Intellectual Property Rights has been agreed with the Agency, the Contractor shall deliver such deliverables to the Agency with related licenses to use the deliverables for the Agency’s own purposes and for the Agency’s Licensing Practice and the Agency’s intended use of the deliverables including:

(i) a comprehensive list of all such third party Intellectual Property Rights;

(ii) a certificate that all the third party Intellectual Property Rights are linked only dynamically, not statically;

(ii) a written confirmation, given by the owner of the third party Intellectual Property Rights, that the Licensing and the other intended uses of the deliverables by the Agency as well as the intended licensing and sub-licensing described below does not violate any such third party Intellectual Property Rights;

(iii) an indefinite, worldwide, irrevocable, unrestricted and royalty free licence for above-mentioned third party Intellectual Property Rights, that grants to ESA the right to:

install modify compile re-compile use link embed, merge, copy into other code in full or in part sub-licence to any party the Agency sees fit exploit by itself or through any third parties

the subject of the third party Intellectual Property Rights.

It is understood that in any case the use of any third party Intellectual Property Rights shall only be permitted if the Agency has granted its prior written approval regarding the respective individual third party Intellectual Property Right in the respective Contract Change Notice or Work Order to this Frame Contract.

Upon each individual software delivery and upon final acceptance of the last software delivery, or at any earlier point in time if so requested by the Agency, the Contractor shall provide a comprehensive list of all Operational Software generated under this Frame Contract as well as, if applicable, a list of all third party Intellectual Property Rights and the related licenses for the Agency to perform the intended uses of the deliverables as described in this Frame Contract and the relevant Contract Change Notices or Work Orders to this Frame Contract.



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SWE-013 ESA reserves the right to license and sub-license the deliverables of this project to any third parties entities under its own conditions. Therefore, using third party software made available and usable under imposing licensing schemes, e.g. GNU GPL, etc., is not acceptable.

SWE-014 Any acceptance done by ESA shall solely relate to technical validation aspects. It shall not relate to any contractual or legal aspects and shall, in particular, not affect the Contractors obligations, as described in this SOW, which shall continue also after any acceptance.

SWE-015 The Contractor shall insert the following copyright statement in all software files as a comment in the header:

"© Copyright European Space Agency, 20xx"

This requirement applies only to the files in which the copyright statement can technically be inserted without corrupting the file (e.g. source code files).

SWE-016 The reference to a copyright shall mention each and every year, when a document or software was created and when a modification was made to a document or software, e.g.:

"© Copyright European Space Agency, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 20xx"

SWE-017 The “Licenses_SI “ software item shall contain all license files used by development or runtime environment.

SWE-018 The “Project_SI” software item shall contain all build and SDE project related files.

SWE-019 The “Source_SI “software item shall contain all source (.java, .c, etc) and resource files (icons, images, etc) not included as part of the “Project_SI” software item.

SWE-020 The “SourceCmRps_SI “ software item shall contain the all project files under configuration management (i.e. including history of changes)

SWE-021 The “TestSuite_SI “ software item shall contain all test data and ART files.

SWE-022 The “Installer_SI” software item shall contain the software to install the system in a guided way.

SWE-023 The “Runtime_SI” software item shall contain the software in compiled format to be used for installation.

SWE-024 The “VM_SI“ software item shall contain the software and the SDE, already installed and ready to be run.

4.4 Software Acceptance


SWE-025 The software acceptance by the Agency shall take place first at the Agency premises and then at the data centre.



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SWE-026 For each delivery, the Provisional Acceptance shall be performed in the Agency’s IRE and in the operational environment in the data centre. The PA shall last 16 weeks, unless a different duration for specific deliveries is explicitly specified in this SoW or agreed in a progress meeting.

SWE-027 The condition for granting Provisional Acceptance is that all deliverables are delivered, installed and configured in the ESA development and operational environments, the tests in the SVS pass and that there are no outstanding critical PRs.

The ESA TO can grant the Provisional Acceptance, even if some not urgent/critical PRs are not fixed. In this case the PA is granted conditional to fixing the open PRs by a specified date.

SWE-028 For each delivery, the Final Acceptance shall be performed in the ESA IRE and in the operational environment. The FA shall start after successful Provisional Acceptance and last 16 weeks, unless a different duration for specific deliveries is explicitly specified in this SoW or agreed in a progress meeting.

SWE-029 The Contractor shall provide support to the TO during the Acceptance as required on the basis of the quality and content of the software.

SWE-030 The condition for granting Final Acceptance is that the software system is successfully installed and configured in the operational environment of the data centre, all tests in the ESA SVS pass and that there are no outstanding PRs.

SWE-031 A delivery note shall be provided by the contractor for each software delivery.

SWE-032 The Contractor shall deliver fixes to critical/urgent problems within 2 working days, unless otherwise agreed with the ESA TO. Such redelivery shall be subject to a two-weeks acceptance testing.

4.5 Management


SWE-033 The Contractor shall foresee a rolling warranty starting with the Final Acceptance of the first delivery and expiring 12 months after the Final Acceptance of the last delivery.

Note: “Rolling warranty” means that, at any point in time inside the warranty period defined in this requirement, the warranty covers the whole System.

SWE-034 During the warranty period, the Contractor shall be responsible to investigate, fix and deliver all errors found in the application.

SWE-035 The Contractor shall deliver fixes to critical/urgent problems covered by warranty within 2 working days, unless otherwise agreed by the TO.

SWE-036 During the warranty period, the Contractor shall make intermediate deliveries according to the agreements with the Agency. The frequency of these intermediate deliveries will depend on the system robustness and reliability.



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SWE-037 The Contractor shall perform an End of Warranty delivery, which shall reflect the latest status of the System both in terms of software and documentation.

SWE-038 For released fixes to PRs, the Contractor shall demonstrate that the problem has been solved through suitable testing.

5 GENERAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASPECTS

5.1 Risk Management


PMA*01 The contractor shall apply a consistent approach to Risk Management.

PMA*02 The contractor shall identify potential risks at both system and subsystem level and propose meaningful ways to mitigate them and review the risk status during the different project phases.

5.2 Work Location and Environment


PMA*03 The main part of the work shall be done off-site (i.e. not at an ESA site).

PMA*04 The contractor shall perform any activity requiring to work on-site according to [AD-QMS]. In this case, the contractor is also required to comply fully with all relevant parts of the OPS QMS.

5.3 Responsibility


PMA*05 The contractor shall implement the appropriate management communication lines and ensure a single management authority for all tasks.

5.4 Staffing


PMA*06 The contractor shall document and justify the team build up, its structure, location and organisation.

PMA*07 The contractor shall appoint a Project Manager who has good experience in the management of FFP contracts.



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PMA*08 The contractor shall appoint team leader engineers who are senior and able to work independently in the field.

PMA*09 The contractor shall not appoint key staff who are currently involved in other projects, possibly in critical phases.

5.5 Reporting


PMA*10 The Contractor shall deposit the electronic version of the Monthly Progress Reports (at least five working days prior to the Technical Progress Meeting) and the electronic version of the minutes of the Technical Progress Meetings on the SSA Portal that shall be specified by the Agency at the kick-off meeting.

The Contractor shall notify via e-mail the relevant distribution list of their availability

PMA*11 The contractor shall submit all documents to ESA in PDF format as well as in their native format (e.g. Word), either over the Internet or using a CD-ROM.

PMA*12 For any document requiring ESA approval, the contractor shall produce at least one master paper version to bear all applicable signatures.

PMA*13 The contractor shall ensure that electronic documents do not contain any harmful code (e.g. virus).

5.6 Meetings


PMA*14 A Technical Meeting addressing the progress of the SN-I activities shall be held at least every month. The participants and the location of the Technical meeting shall be decided case by case by the TO.

The Contractor shall produce the minutes of the meetings within 3 working days. At least the following points shall be addressed during the TPM:

Review of the actions

Status of the documentation

CFI Status

Progress and planning

Risk assessment

Problems and Envisaged actions

Software metrics and key performance indicators



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PMA*15 The Agency reserves the right to call up ad hoc meetings at any time.

PMA*16 The contractor shall organise a final presentation in which the results of the activities and lessons learnt shall be presented. The final presentation shall be held at the ESA/ESAC premises in Villafranca de Castillo, Spain.

6 DELIVERABLES

6.1 General Requirements


DLV*01 All the deliverables shall be written in British English.

DLV*02 All the deliverables documents shall be provided in Microsoft Word format in the version in use at the Agency and in PDF format.

At the time of writing, the Agency uses Microsoft Office Suite 2003.

DLV*03 All the deliverables documents shall be produced based on the ESA official document templates in use in the Agency.

DLV*04 For the deliverables for which the Agency owns the IPR shall not bear any information identifying the Contractor’s Company or staff who produced the deliverable (e.g. Contractor’s logo).

DLV*05 All deliverables shall be delivered in their original source format.

Comment: For example in MS Word format for a document or in the source format of the UML tool for a UML document.

DLV*06 All deliverables are subject to ESA Technical Officer review and approval.

DLV*07 Documents requiring ESA approval shall be delivered in two original paper versions.

DLV*08 The documents delivered to the Agency for approval shall be signed electronically by the Contractor technical responsible.

Comment: The ESA Technical Officer shall sign the documents he approves for the Agency.

DLV*09 All documents delivered to ESA shall be named according to the rules defined in SSA Configuration Management Plan [AD-CMP-SSA].

DLV*10 The deliverables shall be delivered to ESA on duly labelled media as defined by SSA Configuration Management Plan.

DLV*11 The organisation of the files and directories on the media shall be approved by ESA Technical Officer in advance and prior to the start of the FAT.



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DLV*12 Deliveries shall be done on DVD rather than CD-ROM.

DLV*13 The Contractor shall deliver a final report and an executive summary for each Work Package.

DLV*14 The Contractor shall deliver and hold a final presentation in which the results of each Work Package and lessons learnt shall be presented.

DLV*15 The Contractor shall produce and deliver all documents specified in the requirements of this SoW.

DLV*16 For any update of the documentation the Contractor shall deliver a red-lined and a clear version of the documents in Microsoft Word format.

DLV*17 All documentation, software and data produced in the course of the work, specified in the current SoW shall be the property of the Agency.

DLV*18 Any software produced under this SoW shall be “Operational Software”.

6.2 Task 1: Review of assets and service definition

Reference Description

DELI*01 Consolidated list of assets and assets database.

DELI*02 Technical Note 1 including:

the information required for each assets for its potential use during the SSA programme.

a description of the content of CAT-1, CAT-2, and CAT-3.

6.3 Task 2: Services Development Plan


DELI*03 - SWE Services Requirements (SSR) documents

6.4 Task 3: Deployment of the initial set of SWE precursor services


DELI*04 SLA’s and OLA’s for CAT-1 services suitable for initial operation.

DELI*05 Redeployed EOA’s including SWE Service portal content and service integration.

6.5 Task 4: Initial operation of the services


DELI*06 Hand over report.



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DELI*07 Update software documentation.

6.6 Task 5: Assessment of the service concepts and user feedback


DELI*08 Service Assessment Report for each service.

DELI*09 Update of SSR documents

DELI*10 SN-I Final Report.



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7 CUSTOMER FURNISHED ITEMS The Agency is responsible for delivering to the Contractor the Customer Furnished Items (CFI) identified in Table 4 by the given dates. No additional item will be provided by the Agency.

Identifier CFI description CFI due date

Documentation

CFI*01 Available Technical Documentation of EOA’s Kick-off

CFI*02 Available Technical Documentation for SLMT Kick-off of the Task 3:

CFI*03 ESA Corporate Identity Kit Kick-off

Facility

CFI*04 Data Centre in Redu Kick-off

Software

CFI*05 EOA’s Kick-off

CFI*06 Software Lifecycle Management Tools Kick-off

CFI*07 Assets Database from CO-I activity Kick-off (first version)

Kick-off + 3 months (update)

Hardware

CFI*08 ICT infrastructure in Redu data centre Kick-off + 2 months

Table 4. Customer Furnished Items



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8 SCHEDULE, MILESTONES AND PAYMENTS The Agency suggests the following schedule and payment plan for the activity.

Milestone Description Location Events timeline Payment milestone

MILSTN*01 Kick-off ESAC T0 Yes

MILSTN*02 Delivery 1

Deliverables for Task 1


T0 + 2 months No

MILSTN*03 Progress meeting #1 and Delivery 1 acceptance

Contractor T0 + 2.5 months

No



T0 + 3 months No

MILSTN*05 Delivery 2 acceptance T0 + 4 months Yes

MILSTN*06 Progress meeting #2 ESTEC T0 + 6 months No



T0 + 7 months No

MILSTN*08 Delivery 3 acceptance T0 + 8 months No


Delivery of DELI*08 for Task 5 (initial delivery)

T0 + 9 months No

MILSTN*10 Progress meeting #3 and Delivery 4 acceptance

Contractor T0 + 10 months Yes


Deliverables for Task 5 (including final delivery of DELI*08)

T0 + 11.5 months No

MILSTN*12 Final Presentation and acceptance of Delivery 5

ESAC T0 + 12 months Yes



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ANNEXE I: TABLE OF SPACE WEATHER SERVICES

Table of Space Weather service names by user domains and potential building blocks for early service demonstrators

"*" indicates a potential IPR problem for re-use of building block as part of ESA SSA system.

User domain Service name

Identifier Service description

Potential early service demonstrators building blocks

Comments

Spacecraft designers

Environment specification: data archive

SCD/arv Provide statistical data to derive environments and effects on space systems

SEDAT SEIS SPENVIS EDID relevant data*

Not all of these building blocks are needed. SEDAT, SEIS, or SPENVIS are various options for the database and also the model front-end for time series data.SEDAT requires the development of appropriate IDL functions.

An improved back-end of SEDAT and SPENVIS, ODI, should be available in sept 2009.

An improved version of SEIS, SEIS-OP, could be available end of 2009. EDID is currently limited to micro-particle impact observations.

IPR and license for the data must be checked. Some data have US origin.


Environment specification: in orbit verification

SCD/orb Provide estimate of the environment and its effects actually experienced.

SEDAT SEIS relevant data*

cf. above.

The most critical is to have access to onboard measured environment data or be able to extrapolate the environment to the spacecraft location from other measurements (requires additional model). GEISHA (now part of ONERA IPSAT system) is a precursor of such a model but IPR belongs to ONERA.


Post event analysis

SCD/pst Provide means to correlate a particular (spacecraft) event with space environment data.

SEDAT SEIS SPENVIS EDID SWENET database relevant data*

GEISHA and GEOSHAFT are already existing precursor services but with moderate performance and with IPR held by developers. Built initially using NOAA GOES public data plus modelling. GEOSHAFT developed by QinetiQ (UK), GEISHA by ONERA (F). GEOSHAFT



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GEISHA* GEOSHAFT*

currently inactive.

Spacecraft operators

In orbit environment and effects monitoring

SCO/orb Provide real-time estimate of the environment and its effects actually experienced.

SEDAT SEIS SPENVIS EDID SWENET database relevant data* GEISHA* GEOSHAFT*

cf above.

Only SEIS is already explicitly designed for including a wide range of spacecraft house keeping data.

SEDAT, SPENVIS, SWENET could include them with some (minor) developments.


Post event analysis

SCO/pst Provide means to correlate a particular (spacecraft) event with space environment data.

same as event analysis for s/c designers.

Same as event analysis for s/c designers.

Only SEIS is already explicitly designed for including a wide range of spacecraft housing data.

SEDAT, SPENVIS, SWENET could include them with some (minor) developments.


In orbit environment and effects forecast

SCO/for Provide forecast of the environment and of its effects.

SEIS SEDAT GEISHA* GEOSHAFT* See also generic data service for forecast.

SEDAT would require appropriate IDL routine development.


Mission Analysis

SCO/ana Provide susceptibility and risk analysis.

Human space flights

In flight crew radiation exposure

SCH/orb Provide real-time estimate of the radiation dose in human bodies in space.

Existing HSF research programme with dosimeters inside ISS (to check with DLR and HSF). In orbit and effect monitoring service from spacecraft operator service domain.

Require development of models for radiation transport using e.g., G4, magnetocosmics.



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Human space flights

Cumulative crew radiation exposure

SCH/pst Provide estimate of the past radiation dose in human bodies in space.

Existing HSF research programme with dosimeters inside ISS (to check with HSF and DLR). In orbit verification service from spacecraft designer service domain.


Human space flights

Increased crew radiation exposure risk

SCH/for Provide estimate of the risk of increased level of radiation along trajectory.

(see generic data service for forecast)

Launch operators

In flight monitoring of radiation effects in sensitive electronics

LAU/orb Provide real-time estimate of the radiation effects in sensitive electronics along trajectory.

in orbit and effect monitoring service from spacecraft operator service domain.


Launch operators Estimate of radiation effects in sensitive electronics

LAU/pst Provide estimate of past radiation effects in sensitive electronics along trajectory.

In orbit verification service from spacecraft designer service domain.


Launch operators Forecast Radiation Storm

LAU/for Provide estimate of the risk of increased level of radiation along trajectory.

(see generic data service for forecast)

Launch operators Amospheric density forecast

LAU/drg Provide estimate of the neutral density along trajectory

BINCASTS* indices forecastSIDC* indices forecast atmospheric model*

BINCASTS is independent development but member of SWENET IPR with developer BGS (UK). ESOC were involved in development so may have more info on IPR. SIDC SDA developed with ESA co-funding.

Atmospheric model to be identified (possibly: JB2006, cf http://sol.spacenvironment.net/~JB2006/)

Launch operators Risk estimate of service

LAU/ios Provide estimate of the level of ionospheric

See scintillation map for transionospheric

IPR with developer CLS (F). Based on GPS data



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disruption caused by ionospheric scintillations

scintillations between ground station and launch vehicle along the trajectory.

radio link.

Launch operators Risk estimate of micro-particle impacts

LAU/mcp Provide estimate of the risk of impacts by objects with size below 1 cm


Real-time TEC maps

TIO/tcr Provide real-time TEC maps

IGS combined final products IGS ESOC processing centre IGS CODE processing centre (CH)* SWIPPA* SPECTRE* SWACI, MIRTO, DIAS

IGS combined product - Rapid product has less than 24 hours delay IGS/ESOC is with ~24 hours delay. SWIPPA: IPR with DLR (GE), ~real-time. SWACI is an upgrade of SWIPPA. SPECTRE: IPR with Noveltis (FR) &Maps available with 1-2 days delay.


Forecast TEC maps

TIO/tcf provide forecasted TEC maps

STIF, SWACI, IONMON


Ionospheric correction quality assessment

TIO/qua Provide information on whether standard corrections to GNSS signal are applicable.

SIDC* DIAS* STIF*

IPR with developer SIDC (B) and DIAS partner responsible for development of specific parameter. SIDC developed with ESA co-funding, DIAS independent but member of SWENET, STIF (UK RAL) not currently active.


Real-time ionospheric scintillation maps

TIO/sci Provide real-time estimate of the scintillation maps

CLS Quickmaps*

IPR with developer CLS (F)


Ionospheric disturbances monitoring and forecast

TIO/for Provide estimate of the occurrence risk of ionospheric disturbances

SIDC* DIFS* SWIPPA*, SWACI*, eSWua

IPR with developer CLS (F)

Survey and tracking

Atmospheric estimates for drag calculation

S&T/atm Estimate of atmospheric density in the past years and predicted in near-real time.

Survey and tracking

Geomagnetic and solar indices

S&T/arv Database of past values of solar and geomagnetic

SWENET database ISGI*

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archive for drag calculation

indices relevant to drag calculation.

Survey and tracking

Geomagnetic and solar indices forecast for drag calculation

S&T/for Provide forecast of geomagnetic and solar induces for drag calculation.

SIDC* BINCASTS* Dst forecast from Lund*

see above for SIDC and BINCASTS

Survey and tracking

Ionospheric group time delay nowcast

S&T/ion Provide nowcast of ionospheric group time delay to estimate effects on radar signal.

Data service Space weather data archive

GEN/arv Archive of all available European space weather data

SWENET database SEDAT SEIS SPENVIS EDID relevant data*

Only SWENET and SEIS are already operational for near real-time data access.

Data service Latest data guaranteed service

GEN/lst Provide agreed set of guaranteed data required in order to provide input to tailored service and non-tailored customer service available on a registration basis.

SWENET (including metrics service)SEIS SEDAT relevant data*

Only SWENET and SEIS are already operational for near real-time data access.

Data service Space weather nowcast and forecast products daily, weekly)

GEN/for Provide forecasted space weather parameters.

SWENET SEIS SEDAT SWENET SDAs* Relevant data and data products*

Only SWENET and SEIS are already operational for near real-time data and data products access.

All SDAs in SWENET network provide nowcast and/or forecast tailored to a particular application and/or region. SIDC covers the broadest range as it includes the RWC forecasts and RMI signal propagation services.

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Data service Event based alarms

GEN/alm Alarms on an as-needed basis (flare, CME, SPE, magnetic storm onset etc). Incorporate relevant data and where feasible rapid model run outputs indicating likely consequences (e.g. time of IP shock reaching Earth). Agreed set of default alarms. Subscription service will allow for tailored automated alarms on a particular parameter/dataset.

SWENET SEIS SWENET SDAs* Relevant data and data products*

SWENET portal provides alerts based on user set/tailored thresholds on several key datasets, plus most SDAs provide tailored alerts for a particular field. SEIS allows user selection of thresholds and alerting.

IPR for most SDAs is with the SDA but ESA has access at minimum to those cofunded.

Data service Virtual space weather modelling system

GEN/mod Service geared towards end-to-end space weather modelling. Model integration and validation as part of a coordinated framework. Service will aim to provide the best possible end-to-end space weather simulation, coupling European modelling assets in order to simulate propagation of space weather phenomena from the Sun to the Earth. Both users and developers will benefit from this service as incorporation of models into a coherent

under development Some domain specific models exist, e.g., GUMICS* for magnetosphere.SALAMMBO* for radiation beltSOLPENCO* for interplanetary solar particle acceleration.

Domain specific model have IPR with developer. GUMICS is from FMI (FIN). TRP SW warning for Space systems initiates some R&D activities in this area.Virtual space weather modelling centre (GSTP5 ELT-3) is planned to initiate the development.

Nearest currently functional tool is spaceweather.eu developed by COST actions and hosted at BISA (B) allowing runs on demand of available models. SW warning will be ready 2011 and ESA has no formal involvement in spaceweather.eu



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framework will stimulate further targeted model development.

Data service Guaranteed data service for Third Party added value service providers

GEN/3rd Services to be built by service providers (commercial/non-commercial) external to SSA in order to develop customer focussed products (e.g., for airlines, power industry, prospection, auroral tourism)

SWENET (in particular, including the metrics service)SEIS SDA services*: GAFS*, GIC Now*, GIC forecast*, GIC simulator*, MuSTAnG*, Pipeline SWS*, SWIMIC*, SOARS*

SDA services IPR with developer. GAFS currently inactive.

Some data used by SDAs are from US.

Non Space Systems Operartors


Nowcast and forecast GIC in power systems based on local magnetometer networks and solar wind data (in case of forecasts)

GIC Forecast*, GIC Now* GIC simulator*, SWIMIC*

All are specific to the power system user as model of the network is needed coupled with information on local ground conductivity. IPR with developers but ESA able to use the services through pilot project agreement.


Service to pipeline operators

Nowcast and forecast E field in vicinity of pipelines based on local magnetometer networks and solar wind data

Pipeline SWS*, GIC Now*

Regional variations included in modelling. IPR with developers, ESA able to use the services through pilot project agreement


Service to airlines

Global provision of data relating to increased radiation levels at aircraft altitudes and degraded communications, in particular for high-latitude routes

SOARS*, TIO services

IPR with developers, ESA able to use the services through pilot project agreement



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Service to resource exploitation system operators

Forecast and nowcast disturbed magnetic conditions in the vicinity of high latitude magnetometer stations, coupled with precise information on position (TIO services)

GAFS*, Scintillation Quickmaps* and other TIO services

Resource exploration users require precise information on the magnetic field, coupled with accurate positioning information. IPR with developers, ESA able to use the services through pilot project agreement

Non Space Systems Operators

Service to auroral tourism sector

Regional auroral forecast coupled with meteorological forecast (cloud cover) geared towards tourism sector

Auroras Now* IPR with developers, ESA able to use the services through pilot project agreement.



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ANNEXE II: TABLE OF SPACE WEATHER ASSETS IN EU AND ESA STATES

Asset name Owner OperatorType of asset

Brief description of the asset

Kanzelhöhe Observatory

Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology, Kanzelhöhe Observatory, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria

Data, Sensor(s)

High‐cadence high‐resolution full‐disk observations of the Sun in the Ha spectral line, in continuum and in the CA II K spectral line. Real‐time raw images of the Sun in Hα and continuum provided via the internet at www.kso.ac.at; Main interest in ground‐based monitoring of solar activities related to space weather. Possible extensions in the frame of SSA, which would be relevant to space weather, include:‐ Real‐time web‐based provision of Ha, Ca II K and continuum observations of the Sun (in raw format and reduced format)‐ Real‐time quick‐look movies in Ha, Ca II K and continuum‐ Development of a quasi real‐time flare identification algorithm based on KSO observations and web‐based quasi real‐time provision of the results‐ Centralized management of the data archive including KSO as well as data from other ground‐based observatories‐ Instrumental and data acquisition improvements

Safety research at Austrian Research Centers GmbH, ARC Expertise

Modelling of space radiation environment; simulation of radiation exposure to human and electronics; prediction of space radiation exposure scenarios; radiation monitoring (ISS, satellites); microdosimetric measurements in space radiation fields (ISS, Columbus); European network: solar data, neutron ground monitor data, dosimetry; Application: aviation, space.

AVIDOS Software

AVIDOS is a computer code used for the dose assessment of aircraft crew exposed to cosmic radiation. The code employs a multiparameter model built upon simulations of cosmic radiation exposure done using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code. AVIDOS calculates both ambient dose equivalent H*(10) and effective dose E for flight routes over the whole world at typically used altitudes and for the full range of solar activity. The dose assessment procedure using AVIDOS is accredited by the Austrian office for accreditation according to European regulations and is valid in the whole Europe. AVIDOS took part in an international comparison of different codes assessing radiation exposure of aircraft crew where a fully satisfactory agreement between codes has been found. An online version of AVIDOS with user friendly interface is accessible to public under the internet address: http://avidos.healthphysics.at.

Data centres know‐how Siemens AG Austria Expertise

SSA Period I: General infrastructure, such as power supply; Communications networks and security; Interoperability (heterogeneous data sources, protocols); Handling of classified data; Data Warehousing und Archives. SSA Period II: Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE)

Low Frequency Array Station (LOFAR), cooperation with Ukraine (Kharkov)

Austrian Academy of Sciences Sensor(s)

Telescope for Surveillance and Tracking; radio astronomy

Conrad Observatory

Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG)

Data, Sensor(s)

Measurements of time dependent part of geomagnetic field; High sensitive gradiometer system; High resolution and high sampling rate are special assets of the Conrad Observatory

Modelling of magnetic clouds, flare reconnection rates

Austrian Academy of Sciences IWF Software Multi‐spacecraft in situ data + heliospheric imaging

Solar radio spectrographAustrian Academy of Sciences IWF Sensor(s)

Continuous coverage (30‐150 MHz), http://www.iwf.oeaw.ac.at/?id=234

Austria



Regional Warning Centre of ISES Royal Observatory of Belgium

Royal Observatory of Belgium Service Warning centre for energetic solar events

World Data Centre for the Sunspot Index

Royal Observatory of Belgium

Royal Observatory of Belgium Service Sunspot index service

Data Analysis Service of ICSU/FAGS


Royal Observatory of Belgium Service International Sunspot Number service

Solar Influences Data Analysis Centre (SIDC)


Royal Observatory of Belgium Service monitoring and predicting solar activity

Space Weather Yellow Pages (in SIDC)

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Royal Observatory of Belgium Service

www user‐friendly tool implementing a centralised, automated retrieval system for space weather data

GNSS user service (in SIDC)Royal Meteorological Institute


positional accuracy nowcasting, geomagnetic activity forecasting

NeQuick model for Galileo Different universities (in B: ULg) Galileo ground segment Software

ioniospheric correction model for Galileo; B contribution: modelling

SWENET database Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Etamax (D) Service database architecture and visualisation tools

European Space Weather Portal (ESWEP)

COST + Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

COST + Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Service

web portal for COST 724 related to space weather awareness

Space Environment Information System (SPENVIS)


Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Service

www interface to models of the space environment and its effects

Martian Radiation Environment Models (MarsREM)

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy QinetiQ Software

Radiation models and engineering tools to predict the Martian radiation environment

PROBA‐2 scientific operations centre


Royal Observatory of Belgium Service PROBA‐2 data and products service

Geophysical Observatory at Dourbes

Royal Meteorological Institute

Royal Meteorological Institute Service

ionospheric and geomagnetic nowcasting and forecasting; cosmic ray monitoring

B.USOC BELSPOBelgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Service

Science Operations Centre for PICARD, ISS/SOLSPEC, ISS/SOVIM

Radio Observatory at Humain Royal Observatory of Belgium

Royal Observatory of Belgium Sensor(s)

multi‐wavelength monitoring of the solar radio emission, http://sidc.oma.be/humain/

Uccle Solar Equatorial Table (USET)


Royal Observatory of Belgium Sensor(s)

optical solar monitoring in white light, H‐alpha and Ca‐II

Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT)

Centre for Space Radiations, UCL

Under Phase C development led by CSR, UCL Sensor(s)

High‐energy particle sensor available for different satellites

Modelling tools for radiation belts, magnetosphere, solar wind


Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Software

trapped radiation, plasmasphere, aurora, solar wind discontinuities

Modelling tools for the radiation belts

Centre for Space Radiations, UCL

Centre for Space Radiations, UCL Software

electron and proton fluxes, ELF and VLF waves, radiation belts

Modelling tools for the magnetosphere

Lab. for Atmospheric and Planetary Physics, ULg

Lab. for Atmospheric and Planetary Physics, ULg Software aurora's, substorms, reconnection, etc.

Modelling tools for CME onset and propagation

Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, KUL

Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, KUL Software

CME propagation from Solar surface (onset) to Earth's magnetosphere

COOLFluiD multiphysics environment tool Von Karman Institute Von Karman Institute Software

modular environment for modelling solar wind, CME's, etc.

Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) Université de Liège (ULg)Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) Expertise

solar instrumentation development; space environment modelling

Space weather education and outreach (EO) activites


Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Outreach

Spokesperson of the SWWT EOEM topical group and active in space weather EO activities

Royal Observatory of Belgium, Dept. Celestial Mechanics



asteroid detection and tracking with 1.1m Schmidt Telescope

Redu ground station ESA ESA Service ground station capabilities

iPIC3DGiovanni Lapenta (KU Leuven) Giovanni Lapenta Software

A code based on the implicit moment method to study large scale processes in space while retaining a first‐principle (kinetic) description. The code is currently one of the main assets of the NASA MMS mission as a predictor of the plasma properties to be measured by the four space‐crafts and to help design the diagnostics of the spacecrafts. http://code.google.com/p/celeste/

DHConsultancy Daniel Heynderickx Daniel Heynderickx Expertise Expertise in space radiation

Belgium



CARISMA, CANMOS & MACCS magnetometer networks

Univ Alberta, NRCanada, US‐Canadian cooperation Sensor(s)

NORSTAR Riometers U Calgary Sensor(s)

GPS network NRCanada Sensor(s)

Storm (ph A) CSA Sensor(s)

SWARM/EDI CSA Sensor(s)

GIC Simulator SDA NRCanada Service

Pipeline SWS SDA Service

NRC Solar Flux Monitor NRCanada & CSADominion Radio Astronomy Observatory Service Provides 10‐cm solar radio flux (F10.7 index)

Ottawa RWC Service

CEFI CSA ESA Sensor(s) Canadian Electric Field instrument on SWARM mission

Canadian Advanced Digital Ionosonde (CADI) network Univ Western Ontario Sensor(s)

network of 9 sites under polar cap: http://cadiweb.physics.uwo.ca/

Incoherent radars Sensor(s)

SuperDARN Univ Saskatoon Sensor(s) Sites at Rankin Inlet, Prince George and Saskatoon

Expertise in magnetometry, ioniospheric physics, magnetic storms and substorms, energetic particles in magnetosphere & global magnetospheric modelling Univ Alberta Expertise

Ground based support to Themis

Athabasca Univ, Alberta Univ, Saskatchewan Univ, New Brunswick Univ, NR Canada Expertise

Auroral and upper atmosphere measurement Univ Calgary Expertise

GIC Simulator SDA NR Canada NR Canada Service GIC nowcast for Canadian network

Pipeline SWS NR Canada NR Canada ServiceNowcast geomagnetic field variations in vicinity of high latitude pipeline

Canada



Solar radio spectrograph

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Astronomical Institute Ondrejov Sensor(s)

Continuous coverage of the range (800‐4500) MHz and fixed frequency observation at 3000 MHz, http://www.asu.cas.cz/~radio/

Czech Republic



Magnetometers Greenland DTUSpace/DMI DTUSpace/DMI DataMagnetic Observatories (Narsarsuaq, Thule, Godhavn). 1minute data online near real‐time

Magnetometer Denmark DTUSpace DTUSpace DataMagnetic Observatory (Brorfelde), Variometer station (Romoe). 1minute data online near real‐time

Magnetometer South Atlantic Anomaly DTUSpace DTUSpace Data

Magnetic Observatory (Tristan da Cunha). 1minute data online near real‐time

Magnetometers Greenland DTUSpace DTU Space DataGreenland chain stations. 1 minute data online near real‐time

Magnetic index PC DTUSpace DTUSpace Data1 station (AE‐like) index. 1 minute index online near real‐time

Riometers UofM / NIPR / DMI DMI, DCGA Sensor(s)Sondrestrom, Danmarkshavn, Longyearbyen. 49/64 beam imaging

GPS Network DTUSpace DTUSpace Data9 stations around coast of Greenland. GPS navigation and phase data

GPS Network KMS KMS Data 9 stations in Denmark. GPS navigation and phase data

Oersted satelliteFinanced by Danish Government and Industry Terma / DTUSpace / DMI Sensor(s)

Launched 23.2.1999, still operated. Vector and scalar magnetic measurements, high‐energy particles. Presently only scalar magnetic measurements are made

GPS Validation DMI/DTUSpace DMI/DTUSpace ServiceValidation of GPS data products, removing influence of space weather disturbances. Not yet confirmed

Denmark

Asset name Owner OperatorType of

assetBrief description of the asset

MIRACLE/IMAGE

Finnish Meteorological Institute with several international collaborators

Finnish Meteorological Institute Sensor(s)

Magnetometers to observe space weather related disturbances. Both operative and research , eg. Poweline effects (ESA Pilot project heritage)

MIRACLE/ASCFinnish Meteorological Institute

Finnish Meteorological Institute Sensor(s)

All‐sky auroral cameras to observe auroral displays. Both service and research capacity (ESA pilot project heritage)

GUMICS‐4Finnish Meteorological Institute

Finnish Meteorological Institute Software

Global 3D MHD Solar wind ‐ magnetosphere ‐ ionosphere simulation tool (only one in Europe). Presently a spaceweather research tool. Future development for service capacity

QNHFinnish Meteorological Institute


Family of quasi‐neutral hybrid plasma simulation modelsapplicable to basic space weather research

GNSS ionospheric tomography toolFinnish Meteorological Institute


Tool to utilize dense GNSS networks for reconstruction of 3D ionospheric perturbations, developed in collaboration with University of Bath, UK. Positioning and HF propagation issues.

STP‐Misc_modelsFinnish Meteorological Institute


Miscellaneous space weather research models with potential towards operative applications

EISCAT EISCAT Scientific Association EISCAT Scientific Association Sensor(s)

Incoherent Scatter Radar for studies of ionospheric electrodynamics. Excellent tool for tracking of small debris (ESA project heritage)

SOHO/ERNE ESA/NASA/Univ. of Turku ESA/NASA/Univ. of Turku Sensor(s) High‐energy particle detector at Lagrange point L1

Riometers Sensor(s)

Expertise in GIC's FMI Expertise

Incoherent radar Oulu Sensor(s)

Incoherent radar Sodankyla Sensor(s)

GIC Now FMI FMI (Fin) Service GIC forecast for Southern Finland

GIC Forecast IRF IRF (Swe) Service GIC forecast for Southern Sweden

Auroras Now FMI FMI (Fin) Service Auroral forecast service for Northern Finland

IonosondeSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi) Sensor(s)

Sodankylä Ionosonde (1 site), in operation since 1957, currently in‐house built instrument using CW‐FM‐chirp technique, soundings 1/min, manual scaling.

Meteor RadarLeicester University, Leicester, UK


SLICE (Sodankylä‐Leicester Ionospheric Coupling Experiment; 1 site) is a Skiymet meteor radar in operation since 2008 operating at 36.9MHz and 15kW measuring neutral winds in the middle atmosphere, gravity waves, meteor flux, momentum flux.

MagnetometersSodankylä Geophysical Observatory

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Sensor(s)

Geomagnetic observatory with 3 variometers and total field magnetometer at Sodankylä. Remote sub‐auroral site in Oulujärvi. Both sites are part of Intermagnet and IMAGE networks.

Pulsation Magnetometer ChainSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)


Chain of 6 three‐component search coil magnetometer stations in Finland from Kilpisjärvi to Helsinki, plus 1 station on Svalbard in collaboration with Polar Geophysical Institute (Russia).

Riometer ChainSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)


Meridional chain of 8 riometers at 7 sites operating at30.0MHz (5), 32.4MHz (2), 51.4MHz (1). Northernmost on Svalbard, southernmost in central Finland. Riometers measure absorption of radio noise in the ionospheric D region.

Ionospheric Tomography ChainSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)


Chain of 5 receiver sites from Kilpisjärvi to Helsinki monitoring signals from 3 Russian Tsykada navigational satellites and providing 2D electron density reconstruction of the ionosphere over Finland and Scandinavia.

Oulu Neutron MonitorSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi) Sensor(s) Neutron Monitor (1 site) in operation since 1965.

AARDDVARK/UltraMSKSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)


UltraMSK receiver systems (2 sites), see AARDDVARK/OmniPAL for description. The UltraMSKs monitor 10 transmitters simultaneously.

AARDDVARK/OmniPALBritish Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK


OmniPAL receiver system (1 site) listening to 6 VLF transmitters simultaneously in order to monitor the Earth‐ionosphere wave guide, i.e. the lower ionosphere along the great‐circle path from transmitter to receiver. Part of the multi‐station AARDDVARK network.

IRIS Imaging RiometerLancaster University, Lancaster, UK


Imaging Riometer for Ionospheric Studies (IRIS; 1 site)located at Kilpisjärvi monitoring ionospheric absorption of cosmic radio noise in 49 separate beams.

All‐Sky CamerasSodankylä Geophysical Observatory (www.sgo.fi)


Two all‐sky cameras are deployed at one optical observation site. They are part of the MIRACLE network.They image the night sky using a number of different filters. The newest camera is absolutely calibrated forlight intensity.

Fabry‐Perot InterferometerUniversity College of London, UK


Red line emission of atomic oxygen (630 nm) is used to to determine the winds of the upper atmosphere (~240 km).

GPS Scintillation measurementChina Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation

Space Physics Group, Dept of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu and Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Sensor(s)

Real‐time GPS scintillation receivers at Sodankylä and Oulu. Receivers are part of the larger network operatedby CRIRP.

Photometer measurementsDepartment of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu


One 5‐channel meridian scanning photometer and two zenith photometers located in Sodankylä measures auroral emissions.

Finnref GPS receiverFinnish Geodetic Institute (www.fgi.fi)

Finnish Geodetic Institute (www.fgi.fi) Sensor(s)

GPS reference station SODA operated by FGI. Part of theEUREF‐network.

Whole‐sun patrol observation at millimetre‐centimetre wavelengths University of Turku Sensor(s)

The University of Bern, Switzerland, made solar patrol observations at cm and mm wavelengths until 2004, when the Institute of Applied Physics stopped its activitiesin solar physics. The instruments operated at selected frequencies between 3 GHz and 50 GHz. The instruments have been transferred to the University of Turku (Finland), but have not yet become operational again. It is expected that observations will resume in summer 2010.

Solar radio imaging at 10‐100 GHzHelsinki University of Technology Metsähovi Radio Observatory Sensor(s)

Operation of a 14 m diameter radio telescope at Metsähovi, Kylmälä, Finland at 10‐100 GHz (wavelengths 3 cm ‐ 3 mm). Part of the telescope observing time has been used for solar research. Solar mapping since in 1978.

Finland

Asset name Owner OperatorAsset type

(SV,DT,SN,SW,EP,OR)


ONERA & CNES know‐howin SW instruments (ICARE) Expertise

Neutron Monitors IPEV Sensor(s)2 in Kergeulen & Terre‐Adelie, French Southern and Antarctic Lands

French GPS permanent network Sensor(s)GPS station network, part of EUREF coordinated by ROB, Belgium

CDPP: Database & VO expertise Service SPASE and other VO related technologies

Solar observatory THEMIS at IAC INSU‐CNRS, CNR, IAC Sensor(s)Daily patrol image. Full data made public 1 year after observation.

Nancay Observatory Obs Paris, CNRS Sensor(s)

Radioheliograph for solar maps at up to 10 frequencies (150‐450 MHz); decametre array: spectrograph with continuous coverage (20‐70 MHz); VLF antenna. Observations of radio bursts, flares, CME onsets. http://www.obs‐nancay.fr/a_index.htm

IAS‐MEDOC Solar Data CentreUniv Paris Sud 11, CNES, CNRS Data

SOHO, Trace & CORONAS/SPIRIT data archive (http://idc‐medoc.ias.u‐psud.fr)

Expertise in solar instrumentation Obs Paris LESIA Expertise SOHO/EIT, STEREO SWAVES

BASS2000CNRS, Obs Midi Pyrenees, Univ Paul Sabatier, INSU Service Data archive for THEMIS data plus access to

optics expertise Institute d'optique & IAS Expertise optical coatings for STEREO/SECCHI/EUVI

Solar physics expertise

Obs de la Cote d'Azur, Obs Paris Meudon, Obs Midi‐Pyrenees, Expertise

involvement in various ground based observations and space based observations

Scintillation Quickmaps CLS CLS (F) Service nowcast global maps of scintillation activity

SFC (Solar forecast centre) CLS CLS (F) Service Solar activity forecast subscription service

ISGI hosted by CNRS LATMOS Service Provision of reference geomagnetic indices

SPECTRE Noveltis Noveltis (F) Service TEC maps of European region

GEISHA ONERA ONERA (F) Service Radiation environment nowcast at GEO

IPSAT ONERA ONERA (F) ServiceComprehensive web based service for analysing spacecraft environment and effects

SALAMMBO ONERA ONERA Software Radiation belt modelling

FROMAGEParis Observatory, Ecole Polytechnique Service Solar magnetic field extrapolation(s)

DTM CNES GRGS Software Atmospheric model

Transcar CESR/LPG Software Thermosphere/ionosphere coupling

IMM CESR Software Ionosphere/magnetosphere coupling

Aussaguel Ground Station CNES CNES Other Reception of STEREO space weather beacon

CLIMSO (Pic du Midi) Sensor(s) coronograph (CME onsets, eruptive prominences)

Spectroheliograph Meudon Sensor(s) systematic observations at optical wavelengths

SIEVERT Meudon Service radiation doses for aeronautics

Space mission PICARD CNES/LATMOS CNES/LATMOS Other Solar physics/climate

Space mission DEMETER CNES/LATMOS CNES/LATMOS Other Ionospheric studies

France



Space Weather Application Center Ionosphere (SWACI) DLR DLR Neustrelitz Sensor(s)

SWACI is a research project for developing the fundamentals of a space weather centre whose service is focused on ionosphere issues.The future Neustrelitz Ionosphere Center (NIC) shall serve the European region by providing warnings, nowcast and forecast as well as historical data of the ionosphere state and related space weather issues. The ground and space based data collected and processed in near real‐time include ionospheric observations and other solar‐terrestrial data such as geomagnetic and solar measurements.

MUSTANG ESA U Greifswald Sensor(s)MUon Spaceweather Telescope forANisotropies at Greifswald

Acceleration facilities for impact physics FhG EMI Freiburg Sensor(s)

Innovative protective technologies;Penetration and perforation in materials at collision velocities of 10 ‐ 10.000 m/s; Experimental analyses and simulation of meteorite and Space Debris impacts at spacecraft components.

know‐how in solar physics and space physics

Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP), University Kiel, University Freiburg, University Gottingen, Kiepenheuer Institute fuer Sonnenphysik (KIS), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) Sensor(s) know‐how in solar physics and space physics

STEREO/SECCHI NASA NASA Sensor(s)Analysis of the SECCHI data that allow direct tracking of CMES from Sun to Earth

LOFAR Key Science Project: Solar Physics and Space Weather with LOFAR

Several LOFAR stations in Germany, NL/Astron lead LOFAR several Sensor(s) use of LOFAR array to study solar activity

Solar radio spectrograph AIP Sensor(s)

Tremsdorf Radio Observatory of the Astrophysical Institute in Potsdam (Germany): continuous coverage of the range (40‐800) MHz, http://www.aip.de/groups/osra/index_en.html

GPS reference stations Sensor(s) to allow ionosphere characterisation

CHAMP DLR GFZ Sensor(s) past geomagnetism mission used for GPS tomography

SEPS (Spherical EUV and Plasma Sensor)

EADS Astrium, IPM Fraunhofer IPM Fraunhofer Sensor(s)

SEPS is a multi‐functional retarding analyzer for the measurement of EUV and PLASMA parameters. It is a low resource and efficient instrument (sensor=180 gr., Electronics < 1,4 kg, less than 4,5 Watt power, 256 memory for data). Electron density, ion density, plasma temperature, energy distribution of ions and electrons, EUV radiation can be measured for energies from ‐70 eV to + 70 eV. Spacecraft potential can be determined, too. It is planned to extend SEPS for the medium energy range from 2‐3 keV to 100 keV

Radiation protection DLR Expertise ISS radiation monitoring

Radiation detectors Kiel U. Expertise Chandra radiation monitor; Mars radiation monitor

VTT & GREGOR solar telescope at IAC

DFG Freiberg and 3 other german inst. IAC Teide, Tenerife, Spain Sensor(s) ground based solar observatories

SWENET ESA ESA/etamax Service IT infrastructure for space weather data

SWIPPA DLR DLR (D) Service TEC Maps of European region and activity forecast

SolACES (Solar Auto‐Calibrating EUV/UV Spectrometers) IPM Fraunhofer IPM Fraunhofer Sensor(s)

SolACES comprises a set of EUV spectrometers and ionisation chambers providing detailed spectral resolution from 16 ‐ 140 nm. An outstanding feature of SolACES is its in‐orbit‐calibration capability to derive more reliable solar EUV irradiance spectra up to 0.3 nm spectral resolution for the first timeWithin the SOLAR payload on ISS SolACES is planned to stay in orbit up to 2013.

EUV test equipment IPM Fraunhofer IPM Fraunhofer Other

The test chamber at IPM Fraunhofer Freiburg provides the capability to perform verification of EUV instruments

Sun‐Earth Space Weather competence centre

Planetarium Hamburg / Univ. Göttingen

Planetarium Hamburg / Univ. Göttingen Outreach Science visualization and Education/Public Outreach

Adolf Schmidt Geomagnetic Observatory, Niemegk

GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Sensor(s)

The main objectives of the Adolf‐Schmidt‐Observatory for Geomagnetism in Niemegk are to continuously measure the geomagnetic field and to determine the geomagnetic activity, in order to study the dynamics of the Earth's magnetic field and its interactions with the Earth system.

Germany



Magnetometer arrayNational Observatory of Athens

National Observatory of Athens Sensor(s)

Geomagnetic activity, remote sensing of the magnetosphere, magnetic storms, Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC).

Ionospheric stationNational Observatory of Athens


Support of operational systems, including shortwave radio communications and OTH radars. Scientific research to enable better prediction of ionospheric conditions and to understand the plasma physics of the solar terrestrial interaction of the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field with the solar wind.

Neutron Monitor Station University of Athens University of Athens Sensor(s)

Determination of the energy spectrum of the cosmic‐ray modulation effects (11‐years and more long‐term variations, 27‐days, Forbush effects) where data from the sea level stations of high cutoff rigidity need to be used. Estimation of the energy limit of particles in the great proton events.

Sporadic E SCATter (SESCAT) experiment University of Crete University of Crete Sensor(s)

SESCAT refers to a continuous wave (CW) radar facility which has been operating in Crete since 1992. SESCAT experiment is a state of the art bistatic CW Doppler radar operating at 50.52 MHz with the transmitting and receiving arrays beaming northward to a region perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field at the E region peak.

The Stanford VLF station on Crete University of Crete University of Crete Sensor(s)

VLF narrowband receiver for routine VLF propagation studies and transient luminous events investigations. The VLF receiver was installed in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It is part of an international network of VLF stations around the globe called Awesome Collaborative, organized by Stanford University.

Electric Field stationDemokritus University of Thrace

Demokritus University of Thrace Sensor(s)

A high rate Campbell Scientific CS110 Electric Field Sensor measures the vertical component of the atmospheric electric field at the earth's surface. Supporting instrumentation include a weather station and a radio waves lightning position detector. Modulation of the atmospheric electric field due to Forbush events can be observed when operating at >10 Hz.

GPS‐GNSS real‐time networkNational Observatory of Athens


Measurement of Total Electron Content of the ionosphere (TEC) using dual‐frequency transmissions from the Global Positioning System (GPS). NOANET includes 11 stations.

Optical telescopeNational Observatory of Athens


Aristarchos / Helmos Observatory, Aperture: 2.30 m, Location: Mount Chelmos, Achaia, Longitude/Latitude/Altitude: 22.21° E / 37.99° N / 2340m.

Optical telescope University of Crete University of Crete Sensor(s)

129cm Ritchey‐Chretien / Skinakas Observatory, Aperture: 1.29m, Location: Skinakas Peak / Crete, Longitude/Latitude/Altitude: 24.89° E / 35.21° N / 1752m.


National Observatory of Athens Expertise

M.Korgialenios / Kryoneri Astron. Station, Aperture: 1.23m, Location: Mount Killini, Corinth, Longitude/Latitude/Altitude: 22.62° E / 37.97° N / 905m.

Optical telescope University of Thessaloniki University of Thessaloniki Expertise

76cm Cassegrain / Stephanion Obs., Aperture: 0.76m, Location: (Stephani), Corinth, Longitude/Latitude/Altitude: 22.82° E / 37.76° N / 800m.



Newall / Penteli Astron. Station, Aperture: 0.63m, Location: Mount Penteli, Attica, Longitude/Latitude/Altitude: 23.86° E / 38.05° N / 300m.

ISARS Service Data analysis and modelling activities

DIAS DIAS consortium partnersNational Observatory of Athens Service

TEC maps and ionospheric propagation parameters for European region

Athens Digisonde Sensor(s)

Real‐time ionospheric observations: Doppler ionograms, Autoscaled parameters, Drift velocities, Sky maps, Daily directograms; Ionospheric forecast over Athens up to 24 hours ahead (SWIF model); Alerts for Ionospheric Storms

SIRMUP (Simplified Ionospheric Regional Model Updated in real‐time) DIAS Service

provides nowcasting European maps of the foF2, M(3000)F2, and MUF

TaD (TSMP‐assisted Digisonde reconstruction technique): Service

provides the reconstructed electron density profile over single locations up to geosynchronous orbit

ARTEMIS Radiospectrograph University of Athens Sensor(s)Located in Thermopylae, Greece. Continuous coverage (20‐650 MHz), http://www.cc.uoa.gr/~artemis/

Greece



TSRS INAF Trieste INAF ServiceTrieste Radio Observatory providing solar radio indices nowcast

Solar radio spectrograph Trieste Sensor(s)

High‐time resolution and circular polarisation at fixed frequencies (2695, 1420, 610, 408, 327, 237 MHz), http://radiosun.ts.astro.it/

Catania Solar observatory OAC Sensor(s) Solar observatory

Terra Bay Antarctic base Sensor(s) magnetometers, all‐sky‐camera, ionosonde, riometer

NyAlesund Artic base Sensor(s) all‐sky camera, ionosonde

Rome solar observatory OAR Sensor(s) Solar photometry

Know‐how in space weather modelling Expertise

Themis France‐Italy Sensor(s) French‐Italian solar observatory, at IAC Tenerife

High energy particle detectors in space (PAMELA) Expertise

Altea Alteano radiation sensors on ISS INFN Expertise

Particle radiation in space its effects on astronauts

AMS detector INFN Sensor(s)

Ionosonde Roma IGNV Sensor(s) Real time measurements of TEC

Ionosonde San Vito IGNV Sensor(s) Real time measurements of TEC

Solar physics expertise Expertise

Obs Astro Capodimonte, Obs Astro di Roma, Obs Astro Torino, Obs di Arcetri, Obs di Catania, Obs di Roma Tor Vergata

Ionosfera Amsat Italia SWENET (D) ServiceNowcast HF communication conditions for Radio amateurs

GIFINT IFSI/INAF IFSI (It) ServiceGeomag. indices forecast and ionospheric nowcasting tool

OASI INGV Sensor(s) Groud based magnetometer

Ionosonde INGV Sensor(s)

Riometer INGV Sensor(s)

All sky camera IFSI/INAF Sensor(s) All sky camera

Kerguelen radar IFSI & LPC2E (Orléans) Sensor(s) HF radar part of the SuperDARN network

Concordia magnetometers l'Aquila University Sensor(s)

Concordia radars LPC2E (Orléans) & IFSI Sensor(s) 2 SuperDARN HF radars under installation

ISACCO INGV Sensor(s) GISTM (GPS Ionospheric and TEC Monitor) receiver

ITACA2 IFSI/INAF Sensor(s)Two twin all‐sky cameras with partly overlapping fields‐of‐view

SEGMA magnetometersl'Aquila University & others Sensor(s) South European GeoMagnetic Array

Network of neutron monitors IFSI/INAF & others Sensor(s)Continuous monitoring of nucleonic comp. of cosmic rays

Italy



Solar Physics Expertise including Image and Signal Processing Trinity Dublin Proba (B) Expertise

Image and Signal Processing Proba II, solar physics data analysis

ISS radiation monitoring DIAS DLR(D) Expertise Various ISS radiation experiments (Co‐I)

Plasma and Energetic Particle instrumentation

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

National University of Ireland, Maynooth Expertise Co‐I ASPERA and various Energetic particle experiments

Space h/w Design/build/test Expertise

Space Technology Ireland, Ltd (STIL) Expertise

Energetic Particle Detectors: p (~30 keV‐ tens of MeV), e (~40 ‐ 300 keV), n (~30 ‐ 300 keV), p (~35 ‐ 500 MeV)

Radiation Expertise Expertise For design of space instruments.

Ireland



No assets identified

Luxembourg



LOFAR ASTRON Sensor(s)

Can provide high‐resolution information on the status of the ionosphere above the array, also used to observed solar activity (see Germany for Key Science Project)

Ionospheric modelling Leiden U Expertise

GPS network Sensor(s)

DOT solar telescope at IAC Utrecht U Sensor(s)

Expertise in thermospheric drag Delft U Expertise

The Netherlands



EISCATInternational (HQ in Sweden) Sensor(s) Radar (Tromsø and Svalbard)

Kjell Henriksen Observatory UNIS / Svalbard UNIS Sensor(s)Auroral observatory with multiple instrument possibilities

Magnetometer Chain Univ. of Tromsø University of Tromsø Sensor(s) Chain of magnetometers ‐ provide commercial service

GPS reference stations Norwegian Mapping Authority Norwegian Mapping Authority Sensor(s)GPS reference station used for geodesy and ionospheric disturbances.

GPS reference stations Fugro Geoteam Fugro Geoteam Sensor(s)GPS reference stations to increase accuracy in dynamic GPS positioning (offshore)

All Sky Cameras Univ of Oslo Univ. of Oslo Sensor(s) Optical All Sky Cameras at Andøya and Svalbard

Svalbard ground station, SvalSat Other

Antarctic ground station, KSAT Other

Ionosonde Svalbard and Tromsoe Sensor(s)

Ionosonde Ny Alesund Sensor(s)

Andoya Rocket RangeNorwegian Ministry for Trade and Industry Andoya Rocket Range Other

Norway

Juha-Pekka Luntama

Highlight



GPS network Sensor(s)

Alphasat/AEEF instrument Sensor(s)

Expertise in software systems for SW support to operations Uninova, Deimos Enghenaria Expertise SEIS/SEISOP development team

Coimbra Solar Observatory Univ Coimbra ExpertiseRegular full disk spectroheliograms Ca II from 1926 & H‐alpha from 1990

Portugal



Know‐how in SEP modelling Univ of Barcelona ExpertiseSimulation of SEPs using a compound magnetohydrodynamic model and a particle transport model.

SOLPENCO/SOLPENCO2University of Barcelona + ESA Software

Prediction tool for solar energetic particle fluxes and fluences

Prediction of spacecraft Effects DEIMOS Expertise

Know‐how in space weather effects on spacecraft INTA Expertise

SEP forecast Univ Malaga Univ Malaga Expertise

Early warning system for predicting magnetically well‐connected Solar .Energetic Proton (SEP) events in real‐time. This system predicts the SEP onset, as well as the intensity of the first hours of the SEP event, with an anticipation time that ranges from several minutes to a few hours.

Expertise in software systems for SW support to operations INTA Expertise SEIS/SEISOP development team

Dst Forecast Univ Alcala Expertise

Ongoing research project to generate routine forecast of geomagnetic index, warning for severe geomagnetic activity

Modelling tools for solar wind structures University of Alcala University of Alcala Expertise

Analytical models for magnetic topologies of interplanetary CMEs

Ebro ObservatoryFundacion Privada Observatorio del Ebro

Universitat Ramon Lull, Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Sensor(s)

Vector Magnetometer(*); IAGA Service on Geomagnetic Rapid Variations; Model of the Solar Flare Effects on the Geomagnetic Field; Ionospheric dynamo Model producing the solar quiet (SQ) variation; Vertical Incidence Ionospheric Sounder(*), Real‐time ionospheric vertical incidence ionograms; Real‐time ionospheric characteristics and electron density profiles; Real‐time DGS Plasma Drift (Super‐Resolution Direction Finding); Climatological model for the bottomside Ionospheric thickness & shape; Real‐time prediction model for the electron density peak height disturbance in response to solar wind conditions; solar photospheric observation. (*) Similar station managed at the Antarctic Spanish base.

Spain



Know‐how in space weather modelling and space weather instrumentations. Government

Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF Expertise

Swedish Institute of Space Physics (http://www.irf.se) in Kiruna, Umea, Uppsala, and Lund

ISES Regional Warning Centre Lund IRF Service http://www.lund.irf.se/rwc/

Observatory instruments: magnetometers, ionosondes, riometers, all‐sky cameras. Government IRF Sensor(s) http://www.irf.se/Observatory/?chosen=observatory

Facilities for testing and manufacturing of space instruments. Government IRF Other http://www.irf.se/?dbfile=Facilities

Esrange Space Centre SSC Other http://www.ssc.se/esrange

Swedish solar telescope at IAC Sensor(s)

Human radiation effects simulations for ISS at KTH Government KTH Expertise http://gluon.particle.kth.se/desire

EISCATInternational (HQ in Sweden) EISCAT Sensor(s)

The EISCAT Scientific Association is an international research organisation operating three incoherent scatter radar systems, at 931 MHz, 224 MHz and 500 MHz, in Northern Scandinavia. http://e7.eiscat.se

Sweden



Radiation monitor PSI Sensor(s)

PMOD/WRC Expertise

Solar constant/irradiance measurement, spacecraft instrumentation, modelling the solar UV spectrum; LYRA data visualizer

Solar Radio Spectrometers, Bleien Observatory ETZ, Zurich

Sensor(s), Service

Radio spectrograph with continuous coverage of the range 100‐4000 MHz. RAPP archive of solar radio bursts, http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/catalog/catalog_nf.html

Magnetocosmics/planetocosmics Space IT/ Univ Bern Expertise Ongoing research project

Switzerland



Merlin Radiation Detector QinetiQ QinetiQ Sensor(s)

Small space environment monitor capable of being fitted to various spacecraft to provide wide‐ranging environmental information.

Real‐time space weather data STFC STFC DataAccess to real time data from the NASA STEREO mission via the SSTD ground station

Real‐time space weather data STFC STFC DataAccess to real time data from the NASA/NOAA ACE mission via the SSTD ground station

Skynet 5 comms facilities Paradigm Paradigm Other

extensive ground infrastructure for networking comms with ability to serve overseas sites and link to all UKK SSA related facilities

Ionosonde in Slough, Falklands, South Georgia Sensor(s)

GPS station network Sensor(s)

SAMNET magnetometer network Lancaster university Sensor(s) stations in: UK, Faroe islands, Iceland & Russia

Magnetometers BGS Sensor(s) Located at Eskdalemuir, Hartland, Lerwick

EISCAT (UK support) STFC/RAL Expertise Supports and coordinates UK related EISCAT activities

Ionospheric modelling Leicester U, Lancaster U. Expertise

IRIS: imaging riometer Univ Lancaster Sensor(s) located in Finland.

CUTLASS (Co‐operative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System) Univ Leicester Sensor(s)

HF radars at Þykkvibær, Iceland, and Hankasalmi, Finland. Part of global international Super Dual Auroral Radar (SuperDARN). Group also has several scientific instruments located in the arctic. The CUTLASS data are made available in real time via web site. SuperDARN cross polar cap potential maps for the northern hemisphere, to which the CUTLASS data contribute, are also available in real time from APL web site.

Expertise in solar s/c instrumentation

University College London/MSSL Expertise

Flown relevant instrumentation on SOHO, Yohkoh, Hinode + others

Expertise in solar s/c instrumentation STFC/RAL Expertise Flown relevant instrumentation on SOHO, STEREO + others

EGSO Hosted at UCL/MSSL ServiceGRID test‐bed aimed towards simplifying access to heterogeneous solar data. Currently operating at pilot.

SOARS: Spaceweather Operational Airlines Risks Service

University College London/MSSL Service

Pilot service, part of the ESA space weather applications pilot project & member of SWENET

Solarmetrics commercial Expertisestartup geared towards providing space weather information and services to airlines

CEDEX radiation monitor Univ Surrrey Sensor(s)

Expertise in space plasma s/c instrumentation

University College London/MSSL Expertise Flown relevant instrumentation on e.g. Cluster

Incoherent radar Malvern Sensor(s)

DIFS: Daily Ionospheric Forecasting Service Bae Systems Bae Systems (UK) Service

Nowcast and forecast HF and SATCOM signal propagation conditions

BINCASTS: Index Nowcast and Forecast BGS BGS (UK) Service Indices now and forecast

SWIMIC: Solar Wind Monitoring and Induction Modelling for GIC BGS BGS (UK) Service Nowcast and forecast GIC in Scottish power grid

SOARS: Spaceweather Operational Airlines Risks Service MSSL/UCL MSSL/UCL (UK) Service

Service for airlines focussing on radiation and communication issues

GEOSHAFT QinetiQ QinetiQ (UK) Service Radiation hazard nowcast and alert at GEO

STIF STFC/RAL RAL (UK) Service ionospheric propagation parameters for European region

ASAP Univ Bradford Univ Bradford (UK) Service Forecast solar flare activity

EDAM QinetiQ QinetiQ Service 3D electron density model

HOTRAY British Antarctic Survey Software

Ray tracing code for calculating the path, amplification and absorption of electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in hot magnetised plasmas. Potential applications to Galileo signals

PADIE British Antarctic Survey Software

Computer code for calculating pitch angle and energy diffusion rates for wave‐particle interactions in connection with radiation belts. Potential applications to space weather modelling

BAS dynamic global radiation belt model British Antarctic Survey Software

Computer code for dynamic modelling of the Earth's radiation belts in 3d. Potential applications to space weather modelling

Global magnetic field models (e.g. scientific, International Geomagnetic Reference Field and World Magnetic Model) British Geological Survey Expertise

Leadership role in International Geomagnetic Reference Field

United Kingdom

UK regional magnetic field model British Geological Survey Service

Magnetic index forecast codes British Geological Survey Service Includes services that contribute to SWENET

GIC analysis code for UK British Geological Survey Software

Atmospheric radiation model QinetiQ Expertise

Synthetic Aperture Trans‐Ionospheric Radio Propagation Simulator (SAR‐TIRPS) QinetiQ Software

Kinetic modelling of coronal mass ejections STFC/RAL Expertise

Integration of UCL GCMs with lower atmosphere GCMs UK Met Office Expertise

Terrestrial thermosphere/ionosphere models University College London Software

CMAT2 goes from 15km to 500km plus plasmasphere and high‐latitude connection into the magnetosphere

Thermosphere/ionosphere models for other planets, eg Mars, Jupiter University College London Software

MIDAS ionospheric tomography/data assimilation software for ionospheric specification University of Bath Software

Automated Solar Activity Prediction Tool University of Bradford Service

Used for detection and classification of sunspot groups, and solar flare prediction.It is online and near real time. http://spaceweather.inf.brad.ac.uk/Contributes to SWENET

SHARE radar ‐ now called the Halley SuperDARN radar. Measurements of winds, tides and waves in the mesosphere and ionosphere. Part of global international Super Dual Auroral Radar British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

Operated by BAS from 1988 to 2008. Will resume operations at Halley 6 in Jan 2012.

New Falkland Islands radar ‐ to start about 2010 British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

Meteor radar at Rothera British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

Imaging riometer, being moved to Halley 6 British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

AARDDVARK network of radio receivers for measuring electron precipitation British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

Search coil magnetometer, Halley 6 British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

Pulsation magnetometer, Halley5, will move to Halley 6. British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

VELOX at Halley, for whistler detection and substorms British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

Low power magnetometer network, poleward of Halley British Antarctic Survey Sensor(s)

AIRIS riometer in Norway/ALOMAR Lancaster University Sensor(s)

Ny‐Alesund imaging Riometer Lancaster University Sensor(s) In collaboration with China (PRIC)

Rainbow all‐sky camera network in Iceland and Faroes Lancaster University Sensor(s) during darkness and clear sky

Ionosonde at Tromsø QinetiQ Sensor(s) Real‐time data goes to SWPC Boulder

GPS receivers QinetiQ Sensor(s)

CREDANCE monitor to fly with NASA Living with a Star Space Environment Testbed. QinetiQ Sensor(s)

Will monitor accumulated dose, energetic protons, heavy ion LET spectra, electron fluxes and charging currents. Approx launch date 2012.

EMU monitor to fly on Galileo. QinetiQ Sensor(s)Similar capabilities to CREDANCE but additional proton channels.

QDOS aircraft radiation monitor QinetiQ Sensor(s) To fly regularly on high latitude flights.

Ionosondes at Chilton and Port Stanley STFC/RAL Sensor(s)

Real‐time data supports DIAS system and hence SWENET services. Real‐time data goes to SWPC Boulder and hence to end users including MOD

Ground station:12m S‐band uplink/downlink antenna system2.4m S‐band downlink antenna system4.5m S‐band/X‐band downlink antenna system STFC/RAL OT

Past space weather use: STEREO beacon mode (now too far away); ACE real‐time solar wind (superseded by DLR service in Sep 2009)

Heliospheric Imager on NASA STEREO spacecraft STFC/RAL Sensor(s)

Fabry‐Perot measurements of thermosphere winds and temperatures in Svalbard and Scandinavia University College London Sensor(s) during darkness and clear sky

Scanning Doppler Imager (SCANDI) measurements of thermosphere winds and temperatures University College London Sensor(s) during darkness and clear sky

GPS receivers University of Bath Sensor(s)

LEO beacon receivers University of Bath Sensor(s)

Meteor radars University of Bath Sensor(s)

Meridian chain of GPS scintillation receivers, jointly run with Bath:operational: Tromsø, Trondheim, Nottingham, Dourbes, Lagos (Nigeria)to be deployed: Kiruna, Lerwick, Aberdeen, Shrewsbury, Cyprus, northern Nigeria University of Nottingham Sensor(s)

Magnetic field Imperial College Sensor(s) Cluster, Rosetta, Ulysses, Cosmic Visions, cubesat

Thermal electrons (<1 eV to 30 keV) MSSL Expertise

Cluster, CRRES, Cassini, Cosmic Visions, miniaturisation studies

EUV spectroscopy MSSL Expertise Hinode

Radiation dose QinetiQ Expertise Shuttle, Concorde, Giove, …

High‐res space cameras STFC/RAL Expertise STEREO (HI, EUVI, COR), SDO (AIA, HMI), SMEI, GOES

EUV spectroscopy STFC/RAL Expertise SOHO

Medium energy (30 keV ‐1 MeV) particle detectors STFC/RAL Expertise Cluster, Cosmic Visions

Radiation dose Surrey Expertise Giove

CRRES satellite wave and particle database Data

World Data Centre for Geomagnetism Service

CHIANTI ExpertiseAtomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas

ADAS Expertise Atomic Data and Analysis Structure

GAIA‐VXO Service Global Auroral Imaging Access

UK Solar System Data Centre Servicedata & models for solar and STP studiesWorld Data Centre C1 for STP

PROMPT ionospheric database Data Developed as UK input for COST‐271

Solar archives Service Data from SOHO, STEREO and TRACE

CSDSweb Service Magnetospheric near‐realtime conditions using Cluster

STPDF SoftwareData access system for STP/space weather data. Key data access component of ESA's SEDAT system

Clustran SoftwareLibrary for coordinate transformations. Used in ESA's SEDAT system.

Database of Fabry‐Perot measurements of thermospheric winds and temperatures Data

30 years data, mostly over Scandinavia but also occasionally elsewhere.

Daily Ionospheric Forecasting Service

BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre Service contributes to SWENET

Commercial applications of geomagnetic data and science, e.g. for oil and gas exploration and recovery and in navigation British Geological Survey Service

Geomagnetic hazard modelling and analysis, e.g. for power system operators British Geological Survey Expertise Includes services that contribute to SWENET

AuroraWatch UK Lancaster University Service Over 25000 subscribers

Space weather Operational Airline Risks Service MSSL Service contributes to SWENET

Spacecraft Hazard And Anomaly Forecasting Tool QinetiQ Software contributes to SWENET

EDAM533 real time HF propagation prediction service QinetiQ Service

web service that provides HF propagation information based on the EDAM real time ionosphere. Access if controlled.

Space‐based auroral imagers, primarily at UV but also possibly at X‐ray wavelengths

University of Leicester

Sensor(s), Expertise

Derived from systems on XMM and Swift

TRIO‐CINEMA ‐ 3 cubesat mission with US and Korea.

Imperial College London

Sensor(s)

Imperial College to supply magnetometer. Launch early 2012.http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/DevelopersWorkshop2009/2_Science/4_Glaser‐CINEMA.pdf

Proton, electron fluxes, ion LET spectra, total dose, charging currents

QinetiQ

Sensor(s)

GIOVE‐A plus other Galileo GPS

Particle fluxes, aircrew ambient dose equivalent

QinetiQ

Expertise

Various regular airflights

Solar wind physics Imperial College London Expertise



Giove‐A and B radiation data ESA ESA DataDaily archiving of radiation belt radiation belt data in MEO and production of summary plots.

Metop environment data NOAA Eumetsat Data SEM‐2 radiation data from polar orbit

SREM data (except Giove‐B/SREM) ESA PSI DataOnline archive of radiation data from SREM in a number of orbits

XMM‐Newton/RM data ESA ESA Data near‐real time radiation data near XMM apogee + archive

ESA space environment and effects section ESA ESA Expertise

wide expertise in space environment modelling and effects

ESA space weather web server ESA etamax (D) Outreachwww service giving current space weather and space weather study reports and links to collaborations.

SPINE information site ESA Artenum (F) OutreachInformation web site with applications code to download for spacecraft charging modelling

DEBIE‐2 ESA ESA Sensor(s)in‐situ impact detector for sub‐mm sized meteoroid and debris particles

ESA scintillation receiver ESA DLR Sensor(s) Scintillation receiver used in PRIS project

GALILEO IOV/MEU ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

GIOVE‐A/RM ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

GIOVE‐B/SREM ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

SREMs on Herschel and Planck ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitors at L2

Integral/IREM ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

One spare SREM ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

Proba‐1/SREM ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

Proba‐2/LP ESA ESA Sensor(s) low energy plasma sensor

Proba‐2/LYRA ESA ESA Sensor(s) Ly‐alpha radiometer

Proba‐2/SWAP ESA ESA Sensor(s) solar imager

ROSETTA/SREM ESA ESA Sensor(s) Radiation monitor

SWARM/Accelerometer ESA ESA Sensor(s) accelerometer

SWARM/Electric field ESA ESA Sensor(s) ion imager and low energy plasma sensor

SWARM/GNSS receiver ESA ESA Sensor(s) GNSS receiver

SWARM/magnetometer ESA ESA Sensor(s) magnetometer

EDID ESA etamax (D) Servicewww service giving access to debris detectors observations in space

ESA‐Effect ESA etamax (D) ServiceOnline component radiation effect data and correlated environment analyses for various ESA missions

IONMON ESA ESA Service IGS TEC map service

MADWEB ESA ESTEC Servicewww service giving access to debris reports and impact photographs

Proba‐2 mission archive ESA ESA Service archive of Proba‐2 solar data

Real‐time IRI service ESA (implementation) etamax (D) Service Last 24hour TEC map movie based on climatological model

SAAPS ESA ESA ServiceOnline spacecraft anomaly analysis and prediction service ‐ referenced in SWENET

SEDAT ESA ESA ServiceStand‐alone software to provide access to space environment data and to perform analyses and queries

SEISOP (Space Environment Information System to support S/C Operations) ESA ESA Service

Real‐time and offline space weather services for spacecraft operators and spacecraft designers. Provision of alarming, data analysis, automatic reporting and correlation of historical and real‐time data related to space weather time series and spacecraft telemetry time series database. Provision of forecast data.

SOHO mission archive ESA ESA Service near‐real time solar disc and corona images + archive

Space Environment Information System (SPENVIS) ESA

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Service

www interface to models of the space environment and its effects

SWENET data archive system ESA (portal) Div (data) etamax (D) Service

Database of diverse space weather data and service products. Extends from 2005 for all data, plus long term historical data for some indices

SWENET Index Quality Statistics service ESA etamax (D) Service

Preliminary metrics enabling evaluation of index nowcast and forecast services for SWENET data products

European Space Agency

SWENET portal functionalities ESA etamax (D) Service

Online analysis tools and user set preferences e.g. alerts and automated data retrieval.www service providing database access, access to online services, visualisation and analysis tools.Automatically fetch data from other databases including NOAA/SWPC data server.

ESABASE ESA ESA/GEC Alstom SoftwareStand‐alone software to generate spacecraft geometry models and access contamination models

ESABASE2 ESA etamax (D) SoftwareFollow‐up of ESABASE but currently includes the debris and meteoroid modules only.

Geant4 space tools and applications ESA ESTEC Software

Energetic particle transport tools and applications, that can be integrated into online tools (e.g. Mulassis in SPENVIS)

Virtual observatory tools ESA ESA Software generic tools for virtual observatory

DIADEM ESA etamax (D) Software

Software tool to assess the background M/OD flux as well as the flux contribution of recently released particle clouds.

Solar Energetic Particle Environment Modelling (SEPEM)


Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Software

Creating new engineering models and tools to address future needs

Interplanetary Meteoroid Engineering Model (IMEM) ESA University Bielefeld, ESA Software

IMEM describes fluxes of meteoroids near Earth and in interplanetary space. It includes the directional and velocity distribution of the meteoroids.

dMEREM and eMEREM ESA SoftwareUnder test with ESA and other modelers against s/c observations.



3D plasmasphere density distribution AWDAnet

Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary ELTE Service

Global network measuring Very Low Frequency waves to capture and analyze whistlers. Capable of providing 3D plasmasphere density distribution.

Hungary