Abstract
Copernicus is an European system created for Earth observation and monitoring. It consists of a set of Earth observation satellites and in-situ sensors that provide geo-information that are used, through a set of Copernicus services, for applications related to the environment and global security. The main services of the Copernicus programme address six thematic areas: land, marine, atmosphere, climate change, emergency management and security. In Germany, there is a national service team of Copernicus service coordinators, who are responsible for the national development of the Copernicus services and for providing user-specific information about the Copernicus processes. These coordinators represent the contact points for all the programmes and services concerning their respective Copernicus theme. To publish information about Copernicus, national conferences and workshops are organised. Many people are involved in planning the continuous process of bringing the information to public authorities, research institutes and commercial companies. The Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, BKG) is one such organisation, and is mainly responsible for the national land monitoring service of Copernicus. To make use of the freely available data from the Copernicus programme, the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy is currently developing new applications and projects in the field of remote sensing and land monitoring. These projects can be used by other public authorities as examples on how to use the Copernicus data and services for their individual demands and requirements. Copernicus data and services are currently not very commonly used in the daily routine of the national mapping agencies, but they will soon be.
Highlights
1.1 The Copernicus ProgrammeThe Copernicus programme, coordinated and managed by the European Commission, has two main components which are related to each other; namely i) the Copernicus space component and ii) the Copernicus services with the in-situ component
Since the Copernicus land monitoring services for Germany are handled by the BKG, several projects dealing with the evaluation and processing of Copernicus data are currently underway
This paper illustrates how Copernicus data can be used in the daily practice of a national mapping agency in terms for applications like land monitoring
Summary
The Copernicus programme, coordinated and managed by the European Commission, has two main components which are related to each other; namely i) the Copernicus space component and ii) the Copernicus services with the in-situ component. The Copernicus services are divided into six thematic areas: land, marine, atmosphere, climate change, emergency management and security These different services provide a means to support a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects and have the potential to find solutions for concrete application problems. The availability of data from the same satellite and with the same specifications for the entire period of the satellite mission (7-10 years) provides another advantage to the Copernicus programme and allows reliable planning for the development of future products. This is especially important to improve and optimise the methods and processes used or workflows employed. A large temporal dataset allows for the monitoring and evaluation of phenomena that only vary over longer periods in time
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