Intro

The development of advanced processing and modelling techniques, as well as the exploitation of new sources of data, will be targeted to create new products or significantly improve the quality and performances of existing elements-components for the benefit of users. The projects shall take into account the existing service and clearly define to what extent service will be improved with new elements or products, including the use of enhanced models, algorithms, tools and techniques to generate new products

Scope

– New and innovative coupled data assimilation methods to improve the next generation of global and regional reanalyses in the climate consistency of Earth-system reanalysis datasets
– Underpinning science in predictability and new and innovative multi-model product generation to improve the realism (including representation of extremes and teleconnection patterns) of the current generation of climate prediction models.

Objectives

– Enhanced quality and efficiency of the current service evolution to respond to (a) policy and/or user requirements (b) technological developments implementing the space regulation (c) complementing the challenges targeted by the Horizon Europe Mission on “Adaptation to climate change including societal transformation”

– Development of efficient and reliable new product chains, calling for new paradigms in data fusion, data processing and data visualisation essential for the service are expected to handle more high-volume satellite data sets and product sets. The baseline is to preserve continuity of what has been achieved while keeping the service modern and attractive

– Development of new algorithms and processing chains preparing for the use of new types of space observation data (being from new Sentinels, other contributing missions or ESA Earth Explorer missions) in order to allow the development of new products or the improvement of existing products.

Copernicus data and services products will be at the core of the projects’ data value chains and integration activities needed to fulfil the industrial and users requirements that will drive the actions

– Bring to market new or improved applications, products and services by exploiting Copernicus data assets and services products

– Contribute to increase the integration and uptake of Copernicus into the economy, and/or to solve societal challenges
– The integration of Copernicus data assets with data contributed by other vertical domains into sizeable and scalable applications enabled by modern ICT technologies to enhance Copernicus downstream market and enable vertical domains (e.g. agriculture, food security, health, energy, natural resources, environmental monitoring, insurances, tourism, security etc…) to benefit from the use of Copernicus

Intro

This approach should foster the exploitation of space EO capabilities to close observation gaps in combination with ground-based infrastructure and innovative processing/modelling techniques. The proposed developments should be modular and scalable and proposals should provide a proof-of-concept or a prototype that can be easily integrated into the service(s). improvement of existing ones.

Scope

– Development of a proof-of-concept or prototype with a Copernicus based-solution to improve the European capacity for monitoring and forecasting the Arctic accessed via a single entry point which can be easily integrated into the existing service(s)
– Development of a proof-of-concept or prototype with a Copernicus-based solution to improve the European capacity for monitoring the UN Sustainable Development Goals indicators accessed via a single entry point which can be easily integrated into the existing service(s)

Objectives

– Enhanced quality and enhanced efficiency of the current services to respond respectively to well identified emerging EU policy needs and/or user requirements and to technological developments
– Exploitation of the full range of Copernicus core services with a significant improvement in the coordination and integration of data and products between them
– Development of services which will support new policy(ies) and will address observational and information gaps
– Appropriate consideration of a wide range of users’ needs and of potential accessibility limitations

Mapping and land monitoring approaches are partly conditioned by the availability of satellite data.The deployment of the full Earth Observation capacities of Copernicus and the complementarities between the instruments, including outside Copernicus environment, allows to rethink of the approach including for providing a better answer to the policy needs

– Develop new and innovative methods to combine and explore data with different spatial and temporal characteristics using automatic processing for land cover and land cover status change assessment

– Dynamic approach and the integration of various sensors for enhancing the development of specific automatic processing approaches for real and near real time data processing to respond to emerging European policy needs

– Development of advanced processing and modelling techniques, for creation of new products or significantly improve the quality and performances of existing ones

– Enhanced quality and efficiency of the current service to respond respectively to policy

and/or user requirements and to technological developments

– Development of efficient and reliable new products chains, calling for new paradigms in

data fusion, data processing and data visualisation essential for the service to handle

more high-volume satellite data sets and product sets

With an integrated modelling approach, the integration of new observational data becomes a driver for further enhancement and improved realism of the already existing production chains, assimilation systems and coupled models. The development of advanced processing and modelling techniques, as well as the exploitation of new sources of data, will be targeted to create new products or significantly improve the quality and performances of existing ones.

– Development of new and innovative models for
marine ecosystems monitoring and related biogeochemistry
– Use of models to prepare Copernicus-based solutions for different policies areas and for the challenges related to biodiversity conservation
– Adress specific domains such as the exploitation of the dynamics
of the biological component of the ocean in terms of ‘fauna and flora’

– Enhanced quality and efficiency of the current service to respond to policy and/or user requirements, technological developments implementing the space regulation, complementing the challenges targeted by the Horizon Europe Mission on “Healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters”, contribute to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
– Development of efficient and reliable new products chains, calling for new paradigms in data fusion, data processing and data visualisation
– Development of new algorithms and processing chains preparing the use of the new types of space observation data