Global requirements on EO products 

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Challenge ID

CLS_OFF.6.1

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Title

Global requirements on EO products

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Originator of Challenge

All contacts

General description

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What data/products do you currently use ?

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When do you use this kind of dataset?

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What are your actual limitations and do you have a work around? 

• The main issue with the use of EO products is the poor knowledge about their performance and reliability. Validation and communication ESA/industry around these data are paramount.

• The limitation concerning the use of EO products can be the difficulty to have a guaranteed access to these data. (A model is more likely to provide this guarantee) Ex: This issue happens with EnviSAT. It delivered excellent products but there were many difficulties in getting the data timeliness in NRT.

• Another issue is the lack of tools to read and view this data. The products should be provided in a common format to producers (Matlab, Fortran) or delivered with a turnkey tool.

• Problem of having a time series referred to a specific location. Satellite data are sparse in both time and space

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Needs and expectations on EO data

Workshops with ESA to communicate on these tools (validation case studies) and the reliability of these products could be very useful.

A new analyze of the climate change with the EO data could also be of a great help.

CRYOSAT Data are really needed for operational issues. Communication about these products needs to be done.

There is also a need to communicate more upstream with the science community

Challenge classification

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Lifecycle stage

Pre license

Exp.

Dev.

Prod.

Decom.

Score from impact

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Geographic context/restrictions

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Topographic classification / Offshore classification

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Activity impacted/concerned

Main advantage (besides money saving): standardizing of the data, same reference, same standards for every O&G plateform studies.

Data homogeneity among all operators to represent the environment and relation with regulatory bodies, continuity on calibration.

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Urgency

(How quickly does the user need the solution)

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Information requirements

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Update frequency

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Temporal resolution

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Spatial resolution

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Data quality

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Data Coverage and extent

More easy access to some area outside the limitation [52°N-52° S].

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Example formats

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Timeliness

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Existing standards

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