Transcript Our value proposition combines our Public Sector

Serving the whole planet with metric resolution data:
The e-CORCE program status
presented by [email protected]
WGISS 27, Toulouse, 12th of may
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Customer are pushing for new products that evolve rapidly
For some years, synergies
between information society and
spatial technologies have
become tangible, generating new
standards for customer
demands:
“I want to communicate with
everyone at any time” (mobile
telephony and Internet)
“I want to know where I am and
where I’m going to” (Personal
Navigation Devices market)
“I want to see everything at any
time” (geolocalisation services
e.g.: Google Earth, e-Globe…)
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1 meter, Full Earth in a 1 week time or less with e-CORCE
 Can
we imagine one may create a self-sustainable satellite system able to photograph the whole of our
planet with one-meter resolution on a one-day time?
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e-CORCE stand for "eContinuous Observing system
Relayed by Cellular processing
Environment"
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"e-" since aiming at feeding
geocoded information to Internet
based mass market operators
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"Continuous Observing" since
aiming at providing a
continuously refreshed view of
our full planet
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"Relayed by Cellular processing
Environment" since based on the
intimate compound of 3 cellular
layers Space,Telecom,Grid
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The one-meter, one-day, one-Earth nightmare
Some few figures extracted from current state of the art :
 5x10 +14 pixels/day = more than 10 000 000 000 000 000 bits
 Overall satellite system raw throughout around 7000 Gigabits/s
 According to present sensor technologies (20 000 pixels CCDs)
means 125 satellites @67 Gb/s !!!
20 receiving centre with 700 Gb/s dump speed !!!
How to break the information wall?
 We need to COMPRESS & DISTRIBUTE the information flow
 COMPRESS: Psycho-visual image compression
 DISTRIBUTE: Receive and treat the information in a fully
decentralised fashion without having centric facilities (WAG)
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E-CORCE, a multilayer space-ground network for 2014
 13 satellites, 28 km swath, 250 kgs, 80Mb/s, 50 receiving/processing nodes
 No end user distribution and no central facility, no full mosaic creation, end
product is logically distributed but never “physically” available
 Internet IP virtual products (eg: I-tune, I-tube or emule functionning)
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Typical e-CORCE Micro-Satellites design
Illustration
Rationale
Flying geometry with sight direction perpendicular
to speed vector
Speed
Along flight propulsion direction
Easy accomodation of donwlink antenna
Multi-plan compatibility
10% Increased solar arrays dimension
Bidimensionnel TDI
Earth
Instrument design:
 Aperture Ø 300 mm
 14 stages TDI
 4 CCD arrays with 7 000 pixels
 3 mirors Korsch Télescope
 SiC based opto-mechanical design
 Mass < 40 kg
 Power < 120 W
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Psycho-visual image compression (gain=50)
Rationale
Illustration
Psycho-visual data compression features (geared
up for internet users):
 No need for cloud cover handling
 No need for sea surfaces on/off
 Automatic bit budget
 Compression over clouds / seas >100
 Compression over Towns <15
 Average compression all over the world >50
 Nearly no visual degradation for 1m resolution
images
 Quality for 10 meters or more data anyhow
excellent thanks to statistical surface averaging
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Wide Area Grid (WAG) :
Satellite GRID= Networked Nodes
& Middleware
=> Unified Satellite resources
Nodes are receiving systems and computers
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The Wide Area Grid NODE
 Reception of compressed payload data
 Uplink of TM/TC commands (Space IP flow/protocol
emulation)
 Image decompression (adaptative JPEG2000)
 Image correction
 Local Mosaic creation
Local mosaic
 Interaction with other Node under WAG supervision
 Resulting data set seen as data stream serveur ,
WAG IP streaming protocol
Distribution by peer to peer mechanism creating a full
virtual metric Earth
Geocoded
Portal
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E-CORCE Ground cellular processing requirements
Overall computerized capacity brought by
5000 PCs (1000 in 2012) spreaded over 50
to 100 receiving and processing centers
may generate on a daily basis the worldmosaic at 1 meter resolution
Typically any of the WAG node will make
use of 20 PCs to create its local mosaic.
Overall power close to the full CERN
capability !
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Lessons from Google, a precursor in mass geocoded
information accessible to every-one
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Emulated e-CORCE, 1meter resolution
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100 meters resolution over Africa
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Today 1 meter resolution over 70% of the Globe !
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1 Meter/pixel
2,5Meter/pixel
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Is one meter a good choice ?
- Technical optimum for
micro-sat techno
- Well fitted to market
usage
- Good for visual
navigation
- Acceptable bandwidh
and information sizing
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Examples of e-CORCE added value for B2C market players
enrichment of cartography content for GPS devices
Address of local stadium :
5 Avenue de Matignons
Where is the
stadium ?
User help for last mile navigation
through map enrichment
Here it is !
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e-CORCE, “the easy way” for thematic users
Without need for sfecific
programming :
“Getting weekly metric colour high resolution
pictures of any place all over the world is
becoming affordable to every-one and as
straightforward as being plugged on Internet”
Déforestation
Drought
Pollution
Roads
Harvest evaluation
Mineral and oil
serach
Urban monitoring
...
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Some revolutionary consequences on space Earth
Observation utilization and business potential
Rationale
Illustration
The whole of the Earth is continuously accessible
 No programming, no competition on satellite access
Any country will be covered the same way (poor and rich )
 e-CORCE, the system for development aid and monitoring
Psycho-visual quality trimmed to maximize utilisation while
cutting costs
 e-CORCE, the Earth Observation « MP3 »
The whole planet is constructed as a virtual globe complete,
fresh and homogeneous
 No more catalogues
The full data set is « on line »
 Oversimplified distribution at minimum cost trough Internet:
”Imagery On Demand” (IOD)
Fully automated process from satellite to users :
 Commercialization platform , the « Amazon » way with
small or large deliver of pictures from any place all over
the Earth !
And finally :
 Imagery at much reduced cost by a factor of 4
at least inducing new markets opportunities
and value added activities
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Blue Planet, a new European space operator
Blue Planet objectives are to:
Involve European industry in the development and the operation of e-CORCE constellation
Operate and sale the worldwide metric images updated every week
Blue Planet will be a space imagery “wholesaler” supplying all users (Mass,
Thematic, New)
Blue Planet ambition is to build an European dominant position thanks to its
performance, its low cost and ease of access
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e-CORCE: Innovation is not only technical !
Business unit
13 Sats
Mass portal operators
Classical thematic needs
Space manufact
Production
Concepts
& patents
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These markets will be commercially addressed through 3 different
sales channels.
Production system
Sales channels
Markets
Large clients
Blue Planet direct sales
SPATIAL
LAYER
 Low cost
satellite
 IP sensors
TELECOM
LAYER
 Re-use of
existing
telecom
infrastructures
GROUND
LAYER
 Low cost
WAG
hardware and
software
 Leverage of
internet
already
installed
capacity
 Mass market: major Web, Mobile
and GPS players
 Large institutions
Small / Medium clients
Sales through indirect
distribution network or
value-added resellers
Thematic clients
Distribution platform
Open Commercial channel
Blue Planet direct sales channels limited to few key
account managers and fully automated distribution platform
 Logic for profits relies on the ability of e-CORCE to deliver disruptive performances at
low cost by severely cutting down:
• Production costs
• Distribution costs
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An unexpected
business case ready
to be caught !
Identified an « Massive needs »
=>No free alternative
e-CORCE
Low cost technology is
entering the space
manufacturing processes
=> No programmatic
dependency !!
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Any question ?
Contacts:
[email protected]
[email protected]
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