Earthcare Disc Tender, Italy - 96061809

Procurement Summary

Country : Italy

Summary : Earthcare Disc

Deadline : 08 Mar 2024

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 96061809

Document Ref. No. : 1-12009

Competition : ICB

Financier : Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : ESA CENTRE FOR EARTH OBSERVATION
Via Galileo Galilei, 1, 00044 Frascati RM Tel: +39 06 941 801
Italy

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Earthcare Disc

EarthCARE, ESA's radiation mission to study the link between clouds, aerosols and radiation in cooperation with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA), which is providing one of the instruments. It is currently planned to be launched in Q2 2024. Carrying the newly developed high performance UV Atmospheric Lidar (ATLID), Cloud Profiling Doppler Radar (CPR provided by JAXA), MultiSpectral Imager (MSI) and a BroadBand Radiometer (BBR), it is by far the largest, most complex mission of the whole FutureEO programme so far. Achieving the mission requirements in terms of product quality, including the radiative closure between the measured atmospheric cloud and aerosol profiles and the measured top-of-atmosphere fluxes, poses exceptional demands for the ground processors as well as the in-orbit product qualityassurance. ESA's processing chain includes more than 20 sophisticatedly orchestrated processors to provide a wide range of scientific products, derived from asynergetic combination of the data of up to all four sensors. Considering the nominal satellite operational lifetime of only 30 months (three years minus 6 months satellite commissioning), a very efficient and competent team of experts will be required to quickly establish and stabilise the payload performance and the product quality in order to satisfy the user demands. These will include weather and climate prediction models and Atmospheric Composition Models in order to assimilate EarthCARE profiles as soon and as long as possible. Aeolus, featuring the first Doppler Wind Lidar in space, shares some characteristics with EarthCARE in terms of demands. While flying only one instrument and requiring a far less complex processing, the mission had similar demands in terms of quickly stabilising the data quality in a comparable short mission lifetime, for use in weather models. A further challenge was the preparation for unknown behaviours and anomalies of the technical components of the sophisticated Lidar technology flown in space for the first time. A major contributor to the large success of the Aeolus mission was the Aeolus Data Innovation and Science Cluster (DISC), gathering in a cluster Aeolus expert groups for the different algorithms, instrument calibration, performance and anomalies.DISCs are a data quality concept tailored to the innovative characteristics of Earth Explorers, in evolution of the former Expert Support Laboratories and the related Mission Performance Clusters of the Copernicus Sentinels. The purpose of this procurement is to provide support to the EO Mission Management Division and its Sensor Performances, Products, and Algorithm Management Section (EOP-GMQ) to swiftly achieve the required EarthCARE data quality through theimplementation of the EarthCARE DISC. The DISC groups in a cluster several instrument and product expert groups to establish a complete product quality assurance framework, including all activities related to product algorithm evolution, calibration, validation support and performance monitoring for ESA's EarthCARE products (JAXA's product's quality assurance falls under the responsibility ofJAXA).Read more

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