Periodic Reporting for period 1 - LEONSEGS (LARGE EARTH OBSERVATION NEW SPACE ECOSYSTEM GROUND SEGMENT)
Période du rapport: 2023-07-01 au 2024-09-30
LEONSEGS is a prototyped federated environment of EO data providers that collaborate all together through harmonized interfaces and managed by a central automated multi-mission service, able to coordinate and produce complex EO product.
LEONSEGS will support:
▪ New Space stakeholders which need to externalize their ground segment infrastructures.
▪ EO existing products providers with their own infrastructure and willing to access to the market that this infrastructure will offer.
LEONSEGS address these needs:
• Lack of interoperability between subsystems from different suppliers
• Difficult re-use of ground segments among different missions
• Market pressure on ground segment cost for mission specific development and deployment
• Unavailability of commercially available common subsystems
• Unacceptable maintenance cost due to obsolescence
• Training cost of operators when shifting between missions
LEONSEGS will support:
▪ New Space stakeholders which need to externalize their ground segment infrastructures.
▪ EO existing products providers with their own infrastructure and willing to access to the market that this infrastructure will offer.
LEONSEGS address these needs:
• Lack of interoperability between subsystems from different suppliers
• Difficult re-use of ground segments among different missions
• Market pressure on ground segment cost for mission specific development and deployment
• Unavailability of commercially available common subsystems
• Unacceptable maintenance cost due to obsolescence
• Training cost of operators when shifting between missions
LEONSEGS aims to prototype a flexible multi-mission EO (Earth Observation) ground segment able:
to federate European New Space players through its GSaaS (Ground Segment as a Service) paradigm widening their access to a larger market whose complex requests could not be served in an isolated manner, and
to offer optimized and sophisticated EO-based products/services to End-Users on the basis of intelligent search and best combination of heterogeneous datasets from the different federated providers and other external providers and archives.
WP1: Management activities for Consortium coordination.
This WP includes developing an action plan related to ethics, gender, legal and social aspects, as well as repeated focused reporting on measures taken throughout the project to address these issues for the entirety of the project. LEONSEGS will be innovating at the ground segment and dealing with very high resolution data, which brings additional concerns related to tracking people and activities.
* Preparation of the Project Management Plan for the whole consortium
* Coordination of Consortium Requirements Internal Review (CR-IR) and System Operational Concept (and Use Cases) Review SOCR.
* Coordination and presentation of GA Amendment. Follow up of actions and risks.
* Coordination of the interim report for the First Interim Review RV1.
* Preparation and delivery of Data Management Plan.
* Coordination, including final review, of the deliveries done.
* Coordination of ethical and gender reviews throughout the project.
The work on WP1 is fully underway. Currently D1.2 is being prepared.
WP2 Refinement of End-to-End Requirements and External Interfaces :
This WP intends:
* to refine the flexible multi-mission EO ground segment infrastructure requirements to deal with a vast and growing variety of New Space assets:
* to detail the scenario and uses cases for the chosen domain towards end-to-end demonstration purposes
Identifying and defining use cases (UC) and Epic stories (to be mapped to testing requirements) from consortium internal stakeholders (SATL, GMV ESA/EUMETSAT projects). Future activities will also involve those more peripheral to the project stakeholders that are engaged through activities in WP5. This engagement will be important and will include a wider perspective towards social impacts and will be conducted using a human-centered approach. Additionally, the role of semantics in the project is not trivial and will be highly informed by the gathered user-requirements.
T2.1 – System Requirements, first draft has been produced to support the first technical milestone, SOCR and RV1.
T2.2 – API Interface Definition & Design: During this task SATL conducted extensive research of Earth Observation standards, and their industry implementation. API implementation of such standards and documentation of findings including the API architecture required for the integration of external interfaces for EO data providers, such as SATL, have been proposed (defined). Outcome has been submitted in deliverable D2.2.
T2.3 – Testing Scenario Requirements and Interface Architecture Refinement. This task aims at the definition of the required testing scenario to illustrate the LEONSEGS features on the chosen precision agriculture domain with at least two use cases
for the required area of interest: a simple one and another one more complex, 2 EO services uses cases are being defined. A draft version of the Deliverable D2.3 is prepared for supporting first technical milestone SOCR and RV1.
WP3: nominal progress on following tasks
T3.1 – Agile System and Ground Segment Engineering
High level architecture and external interfaces are being defined for
• Mission Operations Control and Processing Service (MOC-PS): which comprises the software components to provide the Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) for the New Space missions.
• Automated Multi-mission Earth Observation Service (AMEOS): which comprises the software components to provide the user the capability of requesting Earth Observation services.
Definition of required HW resources defined according to the architecture and interface definition. Iterative process is carried out for the HW infrastructre definition and the final high level design of the system.
WP4- The main effort of this WP has started. The partners are currently agreeing on POC validation and demonstration procedures under the lead of PLUS. This is done in preparation of D4.1. Once these procedures have been agreed on the testing will begin.
Addtionally, since the beginning of the project SATL has been providing multispectral imagery at a high remapping frequency of two study sites in Europe chosen by the consortium partners. Imagery is captured in visible and near-infrared bands (Red, Green, Blue and NIR, covering the wavelength ranges between 450nm and 900nm) with a native spatial resolution of 1m, a swath of 5km and with a maximum off-nadir angle of ±25°. SATL applies its own processing algorithms to transform the raw data into the L1 Ortho product, which is radiometrically corrected (Top of Atmosphere Reflectance), orthorectified and projected to UTM. So far, SATL has provided almost 6,000km2 of high resolution multispectral imagery data.
WP-5 Communication and Dissemination plan, first version, was prepared by the consortium and delivered on time by the end of 2023.
GMV particiapted to GSAW 24, and LEONSEGS was part of the projects referred during GMV participation.
The work on training activities as well as the other tasks included in the WP5 are to be commenced soon after the SOCR milestone.
to federate European New Space players through its GSaaS (Ground Segment as a Service) paradigm widening their access to a larger market whose complex requests could not be served in an isolated manner, and
to offer optimized and sophisticated EO-based products/services to End-Users on the basis of intelligent search and best combination of heterogeneous datasets from the different federated providers and other external providers and archives.
WP1: Management activities for Consortium coordination.
This WP includes developing an action plan related to ethics, gender, legal and social aspects, as well as repeated focused reporting on measures taken throughout the project to address these issues for the entirety of the project. LEONSEGS will be innovating at the ground segment and dealing with very high resolution data, which brings additional concerns related to tracking people and activities.
* Preparation of the Project Management Plan for the whole consortium
* Coordination of Consortium Requirements Internal Review (CR-IR) and System Operational Concept (and Use Cases) Review SOCR.
* Coordination and presentation of GA Amendment. Follow up of actions and risks.
* Coordination of the interim report for the First Interim Review RV1.
* Preparation and delivery of Data Management Plan.
* Coordination, including final review, of the deliveries done.
* Coordination of ethical and gender reviews throughout the project.
The work on WP1 is fully underway. Currently D1.2 is being prepared.
WP2 Refinement of End-to-End Requirements and External Interfaces :
This WP intends:
* to refine the flexible multi-mission EO ground segment infrastructure requirements to deal with a vast and growing variety of New Space assets:
* to detail the scenario and uses cases for the chosen domain towards end-to-end demonstration purposes
Identifying and defining use cases (UC) and Epic stories (to be mapped to testing requirements) from consortium internal stakeholders (SATL, GMV ESA/EUMETSAT projects). Future activities will also involve those more peripheral to the project stakeholders that are engaged through activities in WP5. This engagement will be important and will include a wider perspective towards social impacts and will be conducted using a human-centered approach. Additionally, the role of semantics in the project is not trivial and will be highly informed by the gathered user-requirements.
T2.1 – System Requirements, first draft has been produced to support the first technical milestone, SOCR and RV1.
T2.2 – API Interface Definition & Design: During this task SATL conducted extensive research of Earth Observation standards, and their industry implementation. API implementation of such standards and documentation of findings including the API architecture required for the integration of external interfaces for EO data providers, such as SATL, have been proposed (defined). Outcome has been submitted in deliverable D2.2.
T2.3 – Testing Scenario Requirements and Interface Architecture Refinement. This task aims at the definition of the required testing scenario to illustrate the LEONSEGS features on the chosen precision agriculture domain with at least two use cases
for the required area of interest: a simple one and another one more complex, 2 EO services uses cases are being defined. A draft version of the Deliverable D2.3 is prepared for supporting first technical milestone SOCR and RV1.
WP3: nominal progress on following tasks
T3.1 – Agile System and Ground Segment Engineering
High level architecture and external interfaces are being defined for
• Mission Operations Control and Processing Service (MOC-PS): which comprises the software components to provide the Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) for the New Space missions.
• Automated Multi-mission Earth Observation Service (AMEOS): which comprises the software components to provide the user the capability of requesting Earth Observation services.
Definition of required HW resources defined according to the architecture and interface definition. Iterative process is carried out for the HW infrastructre definition and the final high level design of the system.
WP4- The main effort of this WP has started. The partners are currently agreeing on POC validation and demonstration procedures under the lead of PLUS. This is done in preparation of D4.1. Once these procedures have been agreed on the testing will begin.
Addtionally, since the beginning of the project SATL has been providing multispectral imagery at a high remapping frequency of two study sites in Europe chosen by the consortium partners. Imagery is captured in visible and near-infrared bands (Red, Green, Blue and NIR, covering the wavelength ranges between 450nm and 900nm) with a native spatial resolution of 1m, a swath of 5km and with a maximum off-nadir angle of ±25°. SATL applies its own processing algorithms to transform the raw data into the L1 Ortho product, which is radiometrically corrected (Top of Atmosphere Reflectance), orthorectified and projected to UTM. So far, SATL has provided almost 6,000km2 of high resolution multispectral imagery data.
WP-5 Communication and Dissemination plan, first version, was prepared by the consortium and delivered on time by the end of 2023.
GMV particiapted to GSAW 24, and LEONSEGS was part of the projects referred during GMV participation.
The work on training activities as well as the other tasks included in the WP5 are to be commenced soon after the SOCR milestone.
LEONSEGS Expected Results:
• Prototyped multimission ground segment
• Definition of standard interface for Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS)
• Prototyped GSaaS based the interface standard
• Prototyped Federation of GSaaS
• Algorithms for heterogeneous data fusion
• AI models for heterogeneous data combination
• Prototyped semantic content based image retrieval (SCBIR)
Expected impacts:
• EU New Space entrepreneurship development
• Improve of EU space-based capabilities
• Economic growth fostered by EU space assets
• Increased income, profitability and sustainability of the created New Space ecosystem
• New Copernicus applications and services
• Prototyped multimission ground segment
• Definition of standard interface for Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS)
• Prototyped GSaaS based the interface standard
• Prototyped Federation of GSaaS
• Algorithms for heterogeneous data fusion
• AI models for heterogeneous data combination
• Prototyped semantic content based image retrieval (SCBIR)
Expected impacts:
• EU New Space entrepreneurship development
• Improve of EU space-based capabilities
• Economic growth fostered by EU space assets
• Increased income, profitability and sustainability of the created New Space ecosystem
• New Copernicus applications and services