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Division 4.3 Procurement of data from Copernicus Contributing Missions

United Kingdom

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Licensing conditions for data shall be negotiated with contributing mission data providers for data that needs to be procured. These licensing conditions could depart from the open data policy.

Data procurement activities shall be under the responsibility of ESA and shall focus on providing Earth Observation data from national or international missions, both private and institutional. CORE Datasets shall be procured on the basis of pre-defined specifications while ADDITIONAL datasets shall be procured through a quota mechanism and bulk agreements with data providers for the provision of data within a financial envelope.

Procurement activities shall include:

  1. (a)

    analysis of the requirements, derivation of specifications for data procurement and the selection of the relevant providers;

  2. (b)

    procurement of the actual data on the basis of licenses or resource buy;

  3. (c)

    integration/de-integration of Contributing Missions into the Copernicus Space Component ground infrastructure;

  4. (d)

    harmonisation and homogenous provision of data even in cases of large collections of data from different missions.

Procured datasets may include data from the following contributing missions (non-exhaustive lists, full list available for http://spacedata.copernicus.eu): Pleiades 1 A/B, Deimos-2, Worldview-1/2, Radarsat-2, TerraSAR-X, COSMO-Skymed (1/2/3/4), RISAT-1, Proba-V, GeoEye-1, SPOT-5/6/7 etc.