Roadmaps for Future Operational Space
Weather Services
ESWW9 Session 1
05 Nov 2012, Brussels
Gareth LAWRENCE, RHEA System SA
Main contributors to Roadmaps
• G. Lawrence, J. Watermann, O. Valdes, L.
Febo (RHEA System SA)
• E. DeDonder, M. Kruglanski (BIRA)
• E. Robbrecht, D. Berghmans, E, d’Huys, L.
Bettarini, A Devos (ROB)
• M. Danielides (DLR)
with supporting input from D. Heynderickx
(DHC), T. Hansen (TGO)
ESA-SSA SN-I: Space Weather
Precursor Services
• Two clearly separated paths:
• Roadmap activities
– Objective: Set the way forward for the European
Space Weather services by determining a clear set of
service requirements which will be addressed in
future activities
• Deployment activities
– Objective: Create a first iteration of an operational
and consolidated data centre dedicated to Space
Weather services
Project Industrial Group
Project Structure
• Task 1: Review of assets and service definition
– Led by Royal Observatory of Belgium
• Task 2: SWE Services Requirements definition
– Led by RHEA System
T1 + T2 = ROADMAPS
• Task 3: Deployment of the initial set of SWE precursor
services
– Led by Spacebel
• Task 4: Initial operation of the services
– Led by Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy
• Task 5: Assessment of the service concepts and user
feedback
– Led by Royal Observatory of Belgium
Project Work Logic
ROADMAPS
Task1
Review of Assets
Service Definition
Task2
Service Requirements
and Roadmap
Task5
Service Mock-Ups and
Virtual Environment
Evaluation and
Assessment
Portal & EOA
Specification
Task3
Develop
Portal
EOA Redeployment and
Available CAT-I Services
Task4
Precursor Services Operations
Asset Review
– 400+ assets from around the world were registered in
the Asset Database (plus ~160 Experts)
– Asset Database officially closed in June 2012 but still
available for reference to SSA programme
– Assets comprehensively reviewed and categorised by
Expert Service Centres
– ESA-proposed services were then categorised based
on the maturity of the assets used to provide them:
• 21 services are suitable for operation (CAT-1)
• 10 services require some effort to make them operations
ready (CAT-2)
• 6 services require substantial effort to make them
operations ready (CAT-3)
Asset Review: TN-1
– Main report of 306 pages
• CRD review
• Asset summaries and general statistics
• Service reviews and asset allocation matrices
– Annexes totalling >3500 pages!
• Full detailed asset reviews including questionnaires to asset
owners
• Full service matrices covering all CRD requirements
• Requirement traceability per service
• etc
Asset Review: TN-1
Asset Review: TN-1
Asset Review: TN-1
Service Roadmaps & Requirements
• Roadmaps & Requirements are key and
complementary inputs to Service Definition in
the future system
• Roadmaps: subjective expert opinion of how the
SN-I Consortium would recommend the services
be formulated to meet CRD specifications
• Requirements: objective guide to assist a system
engineer in implementing such a Service
Service Roadmaps: Objectives
• Roadmaps represent for each SWE Service an
Expert Concept of how it could be realised
• Assets selected on basis of Asset Owner input
and Expert Review with traceability to Asset DB
and TN-1 (Task 1)
• Assets selected on technical merit only
• Bottom-up approach adopted
– Priority given to mature assets currently providing a
service
– Particular requirements then met with selected
Assets, with development if needed
Service Roadmaps: Layout
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Overview and Summary from input documents (SOW, CRD, TN-1)
Service Requirements
Mature Asset Subset
Identification of Appropriate CAT-1 assets for Redeployment or
Federation
– Evaluation of the Service provision offered by the CAT-1 assets
Identification of Potential non CAT-1 assets for Federation
– Evaluation of enhanced Service provision offered via additional
non CAT-1 assets
CRD Requirements fulfilled
Analysis of gaps preventing the provision of a full service
Development Roadmap towards the provision of a full service
Deployment Roadmap
Critical Items
Service Roadmaps: Asset Subsets
• All Assets in SN-I already assigned to services
• Initial assignment often nominal – all Assets are assigned to at
least one Service where the initial review felt it could contribute to
fulfilling CRD specification
• Roadmaps aim to identify a functional subset of Assets per Service
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Priority given to mature assets currently providing a service
Minimal set of mature assets considered initially
Reviewed to ensure compliance with CRD
Particular requirements then met with selected Assets, with
development if needed
• Asset Subset and Priority Subset identified per service
- Priority Subset: ~50 Assets
- Asset Subset: ~150 Assets
- (TN-1: total 400+ Assets)
• Majority of these Assets exist outside of ESA
Service Roadmaps: Challenges
• TN-1 represented a fully inclusive approach to
Asset allocation
• SSR originally exclusive – a minimal set of Assets
to provide Service and fulfil all Requirements
• Final Roadmaps, following review process, are
roughly midway between the two
• Makes for a larger set of Assets for the future
system than anticipated, eg in proposal
Service Roadmaps: Challenges
• TN-1 represented a fully inclusive approach to
Asset allocation
• SSR originally exclusive – a minimal set of Assets
to provide Service and fulfil all Requirements
• Final Roadmaps, following review process, are
roughly midway between the two
• Makes for a larger set of Assets for the future
Roadmap Activities: Output
• Development Roadmaps for the 37x SWE
Services
• 8x Roadmap documents, 1 per User Domain
• ~800 pages total
• Individual Domain roadmaps vary according to:
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number of services
number of requirements
number of assets
number of gaps
development steps needed
critical items identified
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Roadmap Activities: Output
• Software Requirements Specifications, for the
37x SWE Services
• Infrastructure Requirements
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SWE Service Coordination Centre Reqs
Backup Data Centre Reqs
SWE Service Portal Reqs
SWE Service Software Reqs (low level)
• Complementary to Roadmaps, providing the
‘how to’ system-level context for the ‘with what’
of the Roadmaps
Results of the Roadmapping
activities within SN-I
• Comprehensive analysis of the existing European assets
to provide Space Weather services
• Customer Requirements arranged per Service
• Strategic Roadmaps for Service development in eight
distinct User Domains
• Identification of Key Assets per User Domain for full
service development
• Subsets of Priority Assets per Service and Domain
• Analysis of current Gaps in service provision, and
proposed development plans
Use of the Roadmaps in future
SWE activities
• ~50 highest priority Assets proposed for use
• Further ~100 Assets proposed to ensure full compliance
• These ~150 Assets are spread throughout the member
states, and even beyond
• Selected Assets indicative of specific research interests
and expertise with the member states
• Many based in countries not presently subscribed to
the SSA programme
• Majority not owned by ESA
• Reflects importance of SSA-SWE segment for all
stakeholders: Agency, Industry, Institution, End Users,
etc