Synopsis
The report covers user needs and requirements for EO and GNSS applications in the energy and raw materials sectors.
Here is a high-level summary of the key points from the report:
Energy
- Key trends driving needs: climate change and energy transition goals, massive scale-up of renewables requiring land use planning, grid balancing challenges with intermittent renewables
- Main applications: network condition monitoring (pipelines, powerlines), renewable energy assessment and forecasting (solar, wind, ocean)
- EO helps with site selection, infrastructure monitoring, risk assessments, environmental impact assessments
- GNSS helps with timing, synchronization, asset tracking
- Key user needs: identifying “go-to” areas for renewables, monitoring infrastructure integrity, vegetation encroachment, forecasting renewable generation
Raw Materials
- Key applications: environmental impact assessments of mines, exploration/planning/monitoring of mining sites
- EO helps with land use mapping, vegetation monitoring, geological mapping, change detection
- GNSS helps with mining machinery control, vehicle tracking, surveying
- Key user needs: documenting surface infrastructure changes, baseline vegetation studies, geological mapping for mineral exploration
Summary
The report provides detailed user requirements tables outlining spatial/temporal resolution needs, data types, and operational scenarios for various EO applications in energy and mining.
It is intended as an input for planning future EO and GNSS systems to serve user needs in these sectors. The report will be periodically updated by EUSPA based on user consultations.