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SEOCA - www.uzay.tubitak.gov.tr/seoca
Monitoring the Earth continuously and collecting data from the whole planet is essential to be able to understand the system as a whole, notice environmental changes/threats and take the necessary actions on time. This is very important for protecting and managing our planet for next generations.
SEOCA is an initiative that is going to improve significantly the collaboration between Central Asia and Europe in the area of Earth Observation (EO). Information about the needs and the capacity of Central Asia will be gathered, analyzed and then used for planning the future activities.
An infrastructure, within which the project partners can coordinate their strategies and investments, will be set up, some training events will be held in order to provide the Central Asian partners with a base of technical expertise in Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
TÜBİTAK UZAY has been coordinating the analysis of the needs and capacities of the Central Asian partners in Earth Observation Technologies. The analysis results will be published as National White Books. TÜBİTAK UZAY is also going to contribute to the development of Group on Earth Observations (GEO) capacity building roadmaps and to activities related to technical-capacity-building and brokerage.
SEOCA is supported by the EU 7th framework programme. It officially started on 1 April 2010 and is going to last for two years. The project partners are 14 institutions from 8 countries:
- Technical University Berlin (TUBerlin), Aerospace Institute, Germany
- Engineering, Consulting and Management Office (ECM Office), Germany
- TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY), Turkey
- JeoDijital Informatics Technology and Mining Company, Turkey
- Aratos Technologies S. A., Greece
- GIRAF PM Consulting, Germany
- Hydrometeorological Research Institute (NIGMI-UZHYDROMET), Uzbekistan
- The Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies Center (UZSENSING), Uzbekistan
- Abu Raikhman Beruni Technical University (TSTU), Uzbekistan
- The National Center of Space Research and Technologies (NCSRT), Kazakhstan
- L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU), Kazakhstan
- State Agency of Hydrometeorology (KGHYDROMET), Kyrgyzstan
- State Agency of Hydrometeorology (TJHYDROMET), Tadjikistan
- National Institute of Deserts, Flora and Fauna (NIDFF), Turkmenistan
P2ROTECT - www.p2rotect-fp7.eu
Space debris consists of spacecraft that are not functional anymore as well as pieces of spacecraft that spread into the space due to explosions or collisions. The debris population has been increasing dramatically since the launch of Sputnik in 1957. The P2-ROTECT aims at decreasing the risks caused by the space debris. It is a Seventh Framework Programme project under the Space Theme.
Possible solutions for reducing the harm caused by the space debris will be analyzed, the efficiency and cost of these solutions will be determined under different conditions. For three different space missions, that are subject to different space debris populations as a result of the different orbital inclinations they have (Sentinel-1, GALILEO, MTG), the effect of the space debris on space missions will be analyzed as a function of time and the best strategies for solving the problem under different conditions will be determined.
First of all a vulnerability index, that quantifies the efficiency of the suggested solutions for trackable and untrackable space debris, will be defined.
TÜBİTAK UZAY is the leader of the dissemination package and is going to contribute to technical work packages as well. P2-ROTECT started on the 1st of March, after the Kick-off meeting that took place at the facilities of ONERA close to Paris and it will last for 30 months. The consortium consists of seven institutions from five countries:
- ONERA, France (coordinator)
- OHB-System AG ,Germany
- Thales Alenia Space ,Italy
- Fraunhofer EMI, Germany
- TÜBİTAK UZAY, Turkey
- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- TELINT RTD Consultancy Services, The UK
