Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation

CEOI/BNSC Town Meeting to discuss the ESA Earth Explorer 8 Opportunity Missions

5th November 2009, London.  Presentations are now available to download.

A joint BNSC & CEOI Town Meeting was held in London on 5th November at Regent's College Inner Circle Regent's Park London NW1 4NS  http://www.conferences.regents.ac.uk/contact_us/how_to_find_us.aspx 

with the objective to bring together UK interests from academia and industry, to inform the UK EO community about the opportunity and to initiate potential collaborations.  View agenda.  

Presentations form the Workshop are available where indicated:

- Earth Explorer 8 Call outline (Maria Adams, BNSC)   

- ESA Opportunity Mission Proposals: the Cryosat experience (Duncan Wingham, UCL)   

- Challenge Workshop Future Missions outcome (Paul Monks, University of Leicester)

          (Presentation available on application to the CEOI Director)   

- Short presentations from the community:

• SnowSat: a Polar Precipitation Mission - Chris Kidd (Birmingham)
• MISRlite - Multi-angle Infrared Stereo Radiometer constellation for EE8 - Richard Cole (MSSL)
• Multi Spectral Canopy Lidar Missions - Robert Pfab (Astronomical Technology Centre/Edinburgh University)
• Reference Occultation Mission (ROM) - contact Peter Bernath ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) at University of York for further information
• Cloud-Ice : a  mission to measure Cloud Ice Water Path, Ice Particle Size and Cloud Altitude - Janet Charlton, Sula Systems
• Platforms for EO - Phil Davies, SSTL
• Mission/technical support - Tony Sephton, Astrium