Mission Advisory Group

The Mission Advisory Group(MAG) is appointed by ESA and is responsible for providing guidance for the project development: reviewing the mission requirements, assumptions, processing choices and algorithms used to measure and validate SEASTAR’s primary and secondary products.

The MAG is composed of:

  • Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre, UK) (Chair)
  • Aida Alvera-Azcarate (University of Liège, Belgium)
  • Ole Baltazar Andersen (DTU Space, Denmark​)
  • Fabrice Ardhuin (CNRS / LOPS, France)
  • Antonio Bonaduce (NERSC, Norway)
  • Øyvind Breivik​ (Norwegian Meteo Institute, Norway)
  • Fabrice Collard (OceanDataLab, France)
  • Mohammed Dabboor (Environment and Climate Change, Canada)
  • Robert King (Met Office, United Kingdom)
  • Joanna Staneva (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)
  • Ad Stoffelen (KNMI, The Netherlands)
  • David Woolf (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom)

 

Mission Performance and Requirement Consolidation (SciReC)

SciRec is an activity funded by ESA during EE11 Phase 0 to consolidate scientific requirements and increase the scientific readiness levels of the SEASTAR concept. Key objectives of the activity include:

  • establishing the numerical framework needed to trace the observational requirements of the mission (Level 2) to the instrument requirements (L1B).
  • preparing input for the Report for Assessment to be used by the ESA Advisory Committee for Earth Observation (ACEO) in Autumn 2023 to select two of the four EE11 candidate to proceed to Phase A.
  • creating and maintaining this web site.

The SciRec team is composed of:

  • Christine Gommenginger, Adrien Martin (National Oceanography Centre, Uk)
  • Fabrice Collard, Clément Ubelmann (Ocean Data Lab, France)
  • Anis Elyouncha, Leif Eriksson (Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden)
  • Joanna Staneva, Benjamin Jacob, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)
  • Louis Marié, Fabrice Ardhuin (Ifremer, France)
  • Ellis Ash (SatOc Ltd)

 

SEASTAR PHASE 0 CAMPAIGN Experiment (SEASTARex)

SEASTARex is an activity funded by ESA during EE11 Phase 0 to support a scientific campaign of airborne flights with the OSCAR airborne demonstrator.

The SEASTARex team is composed of:

  • Adrien Martin, Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre, UK)
    • With support from Jean-Francois Fillipot (France Energies Marines, France)
  • Christian Trampuz, Adriano Meta (MetaSensing, NL)
  • Marcos Portabella (ICM-CSIC, Spain)
  • Jose Marquez (RadarMetrics, Spain)
  • Louis Marié (Ifremer, France)
  • Jochen Horstmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)