Nicolaus Hanowski Head, Mission Management & Ground Segment Department
ESA

BiographyNicolaus Hanowski holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences. He started as a researcher in the US and then transferred to Mission Operations at the German Space Operations Centre. In 2009 he joined ESA and became responsible for the development of Science Ground Segments for missions, such Rosetta, Gaia, JWST, Solar Orbiter and Euclid in the Science Directorate. Since 2014 he is responsible for the Operations and Ground Segments of the ESA Earth Observation Missions and the Copernicus Sentinel satellites and the corresponding data management aspects at ESA. He is coordinating the Copernicus Long Term Scenario of Copernicus and the Destination Earth activities within ESA. AbstractThe ESA Contribution to Destination EarthThe objective of DestinE is to develop several very high precision thematic digital replicas of the Earth to monitor and simulate natural and human activity, to develop and test scenarios that would enable more sustainable development and support European environmental policies. ESA will develop the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP): A user-friendly platform that provides a large number of users with evidence-based policy and decision-making tools, applications and services, based on an open, flexible, scalable and evolvable secure cloud-based architecture.