00:00We have seen this summer increases in the sea level temperature, quite big ones.
00:07And these impacts, of course, were also linked in some areas of Europe, for example,
00:11to either the loss of some food, of course, this can have an impact on fisheries,
00:18on biodiversity and many other things.
00:20So what do you do with the satellites?
00:22Not only with Sentinel, not only with Sentinel-3, which is very powerful because it's comprehensive,
00:28it's putting together heights of water and lakes, together with temperature of the sea.
00:34We operate 24 missions from the center that I manage in Frascati,
00:40which means we have an organized system of somehow decentralized acquisition state.
00:47We use in Spain Maspaloma Station for acquisition of Copernicus data.
00:51We use Valbard in the Arctic.
00:53We use the Matera Station in Italy.
00:55And these stations support the acquisition of a diffused, delocalized ground segment.
01:02It's very important to guarantee redundancy, also at these times of somehow geopolitical insecurity,
01:08but it's also very good to guarantee a split of roles among the European partners.
01:13Spain has a key player role in this context of European Earth observation activities.
01:19And one, for example, with the Valencia events, the minister in Spain has been promoting very much
01:25the strategic relevance and use of Earth observation data,
01:29where it has organized methodologies for increasing the force casting capabilities
01:34in terms of disaster prevention related to hydrology, related to flooding.
01:39And Spain can certainly be also a country that can promote certain common standards, methodologies
01:46and work towards Europe beyond its national borders.
