National Points of Contact (NPC) act as an interface between ESA and national initiatives and users.
| State | NPC | Summary |
| Austria | Thomas Geist (FFG), thomas.geist@ffg.at |
Austria and ESA signed the cooperation agreement in February 2016. The Austrian Mirror Site is running since 2016 its operations are prolonged until at least 2019. Read the Technical Annex to the cooperation agreement |
| Belgium | Steven Bogaerts (BELSPO), boga@belspo.be |
Belgium and ESA signed the cooperation agreement in September 2017. BELSPO launched Terrascope to serve as the Belgian Collaborative Ground Segment. Read the the Technical Annex to the agreement. |
| Canada |
Stéphane Côté (Canadian Space Agency) Karl Saad (Canadian Space Agency) karl.saad@asc-csa.gc.ca |
Canada and ESA signed the Collaborative Ground Segment Understanding in September 2015. Canada has set up a Copernicus Sentinel data mirror site. |
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Czech Republic |
Ondrej Svab (Ministry of Transport) |
The Czechia and ESA have signed a Technical Arrangement for the Sentinel data access cooperation in January 2018. |
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Denmark |
Alex Andresen |
Denmark and ESA are discussing potential CollGS activities. |
| Estonia |
Triin Tajur (Estonian Land Board) |
Estonia and ESA have signed a Technical Arrangement for the Sentinel data access cooperation in September 2016. Enterprise Estonia plans to set-up a national Sentinel data mirror site. |
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Finland |
Jyri Heilimo (FMI), |
Finland and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in January 2015. Finland will set-up a Sentinel data mirror site and employ its acquisition station in Sodankyla to acquire Sentinel data directly from the satellite. |
| France | Steven Hosford (CNES) steven.hosford@cnes.fr |
France and ESA signed the Cooperation agreement in March 2015, and updated it with further initiatives in July 2022. France has set-up a Sentinel data mirror site and employs acquisition stations in Brest, Toulouse and Thermopylae to receive Sentinel-1 data by listening in, on a non-interference basis, to the ESA X-band core station downlinks. |
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Germany |
Dr. Michael Schmidt German Aerospace Center (DLR)Space Administration michael.schmidt@dlr.de http://www.dlr.de |
Germany has set up a Copernicus data and Exploitation Platform – Deutschland (CODE-DE) as a national Copernicus mirror site. Additionally Germany is receiving directly Sentinel-1 data via its acquisition station in Neustrelitz and is involved in the optical data relay service. |
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Greece |
Dr. Xenophon Tsilibaris, Greek Research & Technology Network, www.grnet.gr, Dr. Harry Kontoes, National Observatory of Athens, www.noa.gr, kontoes@noa.gr Prof. Kanaris Tsinganos, National Observatory of Athens, www.noa.gr, president@noa.gr |
Greece and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in May 2014. Greece is setting-up a Sentinel data mirror site. |
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Hungary |
Ferenc Horvai |
Hungary and ESA signed a Technical Collaborative Arrangement in October 2019. Read the relevant sections from the Technical Arrangement |
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Ireland |
Mr Niall Bolger (Enterprise Ireland), |
Ireland and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in October 2017. Ireland is setting-up a Sentinel data mirror site.
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Italy |
Rino Lorusso (ASI), |
Italy and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in October 2014. Italy plans to set-up a Sentinel data mirror site and employs its Matera acquisition station to receive Sentinel data directly from the satellite. |
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Luxembourg |
Dr Particia Conti (Luxembourg Space Agency) |
Luxembourg and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in April 2017. Luxembourg intends to set-up a Sentinel data mirror site. Read the Technical Annex to the cooperation agreement |
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Netherlands |
Dr Raymond Sluiter (NSO) |
The Netherlands and ESA are discussing potential CollGS activities. |
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Norway |
Ole Morten Olsen (NSC), |
Norway and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in September 2014. The agreement was amended by the current version of Annex 2 in May 2016. Norway is setting up a Sentinel data mirror site. Norway has employed national acquisition stations to receive Sentinel data directly from the satellite. |
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Poland |
Joanna Jurkiewicz Ministry of Education and Science joanna.jurkiewicz@nauka.gov.pl |
Poland and ESA have signed the Cooperation agreement in March 2018. Read the Technical Annex to the cooperation agreement |
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Portugal |
Carolina Sá (Portuguese Space Agency) Hugo Costa (Portuguese Space Agency) |
Portugal and ESA signed the Cooperation agreement in October 2015. Read the Technical Annex to the cooperation agreement |
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Romania |
Iulia Dana (ROSA) Ion Nedelcu (ROSA), |
Romania and ESA signed the Cooperation agreement in December 2017. Read the Technical Annex to the cooperation agreement |
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Slovenia |
Grega Milcinski (Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies) Kristof Ostir (Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies) |
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| Spain |
Monica Lopez Lopez (CDTI)
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Spain and ESA signed the cooperation arrangement in November 2019. |
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Sweden |
Selima Ben Mustapha (Swedish National Space Agency) |
Sweden has developed the Swedish Space Data Lab, which aims to offer artificial intelligence methods and a data cube for analysis of Copernicus data and other space data. |
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United Kingdom |
Michelle Odgers (UKSA), |
United Kingdon plans are now reality. The UK have set-up Sentinel data mirror sites. Read the Technical Annex to the cooperation agreement |
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