The User Consultation Platform (UCP) is a periodic forum organised by the European Commission (EC) and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), where users from different market segments meet to discuss their needs for applications, services and data relying on Position, Navigation and Time (PNT), Earth observation and secure governmental communications. 

The event involves end users, user associations and representatives of the value chain, such as receiver and chipset manufacturers, application developers and end users. It also gathers organisations and institutions dealing, directly and indirectly, with the European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS), encompassing Galileo and EGNOS, the EU Earth Observation system, Copernicus, and with GOVSATCOM, the upcoming system for secure governmental communications. The UCP event is a part of the process developed at EUSPA to collect user needs and requirements and take them as inputs for the provision of user driven space data-based services by the EU Space Programme.

Agriculture and forestry, rail and public transport and road and automotive were just some of the sessions where relevant stakeholders will confer about how Earth Observation, satellite navigation and satellite communications their sectors more sustainable, secured and efficient. 

For the first time, and with its new role there will be a dedicated session Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST). This session focuses on the evolution of the EU SST capability and its services. Users will be consulted on their views on a proposal of advanced services complementary to the existing EU SST services, which may be developed by the EU industry. To stimulate the discussion there will be a roundtable with spacecraft operators representing all orbital regimes.

Plenary

• User Consultation Platform Plenary Introduction
• Minutes of Meeting

  Agriculture and Forestry

• Minutes of Meeting
• Presentations

  Environmental - Climate & Biodiversity

• Minutes of Meeting
• Introduction
• Segment Overview
• Copernicus for environmental monitoring - the CLMS
• Copernicus Climate Change Service for Climate Risks and Biodiversity
• Advancing marine monitoring and protection with Copernicus Marine Service
• Satellite technologies to monitor ocean environment and wildlife on Earth
• Beyond Boundaries: Satellite Imagery and Its Role in Global Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation
• BirdWatch - A Copernicus-based service for farmland birds habitat monitoring
• Lobelia – Earth observation to address the climate emergency
• Weather and Climate physical risks: we can’t manage what we can’t measure
• Ready to use EO based indicators for decision making for Insurance and Utilities markets
• Climate Risk - User's Perspective
• EO applications for measuring Science Based Targets
• Solving the Carbon Credit Conundrum: Geospatial AI for Project Permanence in Nature Finance
• Space Tools in Support of ESG - Reporting and Verification

  Public Transport

• Minutes of Meeting
• Presentations

 Rail

• Minutes of Meeting
• UCP Rail session
• Copernicus for Rail
• SATCOM - An option for FMCS
• CLUG 2.0: Project overview
• Virtual Balise and Digital Map: RFI's perspective
• Trafikverket
• SATCOM Requirements
• Horizon Europe EGNSS Mission and Service related R&D activities + Contribution to Ionospheric Prediction Service
• Update on rail user requirements

  Road

• Minutes of Meeting
• Presentations

  Resilient Societies

• Minutes of Meeting
• Presentations

  Space

• Minutes of Meeting
• Presentations

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