Speaker
E. De Donder
(BIRA-IASB)
Description
During ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Space Weather (SWE) preparatory programme, a precursor SSA SWE service network has been set up by bringing together a number of pre-existing applications and products from previous ESA activities and national initiatives, and by providing the SSA SWE portal (http://swe.ssa.esa.int) as main access for the potential users of the space weather services. During the SSA period 2, the SWE service network will be extended with a range of data and applications, and intends to become fully operational in the future. Since space weather is a rapidly evolving domain, with users gaining more in-depth knowledge of how space weather affects their systems and new user groups becoming aware of the potential impact of space weather, it is important to establish a close relationship with the different potential user communities. Such a relationship enables user awareness and ensures its progress from awareness, to agreement, and from agreement to adoption of evidence-based practices. In this talk we present our approach for establishing and developing closer links with the end-user space weather communities.
Primary author
E. De Donder
(BIRA-IASB)
Co-author
M. Kruglanski
(BIRA-IASB)
