Europe’s planned Global Monitoring for Environment and Security e...
Europe’s planned Global Monitoring for Environment and Security earth observation system received a 48 million euro award from the European Commission and European Space Agency Tuesday. The money will be used to coordinate space-based observation data for GMES’s preoperational…
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phase, 2008 to 2010, the EC said. GMES, whose services could include such things as detection of oil spills and ozone monitoring, will be based on data from earth observation satellites and ground-based information. The program is being built gradually and will start with preoperational “fast-track” services for emergency responses, land monitoring and marine, the EC said. There will also be pilot efforts in security and atmosphere monitoring, it said. The grant signed Wednesday will allow GMES services to receive required space data free of charge from existing European Earth observation satellites, but in the future the space-based infrastructure will include satellites dedicated to GMES, the EC said.