GEOLAND2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service, 2008, EC / REA / S2

Employer:

EUROPEAN COMMISSION / REA / Section S2 - Space Research

Time Frame:

01/2008 - 12/2012

Description

Development of Products & Services in the frame of the project’s “Forest Task”. Monitoring and Management of the Environment at International, Regional and Local level, according to the applicable regulatory and legal framework. Satellite (multi temporal / multi resolution) and other (DEM, forest inventory data, etc) data usage, with the aim of monitoring forest ecosystems of southern Europe.
Design Development and Implementation of Core Mapping (CMS) - Core Information Services (CIS) and generation of relative Very High Resolution (VHR) layers:

forest - non forest mask
forest type map
forest density map
forest mask changes - forest type changes & forest density changes
environmental indicators

Pilot study areas:

Portugal - Spain
Malta
Bulgaria - Greece
Cyprus

http://www.copernicus.eu/projects/geoland2

Services

User Requirements Analysis
Consolidation of Workflows (processing algorithms, procedures, validation / verification of results & image data processing lines)
Design - Development - Management of a Geo-Data Base
Design and Implementation of Demonstration Applications
Knowledge Transfer Activities (Users' Training)