observation by remote sensing techniques from satellites. Provides detailed information for military purposes, and for the oil and mining industries, fisheries, weather forecasting, climate studies, forestry and agriculture. Movement of ice and locust swarms, location of mineral deposits, and distribution of pollutants can all be monitored.
In addition, Member States shall submit data on main areas of permanent grassland and permanent crops and other areas as stated respectively in Annex II, headings K, L, M and N. Those data can be obtained fully or partially from earth observation techniques and sources other than the comprehensive survey mentioned in Article 3 (1), and such sources need not necessarily be annual surveys.
