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GMES

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ID 726904 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain Environment - Environmental Protection
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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security preferred
Global Monitoring of Environment and Security initiative
  • a European initiative to help implement knowledge-supporting geographic information services in the field of environment & security that require data from space observing systems. Launched in 1998 by the European Commission and a group of space agencies (ESA, national space agencies, Eumetsat, European Association of Remote Sensing Companies, Western European Union's Observation Centre, and Eurospace), the GMES initiative aims to provide Europe with independent and permanent access to the information flows generated in space.
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  • FR: surveillance mondiale de l’environnement et la sécurité (GMES) [T70631] DE: Konzept für die Überwachung der Umwelt und die Umweltsicherheit [T70631] FI: ympäristön ja turvallisuuden maailmanlaajuinen seurantajärjestelmä [T70631]
üleilmne keskkonna- ja turvaseire
GMES abbreviation
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security preferred
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  • The need for independent information on key issues affecting the world’s environment and the security of the citizen is increasingly recognised. GMES is a European initiative towards the implementation of operational services for collecting, analysing and disseminating a range of information items related to changes in environmental quality, resource availability and management, natural risks and hazards. The GMES is being implemented under the dual concern of preserving the global environment and reducing or anticipating threats to the security of the citizen. It focuses primarily on the use of earth observation techniques for maintaining an adequate long-term watch on key landscape parameters (such as land cover, use, resource degradation or depletion) at various geographical levels. It will also call for techniques to support the assessment of natural risks and the management of catastrophic events.
Global Monitoring of Environment and Security initiative
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