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GEOVILLE AND GMES (GLOBAL MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY)
represents a concentrated effort to bring data and information providers together with users, so they can better understand each other and make environmental and security-related information available to the people who need it through new enhanced services.
GMES is the next flagship initiative for space in Europe after Galileo, contributing to establish a European capacity for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security.
GeoVille has been playing a key role in GMES services for land applications, related to both land cover production as well as downstream services in the spatial planning and forestry domain.
To view the geodata produced by GeoVille for GMES please visit the GMES Land Monitoring portal under http://www.land.eu/portal.
To find out more about GeoVille’s GMES activities please visit the below links:
- GEOLAND 2
- Pan-European land cover mapping for the European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Urban Atlas Qualification
- Boss4GMES
- GMES Network of Users (GNU)
- GSE Land
- SOIL SAGE
- GEOLAND
- Austrian Cluster for GMES
- GMES Preparatory Projects
GEOLAND 2
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The EU-funded GEOLAND2 project aims, with 56 GEOLAND2 partners, to (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS), and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional organisation of the LMCS.
Within geoland 2, GeoVille is co-ordinating the Core Information Service (CIS) for Spatial planning and will collaborate with the Austrian Research Centers (AT), the Autonomous University of Thessaloniki (GR), GISAT s.r.o (CZ), the Remote Sensing Application Center (BG), and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The Spatial planning task was kicked-off in Vienna on 24th October.
In addition, GeoVille is participating to the Core Mapping Service (CMS) "Euroland", wich will further work on providing operational capacities for pan-European land cover mapping.
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For more information and products please refer to www.land.eu/portal.
Pan-European land cover mapping for the European Environment Agency (EEA)
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In the first operational GMES application for land monitoring GeoVille is part of a service provider network to map built-up areas and soil sealing for Europe. By 2008, consistent high-resolution land cover information for 5.8 mio square kilometres from 20m satellite data will be available.
GeoVille is responsible for mapping of 12 countries, for set-up of the processing chain, for training the consortium partners comprising GISAT s.r.o. (Cz), Infoterra GmbH (D; Prime), Metria (S), Planetek srl. (It), Tragsatec SA (ES) and acts as thematic and scientific advisor to the European Environment Agency.
Urban Atlas Qualification
↑ Back to top ↑GeoVille has participated in a voluntary qualification organized by ESA for the production of the Urban Atlas, the highly detailed GMES urban land use product for European cities. Among the 10 participating European companies GeoVille’s interpretation yielded the highest accuracies and was verified by an external expert validation group comprising organisations such as JRC, WSL and FOEMI.
Boss4GMES
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The BOSS4GMES project aims to provide the technical, financial and contractual foundations which will enable the transition of GMES from a concept to an effective, operational programme.
As such BOSS4GMES will link GMES with key political decision makers, a broader sphere of users and the wider public.
GMES Network of Users (GNU)
↑ Back to top ↑GNU intends to initiate a structuring of the GMES demand side by setting up an independent platform that will become the focal point and mouthpiece of European GMES user needs, and, likewise will foster a systematic dialogue between the stakeholder communities.
The Coordinated Action is closely linked to already existing networks of users of environmental data, including EEA Eionet, the GEO User Interface Committee and the User Group on Land Monitoring supported by geoland and GSE Land. Stefan Kleeschulte and GeoVille support the project in the discussion about the future design of a land monitoring core service.
GSE LAND
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GSE Land Information Services are aimed to deliver geo-information services, which are harmonised and standardised for cross-border applications. They are based on Land Cover and Vegetation. By integrating this information into existing infrastructure, models and management tools international and national public institutions will be enabled to fulfil their reporting and management obligations in an improved way.
GeoVille is in this ESA GSE Stage 2 Project task manager on the “Impervious areas and sealing levels” and responsible for service implementation in 10 European countries.
SOIL SAGE
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The "Service for the Provision of Advanced Geo-Information on Environmental Pressure and State" (SAGE) offers a comprehensive product portfolio to serve the demands coming from the European Water Framework Directive and the upcoming regulations of the Soil Thematic Strategy.
GeoVille acted in this ESA-GSE Stage 1 Project as Task Manager of SoilSAGE.
GEOLAND
↑ Back to top ↑The ambition of geoland is to develop and demonstrate a range of reliable, affordable and cost efficient European geo-information services, supporting the implementation of European directives and their national implementation, as well as European and International policies.
GeoVille is in this EC financed Integrated Project of the 6th Framework Programme Manager of the Spatial Planning Observatory.
AUSTRIAN CLUSTER FOR GMES
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The Austrian Cluster for GMES (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security) combines the forces of industry, applied research, university institutes and user organisations to develop sustainable Earth Observation (EO) based services in the settlement and alpine environment context.
GeoVille is the project co-ordinator of this project financed by the FFG/BMVIT via the Austrian National Space Programme (ASAP).
Project partners: Joanneum research GmbH, ARC Seibersdorf research GmbH, ARC systems research GmbH, ENVEO GmbH, Geospace GmbH, TU Wien – Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
GMES Preparatory Projects
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The aim of NEOS-QUICK was to explore the capabilities and limitations of novel EO systems for mapping Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) parameters as specified by the reporting standards of the Kyoto Protocol.
GeoVille has been the co-ordinator of this project financed by the FFG/BMVIT via the Austrian National Space Programme (ASAP).