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16.01.2010 Activation of G-MOSAIC services following the earthquake in Haiti

[more] The earthquake and its extremely severe humanitarian consequences have led to the activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. Both G-MOSAIC and SAFER FP7 projects have also been activated.

11.12.2009 Study on the governance and financing of GMES released by the European Parliament.

[more] The ITRE committee (Industry, Research and Energy) of the European Parliament has released a study entitled "The EU programme for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES): governance and financing".

13.11.2009 Rapporteur Norbert Glante presents his draft report on the proposal of GMES regulation

[more] German MEP Norbert Glante (S&D), member of the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy committee (ITRE) and rapporteur of the GMES proposal for regulation, presented his draft report on November 11th, 2009.

28.04.2009 CropForecaster™ - an evolution in crop monitoring and forecasting

[more] CropForecaster™ is designed to provide a range of accurate online services such as maps and summary statistics of crop status

27.04.2009 Demonstration of Sentinel-1 applications for land monitoring

[more] Sentinel-1 will be the first to provide Earth Observation data for GMES and will deliver continuous all-weather, day and night imagery for use in a range of diverse services from marine and land monitoring to emergency.

Co-funded by the European Commission within the GMES initiative in FP -6

Sixth Framework Programme