Project Background

geoland is carried out in the context of GMES, a joint initiative of European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA), which aims to build up a European capacity for Global Monitoring of Environment and Security by the year 2008. geoland is designed to fundamentally support this initiative, focusing on the GMES priorities "Land Cover Change in Europe", "Environmental Stress in Europe", and "Global Vegetation Monitoring".

To learn more about the GMES initiative, please visit www.gmes.info

The proposal team has integrated key organisations and set-up links to industrial or research networks into the geoland consortium, in order to profit from results and experiences from previous projects and well integrate with parallel activities. View the geoland partners list for details on the consortium.

The geoland service development and demonstration logic is closely linked to user organisations driving and reviewing each step and finally accepting the results after integration into their own environment. The growing user community currently involves 50 user organisations ranging from international to local; 18 organisations even joined the consortium as full members, all others have firmly committed themselves through formal agreements. In order to receive an overview of the user organizations, please view each observatories´ individual page.

50 percent of the overall project volume is funded by the European Commission (EC), while the other € 10 Mio are covered by the participating companies and institutions. This proves that the consortium members are convinced to be able to develop scientifically sound and equally valuable and sustainable services.