geoland Events

On this site, you may view geoland contributions to upcoming events, planned geoland-specific events (particularly the yearly geoland OpenDays - both past and future) and past events, that geoland consortium members have contributed to.

Upcoming Events

geoland Specific Events

GMES Land User Workshop

The latest GMES Land User Workshop took place on May 26th and 27th, 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. The focus of this workshop was the presentation and analysis of results of national and European mapping activities in Scandinavia and Baltic countries. Participants included high level users from national enironmental and planning directorates and Ministries, the Norwegian Space Centre, EEA and the European Commission. Please download the presentations here ...

GMES Land User Workshop

The detailed material that was presented at the GMES Land User Workshop in Madrid, Spain on Oct 22nd and 23rd, 2007, is now available online. Please download the pdfs of the meeting's agenda and the corresponding presentations here…

4th geoland Forum and OpenDay

The Fourth and final geoland Forum and OpenDay took place on February 7-9 in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building, and Urban Affairs (Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung) in their very attractive Erich-Klausner-Saal.

Participants from the geoland consortium, numerous related parallel (GMES) projects and various additional stakeholder organizations appreciated three days of interesting presentations of geoland results, outlooks, and fruitful discussions of future challenges and opportunities.

The Final geoland OpenDay was opened by Dr. Engelbert Luetke Daldrup, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs.
Download his speech in German… / in English…

Further, most presentations from the event have now been released for download.

Download Presentations:

February 7^th:
Global Land Monitoring Session
European Land Monitoring Session
Seasonal Monitoring of Europe (joint session)
European Land Monitoring User Workshop

February 8^th

February 9^th - OpenDay

10. February 2006: 3rd geoland OpenDay

Presentation of the geoland project´s progress, status, and achievements, further goals and ambitions; as well as the demonstration of links and complementarities to other (GMES) projects in the Austrian "Bundesamtsgebaeude" in Vienna.
Agenda, Presentations and Findings and Forum List of Participants are available for download.

9. February 2006: 3rd geoland Forum

For the first time, the geoland consortium dedicates a part of the annual geoland Forum to discussions and the interchange of views, ideas and results with related parallel GMES projects - two technical sessions and a poster exhibition were conducted. Furthermore, a UserDay - giving users of different services and projects an opportunity to exchange experiences - was organized.

The following material is available for download:

• Technical Sessions
  • Agenda of Technical Sessions
  • Presentations of Session I (geoland Regional Observatories and related projects)
  • Presentation of Session II (geoland Global Observatories and related projects)
• UserDay
  • Agenda of UserDay
  • Presentations of UserDay
  • Minutes of User Day
• PosterExhibition
  • Overview of PosterExhibition
  • Available Posters
• Forum List of Participants

10. December 2004: second geoland OpenDay

The second geoland Forum was held on Dec 8th - 10th, 2004 in Toulouse, France:
A working meeting of the participants accompanied by an OpenDay, in which project, content and progress and the overall GMES context was presented to external interested parties.
Presentations from this event may be downloaded here.
Download second OpenDay Presentations

27 February 2004: geoland OpenDay

Download OpenDay Presentations
View List of Participants
Download PressRelease (22 KB)

25/26 February 2004: geoland Forum

The first major meeting of the European project geoland, the geoland Forum, has taken place in Potsdam and Berlin on February 25th-27th. More than 100 participants, representing 56 user organisations, private and public service providers and researchers from 15 European member and accession states, spent two full days on the premises of GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam, harmonising their joint project work in dedicated discussions.

Past Events

For information on events that took place more than 6 months ago, please go to the archive.