Within the GMES initiative the Land Services provide cross-border harmonised geo-information at global to local scales in a time- and costeffective manner.
These monitoring services have been defined, developed and implemented within a series of projects funded by the European Commission (geoland, BOSS4GMES) and the European Space Agency (GSE Land, GSE Forest Monitoring).
Building upon their results, geoland2 aims to organise a qualified production network, to build, validate and demonstrate operational processing lines and to set-up a user driven product quality assurance process, to guarantee that the products meet the actual user requirements.
The progression and development of the GMES Land Services is illustrated in the graphics below [click on image to enlarge].