GEOLAND Integrated GMES Project on Land Cover and Vegetation
| Name of Product/Service | GEOLAND Integrated GMES Project on Land Cover and Vegetation |
| Company Name | Coordinating companies: Infoterra GmbH and MEDIAS-France |
| Company Location | Immenstaad, Germany and Toulouse, France |
| Company Website | http://www.gmes-geoland.info |
| Product/Service Website | http://www.gmes-geoland.info/index.php |
| Status | Integrated service within GMES initiative |
| Launch Date | January 2004 |
| PSI Sector | Geographic |
| Main Source of PSI Re-used | Data provided from over 100 different sources in Europe. |
| Value Added to PSI | Integration of the data into their specific applications and models database designed to easily plug in additional objects (thematic classes) and/or increase the minimum mapping unit, as required. |
| Investment Costs and FTE (Full Time Equivalent) Staff Involved (in-house and outsourced) | 10 million Euro investment on the part of participating companies |
| Description of the Business and Role of PSI | 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. Within eight sub-projects, the 56 GEOLAND partners develop products and services, utilizing available Earth Observation resources in combination with in-situ measurements, integrating them with existing models into pre-operational geo-information services. Two core services have been established within the GEOLAND project. These serve the GEOLAND observatories, providing them with basic geo-information products that the various services can build their individual efforts on:
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| Public Funding | 50% of funding comes from European Community |