European Space Agency and GMES

 

European Space Agency:

http://www.esa.int

 

GMES Services Element (GSE), the first programme fully dedicated to GMES. It focuses on the delivery of policy-relevant services to end-users, primarily (but not exclusively) from EO sources:

http://www.esa.int/esaLP/LPgmes.html

 

GMES, Global Monitoring for Environment and Securoty:

http://www.gmes.info

 

 

International Charter "Space and Major Disasters"

 

The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users:

http://www.disasterscharter.org/main_e.html

 

 

GMES projects dedicated or related to risks management

 

PREVIEW (develops on a European level, new geo-information services for natural and industrial risk management such as windstorms, floods, fires, earthquakes & volcanoes, landslides and man made risks) :

http://www.preview-risk.com

BOSS4GMES

http://www.boss4gmes.eu

 

GEOLAND (addresses environmentally relevant issues such as water quality, nature protection, the Kyoto-process or food security issues):

http://www.gmes-geoland.info/

 

GSE LAND (joins the three ESA GSE projects that had already worked on land applications during the first GSE stage:

• SAGE: water pollution, water abstraction, agro-environmental indicators and soil sealing indicators
• GMES Urban Services (GUS): urban mapping and monitoring services
• CoastWatch (land part): integrated coastal zone management):

http://www.gmes-gseland.info/

 

RESPOND (works with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information during crisis):

http://www.respond-int.org/Respond/

 

GSE Forest Management (deals with climate changes, sustainable forest management, environmental issues and nature protection):

http://www.gmes-forest.info/index.htm

 

CYCLOPS::

http://www.cyclops-project.eu/Default.aspx?id menu=4

 

 

 

Projects in support of GMES Activities

 

OASIS (Open Advanced System for crisIS management, defines and develops an Information Technology framework based on an open and flexible architecture and using standards, existing or proposed by OASIS, that will be the basis of a European Disaster and Emergency Management system):

http://www.oasis-fp6.org/index.htm

 

ORCHESTRA (Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management, aims to improve the efficiency in dealing with risks by developing an open service architecture for risk management that is based on de-facto and de-jure standards)

http://www.eu-orchestra.org/

 

ASTRO+ (Advanced Space Technologies to suppoRt security Operations, aims to study and illustrate how space capabilities -Earth Observation and Reconnaissance, Navigation, Telecommunication and their integration and implementation into services and infrastructures:
- Can contribute in the short and long-term to the equipment of Europe in security facilities supporting i.e. the improvement of foreign operations,
- Can support the definition and elaboration of the European Research Security Programme by proposing an R&T innovation roadmap for space):

http://www.astro-pasr.com

 

GMOSS (Global Monitoring for Stability and Security, aims at building a network of excellence to integrate Europe’s earth observation-based civil security research. This will allow the acquisition and nourishment of the knowledge and expertise base that Europe needs if it is to develop and maintain an effective capacity for global monitoring in support of its external aid and security policies):

http://gmoss.jrc.it/

 

 

 

End users websites

 

MIC (Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), operated by the European Commission in Brussels, is the operational heart of the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection. It is available on a 24/7 basis and is staffed by duty officers working on a shift basis. It gives countries access to the community civil protection platform. Any country affected by a major disaster – inside or outside the EU – can launch a request for assistance through the MIC):

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/civil/prote/mic.htm

 

DDSC (part of the French Ministry of Interior , the “Direction de la Défense et de la Sécurité Civile” is the French backbone responsible with regards to risk management, either for current life accident or major catastrophies)

http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/rubriques/divers/anglais/ddsc

 

DPC (Italian national civil Protection):

http://www.protezionecivile.it/

 

BBK (German National Civil Protection):

http://www.bbk.bund.de

 

Confederacion Hidrologica del Jucar

 

DGRF

 

 

 

AF Alanc Forestal

 

 

 

SRSA (Swedisch Rescue Services Agency is the central supervisory government authority for the rescue services):

http://www.srv.se/templates/SRV_AreaPage____350.aspx

 

SWME (Slovak Water management Enterprise) :

http://www.svp.sk/svp/default.asp

 

 

 

European Union websites

 

European Commission :

http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm 

European Space Policy:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/space/index_en.html

 

Environment Directorate-General (initiates and defines new environmental legislation):

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/index_en.htm

CORDIS (Community Research & Development Information Service):

http://www.cordis.lu/en/home.html

 

 

 

European Programmes

 

Inspire :

http://inspire.jrc.it