GMES (COPERNICUS) and ENDORSE
GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is the European Programme for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation. The purpose of GMES is to deliver information on environment and security which correspond to identified user needs.
GMES services:
- are based on Earth monitoring data, collected from space (satellites), air (airborne instruments, balloons to record stratosphere data, etc.), water (floats, shipboard instruments, etc.) or land (measuring stations, seismographs, etc.)
- produce output information in the form of maps, datasets, reports, targeted alerts, etc.