Integration Of New EU Member Countries Into GMES Programme Commences

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Dec 09, 2005
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme is the second European flagship in Space after the GALILEO navigation system, and is intended to ensure European independence in critical data sources for environmental monitoring and security.

The focus of GMES is on the delivery of strategic environmental and civil security information and shall help Europe and its countries and regions to better implement their policies.

Only Earth Observation satellites can acquire global, long-term, standardized geo-information, yet Earth Observation and in-situ monitoring are mutually supportive. GMES shall therefore integrate observations from space-, air-, ground- and sea-based platforms for regional and global monitoring, providing essential information for policy- and decision-makers and to European business and citizens. It will establish its first operational capacities in 2008.

This Warsaw Conference follows the European Union Space Council (Nov 28 2005) and the ESA Council meeting at ministerial level (Dec 5/6 2005) at which a GMES programme was presented to Member States. The EU Space Council gave strong political support to GMES as a whole, while the ESA Ministerial Council has committed some 250 million euro to launch the first phase of the GMES space component.

This is about 25% above the proposed budget, which underlines the enthusiastic support ESA's member states gave to the programme. Following the final adoption of the ESA GMES Declaration at the Ministerial Council, countries from new EU member states are now formally allowed to join the programme as a fully participating state. This possibility will be discussed at the meeting.

This Conference will also be an opportunity to further partnership throughout Europe, with a special focus on active participation of the new EU members in the future development and application of GMES.

It will set the context with other relevant EU initiatives, in particular INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe), the Common Agricultural Policy, the Regional Development Policy, the Environment Action Plans and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Key speakers will represent all major institutions and will address space policy and applications in the new member states as well as candidate countries. Users' and service elements' needs shall be addressed at institutional and non institutional level.

The audience of the Eurisy Conference will comprise representatives of public administration and local authorities from the new member states, current and potential end-users of GMES, researchers, representatives of private companies and NGOs.

The Conference "Integration of the New EU Member Countries into the GMES Programme" will be held in Warsaw from 12 to 14 December 2005, at the National Library, Biblioteka Narodowa, al. Niepodleglosci 213, 02-086 Warsaw, Poland

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Space Radar Advances And Application

Paris, France (ESA) Dec 05, 2005
Two images from a radar satellite are often a lot better than one. These orbiting sensors see through wind, rain and darkness and have another unique strength: combine two or more radar images of the same site together and a new dimension of information becomes accessible, including signs of otherwise invisible millimetre-scale ground motion.

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