1. © geoland2 consortium European Commission Fast Track Service Land within the GMES initiative in FP-7 FP7 GMES Fast Track Service Land – geoland2 geoland2 – Towards an Operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Services Istanbul, 8th – 9th October 2009 Stefan Knabe (geoland2 Coordinaton Office)

2. 8th -9th October 2009 2 Man-made impact & climate variability – require adaptation Directives & Regulations – requesting geo-spatial monitoring GMES – supporting reporting & management tasks Agriculture Agriculture – intensification leads to water stress, soil erosion and biodiversity decline Soil Erosion Soil Erosion – 17% of total European land area affected, economic loss around 85 € per ha Biodiversity Biodiversity – 335 species highly endangered in Europe Water Water – 20% of all surface water sources seriously threatened by pollution Urban Settlementsand transport networks Urban Settlements and transport networks growing - leads to soil sealing and fragmentation of landscape Global environment under pressure …

3. 8th -9th October 2009 3 GMES Land Services GMES Land Services provide land related, cross-boarder harmonized geo-information to support reporting obligations at global down to local scales Fields of application addressed by GMES Land Services: water quality forest management spatial planning agri-environmental issues the carbon cycle food security

4. 8th -9th October 2009 4 geoland2 Objectives geoland2 is last brick towards implementation of fully mature GMES Land Services by: organization of qualified production network implementation, validation and demonstration of operational processing lines implementation of user driven product quality assurance process Project dimensions: 50 service providing partners from 20 European countries 80 international user organisations total budget: 32 M€ life time: 4 year

5. 8th -9th October 2009 5 geoland2 Project Ratio

6. 8th -9th October 2009 6 geoland2 Project Ratio Core Mapping Services - CMS Basic, generic geo-information on:  land cover / use incl. seasonal and annual change  biophysical parameters describing continental vegetation stage, surface radiation budget and water cycle  local to global scales  update frequency: 1 day to 12 months Core Information Services - CIS Specific information addressing reporting obligation:  spatial planning: describe / predict urban land use change in Europe  water quality: estimation of pollution sources  agri-environment: assessing impact of agriculture on environment  forest management: improved forest class and biodiversity indicator information  land carbon: asses impact of weather and climate variability on terrestrial biospheric carbon fluxes  natural resource monitoring in Africa: environmental monitoring capacity over African countries  global crop monitoring: real-time assessment and yield forecasts

7. 8th -9th October 2009 7 CMS - Biohysical Parameters Global Leaf Area Index (LAI) Information

8. 8th -9th October 2009 8 ERS/scatt Soil Water Index CMS - Biophysical Parameters Global Soil Moisture Information

9. 8th -9th October 2009 9 CMS - Continental Landcover Information Bottom-up aggregation of national lancover data sets Cost effective production of continental land cover information mapping unit: 1-5 ha thematic classes: 21-25 classes

10. 8th -9th October 2009 10 CIS - „It‘s about thematic applications!“ Water Quality Spatial Planning Water Body Monitoring Crop Production Forecasts

11. 8th -9th October 2009 11 land.eu Webmapserver, Portfolio Information GMES Land Monitoring Portal – www.land.eu Central access point to GMES land geo-information Browsing, viewing and ordering based on web-map server geoland2 portfolio download http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/files/research/ geoland2_core_products_and_services_update_081103_en.pdf

12. 8th -9th October 2009 12 geoland2 Thanks for your attention! Contact: Dr. Stefan Knabe geoland2 Coordination Office Astrium Services – Astrium GmbH Tel: +49-7545-8-3177 Stefan.Knabe@astrium.eads.net