1. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO PROJECT OBJECTIVES Detailed requirements of specific customer organisations Documentation of state of the art Design and creation of a prototype land cover database and derived products Validation of the database and products for specific test areas Execution of demonstration case studies Cost-benefit analysis

2. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO CUSTOMER TYPES AND INFORMATION NEEDS Baltic-wide intergovernmental initiatives HELCOM, VASAB 2010, Baltic 21, EEA Policy support and monitoring of Baltic-wide environmental programmes and initiatives BALANS Advisory group

3. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO CUSTOMER TYPES AND INFORMATION NEEDS Transboundary policy-related projects Green Belt, Lake Peipsi and Lielupe Transborder project, Oder Protection To analyse ecosystems and landscapes over larger sub-areas of BSR spanning international borders GRID-Arendal, Finnish Environmental Institute

4. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO CUSTOMER TYPES AND INFORMATION NEEDS Scientific bodies or projects with relevance to the Baltic Input to models and analyses for themes including water balances and water pollution with coverage from national/sub-national to whole BSR GRID-Warsaw, SMHI

5. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO INNOVATION AND METHODS Sustainability Updates and change information Medium-resolution optical satellite data Data in intermediate stages - products generated when acquired Metadata stored for each pixel

6. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO WORK SCHEDULE

7. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO DEMONSTRATION CASE STUDIES Assessing erosion and nitrate loss risks Integrated multination river basin management Modelling of nutrient transport to Baltic Sea from large drainage basins Monitoring changes in ecologically valuable forests Environmental indicators and land cover/use changes Regional land cover monitoring Mass market access

8. BALANS - Planning and Management in the Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO THE PROJECT STRUCTURE Swedish Space Corporation (project co-ordinator) Finnish Environment Institute GRID-Arendal Environmental Satellite Data Centre National Land Survey of Finland Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute UNEP/GRID-Warsaw BALANS Advisory group BALANS Network