Gmes

Infoterra has especially taken a leading role in the GMES risk management services,

Infoterra France’s teams are also involved in two other GMES projects, with significant contribution to: The EC’s FP6-IP GEOLAND project, which develops and demonstrates a range of reliable, affordable and cost efficient European geo-information services utilising available Earth Observation resources in combination with in-situ measurements, and integrating them with existing models into pre-operational geo-information services. GEOLAND particularly addresses environmentally relevant issues such as water quality, nature protection, and the Kyoto-process or food security issues

The ESA GMES Service Element (Stage 2) GSE Land Information Services, comprising the consolidated development of existing intermediate products from three previous projects - the GSEs SAGE, CoastWatch, and GMES Urban Services (GUS) - into marketable products.

Infoterra France is also the coordinator of the PREVIEW project, within the 6th Framework Programme, which proposes a European-wide approach for the development, deployment and operation of new and enhanced information services for risk management. Service providers, users, manufacturers, operators and scientists aim to harmonise the tools used in order to obtain better forecasts and more efficient risk management.

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Related terms : infoterra, flood zone map, geographic information system, Gis data, gis map, gis maping, satellite navigation, topographiacal map, Topographiacal maps, topographical map, ultracam, data acquisition, data mapping, DEM (digital elevation model).