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More than 40 Earth Observation missions team up to provide data to the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme

5 September 2008

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More than 40 European and non-European Earth observation satellites have united to provide data to GMES Services over the next years. ESA is coordinating the data acquisitions and optimising resources from the variety of European and non-European EO satellite missions.

Considered missions include ESA Member States’ missions, such as France’s Spot and Pleiades satellites, Germany’s TerraSAR-X, Italy’s Cosmo-SkyMed, the UK-led DMC constellation (including the soon-to-be launched DMC-UK2 and Spain’s Deimos-1), as well as Canada’s Radarsat, Israel’s Eros and other non-European missions distributed through European companies. In addition, ESA will act as data provider for its own EO missions, such as Envisat and ERS-2, as well as its Third Party Missions.

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Hurricane Gustav captured by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 1 September 2008. Gustav formed on 25 August 2008 some 400 km southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. By 31 August Hurricane Gustav had entered the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Louisiana on 1 September as a Category 2 hurricane with winds close to 177 km an hour.

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To ensure GMES Services have quick, easy and coherent access to the data from all of these missions, ESA will provide a dedicated Data Access Portal where GMES Services can obtain relevant information and access the data products.

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