GMES-RUSSIA established a first network of key data providers and users between the European component of the GMES Action Plan and Russia.

GMES-RUSSIA served the initial period of the EC´s ESD Work Programme C(2001)4307 for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. The project´s activities were adapted to the Thematic Network approach and the proposed assessment structures: technical-scientific assessment, socio-economic aspects and institutional/organisational/policy issues. GMES-RUSSIA integrated the important Russian data capacities to GMES and strengthened cooperation with Europe. Special emphasis was on the GMES thematic requirements:

• A-Land Cover Change,
• B-Environmental Stress,
• C-Global Vegetation Monitoring,
• E-Global Atmosphere Monitoring.

 

Coordinator :

Christiane SCHMULLIUS

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Department Of Geoinformatics, Institute Of Geography

Loebdergraben 32

DE - 7743 Jena

Tel : + 49 3641 948 852

E-mail : c.schmullius@geogr.uni-jena.de