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Land Monitoring Core Service - LMCS
The Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS) has been selected on the basis of existing and mature capacities and structures, on user uptake and on perspectives for long-term sustainability.
A regular and independent satellite coverage of Europe and a derived land-cover database constitute the outline of this fast track service.
LMCS will comprise:
- Land-cover mapping at European scale for implementation, review and monitoring of EU policies (e.g. water framework directive, biodiversity strategy, common agricultural, regional policies) and also for reporting obligations under international treaties (e.g. the Kyoto Protocol), in line with national land-cover / land-use inventories in the Member States;
- Land-cover mapping at local scale for instance for city planning, construction, noise modelling, mining, monitoring “hot spots” where rapid changes are occurring.
LMCS will also include change detection possibilities and release of acquired satellite imagery for direct use by the “GMES family”.
The European Commission has organised on October 20-21, 2005 a topical workshop with the objective to reach a common view on the definition of the LMCS fast track service and on the necessary steps towards its sustained operation from 2008.
The conclusions of this workshop were presented to the GMES Advisory Council (GAC) on November 14, 2005.
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