Information on national environmental and security-related programmes and activities is available on the following websites:

• Finland's Environmental Administration, www.environment.fi (English and Finnish versions)
• Ministry of the Interior, www.intermin.fi (English and Finnish versions)

Numerous GMES-related operational EO services are already available in Finland.

Several services are available through the portal of the Finland's environmental administration (www.ymparisto.fi). These include:

• Snow covered area (SCA). This service addresses fractional snow cover during melting period . See link
• Sea Surface water temperature (SST). This service monitors surface water temperature of the Baltic Sea and large lakes in Finland during the period May-November. See link
• Algae blooms. This service measures the intensity of algae bloom in the Baltic Sea. See link
• Water quality. This service monitors the turbidity of surface waters in the Gulf of Finland and the Bothnian Bay. See link
• Land cover. This service provides a mapping of land use and land cover. See link

Others can be accessed through the portal of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (www.fmi.fi). These include:

• UV Index (UVI) forecast. This service calculates indicators of the exposures to the ultraviolet radiation. See link
• Meteosat animations & AVHRR products. These services provide polarstereographic projections.
• Forest fire detection. This service provides alarms of detected fires over Finland.
• MODIS raw data. This service addresses Terra&Aqua received in Finland providing raw MODIS data to the users.

The Finnish Institute of Marine Research also provides access to services through its portal (www.fimr.fi) and through the Baltic Sea Portal (www.balticseaportal.fi), among which:

• Met-Ice-Ocean Regional Forecasting. This service provides sea ice forecasts over the Baltic Sea during the Baltic Sea ice seasons.
• Sea Ice Thickness Charts. This service provides high-resolution sea ice thickness charts in the Baltic Sea during the Baltic Sea ice seasons.
• HAB blooms. This service provides information about harmful algal blooms.
• Chl a. This service provides information about algal biomass.

The Finnish Forest Research Institute has set up a multi-source national forest inventory that provides information on forest resource for small areas (municipalities) and wall-to-wall thematic maps. See link

Other services are in a pre-operational or implementation phase:

• Oil spill detection in the Gulf of Finland (pre-operational). See link
• O3M SAF Off-line UV product (OUV), which monitors UV and ozone dose rates and daily doses (operational in 2007). See link

Two institutional bodies are involved as core users in GMES Services Element:

• The Finnish Maritime Administration is involved in ICEMON
• The Finnish Environment Agency is involved in PROMOTE

Finland participates in organisations whose activities are potentially relevant to GMES:

• European Space Agency (ESA)
• European Environmental Agency (EEA)
• European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
• European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC)
• European component of Global Ocean Observing System (EUROGOOS)
• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
• Europe's Meteorological Satellite Organisation (EUMETSAT)
• Baltic 21 a regional multi-stakeholder process for sustainable development
• Helsinki Commission (Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission)