During its 64th Council meeting on 1 - 2 July, EUMETSAT, (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), agreed to provide its data and products for GMES.
The agreement covers GMES pre-operational services from 2008 - 2010, during which all EUMETSAT data and products, including real-time data, will be made available free of charge to the five GMES Core Services.
This agreement covers around 30 - 50 per cent of the space data needed by GMES Core Services on Marine and Atmosphere monitoring. Moreover the operational infrastructure developed by EUMETSAT will be soon complemented by Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and the next generation EUMETSAT Polar System (Post-EPS).
More information on Eumetsat website
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