geoland2 is the EU-funded project responsible for the development of the pre-operational GMES land monitoring service.
geoland2 provides cross-border harmonised geo-information at global to local scales. The services developed by the project build on two layers.
A first layer consists of mapping services which provide land cover / land use data (EUROLAND), a range of bio-physical parameters (BioPar) as well as annual / seasonal change monitoring (SatChMo).
These services serve as an input to a second layer which consists of information services addressing a wide variety of thematic fields of application, like water monitoring, forest monitoring, spatial planning (including urban planning), agri-environmental monitoring (AgriEnv), carbon cycle monitoring, natural resource monitoring (NARMA) or global crop monitoring (GCM).
Recent Achievements
geoland2's recent achievements include:
- MERIS Biophysical Products (September 2011)
- G2 model for erosion (July 2011)
- Population living within reach of nuclear power plants (June 2011)
- Gridded Population – new data sets for an improved disaggregation approach (May 2011)
- A complete re-structuring and design of the project website (September 2010)
- A release of Biophysical Parameters based on High Resolution Data (August 2010)
- New Pan European Hydrological Products from the E-HYPE Model (March 2010)
- BioPar Global Biogeophysical Products in Near-Real-Time, Updated Every 10 Days (November 2009)
- EUROLAND Forest Products (November 2009)