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The pre-operational land service of GMES is currently provided through the FP7 project geoland2.
The project aims at providing geo-information data on the regional, European and global scale and covers a wide range of thematic domains like:
- Land use / land cover change
- Soil sealing
- Water quality and availability
- Spatial planning (e.g. Urban planning with Urban Atlas)
- Forest management
- Carbon storage
- Global food security
Several projects funded by European institutions have investigated the land domain as precursors to geoland2, among which Geoland, GSE Land, GMES Forest, ...