In addition to the projects developing the main GMES services, several additional projects are co-financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research or by the European Space Agency.
These projects help GMES services progressively taking form and bringing better land, atmosphere and marine monitoring services to citizens, whilst also monitoring natural hazards and taking on the climate change challenge. They also support cooperation with non-EU countries in the domain of environmental monitoring or support the protection of biodiversity.
(Click on the images below to access a brief description of these projects. Note that a project can appear in several domains).
Land Monitoring
Projects address a wide range of themes such as forest monitoring (forest degradation, deforestation, etc.), water management (fresh water monitoring, scarce water resource management, etc.), crop monitoring, food security or subsidence. Read more ...
Marine Monitoring
Projects address themes such as algal bloom monitoring, coastal biomass observation, oil pollution monitoring and source identification. Read more ...
Atmosphere Monitoring
Only one project dealing with atmosphere monitoring has been launched among the recently launched projects. This project deals with the provision of local and regional air quality service. Read more...
Climate Change
Many projects addressing climate change are dealing with the melting of snow cover, glaciers and sea ice. Others address the impacts of climate change on agriculture or on river discharge. Read more...
Emergency Management
Projects address more specifically themes related to geohazards in urban areas, earthquake warning systems, observation of volcanic hazards or ground deformation. Read more...
Security
Security applications addressed by projects include several aspects of maritime surveillance as well as moving target monitoring techniques. Read more...
International Cooperation (Africa, Russia, ...)
Cooperation-related projects address various application domains among which marine and coastal monitoring, emergency response, fight against malaria, deforestation, carbon monitoring or water monitoring. Read more...
Biodiversity
Projects aim at monitoring Europe's precious ecosystems. They address for instance services for monitoring NATURA 2000 habitats or detecting changes in habitat maps. Read more...
Renewable Energies
Green energy is a developing sector. Optimising the exploitation of renewable resources requires further investigations in several domains (potential of these resources, power system planning and operations...). A project has been launched to address these issues. Read more...
GMES in EU Regions
Two projects have been launched with the objective to strengthen the development of GMES-based services at the regional level and to foster the adoption of these services by regional and local public authorities. Read more...