- 1 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 GMES Urban Services ESA – GMES Service Element A project from the European Space Agency GMES Service Element – Consolidation Activities by Daniel CARRASCO INDRA ESPACIO. Madrid. SPAIN
- 2 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 Policies addressed European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) Natura 2000 Wetland Directive Water Framework Directive Soil Thematic Strategy Urban Thematic Strategy Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy !
- 3 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 GUS Level IV legend Land Use Map (Erfurt) Thuringian Authority for Environment and Geology Detailed land use map based on a legend evolved from JRC’s MOLAND. 1:10,000 scale Changes
- 4 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May ha 5 ha Loss of soil by sealing What is the rate of built-up area expansion? EO applications for Spatial Planning...
- 5 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 From Core Products to Information Systems ▶ Core product: multiresolution Land Use / Land Cover ▶ High Level: Putting all together in a single Information System to support the implementation of the URBAN THEMATIC STRATEGY ▶ Indicator generation ▶ Other layers...
- 6 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 ▶ Lanzarote (Es) ▶ Alicante (Es) ▶ Toulouse (Fr) ▶ Foggia (It) ▶ Saxony (De) ▶ Thuringia (De) ▶ Turnhout (Be) ▶ Ostende (Be) ▶ Bari (It) ▶ Riga (Lituania) ▶ Bordeaux (Fr) ▶ Vitoria (Es) ▶ DG-Regio, EEA EU Municipality Regional ▶ Foggia (It) ▶ Thuringia (De) ▶ San Fernando-Cádiz (Es) ▶ Accra (Ghana) ▶ Leipzig (De) ▶ Mortsel (Be) ▶ Antwerp (Be) ▶ Budapest (Hu) ▶ Liege (Be) ▶ Bari (It) ▶ Treviso (It) ▶ Brest (Fr) ▶ Bucarest (Ro) ▶ DG-Regio, EEA Urban areas covered by GUS ( )
- 7 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 GMES: The road ahead – IMPLEMENTATION PHASE ▶ GUS project ends in 2004-Q4. What’s next? ▶ 3 projects related to Land Use / Land Cover are merging for implementation : SAGE + GUS + CoastWatch = GSE-LAND ▶ “Implementation phase” ( ) means the selection of those services in the portfolio best fitted today for operations and make final preparations for operations
- 8 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 Relationship GMES - ESPON ▶ Approach fostered by DG-Regio ▶ We are more than a producer of geoinformation ▶ We aim to set the standards for the next generation of large LU/LC mapping in Europe ▶ ESPON (and follow up?) can exploit GMES products ▶ Participate actively in the product definition through user groups
- 9 - GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 Defining the Urban Areas to be mapped in ▶ We need to specify which cities/regions to map in the next project GSE-LAND ▶ Guess number on service volume: 50 cities + regions TBD ▶ Future sites: User involvement is needed (city or regional authority) ▶ Choosing from: ▶ Eurocities (130) / Enviromental Committee (30) ▶ Urban Audit 2 (250) ▶ DG-Env (top 500 urban areas; greater than 100,000 inhab.) ▶ ESPON?
GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 Urban Areas to be mapped in ▶ ESPON can make recommendations on the areas to be mapped by GMES ▶ ESPON can become an active user and provide an assessment of products
GMES Urban Services ESPON Seminar, Lillehammer, 10th May 2004 Contact information GUS PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM Antonio Garzón (project manager) Daniel Carrasco (speaker) INDRA ESPACIO Calle Mar Egeo, nº San Fernando de Henares-Madrid SPAIN Tel: Fax: For GSE LAND please contact: Alexander Infoterra GmbHTel.: Claude-Dornier-Straße D FriedrichshafenFax: