1. GMES & user involvement
Arno KASCHL
DG Environment
3 March 2011

2. What is
GMES?
GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment & Security

3. >>> 6 GMES Services
Monitoring of the Earth system
Land
Services provide information products (e.g. maps, datasets, gridded fields, assessment reports, targeted alerts, etc.)
Marine
Atmosphere
Horizontal applications
Security
Emergency
Climate

4. GMES state of play
GMES Regulation (EU No. 911/2010) has entered into force 9 November 2010!
establishes a Programme, envisaging long-term
gives money for Operations („GMES initial operations“ ), on top of research!
open data policy for Sentinel satellites & where EU is owner
Establishes User Forum
This is a game changer, away from R&D,
towards operational services & products!

5. User Involvement in GMES  User Forum
In the past, GMES mostly provider-driven. New framework enables to better bring in users!
Need to make user needs of particular communities clear, e.g. supporting the reporting requirements of MS
regular exchange of views with the users needed, to set priorities and provide feedback on GMES 'products‘
 „User Forum“ in GMES Regulation
advises EC on defining and validating user requirements
on a thematic basis (Land monitoring, Atmosphere, Marine,..)
thematic facilitators such as ENV, EEA (plus EIONET) to help consultation process with particular communities
and national processes to underpin the User Forum

6. User Forum Preparatory Workshop Land
9 March: Broad range of stakeholders, you are invited!
Objectives: - take stock of existing user consultation process
- present scope and implementation foreseen for
- to discuss future user consultations and User Forum implementation
Provide feedback! GET INVOLVED! Make your needs e.g. for reporting known!
Either directly to ENV
Or to GMES coordinator Or GMES User Forum representative in your country
First „official“ USER FORUM in May 2011

7. Some examples of GMES relevance to water
 on-going Preparatory action (tender): (1) DEM Europe, freely available
(2) hydrographic layer
Initial Operations :
(1) Pan-European: Corine Land Cover, plus 5 high-resolution layers (soil sealing, forests, small waterbodies, wetlands, grasslands)
(2) Hotspots: Urban atlas (300 cities), repeat of 2009
plus biodiversity-relevant areas, focusing on e.g. coastal, wetlands
(3) Emergency Response: SAFER follow-on (response maps, reference maps), support to EFAS (European flood alert system)

9. Some water-relevant products, e.g. Prep action on reference data
Tender 2009 (€2 MIO) in support of land monitoring/emergency services:
DEM over Europe: 38 countries, 1 arcsec horizontal resolution, average 5 m vertical resolution
freely accessible!
(2) Hydrographic layer: homogeneous European wide coverage of a hydrographical network that is fully connected, geometrical accuracy consistent with the resolution scale (1: to 1: range)
based on ECRINS, and CCM (JRC), basins from km2 (100 km2 on average), incorporated lakes and dams
A step towards integration of various existing datasets and convergence to single reference at EU level
enables considerable improvement of spatial modelling for Community environmental policies  MS reporting under WFD directive in WISE

10. Initial operations Land Monitoring
Pan-European Land Cover services (€17 MIO, )
to produce up to 5 High Resolution layers of dominant land-cover classes EEA39 (wall to wall coverage)
Spatial resolution 20x20m, MMU 1 ha
„Imperviousness“: sealing density, builtup areas (change)
Forests: cover, type, crown density
Small Waterbodies
Wetlands: RAMSAR def., pressures/changes
Grasslands: natural/cultivated  intensity/dynamics
to ensure the continuity of CORINE Land Cover time series; and
to support the harmonisation effort of MS for aggregating their national products at European level

11. URBAN ATLAS
300+ larger urban zones, CORINE classes  Repeat of 2009 exercise in 2012
in addition, further action on biodiversity-relevant zones envisaged (up to €3MIO)
„Zooming on hotspot areas“
Ca. 50x50 km
Based on multispectral VHR
2.5m satellite data
MMU = 0.25ha
Positional Accurarcy: 5m
€3 MIO

12. Some relevant products for floods, e.g. SAFER project

13. Some relevant products, e.g. emergency actions in initial operations
€12 MIO
“SAFER follow on”
(i) emergency response maps (rush mode  impact, damage, follow evolution of disaster in the hours and days after the crisis
(ii) geographic reference maps, basic topographic on area, especially infrastructure
(2) Prevention (EWS):Contribution to EFAS (European Flood Alert System)
(i) Twice-daily pan-European flood forecasts provided to MS national and regional
hydrological services, and the European Commission
(ii) A daily updated pan-European overview at low scale of ongoing floods available on a
public website