1. Has EO found its customers? 1 GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product Format and Data management Cesar CARMONA-MORENO

2. 2 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management Information structure is two fold:  GLC-2000 Metadata: Answering user questions  GLC-2000 Product: The Structure Simplicity in two ways.  Developed in Access - Compatible ISO Metadata Standard ISO/DIS 19115  What is the GLC-2000 product ?  How it was generated and/or obtained?  Where is the product available?  Data format: Simple format to be compatible with a wide spectrum of Processing Software and GIS tools  Data structure: Simple structure to optimise the access to the data for processing

3. 3 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management METADATA METADATA: Used for informing user about the product and Documenting the product generation process.  Hierarchical Description by Forms:  Global Product Form: To be fulfilled by GVM. 1 Form – ~1 Hour  General Product Description, Product Format Description  Minimum Mapping Unit, Pixel Resolution  How Do you Obtain the Product and Copyright conditions  Regional Components used for generating the Global Product  Author, Contact Points  Version Description: Quality, Projection and Legend

4. 4 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management

5. 5 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management  Regional Product Forms: To be fulfilled by GLC-2000 regional partners – Only 3 forms (~2 or 3 hours as a presentation preparation)  General Description Form:  Region Name, Resolution and Minimum Mapping Unit  Geographic Coordinates of the Region  Author and Contact  Version Description: Version, Quality, Projection and Legend  Preprocessing Description Form:  Brief Methodology Description,  Input Images,  Reference Documents, Images and Maps (if applicable)  Test Areas  Processing Description Form: (as precedent)

6. 6 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management

7. 7 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management

8. 8 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management

9. 9 Has EO found its customers? GVM G lobal V egetation M onitoring Unit GLC – 2000 Product and Data Management GLC-2000 Product:  Product Structure: Easy to export/import by Processing Software and GIS tools  Product Format - BIL data format in 8 bits.  Product Data Structure - Three Layers (TBC)  GLC-2000 Classification layer  Surface Equivalent layer  Spatialized Metadata in BIL format:  Name format will code the Product Name, Version, Projection and Production Date (Ex. GLC2000_V1_PC_Dec02.Ext)  Spatialized Information (TBC) : Quality Indicator, LCCS, Methodology, Validation, Regional Component codes, …  CSV File containing metadata details (ASCII document)