Geoland

The primary ambition of the Geoland project is to demonstrate that earth-observation-based products and services can fundamentally support professional end-users with a legal monitoring or reporting mandate on the regional, national and international level in implementing the monitoring and reporting requirements of new policies and directives with spatial implications.

The Geoland project is composed of various sub-projects: two "core services", six "observatories" addressing specific user groups, and the “operational scenario” for future scenarios of the project’s services. The two core services provide the observatories with the basic information they require for efficiently pursuing their individual goals. General and specific land-cover maps are created on regional and national level within the core service Generic Land Cover. These serve as a basis for the activities within the three regional observatories Nature Protection, Spatial Planning and Soil and Water, which aim to support the implementation of new or emerging European directives on a regional level. The global observatories, Global Land Cover & Forest Change, Food Security & Crop Monitoring and Natural Carbon Flux support policies that require monitoring activities on continental to global scales.

The project is carried out by a consortium of almost 60 partners, which is co-ordinated by Infoterra GmbH in Germany and MEDIAS-France in France. NR’s roles in the project are to develop and verify new products for mountain monitoring (in the Nature Protection observatory), take an advisory role for advanced remote sensing methods in the Generic Land Cover core service and to contribute to the development of an operational scenario for Geoland (in the Operational Scenario sub-project).

For more information contact: Rune Solberg

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