Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
Respond map (click to enlarge)
GMES is the future of providing information services to ministries and agencies which are based on satellite measurements. It is establishing a wide variety of European wide domain specific services (for example Coastal, Ice, Forestry, Oil spill) in close collaboration with the eventual users of the information.
SciSys is playing an important role in two such services that provide information to the humanitarian aid community (called Respond) and those interested in ground movement in urban areas (Called Terrafirma).
subsidence (red) in London along the
Jubilee Line underground extension
©NPA (click to enlarge)
In Respond, SciSys is supplying the project lead and is defining the architecture required to join up the supply chain for mapping services for humanitarian aid. Respond has notably provided much needed mapping in the Darfur Region of Sudan. More information can be found at http://www.respond-int.org
In Terrafirma, SciSys is defining the architecture and already undertaking some technology trials that will lead to implementation in the next year. Terrafirma has already provided millimetric assessments of ground movement in many European cities - see http://www.terrafirma.eu.com
See Technologies for information on technical details.
