Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) - Now COPERNICUS

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) is a European Union-led initiative for the implementation of information services dealing with environment and security. GMES is based on observation data received from Earth Observation satellites and ground based information. By securing the sustainability of an information infrastructure necessary to produce output information in the form of maps, datasets, reports or targeted alerts GMES helps people and organizations to take action, make appropriate policy decisions and decide on necessary investments.