The Centre for Earth Observation (CEO): an initiative of the European Commission to promote the use and availability of Earth observation data

Author

Churchill, P.N. ; Sharman, M.J.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Remote Sensing Applications, Joint Res. Centre, Ispra, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1551

Abstract

The European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have agreed with their member states to establish a co-ordinated, decentralised Earth observation network, the European Earth Observation System (EEOS). The EC contribution to this is the Centre for Earth Observation (CEO) programme. The objective of the CEO is to promote the use of Earth observation data and services and to facilitate interaction between providers of these data and services and their customers. The CEO will be driven by user requirements. It will be decentralised in its approach. It will pay due regard to and take advantage of existing and planned institutions, infrastructure and projects. It will also be designed to evolve and adopt flexibility. This paper outlines the status and objectives of the CEO Project, and proposes a concept for the CEO

Keywords

geophysical techniques; remote sensing; CEO; Centre for Earth Observation; ESA; Earth observation data; European Commission; European Earth Observation System; European Space Agency; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; land use; remote sensing; terrain mapping; Collaboration; Costs; Earth; Electronic mail; Information management; Management information systems; Phase estimation; Remote sensing; Satellites; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521806

Filename

521806