Providing processing lines and test data for the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service

Geoland2 project is part of the GMES EU-lead initiative and intend to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products of the Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS) like crop, forest, water or land carbon monitoring, spatial planning. To achieve these objectives the BioPar Core Mapping Service (CMS) will provide bio-physical maps on vegetation, water and radiation at various spatial and temporal scales. CNES, the French Space Agency, one of the 50 European partners of the Geoland 2 consortium, has developed new vegetation and water processing chains and has provided these last months test data products for validation. The paper intend to describe processing chains and products characteristics and to give the first results on content and quality assessment of test data.