The European Environment Agency (EEA) is an agency of the European Union that provides independent information on the environment. Within the space industry, the EEA plays a key role in the Copernicus Programme, specifically coordinating the cross-cutting activities of the Copernicus In-Situ Component and implementing the European and local components of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. The EEA works in partnership with organizations like the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission to monitor Earth, manage the environment, and address climate change using data from satellites and ground-based sensors.
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The CLCplus product suite was launched in 2023 in collaboration with the European Environment Agency and the EAGLE expert group.
An analysis by the European Environment Agency found that about 17 EU member states currently reference Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products in their land-use reporting workflows.
The European Environment Agency has said that Europe is transforming its greenhouse gas inventory into a strategic climate-support system for policy design and progress tracking toward the 2030 and 2050 climate goals.
The European Environment Agency plans to provide an instance designed specifically to support LULUCF reporting obligations.
The European Environment Agency’s LULUCF instance is intended to provide independent geospatial verification of countries’ reported data.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) awarded the ORIGINAL consortium the contract for end-to-end implementation and operation of EGMS for 2024–2028.
WEkEO is jointly operated by EUMETSAT, ECMWF, the European Environment Agency (EEA), and Mercator Ocean International.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) will substantially extend and integrate the information content of its high-resolution vegetation monitoring products with the new HRL Vegetated Land Cover Characteristics (VLCC).
The EUMETSAT Council approved a four-party arrangement between EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International, and the European Environment Agency to cooperate on the WEkEO platform from 2022 to 2028.
EUMETSAT’s governing council approved a four-party arrangement between EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International, and the European Environment Agency to cooperate on the WEkEO platform from 2022 to 2028.
EuroGeographics has an existing long-standing agreement with the European Environment Agency that enables the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service to use members’ authoritative data to quickly produce maps for crisis management.
The project deliverables include an updated partnership agreement establishing a single agreement between the European Environment Agency and EuroGeographics for provision of members’ data to Copernicus services.
EuroGeographics is working as a subcontractor to e-Geos on work led by e-Geos for the European Environment Agency to improve the provision of Copernicus In Situ data.
WEkEO is a joint service involving EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Mercator Ocean International, and the European Environment Agency.
The acquired data will be used for Copernicus geo-information services, in particular the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service coordinated by the European Environment Agency.
The European Environment Agency awarded GAF AG a €3.1 million framework service contract to implement and run the CLC+ Core system over four years.