Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (Project)

LC control no.	n 2009013540
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (Project) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	GMES (Project) Kopernikus (Project) European Commission. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (Project) European Space Agency. Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (Project)
Beginning date	2001
Affiliation	European Commission European Space Agency
Found in	La nuova iniziativa europea per lo spazio, 2008: t.p. (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) p. 50 (progetto GMES) GMES website, Mar. 4, 2009: What is GMES? (GMES, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, is a European initiative for the implementaion of information services dealing with environment and security) Wikipedia, Mar. 4, 2009: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, GMES (a joint initiative of the European Commission and European Space Agency, adopted by EU heads of state at the Gothenburg Summit in 2001 and aimed at achieving an autonomous and operational capability in the exploitation of geo-spatial information services by 2008. GMES is the European Union contribution to GEOSS. The name Kopernikus was suggested but was later dropped) European Commission GMES website, Mar. 4, 2009: Overview (GMES will be the European programme implementing an Earth observation service system ... ) Global monitoring for environment and security, 2002: page 2 (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES); The European Commission (EC) and a group of space agencies launched a GMES initiative back in 1988; following a series of discussions and a conference, a joint GMES action plan was published by the EC and the European Space Agency (ES) in June 2001)