- September 18, 2023
- Posted by: EARSC
- Categories: European EO Industry, Members News
The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) is a component of the Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS) of Copernicus, the European flagship programme on Earth Observation. It has been operational since 2013, providing a series of bio-geophysical products describing the status and the evolution of vegetation, water cycle, energy budget and terrestrial cryosphere. The products are key information to monitor the land ecosystems at global scale.
With the recently signed contract with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (JRC), the consortium CGLOPS Lot-1, led by VITO, will ensure the continuity of Copernicus Global Land Operations Service (CGLOPS) for the next four years, starting from September 2023. The service will generate and deliver multiple global land bio-geophysical products, identified as Essential Climate Variables, such as the Leaf Area Index, the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation, the Burnt Areas, the soil moisture or the Land Surface Temperature, and some vegetation indices. Information can be integrated in applications providing support in areas such as agriculture and food security, land degradation and desertification, forest and water resources management, biodiversity, rural development.
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