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GMES will provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information

To improve the management of the environment To understand and mitigate the effects of climate change To ensure safety and security for the European citizens.

GMES will consist ofFive families of dedicated Sentinels specifically for the

operational needs of the GMES programme. The Sentinels will be launched from 2013.

Missions from other space agencies, called Contributing Missions - already providing a wealth of data for GMES services

The In situ Component which focuses on data acquired by a multitude of sensors on the ground, at sea or in the air.

GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment and

Security


GMES Services

GMES is all about delivering products and services to manage and protect the environment and natural resources, and ensure civil security, e.g.:

air-quality forecasting flood warningsearly detection of drought and desertification early warnings of severe weatheroil-spill detection and drift predictionsea-water qualitycrop analysisforest monitoringland-use changefood security and humanitarian aid

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GMES Masters – The European Earth Monitoring Competition

Awards the best GMES commercial services and innovative service concepts

The GMES Masters Competition aims at:Creating awareness for the European GMES Programme Fostering product development and entrepreneurship in EuropeSupporting the entrepreneurship in Europe incl. the creation of

new ventures being supported in the ESA Business Incubation Centers (BICs)


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Prize Pool 2012

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Challenges 2012


ESA App Challenge

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The ESA App Challenge searches for to the best application idea for the usage of GMES on mobile phones.

Proposals shall address one or more GMES main thematic areas.

ESA is looking for ideas that can be implemented quickly into a profitable business.

The submission of the application should consist of a base app containing info and news on GMES, as well as one or more specific content modules that provide relevant location-based data to users in real time.

Participants are required to submit application ideas incl. business concepts; prototypes are not necessary to be eligible for the ESA App Challenge.

PrizeThe winner will be considered for support by one of the five

European Space Agency's Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) across Europe. The incubation package has a value of up to 60,000 Euro.


ESA App ChallengeThe winning idea 2011

AquaMap – Near real-time water quality services on mobile phones, submitted by the German company EOMAP

Providing near real-time, high-resolution water quality products to private users and professional offshore companies

Facilitating very fast user- and service-friendly access to the products by the use of cloud computing solutions and/or processor installations directly on top of GMES ground segments and satellite data archives

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The Pilot GeoServer

ESA has configured a pilot server with interfaces to available GEO data to facilitate simple, centralised access to the data products of preoperational GMES services. The pilot server is available free of charge to any GMES Masters participants interested in infusing their ideas with real data for testing and optimisation purposes.The server has made it possible to call up data in the categories of air, land and water on mobile devices. Information on further servers containing geo-data is also provided. Atmospheric data offers, for example, insights into ozone levels in the air, while the land data can include settlement or agriculture maps. The information on water quality, meanwhile, contains data on chlorophyll and particle content or water temperature in specific locations, for instance. The Pilot GeoServer offers mobile access to various Earth observation data products with an OGC-conform Web Mapping Service WMS for devices such as mobile phones.

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For more information please visit: http://www.gmes-masters.com/pilot-geoserver


Overall Winner

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The GMES Master

Will be selected from among the winners of each challenge (except the winner of the Best Service Challenge).

PrizeAdditional cash prize of EUR 20,000Substantial satellite data quota


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Contact

Lara Schaflinger

[email protected]

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