Commercial Space Business and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

Paper number

IAC-05-P.E.5.01

Author

Prof. Martin Sweeting, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., United Kingdom

Year

2005

Abstract

At the third Earth Observation Summit in Brussels, held in February 2005, Ministers of more than fifty space-faring and space-using countries and representatives of several other participating organisations endorsed the Ten-Year Implementation Plan for the comprehensive Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). 

GEOSS aims to bring together space-, ground-, air- and sea-based sources of Earth Observation data to create products and services in support of a wide range of applications as well as for policy- and decision making. Regional and national Earth Observation initiatives, such as the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) will contribute to GEOSS which may finally lead to the operationalisation of Earth Observation applications such as it is already the case in the field of meteorology. 

Speakers at this Plenary Event � being co-organized together with the International Institute of Space Law � will discuss the role of the commercial space business sector in GEOSS. How can space business benefit from and contribute to the initiative? Will GEOSS provide the basis for firmly establishing the remote sensing industry as the second profitable pillar in commercial space business?

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