GMV took part in the Conference on Copernicus Applications for Farming put on by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and the Environment (Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente) on 11 May in Seville, with the collaboration of the Industrial Technology Development Center (CDTI) and the Regional Authority of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucía).

This conference is part of the ongoing effort to bring the European Commission’s Copernicus program to wider notice in Spain. It focused on the beneficial use of the European Copernicus program’s satellite data for monitoring the state of the environment and agriculture. GMV is currently leading the European Commission framework program which sets out to define user requirements for the future generation of Copernicus satellites, by means of which Europe is now building up its own earth observation capability. The user requirement database now has nearly 4000 records referring to the six thematic areas of Copernicus, namely atmosphere monitoring, marine monitoring, land monitoring, climate change, emergency management and security. 

GMV also announced the Commission’s interest in extending the requirements study for the design of Copernicus’s future space component to take in such across-the-board areas as agriculture, water resources, cultural heritage, insurance and tourism.