The European earth monitoring programme 'Global monitoring for  environment and security' (GMES) has entered its initial operational phase following adoption of the GMES initial operations programme 2011–2013.

The global land component is earmarked as a component of the land service, one of the 2 GMES servicesidentified for operational implementation.

The purpose of this contract is to set up and operate the global land component GIO-GL.

You can find out more about this call here.