Global Monitoring for Environment and Security – GMES / ESA TV Exchanges / 01-03-2005

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

01-Mar-05 16:00 – 16:15 GMT

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security – GMES

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay: 5 March 12:00-12:15 GMT

Protecting the environment and protecting security of citizens against disasters and the impact of global change are why Europe adopts GMES: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security – a monitoring and observation system that provides timely and quality data and information at global, regional and local level.

GMES is a partnership between the European Space Agency, who provide satellite technology for observing the Earth, and the European Commission, who harmonise and integrate the data; from space and from ground observation, and across existing systems.

In today’s programme, four users of GMES services from academia, public service and United Nations provide insight on the usefulness of this initiative, in areas like marine surveillance, forest fires, global change monitoring, land subsidence, and third-world developmental aid.

The Exchange also includes background footage on these topics.

The script will be on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm

More background information can be found on http://earth.esa.int/gmes/.

Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2)

Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)

SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.

With kind regards

ESA TV Service