GMES SATELLITES

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WIDERANGING public consultation on the use of the European Union's planned satellite-based environmental monitoring system (GMES) has been launched. The European Commission will be staging a series of open meetings on the system, operational by 2008. Advice culled from these forums will be included in a report to be published next year. More information: http://europa.eu.int/comm/space/index_en.html



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