European Commissioner: Space is a must to tackle climate change

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"At a Hearing held this week at the European Parliament, Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for DG Climate Action, stated that observations from space are absolutely essential on the road to monitoring, combating and adapting to climate change....Prof. Volker Liebig [of the European Space Agency]...also stressed the relevance of providing free and open access to Earth observation data, which is now the case for data from the Earth Explorers, but should also be the same in the future for the Sentinels...."

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http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=131510

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ru.no oa.new oa.data oa.geo oa.astronomy oa.climate

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 14:40

Date published:

02/06/2011, 15:26