ceo

Environmental Protection and Geosciences technologies of the Joint Research Centre (JRC ISIS) of the European Commission: The CEO Programme

The CEO (Centre for Earth Observation) Programme is a European initiative to encourage the wider use of information generated by satellites which are observing the planet Earth, its climate and environmental conditions. The original data is collected by satellites and usually requires specialist processing and interpretation to provide information which is useful for customers. The CEO Programme team is based at the Joint Reasearch Centre, Ispra in northern Italy and in Brussels.

The CEO Programme funds many projects related to Earth observation. Currently these include:

Education and Training projects
Customer Segment studies
Product Development and Marketing
Projects in support of the EC services
Shared Cost Action Projects in Area 3.3 (CEO) of the Specific
Programme for Environment and Climate
Inititiatives to Locate Non-space Data Suppliers

CEO prototypes new technology
An example of this is the JAVA based HGS search system at http://www.ceo.org/hgs

The CEO has also developed other systems, complementary to the EWSE,for the G7 ENRM (Environment and Natural Resources Management) Project and for CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites).