GMES is the European program for global monitoring of the environment and security. It will provide satellite data and geospatial information services to support management of the environment, climate change, and citizen security. The GMES program includes dedicated Sentinel satellites, data from other space agencies, and collection of in-situ data. It aims to deliver products and services for applications like air quality monitoring, flood warnings, and forest monitoring. The GMES Masters competition recognizes the best commercial GMES services and ideas to promote the program and entrepreneurship.

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2. GMES – Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security
GMES will provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information
To improve the management of the environment
To understand and mitigate the effects of climate change
To ensure safety and security for the European citizens.
GMES will consist of
Five families of dedicated Sentinels specifically for the operational needs of
the GMES programme. The Sentinels will be launched from 2013.
Missions from other space agencies, called Contributing Missions - already
providing a wealth of data for GMES services
The In situ Component which focuses on data acquired by a multitude of
sensors on the ground, at sea or in the air.
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3. GMES Services
GMES is all about delivering products and services to manage and
protect the environment and natural resources, and ensure civil
security, e.g.:
air-quality forecasting
flood warnings
early detection of drought and desertification
early warnings of severe weather
oil-spill detection and drift prediction
sea-water quality
crop analysis
forest monitoring
land-use change
food security and humanitarian aid
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4. GMES Masters – The European Earth
Monitoring Competition
Awards the best GMES commercial services and innovative service
concepts
The GMES Masters Competition aims at:
Creating awareness for the European GMES Programme
Fostering product development and entrepreneurship in Europe
Supporting the entrepreneurship in Europe incl. the creation of new ventures
being supported in the ESA Business Incubation Centers (BICs)
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5. Partner 2012
Initiated by:
Supported by: Organised by:
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6. Prize Pool 2012
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7. Challenges 2012
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8. ESA App Challenge
The ESA App Challenge searches for to the best application idea for the usage
of GMES on mobile phones.
Proposals shall address one or more GMES main thematic areas.
ESA is looking for ideas that can be implemented quickly into a profitable
business.
The submission of the application should consist of a base app containing info
and news on GMES, as well as one or more specific content modules that
provide relevant location-based data to users in real time.
Participants are required to submit application ideas incl. business concepts;
prototypes are not necessary to be eligible for the ESA App Challenge.
Prize
The winner will be considered for support by one of the five European Space
Agency's Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) across Europe. The
incubation package has a value of up to 60,000 Euro.
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9. ESA App Challenge
The winning idea 2011
AquaMap – Near real-time water
quality services on mobile phones,
submitted by the German company
EOMAP
Providing near real-time, high-
resolution water quality products to
private users and professional offshore
companies
Facilitating very fast user- and service-
friendly access to the products by the
use of cloud computing solutions © EOMAP
and/or processor installations directly
on top of GMES ground segments and
satellite data archives
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10. The Pilot GeoServer
ESA has configured a pilot server with interfaces to available
GEO data to facilitate simple, centralised access to the data
products of preoperational GMES services.
The pilot server is available free of charge to any GMES
Masters participants interested in infusing their ideas with
real data for testing and optimisation purposes.
The server has made it possible to call up data in the
categories of air, land and water on mobile devices.
Information on further servers containing geo-data is also
provided.
Atmospheric data offers, for example, insights into ozone
levels in the air, while the land data can include settlement
or agriculture maps. The information on water quality,
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meanwhile, contains data on chlorophyll and particle
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content or water temperature in specific locations, for
instance.
The Pilot GeoServer offers mobile access to various Earth
observation data products with an OGC-conform Web
Mapping Service WMS for devices such as mobile phones.
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11. Overall Winner
The GMES Master
Will be selected from among the winners of
each challenge (except the winner of the
Best Service Challenge).
Prize
Additional cash prize of EUR 20,000
Substantial satellite data quota
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12. Contact
Lara Schaflinger
Anwendungszentrum GmbH
Oberpfaffenhofen
Friedrichshafenerstr. 1
82205 Gilching
Germany
schaflinger@anwendungszentrum.de
www.gmes-masters.com
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