[Portugal] GMES data

[Luís Ferreira]

Aqui está uma boa notícia.

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The approval of the Parliament gave green light to the development of
the GMES system by 2014, which would enable the EU to collect its own
data - most of which currently comes from American satellites. The
adopted regulation contains a provision for open and free of charge
access to the collected data, so that all local, regional and national
players can use these data to respond to natural disasters, to monitor
climate change as well as to take better decisions on agriculture,
forestry, energy, urban development, infrastructure or transport. The
open access should also boost a "downstream market" for which small and
medium-sized software companies can develop new applications.
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