G-MOSAIC ( GMES services for management of operations, situation awareness and intelligence for regional crises) is a GMES security pilot project financed by the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

7th Framework Programme. G-MOSAIC will develop products, methodologies and pilot services for the provision of geo-spatial information in support of the external relations policies of the union in support to the prevention and management of external regional crisis (and the relevant intervention) for, e.g. peace keeping, peace enforcing, crisis prevention, people and citizens rescue.

Objectives

G-MOSAIC service domains are characterised in order to deal with EU security related to out-of-EU crisis areas, focusing on: *Support intelligence and early warning, with the objective to deploy and validate those information services which contribute to the analysis of the causes leading to regional crises. One important aspect is the development of crisis indicators, based on the assessment – also through satellite derived data - of crisis precursor elements such as: natural resource and

land degradation Land degradation is a process where land becomes less healthy and productive due to a combination of Human impact on the environment, human activities or natural conditions. The causes for land degradation are numerous and complex. Human activitie ...

water scarcity Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand. There are two types of water scarcity. One is ''physical.'' The other is ''economic water scarcity''. Physic ...

;

food security Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, healthy Human food, food. The availability of food for people of any class, gender, ethnicity, or religion is another element of food protection. Simila ...

issues,

population pressure Population pressure, a term summarizing the stress brought about by an excessive population density and its consequences, is used both in conjunction with human overpopulation and with other animal populations that suffer from too many individuals ...

, impacts of

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

, health epidemics; illegal activities and

trafficking Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. More broadly, soc ...

, weapons proliferation. *Support crisis management operations, with the objective of deploying and validating those information services which contribute to support the planning for EU intervention during crises, the EU intervention and citizen repatriation during crises, the crisis consequences management, reconstruction, and resilience.

Figures

*Start date: January 1, 2009 *Project duration: 36 months *Consortium: 36 partners *Total cost: 15 MEuro *EC contribution: 9,6 MEuro

Services

The following table shows the main G-MOSAIC services versus the GMES areas for actions in the security domain

Notes

External links

G-MOSAIC Project web site

GMES R&D website, operated by the EC-funded SWIFT project
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