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DRAGON in support of harmonizing European and Chinese marine monitoring for environment and security system (DRAGONESS)
Start date: Sep 1, 2007, End date: Aug 31, 2010 PROJECT FINISHED

Capitalizing on the ongoing DRAGON project and the outcome of the EU FP6 MERSEA Strand-1 project the DRAGONESS SSA proposal aims to assess, advance and harmonize European and Chinese capacities in marine monitoring for environment and security.The primary objective of the DRAGONESS SSA proposal is to make an inventory of Chinese and European capacities of marine monitoring for environment and security including Earth observation data, in order to harmonize methods in the frame of international programs such as GOOS and GMES and investigate the potential for establishing and harmonizing operational services contribution to GEOSS. In so doing DRAGONESS will take stock of existing information production and service deliveries in order to: identify service/data gaps and barriers; develop activities to disseminate and implement products and services derived or customized from current GMES development activities;