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BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
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Detailed requirements of specific customer
organisations
Documentation of state of the art
Design and creation of a prototype land cover
database and derived products
Validation of the database and products for specific
test areas
Execution of demonstration case studies
Cost-benefit analysis
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
CUSTOMER TYPES AND
INFORMATION NEEDS
Baltic-wide intergovernmental initiatives
HELCOM, VASAB 2010, Baltic 21, EEA
Policy support and monitoring of Baltic-wide
environmental programmes and initiatives
BALANS Advisory group
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
CUSTOMER TYPES AND
INFORMATION NEEDS
Transboundary policy-related projects
Green Belt, Lake Peipsi and Lielupe Transborder
project, Oder Protection
To analyse ecosystems and landscapes over larger
sub-areas of BSR spanning international borders
GRID-Arendal, Finnish Environmental Institute
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
CUSTOMER TYPES AND
INFORMATION NEEDS
Scientific bodies or projects with relevance to the Baltic
Input to models and analyses for themes including
water balances and water pollution with coverage
from national/sub-national to whole BSR
GRID-Warsaw, SMHI
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
INNOVATION AND METHODS
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Sustainability
Updates and change information
Medium-resolution optical satellite data
Data in intermediate stages - products generated
when acquired
Metadata stored for each pixel
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
WORK SCHEDULE
Year 1998
Project Management
CR and State of the Art
Methodology Development
Demonstration database
Demonstration Case Studies
Cost/benefit and Exploitation
1999
2000
2001
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
DEMONSTRATION CASE STUDIES
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Assessing erosion and nitrate loss risks
Integrated multination river basin management
Modelling of nutrient transport to Baltic Sea from
large drainage basins
Monitoring changes in ecologically valuable
forests
Environmental indicators and land cover/use
changes
Regional land cover monitoring
Mass market access
BALANS - Planning and Management in the
Baltic Sea Region with Land Information from EO
THE PROJECT STRUCTURE
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Swedish Space Corporation (project co-ordinator)
Finnish Environment Institute
GRID-Arendal
Environmental Satellite Data Centre
National Land Survey of Finland
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute
UNEP/GRID-Warsaw
BALANS Advisory group
BALANS Network