The new DWH mechanism will be finally in place starting from April 2015 and that the frozen requirements we collect at the time of the negotiation with the 2013 projects can be now reconsidered in the new budget envelop.

For further information on the DWH please visit the page
http://gmesdata.esa.int/web/gsc/about-gsc-data-access

All RASOR parters Held the 8th Steering Committee in Barcelona at Altamira Information Premises for a 2-day long meeting. The focus was on analysing the Mock-up version of the platform for future development.

The discussion was fundamental in light of the 1st draft of the Platform to be released before the End-User Workshop to be held in May 2015 in Savona.

The first RASOR article has been published on Science & Technology. The article describes the project objectives and potential and comes right after the article of the European Commission on the potential offered by EO data and Sentinel missions specifically for Environmental and security applications. RASOR represents one of the flagship project from the Commission in the last Copernicus downstream Services Call.
Science & Technology is a leading scientific dissemination magazine that helps bridge the gap between the European Commission, EU funding agencies, governmental departments across Europe and the scientists and academics who are continually striving for success by providing exemplars of academic research across Europe, the European Union and individual nations covering Research & Development, Health and Environment & Sustainability, as well as featuring the key policy makers who can make a direct impact on the academic and scientific community. S&T is collaboration with the European Council and the European Science Foundation.
Read the article, here.
 

The 4th meeting of the Global Flood Working Group has been kindly hosted by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, in Reading, United Kingdom, March 4-6, 2014.
RASOR Project has been presented showing the potential contribution that the project outcomes in support of the Global Flood partnership. The GFP is an informal network of scientists and practitioners from public, private and international organisations interested in global flood monitoring, modelling and forecasting.