The purpose of the GMES Security Core Service (SEC) is to support at global level all stages of intervention cycle from early warning, to crises management and recovery in response to technological and man-made emergencies (e.g. droughts, nuclear plant accidents, etc).
The initial scope of the SEC is to provide rapid mapping services (reference and damage assessment maps) to gather the necessary information to know the incoming anomalous events and the following critical effects, the effective damages and to forecast and design the restore of normal life ordinary conditions.
Within the context of the GMES Initiative, the G-MOSAIC Collaborative Project aims at identifying and developing products, methodologies and pilot services for the provision of geo-spatial information in support of EU external relations policies and at contributing to define and demonstrate sustainability of GMES global security perspective.
Service cases, built with the reference users, will support Situation Awareness and Intelligence applications and Crisis Management Operations.
The activities will be devoted to:
Reference Users are: DG-RELEX (and DGs Development, ECHO, Environment, etc.); Council Entities: EU Military Staff, Situation Centre; National Institutions: Ministries of Foreign Affaires, Intelligence Centres.