EU ministers call for better coordination among European geospatial satellite networks for security, resilience

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — European Union government ministers called for a better coordination of EU Earth observation satellites with a view to reducing duplication and assuring interoperability between EU, European Space Agency, national government and commercial geospatial imagery constellations.

Meeting May 23 in Brussels, the EU Competitiveness Council acknowledged that foreign and military policy is decided by individual EU nations. Whether these nations elect to share data from their national space assets is their decision.

But the Council concluded that at a time when Europe is facing the . . .

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