European Security Policy and Earth Observation

This paper gives an account of the activities of the GMOSS Working Group studying issues and priorities for European security. It draws on the European Security Strategy (ESS) and other major policy documents to provide a summary account for the general reader of the strategic challenges facing the EU and its response. It then considers the role which EO can play in the Union's strategy for responding to these contingencies with particular reference to the wide range of potential customers for imagery within the EU structures and the contribution which EO can make to crisis management