SAGE, a GMES Service on Environmental Monitoring

The "Service for the Provision of Advanced Geo-Information on Environmental Pressure and State" (SAGE) offers a comprehensive product portfolio to serve the demands coming from the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the upcoming regulations of the Thematic Strategy on Soil Protection (usually referred to as Soil Thematic Strategy (STS)).
	Public and private partners together have established core services addressing basic geo-information needs of the environmental community. They serve as the basis of customised end-user applications supporting the national and local implementation of the WFD and STS. All SAGE products have been approved as fulfilling the monitoring requirements of all European partner agencies, labelled as proven and sound by independent scientific reviewers, and designed for efficient implementation by the service provider team.
As the SAGE services are designed in an open and modular way, many other European environmental and planning authorities will be able to profit from the SAGE products as well.