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“The shortcomings of the current approach (here the Water Directive 2004 Inventory data supply) are that the available information is not exhaustive and representative. The same comment can be made for its relevance.”
Institut Francais de l`Environment (IFEN), France
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“Use of EO data is already part of the Swedish forest monitoring strategy (protected forest areas as well as the forest landscape as a whole). However, more can be done to use these data sets as input to monitoring, modelling and planning in a watershed context, e.g. for the WFD implementation.”
Naturvårdsverket – Swedish Environmental Protection Agency SEPA, Sweden
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“FEA requires specific data, information products and services on soil sealing as input to spatial planning at different levels because e.g. the Austria Rhine Valley will -without the implementation of adequate policies– be totally sealed (covered by scattered settlements) at the turn of the century.”
Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency FEA), Austria
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“… it becomes obvious that remote sensing is a useful tool to efficiently generate land use information. However, different tasks require different levels of detail.” […] “… most remote sensing based surveys have been conducted in the framework of prototype projects without being developed into operational services.”
Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency), Germany
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"Implementation of the nitrates directive across the EU has been generally extremely poor."[...]" Considerable further action is
required to ensure effective protection of surface and groundwaters from agricultural nitrate pollution in a clear majority of EU Member States."
European Environmental Agency (EEA)
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