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The GMES Coordinated Data Access System will support the building of Earth Observation product collections such as this European 'wall-to-wall' image. This picture shows a 'virtual mosaic' of the scenes supplied for central and southern European coverage of IMAGE2006, overlaid to reduce cloud cover. It contains SPOT-4 HRV, SPOT-5 HRVIR and IRS-P6 LISS-III 'quicklooks' from the years 2006 +/- 1 year.
(Includes material © CNES 2007, Distribution Spot Image S.A., France, all rights reserved. Includes material © ANTRIX Corporation Limited 2007, distribution by Euromap GmbH, Germany, all rights reserved. Funded by ESA for Land Fast Track Precursor/IMAGE2006)