Development of monitoring technologies and systems for reducing the vulnerability of space-based services and for contributing to the surveillance of space.

- GMES, at an earlier stage and requiring the integration of space-based and ground-based monitoring capacities in user-driven operational application services.

Innovative approaches in areas such as public transport, the organization of public space and the protection of borders can be envisaged. Space, offers great scope for high technology innovation over time (in particular public investors in the application of Galileo [17] and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), the Commission's flagship space programmes. These need to share their knowledge of the system and its scope for business with potential downstream users in the space and non-space sectors, to raise their awareness of potential space-based solutions). Transport, where the demand ...[+++] for energy efficiency provides great opportunities. Marine technologies and products allowing for new uses of the sea such as deep sea drilling, blue biotech exploitation, offshore mariculture and renewable energies, ocean space monitoring and surveillance technologies offer promising scope. Health, which has a huge growth potential for innovative products and services (including in particular e-Health, and the provision of customized solutions to allow elderly people to continue to live independently, pharmaceuticals and medical devices where innovation can bring direct benefits to patients and improve competitiveness), or well-being and culture (for instance creative content services, which gain a new dimension with the rollout of broadband networks, allowing citizens and businesses to access all kind of creative contents such as audiovisual, games, cultural information at home and in mobility) are examples of markets where the public sector has a role to play.

As Canada acquired some knowledge in the field, it was invited to participate fully in a United States-United Kingdom technology exchange program on space based surveillance systems.

It is planned to build a subscale stratospheric airship that can carry radar and other communications packages that could be positioned so as to provide continual surveillance of our airspace in a large area.

The Commission's proposal will make it possible in the short term to harmonize and integrate the Member States' traffic management equipment by introducing technical specifications devised by EUROCONTROL for: - communications between air traffic control centres, - navigation systems (radio navigation, radar, etc.), - airspace surveillance systems.