transfers from science to applications, according to the demand 
of the competent administrations. 
3. CONCLUSIONS 
The attempt to install synergies between the described research 
projects with quite different regional, socio-economic and 
environmental conditions is certainly challenging. On the other 
hand it is very helpful to experience that despite all the different 
pre-conditions, there are also some common issues to be found, 
which threaten the living conditions of the future generations. 
The world’s responsibility for improvements in sustainability of 
the land management will become the basis for environmental 
security and food security of our planet. The current 
investigations show the part remote sensing and GIS play in 
contributing to the dissemination of better tools for land 
management and food security in order to ensure the 
involvement of the regional stakeholders and expertise to reach 
operability. 
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5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
MERIS-Data: € EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, Via Galileo Galilei, 
1-00044 Frascati (Rome), Italy (figures 4 & 5). 
RapidEye-Data: © RapidEye Copyright 2010 (figure 2). 
Landsat-Data: © 1987, 2009 (figures 6 & 8). 
The GMFS Consortium is composed of the following 
institutions: VITO — Belgium, EFTAS — Germany, SARMAP — 
Switzerland, University of Liege — Belgium, Conzortio ITA — 
Italy, EARS — Netherlands and GeoVille — Austria. GMFS is 
funded by ESA. 
The SASCHA Consortium is composed of the following 
institutions: Germany: University of Münster, EFTAS Remote 
Sensing Transfer of Technology, University of Kiel, University 
of Osnabrück and University of Applied Science of Osnabrück, 
Humboldt University of Berlin; Russian Federation: Tyumen 
State University, Tyumen State Agricultural Academy, Tyumen 
Government (Departments of Agriculture, Ecology & Subsoil 
Use, Strategic Planning). SASCHA is co-funded by the German 
Ministry of Education and Research and by the Russian 
Ministry of Research.