THE ESA EARTH-OBSERVATION GUIDE AND DIRECTORY SERVICE

The ESA Earth-Observation Guide and Directory Service (GDS) is a new o n-line information resource describing Earth-observation data, systems and applications. It carries details about ESA's remote-sensing progr ammes and satellite missions and provides material of interest to thos e working with the data products from these missions. GDS also carries information for newcomers who are interested in the science and explo itation potential of Earth observation. The information gathered in GD S is accessible in the form of full-text documents, images, graphics, audio and animated image sequences. The Service is also a network entr y point from which a number of other information systems can be locate d and, in several cases, also accessed.