Set up during 1996, the CEOS Database on User Requirements and Space C
apabilities was implemented to serve, in the first instance, the Task
Force for Planning and Analysis, which was created under the auspices
of the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). Its purpose
was to analyse user requirements and assess to which extent current an
d planned Earth observing systems from space can meet them. The databa
se is now available to support further CEOS initiatives and the Earth-
observation community.