| Abstract |
Situated in Ispra, Italy, the <a href="http://www.sai.jrc.it/">Space Applications Institute</a> is part of the Directorate General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It consists of a multidisciplinary team of more than 230 staff, principally from the 15 Member States of the European Union. The activities of the Institute focus on: <ul> <li>the detection and positioning of anti-personnel mines <li>monitoring the European landscape <li>agricultural applications and the development of regional information systems <li>monitoring global vegetation <li>monitoring the marine environment and coastal zones <li>the development of strategies and systems related to space applications <ul> |