The impact of project results is ensured by the project design itself.

Indeed:

1. application design and development will be ensured by African experts, with support from European partners. In this way, the probability of obtaining an application targeted to well identified and un-interpreted user needs is maximized and implemented according to well known constraints of computer environment (both hardware and software),
2. the development is fully integrated in a pre-existing environmental information production process, whereby the African partners already deliver information to their local users.

The project is expected to have a positive impact on the AMESD EDF project, by identifying and testing ways of transferring efficiently advanced techniques into African institutions.

The project is closely related to and takes benefit from existing or completed European projects: VEGETATION Programme (France, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, European Commission), FP4 “improvements for the VEGETATION mission”, FP5 CYCLOPES, FP6 GEOLAND, FP6 VGT4AFRICA, ESA GMFS, JRC GLC2000, JRC GBA2000, JRC “Africa Observatory for Sustainable Development”, POSTEL (France), GEOSUCCESS (Belgium). All these projects are forerunners or specific components of the GMES initiative.