The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) insists, in a position paper published on Friday 15 November, that the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) should strictly confine itself to its scientific role and not take on a more “operational” role in the future.
For the authors of the document, the process is clear: once the European Commission has defined the policy needs and services for Copernicus, the implementation, organisation and configuration of...