SWOS has the objective to develop a monitoring and information service for wetland ecosystems that complements the MAES process and supports the consideration of wetlands in the implementation of key policy areas.

In the frame of SWOS, a sustainable Earth Observation based service for monitoring of wetland ecosystems and their services will be developed, that provides all information to get a full picture of the base line, the state and the temporal evolution of wetland ecosystems. The service will deliver a basis for political decisions and protection measures and as wetlands are key ecosystems and hotspots of biodiversity, SWOS will contribute to assessing the status of our planet’s biodiversity …/…