Knowledge of the effects of environmental conditions on platforms, sensors, systems and weapons is a fundamental enabler for successful operations.
When focused on locations of current or impending operations, assessment of the environment requires the collection, fusion and dissemination of a wide range of geospatial intelligence information in unclassified and classified domains, rapidly or in near real-time.
It may involve overt and clandestine data collection activities.

The project will develop and deliver EO based products and services that can be used by NATO Navies to enhance the Recognised Environmental Picture (REP) in operation areas. A user priority is to maximise available environmental information from sources other than in situ measurements.

Three service elements are being developed within the project:

• a bathymetry service, based on high resolution optical imagery;
• a decision support service, operational decisions computed algorithmically and based on multiple inputs;
• a wind and waves service, coastal wind and waves derived from offshore models and measurements and SAR imagery.