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THEME [SPA.2013.1.1-03]August 8th, 2013
General information Project title 3 Quality Assurance for Essential Climate Variables Starting date4 01/01/2014 Duration in months5 48 Call (part) identifier6 FP7-SPACE-2013-1 Activity code(s) most relevant to your topic7 SPA.2013.1.1-03:Traceable quality assurance system for multi-decadal ECVs Abstract 9 Policy makers are increasingly relying on Earth Observation (EO) data to make decisions on mitigating and adapting to climate change. These decisions need to be 'evidence-based' and this requires complete confidence in EO-derived products. Although EO data is plentiful, it is rare to have reliable, traceable and understandable quality information. The situation is often further confused because various versions of the same product exist from data providers using different retrieval algorithms.Users need an internationally acceptable Quality Assurance (QA) framework that establishes, and provides understandable traceable quality information for the data products used in Climate Ser
