Within the European Copernicus Program several services are made available for the member states. The workshop will give an overview on Copernicus land monitoring products and their usage. It will bring an overview of the application of national geospatial data in Georgia and will stimulate the discussion between Georgian and European experts on further use of satellite imagery on the example of High Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (HR VPP) product in high spatial and temporal resolution. This (HR-VPP) product is based on satellite measurements acquired by Sentinel-2 and represents Vegetation phenology over the growing season for 4 years from 2017 until 2020.

The meeting focuses on three aspects:

• National implementation of the CLC-Pilot project,
  • The 17,000km² (Kvemo Kartli and Kakheti provinces of the country ~ 20% of country

• Joint assessment of available Global and National land monitoring data
• Preparation and decision on a use case in a collaboration project on the usage of High resolution data (HRVPP) for national assessments in a pilot area (covered by Europe`s Copernicus HRVPP service). HRVPP area (covered by service) for Georgia, the available area for a pilot.