International programmes and initiatives

• FP6 IST (6th Framework Programme, Information Society Technologies)
• GMES (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security) Programme
• GMES ESA (GMES The Living Planet Programme)
• INSPIRE (The INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe)
• GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)

GMES projects

• InterRisk (Interoperable GMES Services for Environmental Risk Management in Marine and Coastal Areas of Europe)
• MARCOAST (Maritime & Coastal Environmental Information Services)
• MERSEA (Marine Environment and Security for the European Area) Integrated Project
• ECOOP Integrated Project (2007-2010)
• SeaDataNet (Pan-European infrastructure for Marine Data Management)
• Humboldt Integrated Project on Data Harmonisation and Service Integration

Standardisation organisations

• ISO (International Standardisation Organisation)
• OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
• OGC (Open GeoSpatial Consortium, Inc.)
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

Web and GIS standards

• GML (Geography Markup Language)
• CSW (Catalogue Services for the Web)
• WMS (Web Map Service)
• WFS (Web Feature Service)
• WCS (Web Coverage Service)
• OPeNDAP (Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol)

Marine data services

• JCOMM services for oceanography and marine meteorology