“Access to a combination of satellite and in situ data is essential for the Copernicus services. They cannot develop and produce their products without it. What the EEA and the services are trying to do here is to ensure that the services have access a minima to the data that the Member States have already collected or produced. The data that is already out there.”

　　“同时获取卫星和实地数据对哥白尼项目的服务至关重要，没有这两种数据他们无法开发和制作出产品。EEA及其服务要做的底线，就是要确保各成员国已经收集或制作的数据可以获取，因为数据已经在那里了。”

　　 ——欧洲哥白尼项目主要通过遥感的方法获取陆地、海洋环境、大气、应急管理、安全和气候变化等六个领域内的信息和数据，然而面对这些领域的服务，还需要通过传感器在地表、空中和海洋上实际获取的观测数据。为此，欧洲信息署（EEA）和哥白尼项目共同倡议了哥白尼项目中对实地观测资料的收集和提供服务。负责这一任务的EEA跨领域实地数据管理项目负责人Henrik Steen Andersen阐述了这一任务的宗旨。