The pilot cases for Poland and S.Africa and the DUP-Kyoto harmonisation process were completed with successful delivery of products and services to the partners; a Final Meeting was held with ESA to formally conclude the cases in June 2005.

The GSE FM services for S.Africa provided an excellent opportunity for north-south technology transfer related to improved methods for the application of EO for obtaining quantitative values on areas of land classes (with a higher level of accuracy), as well as areal changes in the forest class and biomass estimates;  therefore, the S.African partners are committed to further collaborate on the ESA GSE FM programme.

Similarly in the Polish case the GSE FM services provide a valuable tool for forest area estimation and thus the Ministry of Environment will be more actively involved in developments of the ESA GSE FM programme in the next stage.