The Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) is a component of the Land Monitoring Core Service of Copernicus, the European flagship programme on Earth Observation. It systematically provides in near-real-time a versatile portfolio of state-of-the-art products on biophysical variables, describing the state of Earth’s land surface to monitor the vegetation, the water cycle, the energy budget and the terrestrial cryosphere.

The CGLS entered its next operational phase, with the new Framework Service Contract for the period 2023-27. The CGLOPS-1 project (Lot 1 of Operation of the bio-geophysical variables systematic monitoring of the Global Land Component of the Copernicus Land Service) is about continuing, maintaining, further developing, and validating the near-real-time products of the thematic domain "Biosphere: Vegetation and Energy". TU Wien, as a key science and development partner, contributes to the soil moisture products of CGLS.