The GDSC is a common initiative of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR and the Geomatics Business Park to create an access point to earth observation data in the Netherlands. It's objective is to provide access to aerial photography, high resolution satellite imagery and satellite navigation data.

The GDSC fits in the "Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)" iniative. The initiative intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. These services should allow the users to identify and access spatial or geographical information from a wide range of sources, from the local level to the global level, in an inter-operable way for a variety of uses. Possible services are the visualisation of information layers, overlay of information from different sources, spatial and temporal analysis, etc.

More information on the Dutch version of this page.