The Consortium consists of 14 multi-disciplinary partners from 7 countries. The team has a good spread of institutions: 6 research agencies (all are involved also in policy making), 5 universities, 2 SMEs, 1 governmental agency. The workpackage list in the table illustrates, that every partner has specific responsibilities for one major work package. With this matrix management of shared responsibilities we ensure that the project is a real collaborative effort. At the same time, a rigorous management structure (interdependences between workpackages, and an extensive deliverable list) is in place to ensure success. The project is only possible by bringing together a critical mass of internationally recognised researchers from different disciplines (earth observation, biosphere modeling, greenhouse gas accounting, forestry and GIS).

An external international review team, attends the steering meetings and gives advice to the Core Steering Committee as critical observers of the performance of the generated EO products and the linking of these products to the climate models and eventually the assessment of the overall project goal. Yearly questionnaires to be answered by the reviewers will guide the project in accordance with own project findings, relevant results of the international scientific community, and global political or ecological requirements.