The goal of this document is to define the quality assurance concept for the whole GSE Land project. GSE Land will produce a number of different products derived from remote sensing data; these products can be classified in two different groups: mapping products, and downstream services. Mapping products are created from remote sensing images, and downstream services are derived from mapping products.
In the context of GSE Land project, only mapping products are considered in QA. The validation of the downstream products will be done by the final users of the service based on specific criteria and information that cannot be generalised.
The main goal of quality assurance concept is to guarantee quality of the product. The quality assurance concept is not only approved by the service provider network, but also by the user working group.
It is important to produce reproducible and traceable results. In this sense, quality assurance not only guarantees quality, but also helps to reduce cost in production.