The Danube Basin covers parts of the national territory component of 18 European countries - ten of them being riparian. Danube is the longest river in the enlarging European Union, flowing 2,860 kilometers from Southern Genrmany to Romania and the Black Sea. The river drains about 815,800 square kilometers of land.
Space applications could play a major role in the susteinable development of the Danube Basin region. Tools as satellite imagery, navigation and positionin, telecommunications and their integration in geographic Information systems bring positive effects to economic development, environmental management and societal integration. issues from the Danube Delta and Black Sea preservation, river satellite assisted navigation, disaster management and risk and trafic monitoring could be approached together by means of space technology towards with susbstantial benefits for the integration and development of this European region.