One of NEO’s international development areas is grouped under the name DRYMON. This acronym stands for drought and yield monitoring globally, using scatterometer observations. If frequently collected these data provide a very solid basis for monitoring top soil moisture. This top soil moisture can be used to predict yield, detect droughts and extremely wet conditions at a very early stage of development. The DRYMON consortium is developing a series of extremely powerful Early Warning Services in this area. The ASCAT instrument on board of the METOP series of satellites is providing most ofthe raw matter for these services. The first of this series is operational now. Together with nits successors the data flow is guaranteed for the coming 15-20 years.