Environmental Monitoring (EM)
The Environmental Monitoring community is represented in the D4Science project by the European Space Agency (ESA) and refers to a pan-European and international Earth Science scientific community. In particular, it includes experts and scientists in the field who systematically exploit user services and resources available from ESA (GEOPortal, G-POD, Earthnet) for the most disparate applications of Earth observation domain, from land and ocean to atmosphere monitoring. At the present user services are offered by ESA to more than 5000 projects which benefit from world-wide free data access via the Principal Investigator Portal. Furthermore, the ESA EoPortal provides many thousands of scientists with access to information at various levels of complexity, including access to products, services, databases, and documentation. These scientists belong to world-wide research centres, institutions, industry and universities.
In a long-term perspective the EM community should broaden to major actors and keyplayers for the exploitation of data and innovative services for the Earth observation in an operational context, whose potential acme is represented by the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative, now renamed KOPERNIKUS. To this end the identified target audience comprise the GMES’s catchment area, European Environmental Organizations (Eumetnet, EuroGOOS, Eurogeographics and Eurogeosurveys, European Environment Agency (EEA), European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), EUMETSAT), and national space agencies (e.g. the German Aerospace Center, the French Centre national d’études spatiales and the Italian Space Agency). Specific opportunities to discuss the potential use of the D4Science platform have been presented by ESA in various specialised communities, such as:
- Marine and Ocean – represented by the SeaDataNet project at the IMDIS 2008 conference in Athens;
- Geophysics – at the EGU2008 (European Geophysical Union) in Wien;
- Astrophysics – a community whose data and infrastructure requirements are very close to the Earth Science Community, at European Southern Observatory–ESO conference in Munich.
Submitted by SiteAdminUser on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 17:11
