Environmental Monitoring

The 2st issue of the Zero-In eMagazine on "Earth Sciences and Astronomy: New worlds in e-Infrastructures applications" presents an article by V. Guidetti from ESA on "Earth Science as an e-Infrastructures Application: Practices at the ESA". The Zero-In eMagazine brings together views and news from global virtual research communities and features articles on pioneering technology, applications and results.

The D4Science Virtual Research Environments (VREs) Management Training focused on the following topics:

• User Registration and User/Roles Management;
• VRE Monitoring and Support;
• VRE Definition and Creation;
• VRE Exploitation.

On 9 March 2009, the Global Land Vegetation Monitoring (GVM) Virtual Research Environment (VRE) was released. This VRE is available through the project portal: http://portal.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu.
The Global Land Vegetation Monitoring VRE offers easy access to satellite images of vegetative land cover allowing to dynamically store and share resources from heterogeneous collections of data including Earth Science data and products.

On 9 March 2009, the Global Ocean Chlorophyll Monitoring (GCM) Virtual Research Environment (VRE) was released. This VRE is available through the project portal: http://portal.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu. The Global Ocean Chlorophyll Monitoring VRE allows to dynamically store and share resources from heterogeneous collections of data including Earth Science data and products.