EuroGEOSS is a large scale integrated project in the Seventh Framework programme of the European Commission. The project builds an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It then undertakes the research necessary to develop this further into an advanced operating capacity that provides access not just to data but also to analytical models made understandable and useable by scientists from different disciplinary domains. This concept of inter-disciplinary interoperability requires research in advanced modelling from multi-scale heterogeneous data sources, expressing models as workflows of geo-processing components reusable by other communities, and ability to use natural language to interface with the models. IEEE is the lead for Work Package 7 Capacity Building and Dissemination.
In the first 18 months of the project from May 2009 to October 2010, the project has
implemented an initial operating system in which the databases on forestry, drought and biodiversity were populated. The initial demonstration is focused on Spain. The information from the three domains was then accessible through a broker, which translates formats and language across domains to allow users access to a broader picture of the environment. The broker is guided by both domain practices and the interoperability guidelines of INSPIRE, ISO, OGC and international standards.
EuroGEOSS also addresses the outcomes of the new operating capabilities through an economic impacts assessments which models both the benefits and costs with and without the new GEOSS-related information. This is essential if the developments of EuroGEOSS are to widely adopted across the full range of GEOSS societal benefit areas.
Adoption is supported by an active outreach work package within the project that offers tutorials, seminars and conference presentations. Preview tutorials.
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