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| Titel |
Building thematic and integrated services for solid Earth sciences: the EPOS integrated approach |
| VerfasserIn |
Massimo Cocco, Epos Consortium |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250123979
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-3330.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| EPOS has been designed with the vision of creating a pan-European infrastructure for solid
Earth science to support a safe and sustainable society. In accordance with this scientific
vision, the EPOS mission is to integrate the diverse and advanced European Research
Infrastructures for solid Earth science relying on new e-science opportunities to monitor
and unravel the dynamic and complex Earth System. EPOS will enable innovative
multidisciplinary research for a better understanding of the Earth’s physical and chemical
processes that control earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, ground instability and tsunami as well
as the processes driving tectonics and Earth’s surface dynamics. To accomplish its mission,
EPOS is engaging different stakeholders, not limited to scientists, to allow the Earth sciences
to open new horizons in our understanding of the planet. EPOS also aims at contributing to
prepare society for geo-hazards and to responsibly manage the exploitation of geo-resources.
Through integration of data, models and facilities, EPOS will allow the Earth science
community to make a step change in developing new concepts and tools for key
answers to scientific and socio-economic questions concerning geo-hazards and
geo-resources as well as Earth sciences applications to the environment and human
welfare.
A long-term integration plan is necessary to accomplish the EPOS mission. EPOS is
presently in its implementation phase further extending its pan-European dimension. The
EPOS Implementation Phase builds on the achievements of the successful EPOS Preparatory
Phase project and consists of two key activities: the legal establishment of the EPOS-ERIC
and the EPOS IP project. The EPOS implementation phase will last from 2015 to 2019. Key
objectives of the project are: implementing Thematic Core Services (TCS), the
domain-specific service hubs for coordinating and harmonizing national resources/plans with
the European dimension of EPOS; building the Integrated Core Services (ICS) to provide a
novel research platform to different stakeholders; designing the access to distributed
computational resources (ICS-d); ensuring sustainability and governance of TCS and
EPOS-ERIC.
The research infrastructures (RIs) that EPOS is coordinating include: i) distributed
geophysical observing systems (seismological and geodetic networks); ii) local observatories
(including geomagnetic, near-fault and volcano observatories); iii) analytical and
experimental laboratories; iv) integrated satellite data and geological information services; v)
new services for natural and anthropogenic hazards; vi) access to geo-energy test
beds.
Here we present the activities planned for the implementation phase focusing on the TCS,
the ICS and on their interoperability. We will discuss the data, data-products, software and
services (DDSS) presently under implementation, which will be validated and tested during
the project lifetime.
Particular attention will be given to showing the progress toward the establishment of
EPOS-ERIC Headquarter, to coordinate and harmonize national RIs and EPOS services, and
the ICS central hub as a key contribution for providing multidisciplinary services for solid
Earth science as well as the glue to keep ICT aspects integrated and rationalized across
EPOS. It will be an important and timely opportunity to discuss the EPOS roadmap toward
the operation of the novel multidisciplinary platform for discoveries to foster scientific
excellence in solid Earth science. |
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