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| Titel |
EUFAR the key portal and network for airborne research in Europe |
| VerfasserIn |
Elisabeth Gérard, Philip Brown |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2017
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
| Datensatznummer |
250147965
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-12187.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Created in 2000 and supported by the EU Framework Programmes since then as an
Integrating Activities’ project, EUFAR (European Facility of Airborne Research in
environmental and Geo-sciences) was born out of the necessity to create a central network
and access point for the airborne research community in Europe. With the aim to support
researchers by granting them access to aircraft and instrumentation most suited to
the needs of researchers across Europe, not accessible in their home countries,
EUFAR also provides technical support and training in the field of airborne research
for the environmental and geosciences, and enables the sharing of expertise and
harmonisation of research practices. Today, EUFAR2 (2014-2018) coordinates and
facilitates transnational access to 19 instrumented aircraft and 5 remote-sensing
instruments through the 14 operators who are part of EUFAR’s current 24-partner
European consortium. In addition, the current project supports networking and
joint research activities focused on providing an enabling environment for and to
promote airborne research. Examples of some of these recent activities will be
shown
EUFAR is currently seeking to establish itself as an AISBL (international non-profit
association) to ensure its existence and operations beyond January 2018 when our present EC
funding comes to an end. The objectives of the EUFAR AISBL will include continuing to
develop the integration of the research aircraft community in Europe and also its links with
other environmental research infrastructures, such as the community of research
infrastructures under the umbrella of ENVRIplus. Another objective will be to
continue to broaden access to research facilities beyond that supported solely by
national funding streams so that EUFAR better approaches the status of a European
open research infrastructure. Together with the implementation of an Open Access
scheme by means of resource-sharing envisaged in late 2017, such a sustainable
structure will contribute substantially toward broadening the user base of existing
airborne research facilities in Europe and mobilising additional resources to this end.
EUFAR AISBL will be the most appropriate organisation for the (i) coordination of
joint activities among the European institutions involved in airborne research, and
also (ii) coordination of projects funded by the European Commission or other
bodies for supporting activities beyond the self-financing perimeter of the AISBL
(transnational access projects, education and training events, joint research activities,
etc.).
This will confirm EUFAR’s position as the key portal for airborne research in Europe.
This central position opens the way for further collaboration with other communities (UAS,
etc.) and environmental research infrastructures (IAGOS, ACTRIS, ENVRIplus,
EUROFLEETS, etc.) to ensure the mutual benefit of joint efforts in addressing future
science challenges in a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the Earth system. |
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