Towards e-Environment
Prague, 27.03.2009
The SOSI activity under EOX technical lead has been selected as "Good Practice Demonstrator for the Sharing of Environmental Information" by NESIS, the EIONET Community based network to promote the uptake of environmental monitoring and reporting ICT solutions by public authorities. A first comprehensive paper on SOSI was presented at the "Towards e-Environment" conference in two sessions by Gerhard Triebnig, EOX, and Milan Novacek, ANF Data (download paper).
The SOSI project, although still preliminary concerning its results and output, is achieving significant international recognition due to its "shaping" influence on important initiatives which are:
- GMES-LMCS concerning the setup of the SDI as developed by geoland2;
- Current Snow and Glacier Science Service developments in harmonisation with GENESI-DR;
- Future evolution of ESA/SSE concerning INSPIRE conformance, “Quality of Experience”, security, etc.;
- Next European FTS Land Cover production "all on-line" set-up;
- and potentially SEIS w.r.t. Data Centre and Member States Infrastructure (such as those studied in NESIS)
By supporting a shared vision towards an interoperable information infrastructure, the SOSI activity contributes to the fostering of the creation of the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) and a coherent frame for existing good practices.
REFERENCES
G. Triebnig, et al., SOSI - Spatial Observation Services & Infrastructure, paper presented at European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT - Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe, Prague, 27.03.2009 (download paper).
GMES and the City of Vienna
Vienna, 27.02.2009
As one of the first Regions in Europe the City of Vienna takes pro-active steps to elaborate its potential roles as GMES service user as well as regional geodata provider. Eighteen departments of the City administration met at the kick-off meeting of the strategy forming and systematic screening project "GMES und Wien". Contracted by the City, EOX provides multi-faceted consultancy services to the project from the background of its various GMES, SEIS, INSPIRE and OGC involments. The international consultant Technolpolis Group is contributing strategy aspects.
Vienna is official member of the Network of European Regions using Space Technology (NEREUS).
e-Infrastructure for Geospatial Data Sevices
Frascati, 25.02.2009
Earth Science Digital Repositories and related infrastructures were in the focus of the 4th GRID & e-Collaboration Workshop held at ESA/ESRIN. EOX Managing Director Gerhard Triebnig contributed a paper putting ESA's successful Service Support Environment (SSE) infrastructure programme into perspective with the needs and standards being established bei SEIS and INSPIRE, the genuine European initiatives for geospatial data sharing, infrastructure and organisation.
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