EGIDA

Coordinating Earth and Environmental cross-disciplinary projects to promote GEOSS

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'EGIDA will prepare a sustainable process promoting coordination of activities carried out by: the GEO Science & Technology (S&T) Committee; S&T national and European initiatives; and other S&T Communities. This will be done by supporting broader implementation and effectiveness of the GEOSS S&T Roadmap and the GEOSS mission through coherent and interoperable networking of National and European projects, and international initiatives. EGIDA will deliver evaluation processes, tests and assessment indexes, expertise databases, a “GEO Label” concept, surveys, and other instruments that will link relevant European S&T communities to GEOSS and ensure it is built using state-of-the-art science and technology. Through co-ordination with the GEOSS S&T Committee (five co-chairs are involved in EGIDA), these deliverables will contribute strongly to the GEO S&T Roadmap implementation. For European countries, EGIDA will deliver the EGIDA Methodology, a sustainable mechanism based on the GEO S&T approach at national and regional level, to coordinate national multi-disciplinary “System of Systems”. This builds on existing national initiatives and European projects, and facilitates the European S&T Community contributions to and interactions with GEOSS. The EGIDA Methodology will improve development and management of S&T infrastructures (i.e. sensors, data, processing services, and environmental modelling infrastructures), supporting mobilization of the resources needed to contribute effectively to GEOSS. EGIDA will involve developing countries by transferring the EGIDA S&T methodology to them and implementing three specific use cases: two regional use-cases (Balkan region, Mediterranean region) and a pan-European thematic use-case (Air Quality and Health). EGIDA will be embedded within a wide Network of Stakeholders selected to represent the various actors (science teams and institutions, S&T programmes, GEO components) and the scientific fields relevant to the nine GEOSS SBAs.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU-funded project has begun to link a multitude of research and outreach programmes to a global Earth observation (EO) network. This network will centralise data on climate, ecosystems, disasters, health and energy for researchers and decision makers alike.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Across the world, policymakers and emergency services need access to reliable and user friendly information about weather and climate, health, ecosystems and biodiversity, water and agriculture, disasters and energy. As such, a global 'system of systems' is being developed to make EO data from instruments all over the planet available through a single access point.

The EU-funded project 'Coordinating Earth and environmental cross-disciplinary projects to promote GEOSS' (EGIDA) has already made progress in bringing together European science and technology (S&T) communities for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). EGIDA started a successful Stakeholder Network which will continue beyond the EGIDA project as the GEOSS Stakeholder Network.

The consortium has organised a number of workshops on implementing GEOSS, and it has set up collaborations with other relevant Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)-funded projects. These collaborations will assist with delivery of the EGIDA methodology, which will improve on research infrastructure and the mobilisation of resources.

In addition, EGIDA has started outreach programmes through newsletters, a LinkedIn group and journal articles. They have also presented the project at relevant conferences and other workshops.

Ultimately, EGIDA will become embedded in a large network of EO researchers, institutions and programmes across many scientific disciplines.