[SDI-Europe] ESA leads endeavour to save Earth Science data

[Kate Lance]

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMDFQK26DF_economy_0.html
ESA leads endeavour to save Earth Science data
GENESI-DR (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories), an ESA-led, European Commission (EC)-funded two-year project, is taking the lead in providing reliable, easy, long-term access to Earth Science data via the Internet. 
GENESI-DR will allow scientists from different Earth Science disciplines located across Europe to locate, access, combine and integrate historical and fresh Earth-related data from space, airbourne and in-situ sensors archived in large distributed repositories. 
In order to reach its objectives, the GENESI-DR e-Infrastructure will be validated against user needs for accessing and sharing Earth Science data. Initially, four specific applications in the land, atmosphere and marine domains have been selected, including: 
- Near real time orthorectification for agricultural crops monitoring 
- Urban area mapping in support of emergency response 
- Data assimilation in GlobModel, addressing major environmental and health issues in Europe, with a particular focus on air quality 
- SeaDataNet to aid environmental assessments and to forecast the physical state of the oceans in near real time. 
Other applications will complement this during the second half of the project. 


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