Geo-Seas: Pan-European infrastructure for management of marine geoscientific data
Begin of project: May 1, 2009
End of project: January 31, 2016
Status of project: January 31, 2016
Geo-Seas
Source: Geo-Seas
Marine environmental data are used for scientific and applied research, economic activities and sustainable environmental management, at regional, European and global scales. Geological and geophysical data for the seabed and sub-seabed are an important category of such data, and providing user communities with access to marine geological and geophysical data, data products and services is essential. This requires a European-wide data infrastructure, standardised practices by data centres, and middleware so that users can search for and access data and products online.
For Europe a major share of geological and geophysical observations for the oceans and seas is collected and analysed by national geological surveys and research institutions.
The project Geo-Seas is conducted by 28 organisations from 17 European coastal countries.
The priority for Geo-Seas is to upgrade the present infrastructure by establishing interoperability and common standards between the national data centres to provide harmonised access to metadata and data via a common data portal and to expand the services of the Geo-Seas infrastructure by developing and implementing a number of standard data products and viewing services to research communities and other users.
BGR contributed 3570 marine geoscientific data sets (i.e. gravity, magnetic and multi-channel seismic data) to the Geo-Seas portal. These data sets are accessible via the Data Discovery and Access service.
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Funded by the EU within the Research Infrastructure Programme of the EU FP7. Contract number: RI-238952 Project Co-Ordinator: Colin Graham, British Geological Survey, UK