The video is online which, through images, explains EPOS (European Plate Observing System), the pan-European infrastructure designed to promote research in solid Earth sciences.
EPOS creates new opportunities to monitor and understand the chemical-physical processes that generate earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tidal waves and, more generally, the dynamics of the Earth. Indeed, the objective is to favor the integration of national and European infrastructures by improving, through a technological platform, the access and use of the multidisciplinary data recorded by the monitoring networks, acquired in laboratory experiments and produced by numerical simulations.
EPOS represents the first example of a federated approach to solid earth science research infrastructures in the world.
the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) coordinated the preparation phase and currently coordinates the implementation phase of the European project which has the task of building EPOS.
Here are the EPOS numbers:
25 European nations adhering to the initiative;
256 research infrastructures involved in the integration plan;
5 participating international organizations;
4939 integrated seismic stations;
2272 built-in GPS receivers;
118 laboratories with 828 instruments involved;
a few petaBytes of available scientific data;
several thousand potential users of the platform.