Rome 24 - 25 November 2010
EPOS - FP7 Preparatory Phase Project | European Plate Observing System
EPOS does it have the objective of integrating existing monitoring and research (IR) infrastructures in order to increase their interoperability? and create a pan-European platform capable of providing an efficient service to users by guaranteeing access to data, codes for their analysis and the results of numerical modeling (virtual data). In particular you want? realize:
1) a distributed monitoring system composed of existing national seismic and geodetic networks;
2) a network of multidisciplinary observatories dedicated to the collection of "in-situ" data (volcanoes, "test-sites" of active faults);
3) a network of experimental laboratories for the study of the properties? physics and chemistry of rocks and for the development of analog modeling of geodynamic processes;
4) a distributed e-IR for archiving, processing and distributing data coming from the system of multidisciplinary observation networks to be integrated;
5) optimization of IT resources for supercomputing, data exchange and distribution.
Europe needs a long-term integration plan of existing RIs to promote innovative research aimed at better understanding the physical processes underlying earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, transient and permanent deformation phenomena, as well as as all those factors i that control the dynamics of the Earth (from the mantle to its surface). EPOS ? this integration plan, aimed at allowing Europe to maintain competitiveness? in the international framework and to better implement scientific strategies in the field of solid earth sciences. In particular, EPOS represents the integrated IR system of solid Earth sciences which aims to complement that of other similar initiatives in the sciences that study our planet (space and marine sciences). EPOS ? an open infrastructure that Earth scientists will benefit significantly from; the availability? of the services offered by EPOS potr? lead to significant advances in understanding the physical processes that control the dynamics of our planet. EPOS implementation plan ? ambitious and expensive, but at the same time ? even current and possible. The community of geosciences in Europe and, in general, the society? to which it replies, require such a long-term plan. There are many features that ensure the success of EPOS:
i) The distribution and extension of the 'partnership'.
ii) Multidisciplinary integration and the services offered.
iii) The long-term scientific perspective.
iv) The optimization of national funding
v) The operation? of existing networks, many of which already have? national funding at least in the short term.
vi) The innovative architecture of the e-infrastructure
vii) The impact of his contributions to society.
EPOS' long-term integration plan for solid earth science research infrastructures in Europe presents a double challenge: the reduction of the geographical fragmentation of multidisciplinary monitoring networks and the development of an adequate IT infrastructure for e-science .
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