European Environment Agency Welcomes SOSI Initiative
Copenhagen, 19.11.2008
On this day, Chris Steenmans, Head of EEA's Data Access and Management Group, welcomed eight SOSI project representatives from ESA and industry at EEA's headquarters. The goals of the demonstration initiative Spatial Observation Services and Infrastructure (see accompanying EOX news article of 15.10.2008) were jointly reviewed at a workshop of EEA experts and the SOSI team and compared with EEA's approach for SEIS, the Shared Environmental Information System including a Land Cover Data System. Stephan Meißl and Gerhard Triebnig, both EOX, presented the architecture, standards and SOA platform being implemented in SOSI which are based on the Service Support Environment (SSE) developed by ESA. EEA will actively participate in the shaping of SOSI, its demonstration and concept verification. Accordingly, a joint capacity building training program for the involved engineers will take place in January 2009 in Bucharest.
