Need for GMES Snow Cover Monitoring
Innsbruck, 04.12.2008
A wide European network of operational meteorological and hydrological entities have expressed their needs for the establishment of a pan-European dynamic snow cover monitoring capability based on satellite observation data. Organizations such as Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG), and Hydrological Services Division of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) have formally stated their commitment to participate in the development and deployment of the “GMES Downstream Service SnowMOS”. A corresponding implementation proposal was submitted to the European Commission’ Space Programme on Dec 4, 2008. The SnowMoS initiative is coordinated by Prof. Helmut Rott, and his Innsbruck based ENVEO expert team.
The interoperability and network services integration has been put under the responsibility of EOX. An INSPIRE and GEOSS compliant implementation is foreseen. Through a service oriented architecture internal workflows will be managed and input data services will be interfaced (GMES Land Monitoring Core Services, satellite data services, etc. ). Open standards based connections will be provided with end-user decision support environments.
EC co-funding decisions are expected by mid 2009. Stepwise roll-outs of service functions are planned between 2010 to 2014 and will include exploitation of data expected from GMES Sentinel satellites.
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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.
Navimage Tele-cartography for Mass-market Use
Noordwijk, 30.10.2008
EOX delivered the Navimage project's Final Presentation to ESA/ESTEC, Dr. Marco Guglielmi, Head of Technology Strategy in the Systems, Software and Technology Department. The ESA contract originally awarded by ESA's Innovation Triangle Initiative to ARC, and IPRs now taken over by EOX, developed an industrial prototpye of a tele-cartography system. The project explored new markets for satellite image products by offering hybrid maps in car navigation system displays. Partners of EOX are Spot Image and Siemens.
Read more: Navimage - Satellite Earth Observation Imagery for Car Navigation Mass-Market Products
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