Environment Geo-Distributed Service Oriented Architecture for Marine Environmental Risks & Decision Support Systems The University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre has developed generic sensor data fusion and modelling services in the EC IST project Sensors Anywhere (SANY). These services have been used to predict spatial patterns of wind fields near the Gulf of Gdansk, Poland. The services fetch meteorological data remotely using the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Sensor Observation Service specification. The services are interoperable within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A set of geo-distributed services, developed in collaboration with several European partners, are invoked by multiple users to simulate coastal zone environmental risks, using a Service System Environment portal based in Brussels. Research impacts include: Re-usability of fusion services in other environmental applications (e.g. urban ground displacement risks in industrial tunnelling, air quality risks in urban zones, etc.) Interoperability of fusion services with existing meteorological databases and information systems Cost-effective spatial management of sensor networks for marine environment monitoring and minimisation of spatial prediction errors Research Partnership Service Oriented Architecture Environmental sensor data fusion and modelling The environmental sensor data are automatically processed, modelled when necessary, and combined with phenomenological models. This provides a robust approach to forecasting environmental parameters for critical decision support. The challenges which have been addressed include: Predicting parameter values in areas where there are no sensors Predicting parameter values when sensors breakdown Control of the propagation of spatial errors Managing spatial deployment of sensors For further information, please contact: Dr Z. A. Sabeur, IT Innovation Centre Email: zas@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk Tel: +44 23 8076 0834 www.southampton.ac.uk