1. Linking European SOA research with GEO ADC activities ICT for Sustainable Growth DG Information Society & Media European Commission, Brussels, BE Michel.Schouppe@ec.europa.eu http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sustainable_growth/index_en.htm GEO ADC full committee meeting #3, WMO, Geneva (CH), 28/02-01/03/07

2. Outline 1.Who we are? 2.Our approach to research & development 3.Portfolio of ongoing projects 4.Links to GEO ADC

3. EU research in ICT for the environment since the 90ies under FP5, FP6, FP7 Objectives: “… to foster the emergence of a European info-structure and service platforms which will facilitate the use of interoperable components and sub-systems …” “… provision of ICT-based in situ monitoring infrastructure and services … self-organising, self-healing, ad hoc networking of sensors …” Focus “… ICT aspects that are relevant to the monitoring, the preparation and the response phases of environmental risk/crisis management co-ordinated at European level…”

4. Outline 1.Who we are? 2.Our approach to research & development 3.Portfolio of ongoing projects 4.Links to GEO ADC

5. Information resources are heterogeneous Incompatible information systems, no common open architecture Existing information is hard to access; Cross-system search remains problematic Existing information is hard to integrate; Cross-use of information is not happening at the right level Multi-linguality and multi-terminology Current situation in Europe Technical issues

6. ICT for Environmental Management Vision 1 Service #1 Service #2 Service #3 Service #4 Service #n o.s. backup Environmental management infostructure core services are about easily connecting to net-centric services Environmental management infostructure core services are about easily connecting to net-centric services All over Europe … and beyond Towards an integrated and dynamic information space for the environment in Europe

7. Sensor Web Concept (OpenGIS® White Paper) ICT for Environmental Management Vision 2 Towards a dynamic management of heterogeneous sensor networks for full situation awareness

8. ICT approach Validation into large scale pilot tests with end users Focus on generic solutions to pan-European environmental issues Multi-organisational, cross-boundary Based on a net of interoperable nodes able to interact Focus on existing systems, making them interoperable and filling the gaps Ensuring modularity (expandable, adaptable infrastructures) With security measures to increase trust and avoid misuse Through the exploitation of current/emerging ICT and geospatial standards (W3C, OGC, ISO,...) promotion of open-source, re-usable software components Full consideration of the ontology, semantic and multilingual issues

9. Outline 1.Who we are? 2.Our approach to research & development 3.Portfolio of ongoing projects 4.Links to GEO ADC

10. Examples of ongoing projects Sensor networks General architecture SensorWeb (SANY) Advance self organising networks (WINSOC) Integration in-situ, UAV, HAP, mobile sensors (OSIRIS) Application specific Forest fire (DYVINE) Water pollution (WARMER) Public Safety Communication Integration of early warning and all media alert systems (CHORIST) Location based services GSM, UMTS for search and rescue, TETRA TETRAPOL for rescue team safety (STARRS) Ultrawide band com for indoor positioning (EUPOPCOM) Rapidly deployable communication systems for crisis mgt. Satcom + WiMax, Tetra, UMTS (WISECOM, CHORIST) Making best use of existing infrastructure IPv6 federating network, QoS (U2010) Public Safety Communication Forum (NARTUS) System of systems, services Reference model architecture, ontologies, semantic web approach (ORCHESTRA) Cooperation services, EO support multi-linguality, workflow (WIN) Command C & C (OASIS) Rapid Mapping (INTAMAP)

11. Outline 1.Who we are? 2.ICT approach to research & development 3.Portfolio of ongoing projects 4.Links to GEO ADC

12. Through our projects: AR-07-01 Strategic and tactical guidance documents on how to converge disparate systems to a higher degree of collaboration and interoperability AR-07-01 Architectural oversight, long term evolution Clustering workshop in Frascati (IT), 7 April « Service Oriented Architectures in support of a shared Environmental information space » IEEE GEOSS Workshop, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), 15 April DA-06-04 Development, availability and harmonisation of data, metadata and products commonly required across diverse SBAs DA-07-04 Development of scenarios or use cases that demonstrate the value of Sensor Webs to the GEOSS SBAs (DA-07-04) Possible links to GEO ADC activities (under investigation)

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