1. Splinter Session 2C - Report Professor Stuart Marsh UK Co-Chair, GEO Science & Technology Committee UK GEO Project Head of Geoscience Technology British Geological Survey

2. Contributions EuroGEOSS addresses multidisciplinary interoperability –EC has key role in GEO and needs to lead by example  Process not complex; tools available; we must commit! Terrafirma is the GMES ground motion monitoring service –Complexities of data supply side may limit data sharing –Examples include commercial interests, property blight  These complexities can be overcome e.g. Radon in UK  Releasing raw data can encourage economic activity SAFER is the GMES emergency response service –3 data levels; raw, altered products and final products  Proposal: open access to products to wider community  Proposal: GEO should consider strengthening links to open community e.g. OpenStreetMap, crowd sourcing

3. Contributions SIRIUS: user-driven services for river-basin governance –Developed free, on-line, updated tool called SPIDER  Proposal: SPIDER could serve pilot areas worldwide  Proposal: tool could support training on EO & IWM  Proposal: could be made available (creative commons) CEOP-AEGIS: integrating hydro-meteorological data on large, transnational river basins e.g. For Tibetan plateau –Terrestrial water cycle data, integrated by catchment –Portal, EO, in-situ networks, hydro. and atmos. models  Proposal: products will be open to scientific community and have or will be registered in GEOSS  Proposal: test interoperability, with help of EuroGEOSS  Is our reluctance (perfectionism, litigation fear, business interest, “lead” in a topic, etc.) biggest barrier to release?