Objectives: To obtain reliable and effective information on Earthquake precursors, PRE-EARTHQUAKES intends to commit EU, Russian and Turkish researchers to integrate different observational data (including ESA and ROSKOSMOS satellite data) and to improve, by crossvalidating, their methodologies, in order:

• to substantially improve our knowledge of preparatory phases of earthquakes and their possible precursors;
• to promote a worldwide Earthquake Observation System (EQuOS) as a dedicated component of GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems);
• to develop and offer to the international scientific community an integration platform where independent observations and new data analysis methodologies devoted to the research on/of earthquake precursors can be collected and cross-validated;

Scope:

Highly seismic and well monitored regions (Sakhalin region in Far Eastern Russia, Italy and Turkey in Europe) have been selected as suitable areas where the integration of different observations and methodologies is expected to offer the best results. The project will be realized following 3 mainstreams devoted:

• to coordinate and realize a systematic data acquisition and product generation in predefined (standardized) output formats
• to define and implement a common integration platform where heterogeneous data inputs can be ingested, organized and compared.
• to validate and disseminate data analysis and integration methods/tools making them available and open to the contribution of the worldwide scientific community in order to further extend the number of contemporary monitored parameters and to improve quality of data analysis methods.
  
  

Participating Organizations: Universita degli Studi della Basilicata (UNIBAS)(Project Coordinator) – Italy, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft - und Raumfahrt (DLR)– Germany, Fiodorov Institute of Applied Geophysics (FIAD), Russian Space Systems (RSS), Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio wave propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences Western Department (WD IZMIRAN) - Russian Federation, TUBITAK MRC Earth and Marine Sciences Institute –Turkey.

Duration: 01.01.2011 – 31.12.2012