Objectives: To integrate the existing research infrastructures in order to increase the accessibility and usability of multidisciplinary data from monitoring networks, laboratory experiments and computational simulations enhancing worldwide interoperability in Earth Sciences by establishing a leading integrated European infrastructure and services. EPOS aims to integrate the following existing core elements within a cyber-infrastructure to accomplish:
- A comprehensive geographical distributed observational infrastructure consisting of existing seismic and geodetic (presently GPS, Galileo) permanent national monitoring networks on a European scale.
- Dedicated observatories for multidisciplinary local data acquisition (volcanoes, in-situ fault-zone monitoring experiments, geothermal and deep drilling experiments, including the application of geophysics to Earth's surface dynamics and environmental changes).
- A network of experimental laboratories creating a single distributed research infrastructure for rock and mineral properties and analogue tectonic modeling.
- Facilities for data repositories as well as for integration, analysis, visualization, archiving and mining of various solid Earth datasets, including geophysical, geological, and geochemical observations.
- Facilities for distributed storage and computing resources for high performance computing and collaborative large-scale modeling.
Scope:
TUBITAK MRC Earth and Marine Sciences Institute will gather information on existing national seismology infrastructures in Turkey; it will determine the related technical, organizational and legal issues for their integration with Europe and it will provide the required coordination.
Expected Results: Seismological and geodetic observation data collected in our country will be integrated with the European plate tectonics studies and everyone interested will have the possibility to access it.
Funding Agency: European Commission 7th Framework Programme
Participating Organizations:
INGV-Italy (Project Coordinator), CNRS-France, GFZ- Germany, VUA, ORFEUS ve KNMI – Netherlands, INCDFP – Romania, IMO- Iceland, ETHZ-Switzerland, NERC- United Kingdom, UIB-Norway, GSI- Irland, IST-Portugal, CSIC-Spain, NOA-Greece, UU-Sweden, IGF PAS- Poland, UCPH- Denmark, IG ASCR- Czech Republic, TUBITAK MRC Earth and Marine Sciences Institute – Turkey.
Duration: 08.11.2010 – 31.12.2014
Son güncelleme tarihi: 04.10.2011