Splinter Session 2C - Report

Professor Stuart Marsh

UK Co-Chair, GEO Science & Technology Committee

UK GEO Project

Head of Geoscience TechnologyBritish Geological Survey

Contributions

• EuroGEOSS addresses multidisciplinary interoperability– EC has key role in GEO and needs to lead by exampleProcess 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 blightThese complexities can be overcome e.g. Radon in UKReleasing raw data can encourage economic activity

• SAFER is the GMES emergency response service– 3 data levels; raw, altered products and final productsProposal: open access to products to wider communityProposal: GEO should consider strengthening links to

open community e.g. OpenStreetMap, crowd sourcing

Contributions

• SIRIUS: user-driven services for river-basin governance– Developed free, on-line, updated tool called SPIDERProposal: SPIDER could serve pilot areas worldwideProposal: tool could support training on EO & IWMProposal: 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. modelsProposal: products will be open to scientific community

and have or will be registered in GEOSSProposal: test interoperability, with help of EuroGEOSS

Is our reluctance (perfectionism, litigation fear, business interest, “lead” in a topic, etc.) biggest barrier to release?