Abstract
ERA-PLANET is a wide European network comprised of 118 researchers from 35 partner institutions located in 18 countries, aiming to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation (EO) in coherence with the European participation to the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the program for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation, COPERNICUS. It will provide more accurate, comprehensive, and authoritative information to policy and decision-makers in key societal benefit areas (SBAs), under the umbrellas of dedicated projects in the topics of: smart cities and resilient societies; resource efficiency and environmental management; global changes and environmental treaties; polar areas and natural resources. ERA-PLANET will provide advanced decision support tools and technologies aimed to better monitor our global environment and share the information and knowledge in different domains of EO by launching joint transnational calls along the above four strands. The concept of the project that tackles with strand 1, as well as an example of a specific application fitting in, are described, aspiring to promote and coordinate the “smart-city” approach into a European network of cities and non-European follower cities, serving the need for a common approach to enhance environmental and societal resilience to air pollution, urban growth, and urban heat islands, as well as other natural/manmade stresses and relevant impacts. This is achieved through the synergy among technology, government, and society, while at the same time creating bridges between local/national initiatives with GEO/GEOSS, COPERNICUS, and other smart cities and GEO relevant projects. The project addresses initiatives in European cities but also specific issues dealing with air quality management in other parts of the world. Finally, it places major emphasis on fully exploiting key-enabling technologies and firmly addressing interoperability issues, in the context of big “smart city” data, and open science.
Highlights
Sound and adaptive management of the Earth’s natural resources and environmental quality requires reliable, relevant, and readily accessible scientific data
The overarching goal of ERA-PLANET is the development of a Transnational Environmental Observation System in Support of European & International Policies through the integration of real-time monitoring data from various platforms, modelling tools, and advanced global cyber-infrastructure for data sharing and interoperability
The results of past and ongoing projects as well as other projects related to Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and COPERNICUS developed within the framework of a number of Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Tasks, will provide a solid basis of knowledge in terms of state-of-the-art atmospheric models, monitoring methodologies, QA/QC systems, interoperable management tools, and environmental policy analysis instruments and exploitation of COPERNICUS services
Summary
Sound and adaptive management of the Earth’s natural resources and environmental quality requires reliable, relevant, and readily accessible scientific data. The development of more powerful tools for data gathering and data sharing has increased the potential to foster the implementation of interoperable cyber infrastructures in environmental and EO sciences This considerable amount of data has been rapidly made available to the scientific community, which has developed more analysis, methodologies, scientific assessments and has promoted technological progress. COPERNICUS provides an accurate, timely, and accessible information to improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security It continues the work of the previous European Envisat program which operated from 2002 to 2012. The overarching goal of ERA-PLANET is the development of a Transnational Environmental Observation System in Support of European & International Policies through the integration of real-time monitoring data from various platforms, modelling tools, and advanced global cyber-infrastructure for data sharing and interoperability. The European Union (EU) through pursuing interoperability in the exchange of data, metadata, products and services in a full, open, and unrestricted manner would generate business opportunities for the private sector within the EU (SMEs, industries) leading to significant benefits to European society as a whole
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