Abstract
In the last decade a significant number of projects and programmes in different domains of Earth Observation and environmental monitoring have generated a substantial amount of data and knowledge on different aspects related to environmental quality and sustainability. Big data generated by in-situ or satellite platforms are being collected and archived with a plethora of systems and instruments making difficult the sharing of data and transfer of knowledge to stakeholders and policy makers to support key economic and societal sectors. The overarching goal of ERAPLANET is to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation in coherence with the European participation in the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and Copernicus. The expected impact is to strengthen European leadership within the forthcoming GEO 2015-2025 Work Plan. ERA-PLANET is designed to reinforce the interface with user communities, whose needs the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) intends to address. It will provide more accurate, comprehensive and authoritative information to policy and decision-makers in key societal benefit areas, such as 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 available in the different domains of Earth Observation.
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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