SANY Partners

AIT (formerly Austrian Research Centres GmBH -ARC) is the largest Austrian non-university research organization, with approximately 1000 employees, and a budget of over 100M€. ARC has extensive experience in international R&D projects, including management of integrated projects under FP6.

"Environmental informatics" group from ARC has 20 years of experience with designing, building and operating environmental measurement networks- including both the technical knowledge needed to build and maintain the complete sensor network with accompanying software, and the good understanding of the end user needs.

Role in SANY IP:
AIT is the coordinator of SANY IP, and responsible for overal project communication and organisation. In addition to coordinating the SANY project, AIT plays major roles in the sensor networks (SP2), air pollution (SP4), and community building and dissemination (SP7) sub projects.

More information:

• Austrian Institute of Technology home page
  
• Safety and Security division home page
  

• Environmental monitoring Product line
  
• Research themes
  
• Recent publications

Other IPs with AIT participation:

• ORCHESTRA: Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management
  
• DECOS: Dependable Embedded Components and Systems
  
• SECOQC Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication based on Quantum Cryptography

Contact: Denis Havlik denis.havlik@ait.ac.at

SPACEBEL was established in 1988 in order to promote and develop, within the space industry, the ICT skills available in Belgium, and to reinforce the presence of the Walloon industry in space. Since its creation SPB has gradually expanded with, nowadays, offices in Belgium (Liege and Hoeilaart), France (Toulouse) and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City). Initially focused onto the space activities, SPB has contributed to the success of numerous programs of the European Space Agency.
In 1998, SPB extended the scope of its space activities to include Geo-Management and Earth-Observation services when DA VINCI was merged with SPB. Today, SPB markets decision support systems for territory and environment management using Earth Observation data.

Role in SANY IP:
SP3 architects and integrator. Leader of SP3.

More information:

• Spacebel

Other projects / IPs with Spacebel's participation:

• MASS/SSE - ESRIN has put in operation the Service Support Environment (SSE, see http://services.eoportal.org) in 2004. The SSE is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitating access to and deployment of services and combining services using workflow technology. Being open, interoperable system based on widely accepted standards from W3C, OASIS, WSI and OGC, SSE is of direct interest for the current project.
• EOLES - (Earth Observation Linking SMEs to face real time natural disaster management) is a CRAFT project funded by the EC in the IST framework programme (See http://www.spacebel.be/eoles.html), In this project, additional services are being developed that will eventually be plugged in a thematic MASS Portal.
• MEKOWALM – The project aims at promoting the investigation and design of a flooding management system combining an Earth Observation-based layer and a GIS database of the water level for the annual flooding area in Mekong delta, with as finalization developing operational services to the user community.
• DMV – The goal of the study consisted in establishing the potential use of satellite remote sensing notably with radar imagery and it interferometer derived products in order to identify earthen dyke vulnerability in North Vietnam.
• DECIDE - Belgium Flood project (Earth Observation Technologies for DECIsion Support DEmonstrations - The Flood Case) funded by the European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN) aims at promoting the integration of an Earth Observation-based layer as support to an existing and operational user DSS applied to the flood disaster management.

Contact: Yves COENE name@domain

„Environmental Informatics Group EIG” is a research institute at “Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes HTW (Saarbrücken University of Applied Science). EIG has currently about 12 employees. With one of the longest histories in the development of Environmental Information Systems in Germany and over the world EIG has extensive experience from over 70 R&D projects including projects for international bodies like the EU and the United Nations. It has also organised many conferences and workshops on Environmental Informatics, including IFIP 's (International Federation for Information Processing, see ifip.org) prestigious conference series ISESS (International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, see isess.org).
EIG is specialised in the development of distributed data networks and distributed meta-information networks, software architectures for distributed applications integration (including cross-border and multi-lingual applications), meta information concepts and models, information modelling for innovative environmental information systems and information management systems in general.


Role in SANY IP:

EIG plays a major role in SP2 Sensor Networks with contributions across the whole SP. The main focus is scientific research, building the generic architecture and developing service specifications. Furthermore several services will be implemented by EIG.
Additionally EIG will take the lead of WP2.4 Sensor service specification and 2.7 Architecture review. EIG also contributes to the overall management of the project, with a member in the management board.

More information:

• Environmental Informatics Group

Other European projects with EIG participation:

• TEMSIS:
  Transnational environmental information system for the area Saar-Loraine
• GIMMI: Geographical
  Information and Mathematical Model Interoperability
• I-MARQ: Information System
  for Marine Aquatic Resource Quality
• ORCHESTRA: Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management
• more projects at EIG homepage

Contact:

• Ralf Denzer Ralf.Denzer@enviromatics.org
• Reiner Güttler Reiner.Guettler@htw-saarland.de

The Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) Limited (OGCE) was formed in 2001, organized and operated as a non-stock, not for profit company limited by guarantee under The Companies Act 1985 of England and Wales and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGCE’s purpose is to conduct business in Europe on behalf of OGC’s mission, goals and objectives, with a focus on take up and adoption services and market education and covers:

• Promoting the development and use of advanced open systems standards and techniques to enable the full integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing and widespread use of interoperable, commercial geoprocessing software throughout the global information infrastructure
• Representing the European-based membership of OGC in membership organizations/associations in Europe with similar vision and mission to that of the OGCE, including agencies, collaborators and affiliates of the European Commission.

Role in SANY IP:

Standardization and SP2 architecture. Leader of SP7.

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OGCE meets Europe’s interoperability challenges by addressing the following general business objectives:

• Drive take up & adoption of interoperable geoprocessing in Europe based on user driven requirements that can be addressed with OGC’s adopted principles and practices for architecture, OpenGIS specifications, and standards-based, commercial-off-the-shelf (SCOTS) software engineering development processes;
• Assist European organisations in supporting, monitoring and managing programs where interoperability is a focus or an inherent requirement; and
• Facilitate enhancement of OpenGIS specifications via the identification of requirements, initiative sponsors and participants from Europe for OGC activities including global test beds and pilots and specification working groups.

Other IPs with OGC's participation:

OGCE has so far participated in the EC FP5 Projects ETEMII, GETIS and GINIE, the EC FP6 Integrated Project ORCHESTRA and has carried out a number of projects for the European Union Satellite Centre, the Joint Research Centre, the European Space Agency and the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.

• ETEMII
• GETIS
• ORCHESTRA

Contact: Dipl. Geograph Martin Klopfer name@domain

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is a leading organisation for institutes of applied research in Germany, undertaking contract research on behalf of industry, the service sector and the government. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is actively involved in industrial consortia seeking technical solutions to improve the competitiveness of European industry. At present, the organisation maintains about 80 research institutes with some 12,500 employees at locations throughout Germany.

Role in SANY IP:

SP2 architects. Leader of SP2.

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The Fraunhofer-Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung IITB has 160 permanent employees, of which 110 are scientists or engineers, and has annual operational costs of about 15 million € (2004). IITB develops innovative concepts and application solutions in information technology. It provides sustainable solutions of advanced control, monitoring and diagnosis systems mainly for industrial partners including SMEs. IITB has many years of experience in the design, implementation, integration and optimisation of complex fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control systems for distributed applications using modern model and knowledge based methods. Advanced information fusion techniques are used in surveillance applications as well as monitoring and control systems.

Other IPs with IITB's participation:

The most relevant projects carried out by IITB in the field include:

• ORCHESTRA (FP6 511678) – Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management
• CHIL (FP6 506909) – Computers in the Human Interaction Loop; specification and development of an agent based software architecture
• ESPRIT 955/2617/5104 CNMA - Communication Network for Manufacturing Application; specification and implementation of an ISO/OSI communication

Contact:
Dipl.-Inform. Thomas Usländer name@domain
Dr. Kym Watson name@domain

Marinetech South is a not-for-profit company operating as a joint-venture of seven major maritime research and engineering centres. Its shareholders include: Universities of Portsmouth, Southampton, Plymouth and Solent University College; QinetiQ, National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (no shareholding exceeds 25%).
The company was established by its current CEO in 1994. It works to promote world-class maritime research and innovation through effective collaboration between industry and the science and engineering base.

Role in SANY IP:

Marine risks. Leader of SP5.

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In order to achieve this goal, Marinetech South pursues the following key objectives:

• To launch and manage high-quality, collaborative research programmes focused on identified market priorities
• To promote the exploitation of science and technology through the active participation of innovative firms
• To expand the availability of skills in leading edge technologies, to enable their effective application by companies in new products and services.

The company does not perform research itself, but manages collaborations involving a wide range of European research organisations. This provides independence of any specific research agenda, and allows it to pursue objectively the development of leading edge user applications.
The company has focused its activities mainly towards marine environmental technology developments, ranging from sensor developments (RIMAR project funded by UK DTI and NERC) through to model/knowledge development (MIME project funded by a consortium of oil companies and UK DTI and NERC) and development of decision support tools/guidelines (SWIM project, funded by UK EPSRC).
Due to its credibility as a manager of innovative projects, Marinetech has particularly strong experience in developing use-case scenarios for novel technologies and business models. These reflect the key market drivers of economics, market evolution and regulatory pressure. As a result, the company can effectively manage user consortia and ensure that research achievements reflect the needs of users and the realities of market commercialisation.
Integration and clustering of leading centres of expertise has been a major role of the company over the past ten years. It has achieved this though a combination of: network creation & management; cluster facilitation; development of research collaborations involving industrial and science-base partners; organisation of workshops and other events for brainstorming novel product and capability topics. The company has widely recognised expertise in defining truly innovation developments which draw on collective leading edge capabilities across a research community.

• MarineTech South Ltd.

Other IPs with Marinetech's participation:

Marinetech South has been a major partner or coordinator in the following projects relevant to SANY (excluding minor projects and roles):

• MIME – project director and manager, developing a decision support system for offshore oil & gas discharges, now marketed by BMT as the Proteus system
• TRENDS – work package leader (environment) in this FP5 thematic network addressing future priorities for QHSE advances. Defined industry-validated needs for advances which will be addressed by SANY
• iMARQ – technical coordinator of this FP5 IST project developing fusion and modelling tools for marine environmental decision support. These advances are being taken forward into a generic framework by SANY
• ICReW – managing a pilot action in this Interreg IIIC project, This is prototyping a simple decision support system targeting compliance with the revised Bathing Water Directive
• WINGS for SHIPS – leading the specification and evaluation work in this FP5 IST project, targeting a decision support system for ships’ masters facing adverse weather conditions.

Contact:
Dr Jonathan WILLIAMS name@domain
Dr John DERING name@domain

The IT Innovation Centre is an autonomous science-park-based applied research centre. Part of the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science, we specialise in collaborative R&D projects to enable take-up of novel IT, particularly by industry and commerce. We research, develop, architect, engineer and integrate innovative IT systems. We provide consultancy services and deliver strategies, road maps, proofs-of-concept, demonstrators and novel operational systems.

Role in SANY IP:
Data fusion engines and services implementation.

More information:

• IT-innovation

IT Innovation has participated in more than fifty ESPRIT and IST projects over the past decade, providing project management services in 15 of them. IT Innovation employs some 25 people, all experts in their fields and most qualified to PhD level, with a wide range of experience in industry, commerce and academia. We deliver high quality and robust solutions, and we adopt standard software engineering methodologies and appropriate quality control processes, e.g. we are familiar with the Rational Unified Process and quality standards such as ISO9000. Our facilities are dedicated solely to our own projects, including our computer systems, which are based on a secure LAN.
We have detailed knowledge of the automatic generation of metadata and its use in search and retrieval from our work in the IST projects ARTISTE and SCULPTEUR. In SCULPTEUR we extended the metadata and content-based search and retrieval system from ARTISTE using a Semantic Grid approach. We are exploiting this work in the eCHASE project (electronic Cultural Heritage made Accessible for Sustainable Exploitation), where are developing new business models for commercialising archive assets, and developing search and retrieval portals that add value through contextualisation, aggregation and localisation.
IT Innovation has been working on distributed computing technologies (especially Web and Grid technologies) and their application and use since the mid-1990’s, and plays a major role at UK, European and world levels in projects focussing on the effective use of Grid technologies and services, specialising in business processes, workflow, semantics and security. At the heart of many of our current projects is GRIA: a Grid middleware developed by IT Innovation to enable the use of shared assets that are under different ownership or control in a secure, interoperable and flexible manner. GRIA open source software, and available from http://www.gria.org/. In the UK e-Science myGrid project we developed the Freefluo workflow enactor (http://freefluo.sourceforge.net/) which enables the use of workflows as a flexible and easily reconfigurable approach to using and combining information sources. In the IST ARTEMIS project, we lead the development of a secure Semantic Web Service-based P2P infrastructure for healthcare information systems that supports new ways of delivering electronic healthcare records to clinical staff across the boundaries of organisations. This work is directly applicable to many other information systems.
IT Innovation is familiar with the use of Open Source Software (OSS), and has a good understanding of development processes and IP management issues when using and extending multiple open source components with different licenses. We have contributed to UK Government Policy on OSS, and have developed an IPR management strategy for using third-party software (including OSS) within larger software systems.

Other IPs with participation of the University of Southampton:

• i-MARQ: implementation and optimisation of the Fusion and Modelling Engine
• ESPRIT CRITIKAL multi-tier client-server data mining
• HELPMATE fault-diagnosis system using case-based reasoning and hypermedia links
• DYNALOG decision support capabilities to address complex logistics problems

Contact:
Dr Colin Upstill name@domain
Dr Zoheir Sabeur name@domain

BMT Cordah Limited (BMT) is an international multi-disciplinary environmental science and information systems company. BMT Cordah represents a modern approach to the traditional environmental consultancy business, capable of delivering significant, integrated environmental services and solutions internationally. BMT Cordah offers a comprehensive range of consultancy, software services and information systems across its international offices in Europe, South-East Asia and USA. These are underpinned by innovative research and development. BMT Cordah Limited provides a unique fusion of skills in the assessment, remediation, decision support systems development for risks events management and mitigation in the environment. The collective staff skills at BMT Cordah across the software development, research, consultancy and marketing departments internationally provide a complete and unique platform of technical and dissemination channels in large development programmes.
Role in SANY IP:

Fusion engine science.

More information:

• BMT Cordah

BMT Cordah Limited is highly experienced in the development of advanced information systems, specialising in environmental processes impact assessment and risk evaluations. This is achieved through using state of the art numerical modelling techniques such as spatio-temporal data fusion together with modular based system architecture development methods. BMT’s environmental systems are built through the provision of generic common services framework that hosts all existing (or newly built) domain applications.
Over the last twenty years, BMT Cordah limited has been providing information systems based technologies to the broad international environmental market sector. Many of BMT’s clients include governments, local authorities, national environmental agencies, the energy industry and defence. BMT has been involved as a pivotal technology integrator and conceptual leader in several EU-IST funded R&D programmes over the years. These include the innovative data fusion i-MARQ project, ICREW for the forecast of bathing water quality using causal environmental data, Cleopatra for tracking and modelling oil spills using sensors. BMT also provides a strong and experienced platform of exploitation and dissemination channels across the EU and the world.

Other Projects/IPs with BMT's participation:

• ORCHESTRA: (EU-FP6-511678) – Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management
• I-MARQ (EU-FP5 IST-2001-34039) – Information System for Marine Aquatic Resource Quality
• ICREW (InterregIIIb programme for the European Atlantic Coast) – Improving Coastal REcreational Waters: Development of the ICREW system for beach water quality forecast.
• TRENDS(EuroGif-NNE5-2001-00379) – Present and future challenges in environmental risks, health and safety aspects of the hydrocarbons energy production
• CLEOPATRA(EU-FP5-EVG1-CT-2002-00070) – Chemical Effluent and Oil Pollution and Tracking.
• SEAM (EU-FP5-GRD1-2000-25208-S12.316036 ) - Assessing concepts, systems and tools for a Safer, Efficient and Environmentally Aware and Friendly Maritime Transport
• BLUEWATER (EU-FP5 IST-1999-10388) - Computerised video camera image analysis for monitoring pollution in water.
• MERMAID (EU-FP5 IST-1999-10637) – Marine Environmental Response data Management and Acquisition using Internet Data brokerage.
• MIMIC (BMT, UK Government and O&G Industry) – Management of the Impact of Marine Industrial Chemicals.
• DEEP SPILL (BMT and O&G industry) – Development of Sub-Sea Oil Release Information System.

Contact:
Matthew Rymell name@domain
Dr Zoe Roberts name@domain

iséo is a French company member of Environnement SA group specialised in environmental monitoring.

The company helps in acting for the environment through:

• knowledge and analysis of pollution to anticipate risks, inform and promote public awareness
• control of waste emissions in accordance with standards
• assessments for taking decisions that enable the preservation of the natural environment while developing the economy

The company has developed monitoring tools that are deployed in Air / Water quality monitoring networks on the 5 continents; historically in Europe (Belgium, France, Poland, Spain...) now in Africa, Medium-East, West Indies, Pacific.

Role in SANY IP:

iséo is the coordinator of the Sub Project regarding air pollution (SP4).

More information:

• iséo: http://www.iseo.fr
  
• Environnement SA: http://www.environnement-sa.fr

iséo is specialised in the design and development of dedicated tools for environment monitoring. The iséo team is completely involved in R&D issues around environmental monitoring with their end users, legal authorities and states agency to design protocols and data exchange format to standardize hardware and software, data processing and reporting, broadcasting with last telecommunications technologies.

iséo team carried out database architecture optimized for air quality monitoring management and data processing, distributed data networks with meta information and multi-lingual environment. iséo promotes architecture independent of sensors, standardized interfaces, opened architecture to import and export easily data, including modelling results and displaying. Our experience is a combination of maintenance and management of metrology, operating system software skills, tools software designing, environmental assessments to carry out using solutions for systems managers, engineers and also citizens via Internet servers dedicated to exchange data and also technical information.

Contacts:
Christian MARCHIONINI, cma@iseo.fr
Alexandre DA COSTA, adc@iseo.fr

KTT-iMA Sarl is a French joint venture of KTT Umweltberatung und Software Dr. Kunz GmbH in Saarbrücken (KTT) and iMA Richter&Röckle (iMA) at Freiburg. KTT-iMA is specialized in air pollution measurement and modelling and odour measurement and dispersion modelling. A team of about 10 meteorologists and environmental engineers is working in the fields of air pollution measurements (emissions and immissions), air pollution modelling, odour measurements, odour dispersion modelling, consulting in the field of ISO 14001 impact studies and soil and water pollution, and realisation of computer programs in these domains.

Role in SANY IP:

Air pollution.

More information:

• KTT Umwelt
  
• KTT iMA

Other projects / IPs with company's participation:

• iMARQ Information System for Marine Aquatic Resource Quality
• Orchestra(SP3) as a subcontractor of EIG.

Contact:
Wolfgang Kunz, name@domain
C.-J. Richter, name@domain
J. Nielinger, name@domain

The Umweltbundesamt GmbH (UBA) is the expert authority for environmental protection and environmental control of the Austrian federal government, which has a 100% ownership of the UBA. The Environmental Control Act of 1998, which conferred the legal status of a limited liability company (GmbH) to the UBA, stipulates the tasks of the Umwelt¬bun¬desamt. Apart from work for the federal government, the Umweltbundesamt is also entitled to carry out tasks for third parties that are in the general interest (Environmental Control Act § 6 (1) d).

Role in SANY IP:

SP4 (Air Quality) end-user

More information:

• Umweltbundesamt

As the only expert institution in Austria that deals with all areas of environmental protection, UBA currently employs more than 300 experts in environmentally relevant departments. More than 30 IT-experts provide services to internal and external customers (analyses, design and implementation of environmental as well as geographical information systems; user support and IT operation).
UBA is also a partner of many international organisations such as the EU Commission, the European Environment Agency, UNEP, OECD and ECE.
Within the scope of environmental control, the UBA records, analyses and evaluates data on the state and development of the environment in all areas. Every three years the State-of-the-Environment (SoE) Report which covers all environmental media is produced. This Report describes the state and development of the environment in Austria and is submitted to the Austrian National Assembly.
The purpose of the work carried out by the UBA is primarily to support the environmental policy of the federal government, which is supplied by the UBA with a wide range of information on the sources of environmental pressures and on ways of preventing or reducing such pressures. The UBA also produces proposals for technical-ecological rules and guidelines.

Other projects / IPs with company's participation:

• ALTER-Net: (A Long-term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network ); FP6-505298 Network of Excellence
• Information System Integrated Monitoring – Ecosystem monitoring in Austria, part of a UN program (UN/ECE-IMP)
• WISA(Water Information System Austria): Distributed Information System designed to meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive and other national and international requirements
• Austrian Air Quality Network – Running of the Austrian air quality meta network, consisting of around 200 air quality monitoring stations

Contact:
Dr. Johann Weigl, name@domain
Dr. Jürgen Schneider , name@domain
Mag. Marina Fröhlich , name@domain

SolData is a service provider, offering a full range of services to its clients from technical advice and design, instrument procurement, installation, maintenance and data management through to systems assessment and factual reporting. The head office is based in France, and there are 8 main subsidiaries throughout the world. SDA counts 80 employees, mainly engineers, of different nationalities.

SDA focuses on advanced techniques, such as real time and automatic measurement/acquisition systems, powerful databases, Geographical Information Systems and the Internet to provide a global secure access to the latest information on any work site. The strenght of SDA lies in the fact that it can offer everything from the simplest instrumentation through to advanced real time automated acquisition systems.

Main areas of experience: Tunnels, Foundations, Dams, Industrial and domestic buildings, Historical buildings, Roads, Bridges and Viaducts, Ports, Railways, Industrial measurements and Airports, Geotechnics, Geophysics, Hydrology & Meteorology, Acoustics and Vibration.

Role in SANY IP:

As a result of its experience with Geo Hazards, SDA is leading the SP6 "GeoHazards validation" sub project.

Main products:

• Geoscope-web (Restricted Access): This software controls and monitors instrumentation networks. The software is highly versatile and can be used for collecting data for monitoring a variety of sites or applications.
  
• Gorgone innovative system for automatic accoustic and vibratory control.
  GORGONE is made up of a data acquisition unit able to work with up to 16 tri-axial sensors (geophones or accelerometers).

• Cyclops (CYCLic OPtical Surveyor): This system unites the latest developments in motorized total station technology with GEOSCOPE, to create an extremely powerful and versatile automated surveying system. Co-developed by SolData and IGN.
  
• Centaur: Completely automated module consisting of a motorised computer-driven levelling station. CENTAUR employs the most recent developments in target-free technology and the capabilities of SolData software to provide a powerful, user-friendly tool for automated levelling.

More Information:

• http://www.soldatagroup.com

Contact:

Martin BETH martin.beth@soldata.Fr
Sophie Costes sophie.costes@soldata.fr
Ana-Maria Rosuana-maria.rosu@soldata.fr

The Maritime Office in Gdynia is a government authority responsible for monitoring the Polish territorial waters. MOG is responsible for monitoring the safety, security and environmental risks in Polish waters. The marine environmental protection is managed by MOG within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Poland’s sea waters as a full a member of the cooperative framework of the Baltic States under the provisions of the Helsinki Convention 1974 (as amended in 1992). Furthermore, MOG is a very proactive member within the joint Water Pollution Group and is currently the leading State in monitoring the Baltic Sea using airborne observation methods. MOG provides preventive measures for risk management of oil spills and water pollution risks generally around the Polish coast. These may emerge from offshore oil and gas installations, oil tankers and any other sea shipping activity.

Role in SANY IP:

SP5 (Marine risks) end-user

More information:

• Maritime Office in Gdynia

The Maritime Office cooperates with numerous institutions, particularly with those which address the specifications of the application of MARPOL 73/78 requirements. MOG regularly attends the international sessions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee within IMO (The International Maritime Organisation). Additionally, MOG monitors ship traffic activity through the Vessel Traffic System VTS which is based onshore a radar station, CCTV systems, Digital Global Positioning Systems and AIS system for maintaining the safety of ships’ traffic and their navigation through waterways and fairways infrastructure at ports.
The Maritime Office in Gdynia acts in Polish waters and the open sea within the framework of international agreements and Polish law. It also provides an experienced and capable platform for the maritime user community in Poland and the Baltic States for implementing environmental risk management, regulations, safety and security rules and actions at sea.
MOG is specialized in monitoring the risks which may be encountered by the maritime environment, especially risks of water pollution, safety and security at sea. It has a very active role on the protection of marine environment within the European Maritime Safety Agency, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and various environmental expert groups within the EU community. It is also proactively engaged in cooperation with the authorities of the neighbouring countries and those within the Baltic Sea particularly, for ships inspection, water pollution detection and information data exchange of maritime traffic.

Other projects / IPs with Maritime Office in Gdynia's participation:

• Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• Paris Memorandum on Port State Control (Paris MOU on PSC)
• International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA)
• INTRASEA May 2004 – December 2005 – INTERREG IIIB project aimed at developing transport policy by the Baltic States. Participants: Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland and Russia.
• BALTIC MASTER June 2005-December 2007 – INTERREG IIIB project aimed at increasing maritime safety in the context of setting PSSA in the Baltic Sea.
• CEPCO 1997-2003 – Coordinated Extended Pollution Control Operation.

Contact:
Captain Andrzej KRÓLIKOWSKI, name@domain

Created in 1940, Institut Géographique National (IGN) is the French National Agency in charge of geodesy, mapping and geographic information. IGN masters the whole production of maps, from the aerial photographs to the printing. Annual budget amounts over 120M Euro, a part of this budget is provided by the French state and almost half of it comes from commercial returns. Staff amounts to 1800 people including 400 engineers.

Role in SANY IP:

participates in SP6 (Geo Hazards).

More information:

• Institut Géographique National

The statutes of IGN commission is to produce :

• the national geodetic and levelling networks,
• the national coverage of topographic maps and aerial photographs,
• producing and maintaining maps and geographic data bases.

Other projects / IPs with IGN's participation:

• optronics, including laser studies, and digital cameras studies (LOEMI).
• geodesy, including satellite positioning and satellite orbitographie, the international terrestrial reference system, and gravimetry. This laboratory cooperates with other European laboratories within framework of the EUREF organisation (LAREG)
• image processing, to automate the extraction of geographic information from images (MATIS)
• Geographic Information Systems, to develop new concepts for future data bases, and automate the derivation of products, starting with maps, from master data bases (GOGIT)

Contact:
Thierry Person, name@domain

Gestió d'Infraestructures S.A. is a public company created by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1990. Its purpose is contracting, building, maintaining and producing public works of all kinds, as well as the services which may be installed or developed in conjunction with the infrastructures promoted by the Generalitat.

Role in SANY IP:

SP6 (Geo Hazards) end-user

More information:

• Gestió d\'Infraestructures S.A.

Originally, the company´s primary focus was to complete the works for the Barcelona Olympic Games.
Having successfully completed its original task, the corporation turned to the improvement of Catalonia's highway network, undertaking such projects as the so-called Eix Transversal, the Capsacosta tunnels, the Baix Llobregat A16 Turnpike, the Mataró-Granollers Turnpike, Baix Llobregrat subway, the new Vallvidrera funicular of the Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat de Cataluña and the lines 3 and 4 of the Barcelona Metropolitan subway among others.

In addition to numerous other highway construction and maintenance and railway infrastructure projects, GISA has implemented the construction of teaching centers, local police stations, primary health care centers and more.
In this sense it was essential to create, in 1997, the office of General Management of Construction. This division was created to collaborate initially with the Department of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the secondary objective of achieving overall improvement of the educational infrastructure and educational offering based on the requirements of the LOGSE.

Over time, the number of areas of the autonomous governement to which GISA offers its services has consistently grown. Currently, company is in contact with the Department of the Interior regarding the deployment of the mozos de escuadra in all the counties of Catalunya, and regarding the improvement and expansion of the firefighter parks; with the Health Service regarding the finalization of the reformation of primary care facilities and improvements in the network of hospitals; with the Department of Justice regarding the construction of new judicial buildings and reforms in the existing ones; with Social Welfare regarding the construction of residences, day centers and protected housing; with the Presidential Office regarding the restoration of the Palace of the Generalitat; and with the Finance and Economics Department, among others.
Other projects / IPs with company's participation:

GISA has been managing large scale urban works. In-situ monitoring is an important part of these works, and is carried out with state-of-the art techniques: robotized total station, real-time monitoring, GIS database,…
GISA experience and current work offer an ideal opportunity for validation of SANY architecture in the domain of urban geo hazards.

Contact:
Henning Schwarz, name@domain

The Institute of Cartography at ETH Zurich, founded in 1925 by Eduard Imhof, is the oldest academic institute in this domain world-wide.

The institute developed a long tradition in cartographic relief representation, topographic and thematic cartography, map design and atlas cartography (school atlases, national atlases). These domains are still considered the main fields of application, but adapted to new demands, media and technologies. It is the intention to continue this tradition of striving for high quality maps also under the promising prospects of digital cartography.

In recent years, the institute focused more and more on modern interactive CD-ROM and web-based multimedia map information systems, Atlas Information Systems (AIS) for environmental applications, distributed cartographic interfaces (including Web Map Services), geospatial standards and 3D Visualizations.

E-learning and training activities are also areas where the Institute of Cartography is very active.
In the last 5 years, the institute has built up state-of-the-art and leading know-how in e-learning applications mainly in relation to GI.

More Information:

http://www.karto.ethz.ch

Role in SANY IP:

ETHZ is involved in “SP7: community building and standardization”, with the task of developing multimedia training units based on ELML (E-learning markup language, ) that will help to maximize the exploitation of SANY results.

ETHZ, as the e-learning expert within SANY project, contributes its know-how in didactic, e-learning, and the knowledge of ELML xml dialect. A list of relevant projects includes:

• Swiss Virtual Campus project GITTA (Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance): Establishment of a distance learning course on GIT, using XML content specifications, finally leading to the ELML standard
  
• Swiss Virtual Campus project NAHRIS (Dealing with Natural Hazards and Risk): Establishment of a distance learning course on Natural Hazards
  
• Swiss Virtual Campus project CARTOUCHE (Cartography for Higher Education in Switzerland): Establishment of a distance learning course on Multimedia Cartography, 3D-Cartography and Location Based Services
  
• ETH-funded project GeoVite: Development of a 300 GB database driven geodata repository and portal for ETH Zurich, coupled with an e-learning tutorial