Source:
Towards eEnvironment, Prague, Czech Republic, p.115-23 (2009)
URL:
http://www.e-envi2009.org/proceedings.pdf
Keywords:
Sensor Network, Sensor Service Architecture, Infrastructure, SensorSA, Environmental Information; Information Space, Risk Management, Sensor Observation Service, cascading SOS
Abstract:
Information sharing across borders, environmental domains and organisations is
one of the strategic goals of the European Commission within Framework Programme 6
and 7. It includes the vision of building a Single Information Space for the Environment in
Europe (SISE). This is a challenging task for research and industry as well as for policy.
One of the major topics discussed already at the SANY kick-off meeting (Sensors
Anywhere, Integrated Project, FP6; Vienna; Sept.2006), in collaboration with the European
Commission (DG INFSO) was about where will SANY go and what is our common vision
for the future. Today's keyword of a single information space was more or less created at
that kick-off event.
Since that time SANY is working on realizing and fostering the vision
of a Single European Information Space for the Environment capable to share
environmental risk related information. Of course going hand in hand with SISE, SANY
addresses also major topics of today's challenges expressed under Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security (GMES, now called Kopernikus, announced at the GMES-2008
forum, held in Lille, France; see http://www.gmes.info/ and
http://ec.europa.eu/kopernikus/index_en.htm) and clearly takes into account requirements
coming from Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE;
http://inspire.jrc.it) as well as from the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS;
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/ index.htm).
This article discusses requirements coming from SISE, SEIS, GMES, GEOSS and map
them to SANY service developments (by same use cases) based on OGC Standards.
Specifically, this means that we show how these requirements can be implemented through
SANY.
Austrian Research Centers (ARC) participates in developing IT infrastructures, architecture
and services capable of addressing challenges in the above context as well as in the context
of environmental monitoring networks through SANY(www.sany-ip.eu).
Notes:
ISBN 978-80-210-4824-9
