The Environmental Observation Web and its Service Applications within the Future Internet

ENVIROFI targets the large amounts of valuable environmental observation data which represent a wealth of information, currently not used. Therefore, integration with other fragmented data and information sources, traditionally managed by research and educational institutions and industries is required. ENVIROFI will address such important issues by specifying the requirements, and building conceptual prototypes, of the specific enablers of the environmental usage area in the Future Internet. It will bring these diverse stakeholder communities together to understand environmentally observed processes with higher spatial resolutions and contextual situation awareness at an unprecedented scale.

ENVIROFI will explore the advances needed by the stakeholder communities for secure access to decentralized, interactive Internet-enabled geospatial and intelligent fusion services using data from authorities, researchers, people and private sector organisations. It will allow all these participants to plug in their personalised experiments and also feedback into the ENVIROFI Environmental Observation Web.

Contact at Eurescom: Uwe Herzog

Eurescom's role: Project partner - Eurescom contributes to the dissemination activities and is in charge of coordinating the liaison with infrastructure stakeholders.

Duration: 2 years (April 2011 - March 2013)

Total budget: 6.5 million euros

Coordinator: José Lorenzo Mon, Atos Origin

Number of partners: 14 partner organisations from 8 European countries