AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Geo-Seas – building a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure for

Europe

Helen Glaves, Dick Schaap, and Colin Graham(and the 28 consortium partners)

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

• What is Geo-Seas?• Objectives• Methodology• Where are we now?• Key outcomes

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

What is Geo-Seas?• EU Framework 7 project

• 1st May 2009 until 31 October 2012

• 26 marine geoscience data centres (Geo-Seas nodes)

• 28 partner organisations from 17 European maritime countries

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Partners• Belgium (MUMM)• Bulgaria (IO-BAS)• Denmark (GEUS)• Estonia (EGK)• France (IFREMER, BRGM,

CNRS, SHOM)• Germany (BSH, BGR)• Greece (IGME,NOA)• Italy (OGS)• Ireland (GSI, UCC)

• Lithuania (LIGG)• Latvia (LU)• Netherlands (MARIS, TNO,

EU-Consult)• Norway (NGU)• Poland (PGI)• Portugal (INETI)• Spain (IGME, UB)• United Kingdom (NERC,

CEFAS, CIRIA)

BGSGSI

LNEG

MARIS

BRGM

TNO

OGS

NGU

GEUS

IGME

Partners

BSH

IGME

EGK

BGR PGI

LIGG

IO-BAS

LU

CEFASCIRIA

UB

UCC

IFREMER

SHOM

MUMM

CNRS

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Objectives• Creation of a unified marine geoscientific data

e-infrastructure across Europe (data grid)

• Facilitate the location, accession and delivery of federated marine geological and geophysical datasets

• Provide user-access to harmonized marine geological and geophysical metadata and data in common, standard formats via a single portal.

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

• Develop interoperability with other data types

• Underpin key European Directives such as INSPIRE and framework programmes e.g. GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)

Objectives

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Methodology• Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect

the geological and geophysical data centres

• Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets

• Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire.

• Development of a common index of data products and services

• Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Methodology• Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect

the geological and geophysical data centres

• Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets

• Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire.

• Development of a common index of data products and services

• Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

• ISO 19115 metadata standard for all metadata directories

• common and controlled vocabularies, including international content governance e.g. GeoSciML

• OGC standards for mapping and viewing services

Data Standards

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Metadata

EuroCore

EU Marsin

EuroSeismic

EU SeaSed

Geo-SeasISO 19115 compliant

SEISCAN

SEISCANEX

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Methodology• Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect

the geological and geophysical data centres

• Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets

• Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire.

• Development of a common index of data products and services

• Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

http://www.geo-seas.eu

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Methodology• Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect

the geological and geophysical data centres

• Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets

• Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire.

• Development of a common index of data products and services

• Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Methodology• Adopt pre-existing SeaDataNet methodologies to interconnect

the geological and geophysical data centres

• Use of pre-existing data standards and metadata sets

• Identification of products and services required by users of marine data through analysis of responses to online questionnaire.

• Development of a common index of data products and services

• Harmonisation of data formats and exchange formats

Geological data (point) ODV & GeoSciMLGeological data (gridded) NetCDFGrab samples ODV & GeoSciMLSpecimen ODV &

GeoSciMLRock Cores ODV &

GeoSciMLGravimetry (tracking) ODVGravimetry (gridded) NetCDFMagnetic (tracking) ODVMagnetic (gridded) NetCDF

Agreed data types and formats

Bathymetry (tracking) ODVBathymetry (gridded & swath) NetCDFBorehole ODV &

GeoSciMLHeat Flow ODVSeismics (digital data) SEG-YSeismics (scanned images) TIFF / PNGSeismics (navigation) UKOOASide scan sonar XTFImages PNGMaps (data products) GeoSciML

Agreed data types and formats

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Data delivery

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

Where are we now?

• Community building activities completed

• User questionnaire conducted

• Standards agreed by partners

• Portal available via Geo-Seas website

• Test data available

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

• Improve the discovery and access to federated marine geological and geophysical data and data products

• Provision of software tools allowing use of geoscientific data in combination with other data in a multidisciplinary way

• Improved interoperability of geological and geophysical data with other data and data products

Key outcomes

AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco , USA, 13 – 17 December 2010

• Increased interoperability between disciplines, organisations and countries . Also with other key European framework projects e.g. EMODNet and One Geology- Europe

• Underpinning European directives e.g. INSPIRE, recent global and European frameworks e.g. GEOSS and GMES

Key outcomes

Thank you!