PANGEO - Enabling access to geological information in support of GMES / Edukad projektid

coordinating country [ UK ] search term [ MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OF CYPRUS ]

Enabling access to geological information in support of GMES

acronym:	PANGEO
start:	2011-02-01
end:	2014-01-31

programme:	FP7 - Euroopa Liidu 7. raamprogramm
sub-programme:	SPA - Kosmos
instrument:	CP - Koostööprojekt
call identifier:	FP7-SPACE-2010-1
project number:	262371
duration in months:	36
partner count:	37

abstract:	PanGeo is a service proposed in response to FP7 GMES Downstream Call 3 (released July 2009). The objective of PanGeo is to enable free and open access to geohazard information in support of GMES. This will be achieved by the generation of a validated Geohazard Data Layer supported by a Geohazard Summary for 52 of the largest towns listed in the GMES Land Theme’s Urban Atlas involving all 27 countries of the EU. Upon user enquiry, a PanGeo web-portal will automatically integrate the geohazard data with the Urban Atlas to highlight the polygons influenced. The datasets will be made discoverable, accessible and useable via a distributed web-map system as built and demonstrated by OneGeology Europe (www.onegeology-europe.eu). The key users of PanGeo are anticipated as: • Local Authority planners and regulators who are concerned with managing development risk, • National geological surveys and geoscience institutes who are obliged to collect geohazard data for public benefit, • Policy-makers concerned with assessing and comparing European geological risk, much as the Urban Atlas data is used to compare the landcover/use status of European towns. Products will be made by integrating: a) interpreted InSAR terrain-motion data (derived from existing projects, e.g. ESA GSE Terrafirma plus new processing), b) geological information, and c) the landcover and landuse data contained within the Urban Atlas. The integration and interpretation, plus a validation of key features observed, will be made by the corresponding national Geological Survey for the towns concerned. It is planned to deliver the service for two Urban Atlas towns in each country of the EU (Luxembourg and Cyprus only 1), equalling fifty-two towns in total. The geological survey concerned will choose the towns for processing from the Urban Atlas list using their own knowledge as to where the information will be of most use, probably the largest towns, which, when extrapolated, would equal (13% of total EU urban population). User input to design will be facilitated by the Surveys contracted into the project and initiation of ‘Local Authority Feedback Group’. Terrafirma has shown the potential for the self-sustainability of services providing InSAR-derived terrain-motion data, as 30% of users have gone on to procure further product on a commercial basis. In PanGeo, it is anticipated that, by adding considerably more value as described above, and promoting the clear benefits of such key environmental information, that the local authorities of neighbouring towns will begin to demand similar.

partner no and role		partner name	country	contact person	web page
1	coordinator	FUGRO NPA LIMITED	UK	David Morten	http://www.npagroup.com
2	partner	NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL	UK	Luke Bateson	http://www.nerc.ac.uk
3	partner	Landmark Information Group	UK	David Callcott	http://www.landmark.co.uk
4	partner	NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO	NL	Paul Bogaard	http://www.tno.nl
5	partner	Systèmes d'Information à Référence Spatiale (SIRS) SAS	FR	Christophe Sannier	http://www.sirs-fr.com
6	partner	CONSORCI INSTITUT DE GEOMATICA	ES	Edgar Aigner	http://www.ideg.es
7	partner	BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES	FR	François Robida	http://www.brgm.fr
8	partner	EuroGeoSurveys - EGS	BE	Celine Andrien	http://www.eurogeosurveys.org
9	partner	FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES GEOLOGUES	FR	Isabel Fernandez	http://www.eurogeologists.eu
10	partner	ABConsulting	UK	Chris Browitt
11	partner	Tele-Rilevamento Europa - T.R.E. s.r.l.	IT	Davide Colombo	http://www.treuropa.com
12	partner	GAMMA REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH AND CONSULTING AG	CH	Urs Wegmüller	http://www.gamma-rs.ch
13	partner	ALTAMIRA INFORMATION SL	ES	Maite Garcia	http://www.altamira-information.com
14	partner	GEOLOGISCHE BUNDESANSTALT	AT	Horst Eichberger	http://www.geologie.ac.at
15	partner	INSTITUT ROYAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE BELGIQUE	BE	Olivier Ninane	http://www.naturalsciences.be
16	partner	Ministry of Environment and Water	BG	Valeri Trendafilov	http://www.moew.government.bg
17	partner	MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OF CYPRUS	CY	Eleni Morisseau	http://www.moa.gov.cy
18	partner	CESKA GEOLOGICKA SLUZBA	CZ	Veronika Kopackova
19	partner	The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland	DK	Nette Rasmussen	http://www.geus.dk
20	partner	Eesti Geoloogiakeskus OÜ	EE	Jaan Kivisilla	http://www.egk.ee
21	partner	GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS	FI	Ossi Ikävalko	http://www.gtk.fi
22	partner	BUNDESANSTALT FUER GEOWISSENSCHAFTEN UND ROHSTOFFE	DE	Jürgen Soldan	http://www.bgr.de
23	partner	ETHNIKO KENTRO VIOSIMIS KAI AEIFOROU ANAPTYXIS	EL	Kostas Papavasileiou	http://portal.igme.gr
24	partner	MAGYAR FOLDTANI ES GEOFIZIKAI INTEZET	HU	János Halmai	http://www.elgi.hu
25	partner	Department of Communications, Energy and Natural resources	IE	Koen Verbruggen	http://www.dcenr.gov.ie
26	partner	Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale	IT	Eutizio Vittori	http://www.isprambiente.it/site/it-IT/
27	partner	LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATE	LV	Indra Ribicka	http://www.lu.lv
28	partner	Lietuvos geologijos tarnyba prie Aplinkos ministerijos	LT	Jonas Satkunas	http://www.lgt.lt
29	partner	ADMINISTRATION DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES DIRECTION	LU	Robert Colbach	http://www.geologie.lu/sgl
30	partner	MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY	MT	Anthony Rizzo	http://www.mra.org.mt/
31	partner	PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT GEOLOGICZNY - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY	PL	Ilona śmietańska	http://www.pgi.gov.pl
32	partner	Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.	PT	Ana Claudia Carvalho
33	partner	INSTITUTUL GEOLOGIC AL ROMANIEI	RO	Anca-Marina Vijdea	http://www.igr.ro
34	partner	STATNY GEOLOGICKY USTAV DIONYZA STURA	SK	ľubomír Petro	http://www.geology.sk
35	partner	GEOLOSKI ZAVOD SLOVENIJE	SI	Marija Božič	http://www.geo-zs.si
36	partner	INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA	ES	Gerardo Herrera	http://www.igme.es
37	partner	SVERIGES GEOLOGISKA UNDERSOKNING	SE	Lars Persson	http://www.sgu.se