Imagine a giant, digital library that connects everything from the deep ocean floor to the atmosphere. Instead of scientists digging through separate, messy files, this project organizes all that earth data into one clean, searchable system. It's like upgrading from a paper map to a real-time GPS for the entire planet's geological activity.
Companies struggle with fragmented, low-resolution geological data that doesn't communicate across land and sea boundaries. This leads to inaccurate risk assessments and inefficient resource exploration.
An enhanced portfolio of 150 data access facilities and 6 test beds. These provide high-resolution, FAIR-compliant datasets and AI-driven simulation tools for the geosphere.
If you are a mineral exploration firm dealing with inefficient site selection — this project developed innovative georesource management services that improve data resolution. This allows for more precise targeting of resources and reduced drilling waste.
If you are a risk insurer dealing with unpredictable natural disasters — this project developed multi-risk studies of extreme geohazards. This enables more accurate pricing of insurance premiums based on high-resolution spatial and temporal data.
If you are a geotechnical firm dealing with fragmented land-sea-atmosphere data — this project developed 150 Virtual and Transnational Access facilities. This provides a centralized source of high-quality data to model dynamic geosphere processes for infrastructure projects.
Based on available project data, the project focuses on open licensing and the European Open Science Cloud, suggesting a move toward open access rather than a commercial price list.
The project mobilizes over 150 facilities, many of which are already mature, and integrates them into existing European Research Infrastructures like EPOS and EMSO to ensure scalability.
The project explicitly aims to align its data and products with open licensing and FAIR principles to ensure interoperability and openness.
Integration is achieved through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and specific research infrastructures, utilizing standards for cross-disciplinary interoperability.
The project period runs from 2022-10-01 to 2026-09-30, with services being enhanced and integrated throughout this window.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward research and academia, featuring 32 research institutes and 18 universities across 14 countries. With only 1 industry partner and 1 SME (a 2% industry ratio), the project is primarily a scientific infrastructure play. However, the scale of 51 partners indicates a massive data-sharing network that can be leveraged by commercial entities for high-resolution geodata.
GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung
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