GISC project
GISC project is financed by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme and will run for 3 years – pre-operational phase (January 2010 – December 2012).
The objective of the GISC project is:
- to stimulate open access to all relevant in-situ data for operational GMES service provision;
- to resolve the barriers for cost effective and sustainable data provision;
- to ensure an operational framework for in-situ data for four GMES core services (Land, Marine, Atmosphere and Emergency Response).
The GISC objectives will be completed through the main project activities:
- documenting the in-situ data needs and data requirements
- cooperating with the users, stakeholders, and service providers;
- exploring and determining methods to enable networks to provide the required in-situ data for GMES;
- exploring approaches to the integration of in-situ assets and networks into long-term sustainable frameworks for GMES services;
- providing ‘quick-wins’.
In support of the GMES Bureau, the project will similarly explore how a future management (governance, architecture) of the in situ component during an operational phase might best be achieved. It will also offer proofs of concept based on the data flows and requirements of GMES services. And last, but not least, the project will leave a robust legacy of processes to enable the requirements of the future Core Services for such data and products to be met.
The GISC project will be based on the SEIS (Shared Environmental Information System) principles. Data and information will aim to be managed as close as possible to its source in order to achieve a distributed system, by involving countries and existing capacities which maintain and operate the required observation infrastructure.
