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Due to its intensive data processing and highly distributed organization, the multidisciplinary Earth Science applications community is uniquely positioned for the uptake and exploitation of Grid technologies. Currently Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, and other large Grid infrastructures are already deployed and capable of operational services. So far however, the adoption and exploitation of Grid technology throughout the Earth Science community has been slower than expected. The Dissemination and Exploitation of GRids in Earth sciencE project, proposed by the European Commission to assist and accelerate this process in a number of different ways, had between its main goals the creation of a roadmap towards Earth Science Grid platform. This paper presents the resulting roadmap.

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Notes

  1. http://www.gmes.info/. GMES is an initiative for the implementation of information services dealing with environment and security. It is based on observation data received from Earth Observation satellites and ground based information.

  2. http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE is a European Commission initiative to build a European spatial data infrastructure beyond national boundaries.

  3. http://www.earthobservations.org/ GEOSS seeks to connect the producers of environmental data and decision-support tools with the end users of these products, with the aim of enhancing the relevance of Earth observations to global issues.

  4. http://www.opengeospatial.org/

  5. http://opendap.org/

  6. http://www.globus.org/ogsa/

  7. http://www.eu-degree.eu

  8. http://www.genesi-dr.eu, Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations—Digital Repositories

  9. http://glite.web.cern.ch/glite/

  10. http://www.unicore.eu/

  11. http://www.globus.org/

  12. http://www.gria.org/

  13. http://www.eu-egee.org/

  14. http://www.ogf.org/

  15. http://www.coregrid.net/

  16. http://www.nessi-europe.com/Nessi/

  17. http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch

  18. http://www.i2g.eu/

  19. http://www.cyclops-project.eu/

  20. http://www.ecmwf.int/services/grid/simdat/

  21. http://eogrid.esrin.esa.int/

  22. http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/

  23. http://www.opensciencegrid.org/

  24. http://www.teragrid.org/

  25. http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/about_simdat.html

  26. http://eogrid.esrin.esa.int/

  27. http://www.d4science.eu

  28. http://eopi.esa.int/esa/esa

  29. http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/ ESFRI is a strategic instrument aimed at supporting a coherent and strategy-led approach to policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, and at facilitating multilateral initiatives leading to the better use and development of research infrastructures, at EU and international level.

  30. http://gcos.wmo.int/

  31. This specific point is at the centre of the GENESI-DR project, which aims to validate emerging standards for federation of large ES repositories.

  32. ESA has initiated a dedicate programme for Earth Observation Long Term Data Preservation (http:// http://earth.esa.int/gscb/ltdp/

  33. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

  34. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/index.htm. SEIS is a collaborative initiative to establish an integrated and shared environmental information system. This system would tie in better all existing data gathering and information flows related to EU environmental policies and legislation.

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Acknowledgement

This work makes use of results produced by the Dissemination and Exploitation of Grids in Earth Science project, a project funded by the European Commission (under contract number IST-2005-034619) through the Sixth Framework Programme. DEGREE brings together 10 partners in 7 countries to reduce the gap between ES users and Grid Technologies. Full information is available at http://www.eu-degree.eu

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  1. Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, 00044, Italy

    Roberto Cossu & Luigi Fusco

  2. Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Saint-Quentin Versailles University, 10-12 Avenue de l’Europe, Velizy, 78140, France

    Monique Petitdidier

  3. SERCO SpA, Frascati, Italy

    Julian Linford

  4. Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Vincent Badoux & Philippe Renard

  5. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, Cedex 05, 75252, France

    Benoit Gotab

  6. Ustav informatiky, Slovenska akademia vied, Slovenska, Slovak

    Ladislav Hluchy & Viet Tran

  7. Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Pula, 09010, Italy

    Giuditta Lecca & Fabrizio Murgia

  8. Dutch Space BV, Leiden, Netherlands

    Camiel Plevier

  9. Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Horst Schwichtenberg

  10. Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, De Bilt, Netherlands

    Wim Som de Cerff

  11. Compagnie Générale de Géophysique, Paris, France

    Gerald Vetois

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Cossu, R., Petitdidier, M., Linford, J. et al. A roadmap for a dedicated Earth Science Grid platform. Earth Sci Inform 3, 135–148 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-010-0045-4

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