Project: Essential Variables workflows for resource efficiency and environmental management
| Acronym | GEO-essential |
| Duration | 01/09/2017 - 31/08/2020 |
| Project Topic | GEOEssential is addressing the need for trusted sources of data and information to monitor the progresses made on environmental conditions towards policy targets. The project will demonstrate the feasibility of Essential Variables across GEO Societal Benefit Areas. It will create cross-thematic workflows to evaluate, predict and monitor natural resources to inform via Earth Observations the Sustainable Development Goals. Existing structures and platforms will be analysed in order to identify substantial gaps and synergies for addressing the needs of environmental policy in agriculture, soil, water, biodiversity, energy, light and raw materials. Solutions for improvements will be provided in cooperation with GEO and Copernicus programmes. |
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Project Results (after finalisation) |
GEOEssential will create a Knowledge Base infrastructure to facilitate the collection and formalization of the knowledge (i.e. user needs, gaps recognition and recommendations for closing gaps, best practices, Community of Practice lexicon, etc.) stemming from the European NetworkEarth Observation Networks (http://www.eneon.net/graph) and from other significant Earth Observations (EO) initiatives and programs at the National and European levels. |
| Network | ERA-PLANET |
| Call | ERA-PLANET Joint Transnational Call |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Université de Genève | Coordinator | Switzerland |
| 2 | Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences | Partner | Germany |
| 3 | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | Partner | Italy |
| 4 | Centro de Investigacion Ecologica a Applicaciones Forestales | Partner | Spain |
| 5 | Museum fur Naturkunde | Partner | Germany |
| 6 | International Institute für Angewandte systemanalyse | Partner | Germany |
| 7 | Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis | Partner | Greece |
| 8 | Università della Calabria | Partner | Italy |
| 9 | University dello Studi di Padova | Partner | Italy |
| 10 | Space Research Institute | Partner | Ukraine |
| 11 | Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung | Partner | Germany |
| 12 | Forschungzentrum Julich GMBH | Partner | Germany |
| 13 | Centro Nacional de Informacion Geografica | Partner | Spain |
| 14 | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | Partner | Germany |