Objectives
EPOS aims to integrate the following existing core elements within a cyber-infrastructure to realize:- A comprehensive geographical distributed observational infrastructure consisting of existing seismic and geodetic (presently GPS, Galileo) permanent national monitoring networks on a European scale.
- Dedicated observatories for multidisciplinary local data acquisition (volcanoes, in-situ fault-zone monitoring experiments, geothermal and deep drilling experiments, including the application of geophysics to Earth~Rs surface dynamics and environmental changes).
- A network of experimental laboratories creating a single distributed research infrastructure for rock and mineral properties and analogue tectonic modelling.
- Facilities for data repositories as well as for data integration, archiving and mining (including different solid Earth data, such as geophysical, geological, topographic, geochemical).
- Facilities for distributed storage and computing resources for high performance computing and collaborative large-scale modelling.
The vision is to integrate these existing research infrastructures in order to increase the accessibility and usability of multidisciplinary data from monitoring networks, laboratory experiments and computational simulations enhancing worldwide interoperability in Earth Science by establishing a leading integrated European infrastructure and services. This is the EPOS observing strategy.
