The Near Fault Observatories (NFO) are long term research infrastructures that strive to provide multidisciplinary and high resolution near fault data and high-level scientific products.
Near-Fault Observatories integrate data, products, and services within the EPOS community, relying on different Thematic Core Services. An important effort was to identify the metadata standards of NFO specific data and data products and to create a service for them.
The TCS mission is to provide coordination in between the European NFO, share data and products, promote best practice and define and implement the information and dissemination outreach strategy through the European Plate Observing System (EPOS).