Objective
The project aims at building a demonstrator capable of providing a geological information service to mining companies operating in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (FPI), as well as other interested entities and regional bodies in charge of land planning in the area, on a transnational framework. The service is based on Web servers installed at the Spanish and Portuguese geological surveys, in Madrid and Lisbon. Users will be able to access the institutional databases through those Web servers.
The geological surveys of Spain and Portugal (ITGE and IGM), will build such a demonstrator, by harmonising and reorganising their respective geological, geophysical and mining databases on the FPI; enhancing their internal LAN and internet connections, building a Metabase in coordination with the recommendations of the GEIXS project applications to better implement an object-oriented model, improve interactivity and providing coherent graphical user interface; creating the interfaces between the browser and the geographical information, incorporating not only 2-D retrievals bases on the GIS tools, but also 3-D views and data exploitation tools.
Matra Datavision will act as a technology provider, by supplying and training on its 3D developing tool CAS.CADE. Such tools, coupled with the CAS.CADE extension classes, build by the GeoFrance 3D BRGM project and the newer CAS.CADE OMEGA/Geosciences Application Development Framework under development on the Omega Esprit project, will provide the framework for building 3 D geological capabilities into the web serves.
Major impacts of the development of the demonstrator are expected at two levels:
- The mining companies, which invest in this important mining district, both in exploration and mine development. Chances of new deposit discoveries will increase, because new tools for information search and analysis will be provided, allowing the companies to fully exploit the data available and readily incorporate new data.
- Land planners, who will readily access geological information which is of general interest for deploying infrastructures, managing ground water, preserve and exploit natural resources. This will benefit regional development.
Exploitation of the results will take place, by an appropriate dissemination strategy, involving the organisation of user groups, participation in seminars and local events and user support through the web server itself. Upon project completion, the demonstrator should evolve into a full service, and be extended to other geographical areas and mining districts, bases on the same user and graphical interfaces, software tools, browsers, data and metadata models.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography cartography geographic information systems
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Spain
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