Objective
PanGeo is a service proposed in response to FP7 GMES Downstream Call 3 (released July 2009). The objective of PanGeo is to enable free and open access to geohazard information in support of GMES. This will be achieved by the generation of a validated Geohazard Data Layer supported by a Geohazard Summary for 52 of the largest towns listed in the GMES Land Theme’s Urban Atlas involving all 27 countries of the EU. Upon user enquiry, a PanGeo web-portal will automatically integrate the geohazard data with the Urban Atlas to highlight the polygons influenced. The datasets will be made discoverable, accessible and useable via a distributed web-map system as built and demonstrated by OneGeology Europe (www.onegeology-europe.eu).
The key users of PanGeo are anticipated as:
• Local Authority planners and regulators who are concerned with managing development risk,
• National geological surveys and geoscience institutes who are obliged to collect geohazard data for public benefit,
• Policy-makers concerned with assessing and comparing European geological risk, much as the Urban Atlas data is used to compare the landcover/use status of European towns.
Products will be made by integrating: a) interpreted InSAR terrain-motion data (derived from existing projects, e.g. ESA GSE Terrafirma plus new processing), b) geological information, and c) the landcover and landuse data contained within the Urban Atlas. The integration and interpretation, plus a validation of key features observed, will be made by the corresponding national Geological Survey for the towns concerned. It is planned to deliver the service for two Urban Atlas towns in each country of the EU (Luxembourg and Cyprus only 1), equalling fifty-two towns in total. The geological survey concerned will choose the towns for processing from the Urban Atlas list using their own knowledge as to where the information will be of most use, probably the largest towns, which, when extrapolated, would equal (13% of total EU urban population). User input to design will be facilitated by the Surveys contracted into the project and initiation of ‘Local Authority Feedback Group’.
Terrafirma has shown the potential for the self-sustainability of services providing InSAR-derived terrain-motion data, as 30% of users have gone on to procure further product on a commercial basis. In PanGeo, it is anticipated that, by adding considerably more value as described above, and promoting the clear benefits of such key environmental information, that the local authorities of neighbouring towns will begin to demand similar.
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-SPACE-2010-1
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
RH10 9QN CRAWLEY WEST SUSSEX
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RH10 9QN CRAWLEY WEST SUSSEX
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SN2 1EU SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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EX2 7HY Exeter
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2595 DA Den Haag
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59650 VILLENEUVE D ASCQ
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59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
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08860 Castelldefels
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08860 Castelldefels Barcelona
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45060 Orleans
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75005 PARIS
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eh28 8sb Edinburgh
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20143 Milano
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3073 Gumligen
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08037 BARCELONA
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1030 WIEN
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Sofia
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1417 Nicosia
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11821 Prague 1
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1350 Kobenhavn K
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12618 Tallinn
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02151 Espoo
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30655 Hannover
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11525 ATHENS
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1143 BUDAPEST
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1143 BUDAPEST
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D02 X285 Dublin
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00144 Roma
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LT-03123 Vilnius
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00975 Warszawa
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78344 Bucharest
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1000 Ljubljana
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