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Wishes for the 2012-2015 GEO work planECOSYSTEM (enviroGRIDS project)ECOSYSTEM (enviroGRIDS project)

Nicolas Ray, Gregory Giuliani, Anthony LehmannNicolas Ray, Gregory Giuliani, Anthony Lehmann

University of Geneva / Climate Change and Climatic impacts / enviroSPACE groupUniversity of Geneva / Climate Change and Climatic impacts / enviroSPACE group

andand

United Nations Environment Programme / DEWA / GRID-EuropeUnited Nations Environment Programme / DEWA / GRID-Europe

& &

the enviroGRIDS consortiumthe enviroGRIDS consortium

London, February 2011

GEO work plan: ECOSYSTEMS/Ecosystem Vulnerability to Global Change/Vulnerability of Sea Basins (EC-09-02c)

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Large transnational projects- To contribute to ecosystem management at large, transnational

scale

- To spot and fill the gaps (data and services)

- To transpose concepts, tools and lessons learnt in enviroGRIDS toanother region

Ideas for projects

-Observation System for the Black Sea + Sea of Azov (with 6 border countries)

-Caspian Sea

-Africa Great Lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi)

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Massive Geoprocessing- To ease the ability to crosscut high resolution data sets from various

sources

- To be able to process an increasing influx of real-time data from (ecological) sensors

Ideas for projects

-Elaborate ecosystem-relevant workflows with Web processing services (WPS) in the GEOSS

-WPS coupled to distributed computing (grid/cloud computing)