ORFEUS and the Barcelona meeting

The European-Mediterranean area has one of the densest and bestequipped regional seismological network/infrastructure in the world.

ORFEUS objectives for the ‘Annual observatory coordination meeting’• Promote coordination of technical and software developments

among seismological observatories in Europe and its surroundings.• Promote data exchange and secure long-term sustainable waveform

data archiving and access for research purposes.

Challenges:• Maintain, upgrade and integrate the infrastructure.• Sustainable long-term archiving and optimal access to the data archives.• Optimal integration to fulfil the requirements for social and scientific needs.

Meeting the challenges

• Maintain, upgrade and integrate the infrastructure.- promote exchange of observatory software tools (SeisComp, EarthWorm, SH, Seed tools, SeedLink, etc.)- active involvement in the EPOS initiative to put the existing European infrastructure on the European priority agenda.

• Sustainable long-term archiving and optimal access to the data archives.- promote European scale data exchange, archiving and access projects (MEREDIAN, NERIES, …)

• Optimal integration to fulfil the requirements for social and scientific needs.

- optimal coordination with EMSC, IRIS, FDSN, etc.- coordination with European-Mediterranean observatories and initiatives (like GITEWS, NEAMWTS, …)

Next year’s Observatory coordination meeting

Your opinion requested and important!

Proposed meeting plan:- Combination of Observatory coordination and presentation and

demonstration of software tools (new research results).- Examples of observatory software tools (several NERIES products):

SeisComP, Shakemaps, SH, M estimation software, rapid locations, picking algorithms, rapid magnitude estimates, seismic hazard tools, NERIES web portal use, etc.

- Duration, timing and location: Italy, May 2009, about one week.- Sequential meeting by subjects enabling choice of attendance.

NERIESTorild van Eck, Domenico Giardini,

Rémy Bossu, Stefan Wiemer and the NERIES consortium

Addressing a European infrastructure challenge: Archival and availability of seismological data

gathered by observatories and research facilities in Europe and its surroundings

Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Seismologyhttp://www.neries-eu.org

Infrastructure Networking• Real-time data exchange (ORFEUS/Dost)• Distributed European waveform data archive (GFZ/Hanka)• Distributed European historical data archive (INGV/Stucchi)• Access to European accelerometer data (ICC/Roca)• Broadband OBS networking (IPGP/Singh)• Portal and data services (EMSC/Bossu)• Technology Transfer (workshops, grants) (KNMI/van Eck)

Infrastructure Research• European seismological reference model (INGV/Morelli)• Real-time hazard tools (ETHZ/Wiemer)• Shake-maps and rapid loss estimation (Kandilli/Erdik)• Geotechnical site characterization (LGIT/Bard)• New approaches to data mining (UnLiverpool/Rietbrock)

Infrastructure Access (grants)• Dense broadband network seismology SDSN/ETHZ (Christofferson)• Verification seismology CEA/DASE (Guilbert)• Historical seismograms SISMOS (INGV/Ferrari)• Array seismology NORSAR (Schweitzer)• Instrumentation test facility CONRAD (ZAMG/Lenhardt)

NERIES: > 17 Activities

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Virtual European Broadband Seismic NetworkThe VEBSN concept

The VEBSN:• consists of a pool of broadband seismograph stations, the data of which

is shared in (near) real-time by European seismological observatories.• data is shared on the basis of the VEBSN statement of operation.• is the efficient vehicle to gather and archive data for scientific research.• data backup is secured in the European Integrated Data Archive,

pragmatically the European regional FDSN archive.

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NERIES Portlet: prototype ‘seismicity’

NERIES Portlet: prototype ‘waveform (BB) data’

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European shakemap implementation in collaboration with the USGS

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NERIES and ORFEUS: upcoming meetings

Planned meetings and sessions:• June 19-20, 2008. ORFEUS workshop ‘Waveform Inversion’,

Utrecht University, The Netherlands• June 31 – July 2, 2008. NERIES annual meeting,

De Bilt, The Netherlands.• September 9-10, 2008. NERIES presentations

ESC General Assembly, Crete

Preliminary plans 2008/2009:• Autumn 2008. NERIES software developments workshop.• May 2009. ORFEUS annual observatory coordination meeting.• Autumn 2008 – Spring 2009 NERIES activity meetings• Joint meetings (NERIES) with other projects SAFER, NATO,

Balkan, …

NERIES:• Promotes networking of earthquake data providers and users.• Pursues active cooperation with related projects• Provides facility access grants for EU scientists/groups. • Workshops and meetings are open.• Developed software in public domain (GNU license)

ORFEUS complements with limited small scale support.

Cooperation beyond Europe to be investigated:• (EC) COST ‘Near Neighbours’ program. Deadline September 2008.

Eligible countries: non-COST Balkan countries, Mediterranean countries, eastern European countries.Possible funding: networking activities!

• (EC) IPA (Instrument of Pre-accession). Eligible countries: Croatia, Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania.

NERIES: Opportunities beyond the consortium

• NERIES: The first infrastructure step towards an European Plate Observatory System.

• NERIES e-science developments in collaboration with similar developments in the US (EarthScope). • NERIES builds on a long-standing global data exchange agreements and formats in seismological earthquake data.

http://www.neries-eu.org