[Seavox] [Fwd: [SDI-Europe] An Environmental Marine Information System for Europe]

[Roger Longhorn]

Thanks to Kate Lance of the GSDI Legal & Ecoomic Working Group, for this 
link to another info service for the marine community.

http://emis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

*An Environmental Marine Information System for Europe*

Over the last years, the JRC- IES has developed in the context of its 
institutional activities a number of large spatial data sets describing 
physical and biological processes in the European regional seas. In 
order to improve and enlarge the use of this research information the 
IES has developed an Environmental Marine Information System (EMIS). 
EMIS is a simple and easy-to-use mapping tool application, developed for 
the publication and dissemination of European marine information via the 
web. The application allows the provision of scientific information, 
through the web, by way of geo-referenced maps (created in real-time), 
and supplies the users with basic navigation and interrogation tools. 
Due to the application's optimized size, the process to create and query 
maps is extremely fast and simple, resulting in a very practical and 
useful high level user application.

The Environmental Marine Information System offers the possibility of 
providing spatial and temporal information supporting the assessment and 
monitoring of European regional seas like eutrophication indicators and 
related physical and biological marine variables (e.g. sea surface 
temperature, chlorophyll-a concentration, mixed layer depth, primary 
production, etc.) derived from satellite remote sensing and/or numerical 
modelling. The information system provides a wide set of tools which 
allows to navigate, browse and interrogate the map in different ways. 
This allows the user to perform its own assessment of the status and 
trends in the European regional seas or in a marine sub-area of its 
choice. The further developments of the system will also seek synergies 
with the advancements of the Water Information System for Europe (WISE) 
which does not include, at the moment, marine information. For more 
information contact: Wolfram Schrimpf (wolfram.schrimpf(at)jrc.it) or 
Samuel Djavidnia (samuel.djavidnia(at)jrc.it). [Source: JRC, Institute 
for Environment and Sustainability, http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int 
<http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/>] 

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Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu


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