Euro Geo Source

Why? A central problem Europe is facing today is to secure its energy and non-energetic minerals supply. Since disruptions and shortages are immediately felt by the citizens and can have large impact on economy as well as repercussions on foreign relations, energy security is today very high in the political agendas across Europe and at the Commission. EU authorities currently compile their long-term policies regarding the need for oil, gas and minerals, including estimates of the required import, from national reports contributed by the member countries. These reports contain only generalized information regarding reserves and production forecasts for a country as a whole. They generally do not contain detailed information on oil and gas fields or the storage capacity of depleted reservoirs. In addition, information about the oil and gas infrastructure connecting countries and fields is available only at an aggregate level. The high level of generalization of the hydrocarbon reserve information available at EU level and the lack of easily accessible, reliable and detailed data that could support decision making do not allow a fast response to crisis situations and significantly reduce the accuracy of the long-term planning of the geo-energy supply of Europe. AIM In three years the project will develop the EuroGeoSource web GIS system. This multilingual system will allow users to identify, access, use and reuse aggregated geographical information on geo energy and mineral resources, covering at least ten countries in Europe. The EuroGeoSource system will enable services for the registration of data sets from different countries, the visualization and overlay of the information layers obtained from distributed sources, spatial analysis, and so on. The implemented solutions will provide easy and fast access to a large and economically valuable data set for all relevant user groups in the Community. Technology The system will have a software architecture based on distributed web OGC-compliant services that will be responsible for serving the data from different sources/data providers. The software will include the RDBMS software, web application server and web map server, at a minimum. The software components will run on the corresponding hardware infrastructure located in the participating countries. The data delivery channels will include online visualization of spatial and attribute data, as well as ordering the source data, according to the security guidelines of the data provider, and including pricing and terms of use (via e-mail and/or order form, etc).