ERA-Planet

In the last decade a significant number of projects and programmes in different domains of environmental monitoring and Earth observation have generated a substantial amount of data and knowledge on different aspects related to environmental quality and sustainability. Big data generated by in-situ or satellite platforms are being collected and archived with a plethora of systems and instruments making difficult the sharing of data and knowledge to stakeholders and policy makers for supporting key economic and societal sectors.

The overarching goal of ERA-PLANET is to strengthen the European Research Area in the domain of Earth Observation in coherence with the European participation to Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the Copernicus. The expected impact is to strengthen the European leadership within the forthcoming GEO 2015-2025 Work Plan. ERA-PLANET will reinforce the interface with user communities, whose needs the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) intends to address. It will provide more accurate, comprehensive and authoritative information to policy and decision-makers in key societal benefit areas, such as Smart cities and Resilient societies; Resource efficiency and Environmental management; Global changes and Environmental treaties; Polar areas and Natural resources.

PARTNERS

• Aarhus University (AU)
• ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER POLAR-UND MEERESFORSCHUN (AWI)
• ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI (AUTH)
• ARMINES (ARMINES)
• BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ACADEMY OF ATHENS
• Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG)
• Chalmers University of Technology (CHALMERS)
• Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS)
• FAU (FAU)
• FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (FMI)
• Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB)
• Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT-PT)
• Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i. (CVGZ)
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
• Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
• HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM GEESTHACHT ZENTRUM FUR MATERIAL- UND KUSTENFORSCHUNG
• Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
• Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL)
• Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI)
• Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
• Masaryk University (MU)
• Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (MFN)
• National Center for Scientific Research (DEMOKRITOS)
• National Center for Scientific Research/INSU (CNRS-INSU)
• NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS (NOA)
• National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
• Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
• Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
• Project Management Juelich / Research Centre Juelich (PTJ/FZJ)
• Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN)
• Space Research Institute under NAS and National Space Agency of Ukraine (SRI)
• Stockholm University (SU)
• University of Calabria (UNICAL)
• University of Geneva (UNIGE)
• University of Nottingham (NU)
• University of Padova (UNIPD)
• Utrecht University (UU)