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Annex CeMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaTechnical University Of Crete GreeceBundesamt Fuer Strahlenschutz GermanyCoordinatorContact Person: Name: E J PEBESMA, EDZERTel: +31-30-2533051Fax: +31-30-2531145Organisation: UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHTHeidelberglaan 8NETHERLANDS59. Interoperable GMES Services for Environmental RiskManagement in Marine and Coastal Areas of Europe(INTERRISK)Background and ObjectivesFunded under 6th FWP (Sixth Framework Programme)Research area: IST-2005-2.5.12 ICT for Environmental Risk Managementhttp://interrisk.nersc.no/The overall objective is to develop a pilot system for interoperable GMES monitoring and forecasting services forenvironmental risk and crisis management in European marine and coastal areas. This pilot, the InterRisk system,will consist of a web portal offering access to all services, a suite of components for registration, maintenance anddiscovery of services, and a network of services in Norwegian, UK/Irish, French, German, Polish and Italiancoastal waters.The consortium will capture and analyse users' and service providers' requirements for sustainable GMESservices, and design an open system architecture to accommodate the identified needs, based on established GISand web services protocols, and compliant with INSPIRE recommendations. Ontologies and application schemasfor the targeted application domains, monitoring and forecasting of oil spills, harmful algal blooms, eutrophicationand environmental degradation, will be developed to enable data and metadata harmonisation between differentservice providers. Services will be implemented by a group of service providers in the consortium and integratedin the InterRisk system.The services will be based on satellite data, in situ data and numerical models needed to monitor and forecastmarine environmental degradation and crisis events. Both basic services, such as satellite data processing, in situdata delivery, model simulations, metadata catalogues, and complex services that will use several of the basicservices, will be developed. Examples of complex services are oil spill fate prediction and water qualitymonitoring.The network of InterRisk services will be embedded in the ESA Service Support Environment (SSE), which willprovide the underlying infrastructure for the InterRisk system. Incremental development of services and SSEcomponents will be used to facilitate rapid feedback from users and service providers, leading to improvedproducts and services that can be sustained after the project.Project detailsProject Acronym: INTERRISKProject Reference: 035253Start Date: 2006-09-01Duration: 36 monthsProject Cost: 4.26 million euroContract Type: Specific Targeted Research Project292