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European marine sediment information network

Objective



The EUMARSIN project aims to provide a tool to assist integrated management of the European coastal and marine environment. The team of 12 proposers plans to develop and operate a public domain GISbased electronic database network designed to give wide access to information already obtained from our work in the European Seas but which has not yet been fully integrated into a single European system. The information will be based on our own marine sediment meta-data banks which represent 133,000 sample points and will consist of geochemichal analyses, sedimentological and bathymetric data required to enable first approach studies for a wide variety of users. Users will be able to access knowledge of the nature and quality of sea bed sediments by identifying the sources where the required data are stored.
The project objectives are:
- To formulate and put into use an acceptable set of terms of reference for the marine sediments held by organisations and institutions in the EU countries; - To develop the marine sediment data and their geochemical, sedimentological and bathymetric analyses into meta-data banks and to organise a system for disseminating these data products to potential users; - To make available to users international sea bed surface maps of the European Seas which will include a classification of seabed surface material, bathymetric isolines and locations of available original datasets, related to the metadata base; - To concert the metadata banks with other data management procedures that have been applied to European and international projects carried out in the European Seas; - To develop and apply with the aid of the latest software technology and a promotion and marketing campaign an information infrastructure that will:
1. establish an electronic information exchange between the proposers, in order to manage and maintain the EUMARSIN operation and services; 2. develop and distribute the metadata through a CD-ROM and on the Internet through a World Wide Web site, to EU institutions, decision makers, the public sector, scientists and techologists and private sector business, enterprise and industrial operators.
EUMARSIN project work will be carried out in three phases over a period of 24 months:
- a data modelling and harmonization phase, beginning with a launch event for potential users; - a software and application phase; - an implementation and exploitation phase, including a workshop involving users and a public launch of the EUMARSIN system and products.
The project will be preceded by a 2 month lead-in period and followed by a 2 month wind-down period.

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CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL EXPLORATION
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