GEO-CRADLE Networking Platform
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Details
- First NameSerge
- Last NameRIAZANOFF
- TitleMr
- PositionDirector
- Email 1serge.riazanoff@visioterra.fr
- Phone 133 9 6130 6628
- Phone 233 6 0784 8456
- Organisation NameVisioTerra
- TypeCommercial
- Website(s)www.visioterra.fr
- Street Namerue Albert Einstein
- Street No14
- Postal Code77420
- TownChamps-sur-Marne
- CountryFrance
Activity Focus
- 1. Which of these statements best describe your Organisation’s role in the value chain?Value-adder(data process-modelling)GIS/mapping service provider
- 2. What are the main thematic areas of activity of your Organisation?Climate change (e.g. climatology- meteorology atmospheric composition- air quality- radiation)Food security (including agriculture and water extremes i.e. floods and droughts)Access to raw materials (e.g. minerals- mining- etc)Energy (including renewables such as solar / wind energy - etc.)
- 3. Has your organisation participated in EO-related projects?No
- 4. Has your Organisation participated in any Copernicus service provision, Copernicus User requirements definition or Copernicus Research & Innovation action?Yes
- Please provide some additional informationAccess / Visualisation / Sharing of Sentinel data and Copernicus products.
- 5. Has your Organisation participated in any GEO/GEOSS SBA Tasks, community activities or initiatives?No
- 6. How would you rate your Organisation’s level of collaboration with other EO actors in your country or abroad?
- A. In your CountryLow(1-4 actors)
- Please expand on the collaboration if appropriate, indicating if possible the contact details of these EO actors.
Regular provision of EO data to oil petroleum companies.
Use of EO data to detect changes along railways.
Production of interferometry maps.
Development of specific software applications to use EO data. - B. AbroadLow(1-4 Actors)
Capacities
- From the list below, please choose all the domains in which your organisation has capacities. 2) Ground-based/In-situ monitoring networks/facilities (of active or passive remote sensors- meteo/atmospheric/water sensors- etc)3) Modelling and computing processing capacities4) EO data exploitation for the provision of value-adding services and products
- 1. What type of ground-based/in-situ networks or facilities do you operate?Other (e.g. Earthquake/Landslide)
- Other Networks or FacilitiesNo in-situ collections
- 2. From the list below, please choose all the networks for which you systematically collect and store data. Other (e.g. Earthquake/Volcanic/Landslide)
- Other Data TypesNo in-situ networks
- Model/Algorithm1
Aggregation of meteorological data to derive climatic trends.
- Which of the following application area(s) does the model serve? Meteorologic/Climatic
- Please specify the source of EO data used in the model.Remote sensing data (e.g raw satellite high-level images)
- Please list the providers of input data for the model
Reanalysis data from ECMWF
- What is the geographic coverage/extent the model applies to?Global
- Link(s) to web server(s)/portals if available or any available description/information
http://visioterra.org/VtWeb/
- Contact details of the person in charge
Grégory MAZABRAUD
- Does your Organisation have sufficient available computing resources for the processing and exploitation of EO data and the models running?Server Clusters
- Please specify
VtWeb infrastructure in VisioTerra (360 TB, 1Gb/s symmetrical)
- Do you deliver services / products that are based on the exploitation of EO data? Yes
- Which of the following areas do your products/services cover? You can choose more than one Inland Water (rivers and lakes)Land Use/Cover & Change (classified activities and statistics)GeologyForestClimateMarine Ecosystems (including pollution-oil spills)FloodsFiresAgriculture (farming-crops-yield-etc)Other (e.g. landslide-earthquakes-etc)
- Please provide some additional details and/or give concrete examples of the products/services.
Monitoring changes in land use / land cover
Tracking drifts of oil spills
Detection and cartography of oil seepages - Do you provide these products/services freely or on a commercial basis?Some are charged for
- Are you using open EO data sources (e.g. EOSAT, USGS, NASA, ESA) for providing services and which?
We use a broad range of data from ESA, ECMWF, NASA, USGS, Jaxa, NGCC
- Which are your main customers / end-users?
ESA, TOTAL
National Activities
- 1. Is there funding for EO activities available in your country? No
- 2. Is there a National Space Policy/Strategy? Yes
- Please specify
Right now, French government is in favour of charged data but this is being changing gradually towards a free data policy.
- 3. Is there a Space Agency in your country? Yes
- 4. Which of the following best describes the level of coordination of EO activities in your country? Basic
- Please provide examples of collaboration between research and private sector entities in your country.
Many projects are on-going through "pôles d'excellence" between universities / research institutes and SME.
- 5. Which of the following best describes the level of interaction between the EO community and decision makers in your country?Scarce
- Please provide examples of EO-based services and/or products in your country which are operationally used by public sector bodies.
GéoPortail
- 6. Can you give examples of high impact EO dedicated workshops organized in your country in the last decade?
See http://lesrencontres.decryptageo.fr/
or http://georezo.net/agenda.php?accueil=1#1507
Engagement in GEO-CRADLE
- 1. Would your Organisation be interested in contributing with its capacities to a regional initiative of GEO and/or Copernicus, addressing regional needs in the domains of Climate Change, Access to Raw Materials, Energy, Food Security and Water? Yes
- 2. Would you be interested in providing feedback to the GEO-CRADLE consortium for establishing a roadmap for the implementation of GEO and Copernicus in North Africa, Middle East and the Balkans? Yes
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