Authors:
Beata Orlecka-Sikora, Stanislaw Lasocki, J. Kocot, Tomasz Szepieniec, Jean Robert Grasso, Alexander Garcia-Aristizabal, Marc Schaming, Pawel Urban, G.M. Jones, I. G. Stimpson, Savka Dineva, Piotr Sałek, Konstantinos Michail Leptokaropoulos, Grzegorz (...)
Beata Orlecka-Sikora, Stanislaw Lasocki, J. Kocot, Tomasz Szepieniec, Jean Robert Grasso, Alexander Garcia-Aristizabal, Marc Schaming, Pawel Urban, G.M. Jones, I. G. Stimpson, Savka Dineva, Piotr Sałek, Konstantinos Michail Leptokaropoulos, Grzegorz Lizurek, Dorota Olszewska, Jean Schmittbuhl, Grzegorz Kwiatek, Aglaja Blanke, Gilberto Saccorotti, Karolina Chodzińska, Łukasz Rudziński, Izabela Dobrzycka, Grzegorz Mutke, Adam Barański, Aleksandra Pierzyna, Elena Kozlovskaya, Jouni Nevalainen, Jannes Kinscher, Jan Sileny, Mariusz Sterzel, Szymon Cielesta, Tomáš Fischer
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Abstract:
Mining, water-reservoir impoundment, underground gas storage, geothermal energy exploitation and hydrocarbon extraction have the potential to cause rock deformation and earthquakes, which may be hazardous for people, infrastructure and the environment. Restricted access to data constitutes a barrier to assessing and mitigating the associated hazards. Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) provides a novel e-research infrastructure. The core of this infrastructure, the IS-EPOS Platform (...)
Mining, water-reservoir impoundment, underground gas storage, geothermal energy exploitation and hydrocarbon extraction have the potential to cause rock deformation and earthquakes, which may be hazardous for people, infrastructure and the environment. Restricted access to data constitutes a barrier to assessing and mitigating the associated hazards. Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) provides a novel e-research infrastructure. The core of this infrastructure, the IS-EPOS Platform (tcs.ah-epos.eu) connected to international data storage nodes offers open access to large grouped datasets (here termed episodes), comprising geoscientific and associated data from industrial activity along with a large set of embedded applications for their efficient data processing, analysis and visualization. The novel team-working features of the IS-EPOS Platform facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary scientific research, public understanding of science, citizen science applications, knowledge dissemination, data-informed policy-making and the teaching of anthropogenic hazards related to georesource exploitation. TCS AH is one of 10 thematic core services forming EPOS, a solid earth science European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) (www.epos-ip.org).
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