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This paper presents the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enabling two European GEO Geohazard Supersites in Italy. According to GEO (Group on Earth Observation) vision, Geohazard Supersites provide access to spaceborne and in-situ geophysical data and models for selected sites prone to natural hazards –noticeably, earthquakes and volcano eruptions. The VRE was implemented in the framework of the Mediterranean Supersite Volcanoes (MED-SUV) project, funded by the European Commission. MED-SUV realized one of the European supersite demonstrators covering the two Permanent Supersites selected in Italy: Mt. Etna and Campi Flegrei/Vesuvius. The MED-SUV VRE provides advanced services for heterogeneous data and information management and sharing. MED-SUV started identifying the main supersite requirements including: the interoperability with existing data/information supply systems, the support of policy-based access control, the access to processing capabilities provided by external platforms, the management resources for publishing and sharing new products, the integration with significant global systems such as GEOSS and EPOS. MED-SUV adopted a System of Systems (SoS) approach to address interoperability with the identified heterogeneous systems supplying data and information. The SoS approach is based on a brokering architecture, where a specialized component (i.e the MED-SUV Broker: MSB) connects the existing and next-coming data sources leaving them autonomous. MSB carries out all the necessary mediation and harmonization tasks exposing standard interfaces enabling the interconnection with external systems like GEOSS and EPOS. In addition, MSB is accessible via a JavaScript library implementing Web APIs to facilitate the development of Web and mobile applications.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology; https://www.iris.edu/
United States Geological Survey; https://www.usgs.gov/
European Integrated Data Archive; http://www.orfeus-eu.org/eida/
Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology; http://www.orfeus-eu.org/
European Plate Observing System; https://www.epos-ip.org/
European Environmental Agency; http://www.eea.europa.eu/
The MED-SUV Data Policy is fully described in Puglisi, G., Sangianantoni, A., & Spampinato, L., MED-SUV Data Policy submitted to Annals of Geophysics, and under publication.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreements no. 308665 (MED-SUV), no. 226487 (EuroGEOSS) and no. 282915 (GEOWOW).
The Authors would like to thank 0053ven Borgstrom, contact person of the Campi Flegrei / Vesuvius Supersite, Fabrizio Papeschi of CNR-IIA for the enhancement of the GI-APIs and the development of the MED-SUV Data Portal, Massimiliano Olivieri of CNR-IIA for the administration of cloud services hosting the MED-SUV infrastructure, and Giovanni Scarpato and Rosario Peluso of INGV Osservatorio Etneo for data collection and publishing of the ASI repository. The Authors would like also to thank all the respondents to the MED-SUV infrastructure questionnaire and the participants in the MED-SUV workshops for their valuable feedback. Finally, they would like to thank Lena Rettori of CNR-IIA for language revision.
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Mazzetti, P., Puglisi, G., D’Auria, L. et al. The MED-SUV virtual research environment for enabling the GEO Geohazard supersites in Italy. Earth Sci Inform 10, 443–455 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-017-0305-7
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