GEOMIND – A Project to Set up a Geophysical Multilingual Internet-Driven Information Service

摘要

Various geophysical databases exist in European countries, both in public and private organisations. They are dispersed and have various standards and languages applied. Thus their usefulness and availability are limited, although geophysical information may be very effectively applied, processed and interpreted for a wide variety of purposes: exploration for mineral resources and groundwater, studying environmental features for spatial planning, construction works or detection of potential geohazards, fresh water exploration and protection, research studies etc. The existence of data is unknown even for geo-experts, or the access of data is very time consuming. Processing will be enhanced if these databases are integrated in a certain level and accessed via the Internet, offering cross-border, European-wide, unified electronic services, making geophysical data much more available. Therefore an Internet-driven multilingual information system, integrating geophysical data coming from national data holdings, is being proposed to be designed, developed and set up, developing also metadata and data representation standards, thus supporting further integration and dissemination of European or global geoinformation holdings. The system will be addressed to local and central authorities, prospecting companies, research and education institutions and citizens.