EMODnet 2

Country / Region: marin areas of Europe

Begin of project: October 1, 2013

End of project: October 15, 2016

Status of project: August 15, 2016

EMODnet

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a long-term project of the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (GD MARE) to support the Horizon 2020 strategy Marine knowledge. GD MARE is the Commission department responsible for the implementation of the Common Fisheries policy and of the Integrated Maritime Policy.

The data infrastructure of the EMODnet project will be developed in three phases. Currently, the second phase runs with seven knowledge portals to marine data in the fields of bathymetry, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, seabed habitats and human activities.

EMODnet portals

Vibrocorer

Many European countries own exhaustive spatial data for their marine areas. However, these data are due to differing technical descriptions currently cross-border hardly compatible. But Pan-European studies and research for policy makers, industry and research rely on harmonized geological records. The ur-EMODnet-project for the northern European seas in scale 1:1 million takes account to this. Nevertheless, there is still a great need for more accurate marine data, also the southern sea areas. Under the umbrella of EuroGeoSurveys therefore departments of European marine geological services in the project "Knowledge Base: Seabed Geology (EMODnet2)" come together.

Workpackages

Based upon the data of the ur-EMODnet project detailed geological and geological data relevant for the off-shore regions of the whole of Europe now will be developed. The goal of the project is to provide these data to all user groups from research, industry, government and the general public via the Internet.

The EMODnet2- Geology project consists of eleven work packages. Led by the BGR Work Package 4 "sea floor geology: compilation and harmonization" (pre-Quaternary, Quaternary) aims to gather geological surface data of the seabed for the whole of Europe in scale 1: 250 000, largely to harmonize and to make available at EMODnet-web portal. For this purpose, BGR has created a guide with work instructions and standards for semantic harmonization and alignment to the INSPIRE-data specifications and made it available within the project to all partners. Based on this document, involved Geological Surveys prepare their off-shore data at scales of 1: 250 000. From this, BGR will create a pan-European data layer for pre-Quaternary and Quaternary geology in the marine environment, including information related to lithology, age (geochronological), genesis and faults.

Workshop Feb. 2015

The theme geomorphology is also required for the description of the seabed and have been discussed with the work package 6. Therefore, BGR organized a one-day workshop for laying down the terms at the Commission of the Geological Map of the World (CGMW) in Paris in February 2015.

Partner:

34 European geological surveys and research institutes