SANY Sensors Anywhere

Most of the analysis of the Earth Observation (EO) service industry done in the last years shows that the Value Added Companies produce the final deliverable with an enormous effort and have to deal with many data providers.

To overcome this problem and be ready to face new challenges - in particular set by the GMES perspective - ESA is currently running projects aimed at integrating new EO services, from multiple sources and providers, into the Service Support Environment (SSE), a neutrally managed, open and distributed platform that streamlines the definition and prototyping of EO and Geospatial Information Services.

In order to maximize the return from this initiative, ESA wishes to invite current and potential Service Providers to a dedicated workshop to draw lessons learnt from previous experiences and prepare the next activities to come by looking at International scenarios and perspectives. To this effect the 2008 SSE SPs workshop will be extended to host the Sensors Anywhere (SANY) workshop.

SANY IP primarily targets in-situ sensors and sensor networks. Nevertheless, SensorSA can handle EO data sources thanks to inclusion of the ESA SSE platform.

This training workshop primarily targets the SSE developers community. The intention is to:

• give a solid introduction on SensorSA;
  
• show how SANY (e.g. catalogue, pre-processing, fusion, DSS, in-situ sensors...) services complement the existing EO services;
  
• demonstrate the feasibility of data fusion between EO and in-situ sensors within SensorSA and SSE.

Participation:
This training event is open to all interested parties, within the limit of available places.