Project DIAS European DIgital upper Atmosphere Server Overview

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Project DIAS European DIgital upper Atmosphere
ServerOverview

• The project aims on the development of a
  European digital data collection on the state of
  the upper atmosphere
• The digital collection will be based on the
  existing historical and real-time public sector
  collections
• The data are provided by all operating real-time
  European digisondes
• All necessary actions will be performed for the
  efficient promotion of this collection through
  new added value products, to the world market.

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DIAS consortium

• National Observatory of Athens, Greece (NOA)
• University of Athens, Greece (UOA)
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK (CCLRC)
• National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology,
  Italy (INGV)
• Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)
• Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany
  (IAP)
• Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences
  (SRC-WARSAW)
• 01 Pliroforiki, Greece (01P)
• Blustaff, Italy (BLS)

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Project DIAS European DIgital upper Atmosphere
ServerRationale

• Currently, the existing digital European
  stations operate independently
• This independent operation fails to address the
  increased market demands for a unified collection
  of historical and real time upper-atmosphere
  data, especially nowcast and forecast services
  for the European region.
• DIAS will overcome this problem by operating a
  system competitive to those that exist already
  for Australia and the US.

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Groups of potential users of DIAS products and
services

• Aviation industry (civil and military)
• Defense
• Satellite operators
• Commercial satellite designers
• GPS and the future GALILEO system
• Upper atmosphere researchers
• Seismic hazards researchers
• Ground-based systems managers and operators

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DIAS objectives

• To develop a pan-European digital data collection
  on the state of the upper atmosphere based on
  five different historical data collections and on
  the real-time information provided by all the
  existing European digisonde stations.
• To develop a new digital server for the
  management and distribution of this collection,
  based on cutting edge technologies.
• To develop, through the collaboration of the
  private sector companies that belong to DIAS
  consortium, all necessary actions for the
  efficient promotion of this pan-European digital
  data collection and new added value products
  based on the raw data, to the European and
  worldwide market.

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Architecture of DIAS system
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DIAS milestones

• T3 ? DIAS Web site and PPT presentation
• T7 ? Cartography of the market
• T9 ? State of the art report
• T12 ? Establishment of DIAS users network
• T13 ? User needs assessment report
• T15 ? Development of new added value products and
  services
• T21 ? Release of the final Digital upper
  Atmosphere Server
• T22 ? Final business plan for the exploitation of
  DIAS services after the end of the project
• T24 ? Final Conference

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Expected results

• The expected results from the implementation of
  the DIAS project are
• Homogenization of information and harmonization
  of different procedures and policies for data
  access existing in different institutes
• Operation of a unique server in the European
  region based on advanced distributed data
  management technologies competitive to those
  developed by US and Australia
• Production of value-added products that will
  cover the needs of operational applications of
  the private sector.
• Definition of a common marketing policy that
  will substitute the different policies applied by
  each organization.
• Expansion of the particular European market
  through the supply of new products and services.

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DIAS work packages (1/2)
WP1 - Project Management, Assessment and
Evaluation (Lead Contractor NOA) To provide
financial and technical management of the
project to ensure successful completion of
deliverables and to define quality
measurements WP2 - State of the Art (Lead
Contractor IRF) To study and analyze the
operation of similar systems developed worldwide,
mainly in US and Australia to record the added
value products that are delivered in the
commercial, industrial and scientific community
of users. WP3 - Content Generation (Lead
Contractor CCLRC) Design and development of
competitive added value products, best adapted to
the needs of the world market than the existing,
which will be based on the raw digital
ionospheric data provided by all operating
European digisondes that belong to institutes
participating in the DIAS consortium.
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DIAS work packages (2/2)
WP4 - Infrastructure and Technology (Lead
Contractor UOA) The development of DIAS system,
based on a number of distributed servers that
will provide the raw data for the state of the
upper atmosphere over Europe, and will generate
and distribute added value products in real-time.
WP5 - Commercial Exploitation of DIAS products
(Lead Contractor 01P) To study the specific
needs of the market that are not covered by the
existing ionospheric products to define the
policies for the successful promotion of DIAS
products to propose the action that ensure the
practical viability of the project beyond the
phases of the work sponsored by EC. WP6 -
Awareness, Dissemination and DIAS management
structure (Lead Contractor INGV) To disseminate
the possibilities offered by the DIAS server, to
inform the users community on the new added value
products and other deliverables aiming to the
widening of users market in the industrial,
commercial and scientific community to define
the management structure of DIAS system.