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The President of the National Research Council has authorized, by decree of5 August 2011, the geoSDI team to set up to Spin Off.

The decree comes just days before major international meetings of the teamand close partnerships with various corporations.

The plan envisages the creation of a mixed structure which can ensure the development and distribution of products and services constituting the SpinOff

Within weeks of the placement will be assessed 65% of the share capital of the Spin Off will be, 35%, in the hands of researchers of CNR, which have allowed the construction.

The researchers Dimitri Dello Buono, Francesco Izzi, Lorenzo Amato, Giuseppe La Scaleia and Donato Maio as soon as possible will create a company to propose geoSDi services on the market.

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THE VISION

The ESS (Earth System Science) are ultimately characterized as an attempt, more effective structures to organize more or less homogeneous in SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) and then be able to ensure interoperability within its borders. The effort, however, we must do now is to ensure that the various ESS can be integrated at the application level and then interact with each other creating a kind of ESSS (Earth System of Systems Sciences).

The projects and services that GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) begins to ensure, and which are in progress, always offer more opportunities to be able to provide data, information and services that help to solve problems simple or complex, but nevertheless are of a certain Community importance for the scenario.

Recently, events in which the various international organizations were invited to offer their support have required a massive use of GMES services and they have been made available and disbursed and were crucial in decisions and the operational definition of useful scenarios of involved.

The recent earthquake in Italy (Abruzzo Region), the environmental disasters, the earthquake in Haiti and Chile and other recent events have been characterized in addition to the exceptional complexity and type of the events themselves for increasing use of proprietary GMES systems.

G-Mosaic, Cosmo Sky Med, satellite data, different types of processing carried out by the UN offices in Ithaca and other piers interesting data, information and services are well established and their use is standard practice when the organs and institutions of various kinds and from various sources are to work together and interact on the international scenario.

Precisely this growing resource and availability information from different sources raises new issues on the table and required to maintain a high level of efficiency in the optimal use of new products. In fact, the need to make the results, whether they are data, information or services in a single environment at application level is the new frontier that arises GMES also stimulated by the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Data in Europe), that already anticipated this problem.

During the last emergencies occurred, the actors in the field are many, all engaged in a massive way with its focus on the exchange of data but not the top priority for their work on their processing, analysis, timeliness, quality and also the need to get the contribution.

Their minds and their resources are so engaged in developing, conducting audits, the analysis results. The exchange and return of data, information and services rather is a goal that must be achieved and then tackled and resolved upstream by a method which enables the application-level interoperability: the much-desired and mentioned "Cooperation or Application Interoperability of systems".

The aim of this project, from our technical point of view, is the development and customization of a new suite we named GeoSDI2, that we will realize from the evolution of the previous GeoSDI1 project (http://www.geosdi.org) we already developed for the Italian Civil Protection Dept, that seek to implement an integrated and open (in the sense of the term for the use of technologies and products) for the 'effective and safe way to allow interoperability of data access and exchange information according to a variety of new approaches to navigation of the data within it and propose an application layer specifically delegated to the management of events, directed and designed by a modern engine management and workflow states.

To be able to endure long processing and the possible use of cooperative services, the new platform includes the use of native features Cloud and Grid Computing, in order to provide the services according to the SaaS (Software as a Service) or a modern variation the paradigm of the ASP (Application Service Provider) to enable even the smallest government, or group of individuals, to share the same infrastructure and to distribute the computing power of all. In this way one could also encourage the take-over of the system by the responsible local entity.

The new design also provides the ability to use all the information in geographic information systems currently in use by public administrations and organizations that already were equipped with, as well as the ability to integrate with these systems by data provider ad-hoc and / or 'adoption of protocols and methods typical of a common eGov infrastructure, like SPC (Public Connectivity System) are now well established.

The experience of the research centers of excellence involved: CNR (Italian National Council of Research) and the ability to develop new application components offered, the company that has already implemented vertical solutions on GeoSDI (vertical modules for managing taxes, video surveillance, urban, forested, etc.) and the involvement of some industries for process and technical aspects of functional combine to propose the creation of a result Industrial great excellence, which can ensure the community's national GMES a new, more powerful platform for interoperability and usability of data, information and services that GMES already counts among its products and / or make available in future, in addition to allowing a transfer of technological excellence by a specific agreement.

Earth observation and orchestration of processes inherent in the work of those who carry out this role is characterized by: data, information and services that return in many ways what is proper to the world around us and the way in which we live. Often the return "summary" of the world we live in very specialized and focuses on issues and expertise to create these systems that acquire, process and evaluate data and information in all modes of expressing considerable specialized sectored performance, but also often fail in cooperation with other equally specific.

Lack of cooperation by itself already causes considerable damage to the use of information, but if we add the fact that no system of data management or any Web-GIS platform currently has an internal management engine of the states (Workflow management for dynamic and / or harder Human Workflow) you can imagine why Italy should always depend on the decision of one man, or group, in order to bind events to actions.

In fact, the issues of interoperability and application cooperation must be defined and implemented most of the administrative management policies, which operate in all those cases where in addition to data and / or information, must be triggered by an organizational process or an administrative or technical new sets of proceedings to share information with various service subscribers (users).

For example, if the Web-GIS platform is linked to sensors for monitoring of any item (soil, water, etc) to change the initial state not only has to come a communication to all affected subscribers, and each of them must be received in a standard format and immediately available, but should (or could) have triggered a series of actions, perhaps dependent on different circumstances and each requires that different levels of action and by multiple parties, even belonging to different administrations. At the same way it could operate if, for Healthcare purposes, these kinds of devices are connected to Hospitals, Research Centre, epidemiological centers, etc.

For example, the occurrence of an earthquake, a modern platform that includes Web-GIS geo-referenced information, you may call the management capabilities of states to trigger a series of communications to all stakeholders involved, and each of them to get a set of different information, or better, specialized to make the best decisions: which direction is still active? What are the dangers on every street ? Who should make the decision which way to use the rescue?

The same could be organized, according to a different set of rules and a different protocol of behavior, for the scenario needed by ECDC in the Healthcare and Environment.

Unfortunately, today this kind of information is not communicated to decision makers simply because that information does not reside in the systems and because there are systems integrated with these features, which are very easy to implement and already present in other sectors of the (just think to modern video surveillance systems are often integrated circuits, including event management and "hot pursuit" of anomalies, including sharing all this information with more law enforcements).

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