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Project

EUFAR

Title European Facility for Airborne Research in Environmental and Geoscience
Grant Agreement Number 227159
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 01/10/2008 - 30/09/2012
Project URL http://www.eufar.net
Scientific Domain Environmental Sciences
Activity Integrating activities
Action Line Integrated Activity
Transnational Access Yes
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA
Abstract EUFAR is the Integrating Activity for airborne research in Geo-science. It will integrate the airborne community, to ensure that researchers may have access to the most suited infrastructure they need, irrespective of the location of the infrastructure. The EUFAR consortium comprises 33 legal entities. 15 operators of airborne facilities, and 18 experts in airborne research. They contribute to 9 Networking Activities, Trans-national Access to 25 installations, and 3 Joint Research Activities. A Scientific Advisory Committee, constituted of eminent scientists, contributes to a better integration of the users with the operators to tackle new user driven developments. Transnational Access coordination aims at providing a wider and more efficient access to the infrastructures. The working group for the Future of the Fleet fosters the joint development of airborne infrastructures in terms of capacity and performance. The Expert Working Groups facilitate a wider sharing of knowledge and technologies across fields. The activity for Education and Training provides training courses to new users. The working group on Standards and Protocols contributes to better structure the way research infrastructures operate. The development of a distributed data base for airborne activities improves the access to the data collected by the aircraft. All these activities rely on an unique web portal to airborne research in Europe. The working group on the Sustainable Structure aims at promoting solutions for the long term sustainability of EUFAR. Among the JRA, one will develop and characterize airborne hygrometers, the second one will develop and implement quality layers in the processing chains of hyperspectral imagery, and the third one will develop an airborne drop spectrometer based on a new principle.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country)
METEO-FRANCE, France
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, Germany
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN, Germany
OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES, France
COMAT SA, France
PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT, Germany
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany
CENTRUM VYZKUMU GLOBALNI ZMENY AV CR VVI, Czech Republic
UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH, Switzerland
VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS, Belgium
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SURETE NUCLEAIRE, France
Cosine Research B.V., Netherlands
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI, Poland
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG, Germany
SZEGEDI TUDOMANYEGYETEM, Hungary
ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT HELMHOLTZ- ZENTRUM FUER POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG, Germany
GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS, Finland
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNICA AEROESPACIAL, Spain
ENVISCOPE GMBH, MESSTECHNIK FUER UMWELTFORSCHUNG, Germany
STICHTING NATIONAAL LUCHT- EN RUIMTEVAARTLABORATORIUM, Netherlands
VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V., Belgium
MET OFFICE, United Kingdom
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV, Germany
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, Israel
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, Netherlands
PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG, Germany
TA Call European Facility for Airborne Research in Environmental and Geoscience