Gianluca Luraschi
Project Manager and Application Architect of Earth Observation Systems
European Maritime Safety Agency
Portugal

Biography
I have a 20 years of experience in Information Technologies applied in Geospatial domain. I worked in the private sector as employee, consultant and entrepreneur, and since 2005 I have been working in European Institutions at Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). At the JRC I have contributed to establish the INSPIRE Directive, and currently in EMSA I am the Project Manager and Application Architect of the Earth Observation systems.

Abstract
Multi-Community, Multi-Source Maritime Earth Observation System

During the last years the Earth Observation (EO) community has defined a set of ?building blocks? for implementing an Earth Observation System ? EOS (i.e. the Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility initiative promoted by the European Space Agency). Each of these Building Blocks comprise a set of subsystems that provide Earth Observation functionalities based on standard interfaces: Data Provisioning, Data Acquisition, and Data Delivery. Over the last years the services of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) relying on EO information have expanded beyond the original Oil Spill monitoring community (CleanSeaNet). Currently EMSA is committed to provide EO information to: FRONTEX, MARSURV-3 (EFCA), MAOC-N and the upcoming Copernicus Services. While the former EMSA?s EOS (CleanSeaNet Data Centre) was implemented mainly to address radar satellite images, recently also Optical satellite images and User Provided Data are included within the EMSA?s data portfolio. Therefore on the grounds of interoperability principles (i.e. INSPIRE), EMSA is designing the Earth Observation System (EOS) in order to serve several communities (multi-community) and process several sources (multi-sources). The scope of this presentation is to describe the challenges, and requirements, that EMSA has been considering for the design on the Earth Observation System. In conclusion we intend to eat the elephant, tackle a big project as the Earth Observation System, one bite at a time ? but before it goes off.