Glossary

Understanding EU, EPOS and other sabir

EPOS, the EC and several EU institutions are using a huge number of acronyms and expressions. Below is a list of some of them. You may also have a look at the EPOS glossary.

A

API: Application Programming Interface

AUV: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

B

BGR: Board Of Governamental Representatives

C

CERIF: Common European Research Infrastructure Format [Learn more]

COMET: Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and tectonics [Learn more]

COPERNICUS: European Programme for the establishment of a European capacity for Earth Observation [Learn more]

CSEP: Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability [Learn more]

D

dataless: same as « metadata »

DDSS: Data, Data products, Software and Services [Learn more]

DEM: Digital Elevation Model

DO: Digital Object

DOI: Digital Object Identifier [Learn more]. Description of the CRL d.o.i.

 

E

Earthcube: [Learn more]

EC: European Commission

ECO: Executive and Coordination Office

EEW: Earthquake Early Warning

EEWS: Earthquake Early Warning System

EFEHR: European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard & Risk

EGDI: EuroSurveys One Geology Europe [Learn more]

EGU: European Geosciences Union [Learn more]

EIDA: European Integrated Data Archive [Learn more]

EMSC: Euro-Med Seismological Centre [Learn more]

EPN: EUREF Permanent Network [Learn more]

EPOS: European Plate Observing System

EPOS-IP: EPOS Implementation Phase

EPOS-PP: EPOS Preparatory Phase

EPOSAR

ERIC: European Research Infrastructure Consortium

ESA: European Space Agency

ESFRI: European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures [Learn more]

ESRIN:

EUREF:

F

FUTUREVOLC:

G

GA: General Assembly

GDM

GEO: Group on Earth Observations [Learn more]

GEP-TEP:

GNSS:

GPS:

GPS84:

H

HEPOS

HELPOS

HR: High resolution

I

ICS: Integrated Core Services [Learn more]

ICS-C: ICS-Central hub

ICS-D: Distributed Integrated Core Services

ICT: Information & Communication Technology

InSAR:

INSPIRE: Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe [Learn more]

INTERMAGNET

IPR: Intellectual Property Rights

ISO

IT: Information Technologies

ITRF: International Terrestrial Reference Frame

IUGS/CGI:

J

 

K

 

L

 

M

MEDSUV: Mediterranean Supersite Volcanoes

MOD

N

NFO: Near Fault Observatory

NRI: National Research Infrastructures [Lear more]

O

OBS: Ocean Bottom Seismometer

OEF: Operational Earthquake Forecasting

OGC:

ORFEUS: Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology

P

PDB: Project Development Board

Q

R

RESIF:

RIDE: Research Infrasctructure Database for EPOS [Learn more]

RINEX:

S

SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar

SCB: Service Coordination Board

T

TCS: Thematic Core Services [Learn more]

TNS: Trans National Access

TNRI: Trans-national Research Infrastructures

U

UNAVCO:

V

VERCE

VO: Volcano Observatory

VRI: Volcano Research Institution

W

W3C

X

 

Y

 

Z

Others

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