Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Geosciences is a multidisciplinary subject.

It utilizes informatics and telecommunications technologies to facilitate the exploitation and the fruition of Earth Sciences results. The key objective is providing the Information Society with Earth Sciences resources, in a near-real-time and transparent way.

The standardization process of Geospatial Information is extremely important for providing systems interoperablity and enable the development of effective Spatial Data Infrastructures.

ESSI-Lab vision

Our vision is based on the following main points:

1.     accept present and future heterogeneity

2.     share data and services according to your data policy

3.      implement interoperability

4.     adopt de-facto standards

5.     think about (Web) services and resources

6.      mediate models

7.     adapts protocols

8.      decouple components

9.     reuse software

ESSI-Lab activities

Research and Development

Laboratory of Earth and Space Science Informatics of the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (IIA) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) Area della Ricerca di Roma1, Via Salaria Km 29,300 Monterotondo, (RM), Italy More information: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Proof of Concept

We have prototyped several software artifacts (e.g. tools, services and MLs), freely available, to demonstrate the feasability and effectiveness of our vision.

Try them! If you want to know more, please, contact us.