User's Questionnaire

In order to better understand the interests and the needs of the future potential users, ASRC has developed a survey questionnaire. By filling it in, the organizations interested in the future application will have the opportunity to express their needs and expectations regarding an application that we will provide.

If you consider ESPOSS application to be of interest for you, we kindly invite you to fill in the questionnaire that can be found below.

Please do not hesitate to forward this questionnaire to other potential users that might be interested in the ESPOSS application.

Organization name In which country is your institution/company (headquarter) based? Type of organization: Approx. number of employees Contact person name Contact person position Contact person e-mail Are you already using satellite based products or services?

If yes, which kind?

Which of these products are of relevance for you (please select one or several):

Is sea information used as input for generating your (value-added) products or services? Are you using sea products operationally? Are the EO-products automatically used by your processing software or manual operator interaction is needed? Which data sources do you presently use for your sea products or services?

In-situ measurements
Spatially interpolated in-situ measurements
Modelled data (e.g. climate models)
Products from satellite data
Other

Other product

Does the present solution you use in your organisation meet your requirements? How relevant are the requirements of the ESPOSS sea products according to your needs?

How often do you need (updated) sea products?

What is the data latency for sea products (time from data acquisition to delivery)?

What are the spatial resolution requirements for sea products?

Which map projections for sea products do you prefer?

Geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude)
UTM
Stereo70
ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA
Other

Other projection

Which raster data formats do you prefer?

GeoTiff
HDF
NetCDF
JPEG/PNG/GIF + world file
Other

Other raster format

Which vector data formats do you prefer?

ESRI Shapefile
GML
KML
GPX
Other

Other vector format

Which software systems are you using?

ESRI ArcGIS
Intergraph Geomedia
MapInfo
Open Source (QuantumGIS, GRASS GIS, etc.)
Other

Other software

Are you familiar with the INSPIRE directive services and technical requirements? What is the best way to discover products via metadata search? How would you like to view ESPOSS products?

View in ESPOSS Web-GUI displayed in browser
View in other Web-GUI (INSPIRE, GEOSS, etc.)
View using ESPOSS OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) from own client (e.g. your GIS Software, ERDAS Imagine, etc)

Which are the most suitable downloading methods of ESPOSS products for you?

Using ESPOSS OpenGIS Web Feature Service (WFS) from own client
Using ESPOSS OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) from own client
Using ESPOSS File Transfer Service (FTP) and file naming conventions from own client
Using ESPOSS Web-GUI (Graphical User Interface) in combination with a dedicated ESPOSS (batch) download manager installed on own computer (e.g. used for subscription)

How would you like to exploit processing services shared by the ESPOSS project?

Invocation in ESPOSS Web-GUI displayed in browser
Using ESPOSS OpenGIS Web Processing Service (WPS) from own clients

Which are the necessary options for data uploading (typically in connection with process service for “production on demand”)?

Upload of reference data (e.g. user-provided in-situ measured features) using ESPOSS OpenGIS Web Feature Service Transactional (WFS-T) from own client
Upload of reference data (e.g. user-provided digital terrain data) using ESPOSS OpenGIS Web Coverage Service Transactional (WCS-T) from own client
Upload local file in ESPOSS Web-GUI displayed in browser

Additional information Do you want to be informed on the progress of ESPOSS and will participate in the User Group?

The ESPOSS User group is a group of potential end users of sea products. Members of the User Group will:

Contribute to collection of user needs in workshops and by direct consultations;
Will have access to technical background and information of the ESPOSS products;
Will be informed on ESPOSS progress and News;
Will have access to ESPOSS products during demonstration phase;
Will get support on using ESPOSS products in their applications;
Can participate in user trainings for accessing and using the ESPOSS services;
Participation in the User Group is free of charge.

News & Announcements

2014 Conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS '14)

Posted Jan 15, 05:14 PM
News: Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science 2014

Posted Jan 7, 02:11 PM
MyOcean Science Days

Posted Dec 20, 04:40 PM
World Environment Day - Small Islands and Climate Changes

Posted Jun 6, 12:55 PM
Black Sea - Kassandra forecast system

Posted May 21, 04:43 PM
ESPOSS New Features

Posted Apr 28, 01:03 PM
Cooperation with GeoEcoMar

Posted Apr 28, 12:16 PM
FOSS4G Europe 2014

Posted Apr 24, 05:56 PM
Earth Observation for Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Science 2014

Posted Apr 24, 04:51 PM
Second ESPOSS Workshop

Posted Oct 7, 10:12 PM

	No relevance	Low relevance	Medium relevance	High relevance	Essential
Ocean Colour
Surface Temperature
Surface Salinity
Currents and altimetry
Other
Other
Other

	I do not need this product	It's nice to have	Important	Very important	Crucial
Sea Surface Temperature
Sea Surface Salinity
Suspended sediments
Chlorophyll
Water clarity (K490)
Currents
Other
Other
Other

	1 day	3 days	1 week	1 month	3 months
Sea Surface Temperature
Sea Surface Salinity
Suspended sediments
Chlorophyll
Water clarity (K490)
Currents
Other
Other
Other

	6 h	12 h	1 day	3 days	1 week
Sea Surface Temperature
Sea Surface Salinity
Suspended sediments
Chlorophyll
Water clarity (K490)
Currents
Other
Other
Other

	< 250 m	250 m	500 m	1 km	5 km
Sea Surface Temperature
Sea Surface Salinity
Suspended sediments
Chlorophyll
Water clarity (K490)
Currents
Other
Other
Other