The SOTERIA
project realizes a wide synergy in the fields of solar-
space- and geophysics to achieve a higher level of processed data and
better understanding of solar and space events having terrestrial
impact. The study of these events has an increasing importance with
the increasing amount of technical equipment (e. g. power lines and
telecommunication satellites) that can be damaged during these
events. The project mobilizes more than 50 experts and significant
resources from EU (including new EU member states) for the process,
analysis, and interpretation of a large set of relevant data of more
than 20 satellites (including 4 ESA missions) and the complementing
ground-based data. It aims at providing better data bases and new
methods to access and analyze them. The new databases go beyond the
present state-of-the-art in details, and their on-line publication
facilitates fast access to the open data acquired during these
missions. The data will be further connected with new theoretical and
simulation models and their usage will provide the expected impact of
improvement of the scientific results that can be obtained from
collected space data. The outputs will provide a long-term
dissemination contributing to a higher level space monitoring system,
and more reliable space weather forecast ability.
In the proposal all the aspects are
related to the effective exploitation of scientific data from space
missions. The project fulfills the expectations of Work Program on
space science by “developing tools to archive, access and process
the data”, and realizing research as “downstream R&D
activities complementing space missions”, in such a field where “a
strong need for further scientific analysis of data can be
demonstrated”. The set of deliverables “enhances the
effectiveness and productivity of the European scientific community
in terms of usage of this data”. The research work will be
accompanied with educational and SME-related activities as well as
public events.