Opening

7th EC-GI & GIS WORKSHOP EGII

- Managing the Mosaic Potsdam, Germany,

June 13-15, 2001

Historic View of the Telegrafenberg

Science Campus Telegrafenberg

• Astrophysical Institute

• Alfred Wegener Institute

• Deutscher Wetter Dienst

• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

• GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

The GFZ is member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF)

Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF (90%)Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Culture of theState of Brandenburg MWFK (10%)

Basic financing: 65 mio DMThird party funding: 31 mio DM

595 employees of which 290 are scientists

GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

• physics of the earth

• geodynamics, transport processes and natural ressources

• climate variability und sealevel changes

• integrated observation systems

• natural hazards and geoengineering

Research Object System Earth

on site project data management

information management

value added services for modelling

CHAMP - Challenging Mini-Satellite Project

CHAMP - Challenging Mini-Satellite Project

CHAMP Information Products• gravity, magnetic, and electric field• atmospheric sounding

Product Definition • structure of data sets • metadata

Product Management • archiving, • dissemination• security

Technical Visit

CHAMP - An Integrated Approach to Satellite Data and Information Management

Friday 14:00