EPOS-PL+ - 8 million PLN for UPWr

EPOS-PL+ is a continuation of the EPOS-PL - European Plate Observing System, which UPWr scientists have been implementing for several years. The aim of the project is to build a multi-layered, multidisciplinary and interpretative research infrastructure collecting data from distributed measurement systems, and then developing, standardizing and integrating them in the form of databases. An IS-EPOS platform is also being built, which, as a part of EPOS, is the main service of the Thematic Core Service for Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS-AH). Within EPOS+, this node will be supplied with data from a new measuring test site – the Geophysical Safety System for Mining Pillars.

A Centre for Satellite Data Research Infrastructure will be created at the University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wrocław, and will use high resolution radar measurement data for mining area deformation studies, an IT platform for artificial intelligence testing (EPOS-AI) and the existing GNSS Research Infrastructure Centre as well as the GGOS-PL++ task – Global Geodetic Observation System in the Polish area established as part of the EPOS project.

The EPOS-PL+ project is part of a wider enterprise included in the Polish Research Infrastructure Road Map and an element of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). The infrastructure built and modernized under the project is closely related to the European research infrastructure development program, the so-called "Solid Earth" and constitutes its integral part.

The leader of the project is the Central Mining Institute, and the consortium implementing the grant includes also: the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences– the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wrocław, Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Mining Group. The project manager on behalf of UPWr is dr hab. Jan Kapłon from the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics.

The EPOS-PL+ project will be implemented as part of the Smart Growth Operational Program (SG OP). Its total value is over 52 million PLN.