European Geosciences Union

Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI)

President: Walter Schmidt, walter.schmidt@fmi.fi

Opposed to other divisions concentrating on specific fields of geosciences, this division intends to be a forum for developments in instrumentation, technology, methods and data handling used in any field of the various geosciences. By promoting the discussion between specialists from widely diverse fields, advances in instrumentation made in one field might be utilized in other areas also and encourage co-operation, thereby saving separate development work and making new approaches possible, which otherwise might still have to wait for years or even decades.

As nearly every other field of geosciences is related to one or the other instrumentation strategy, many of the GI-sessions are co-organized with sessions from other divisions. Potential contributors to any session are encouraged to evaluate the benefits of a multi-disciplinary discussion versus the specific interest of the own target group.

The topics and detailed explanations in the following list of sessions held during the past two years explain best the diversity and topics currently under discussion. Proposals for new topics as dedicated sessions or session modifications are always welcome and should be directed to the division president during the program development phase in autumn, proceeding the next year’s general assembly.

The new open-access journal GI – Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems offers a new possibility to publish related subjects in a refereed paper.

List of GI Sessions:

• GI-1: Open Session on Geoscience Instrumentation
• GI-2: General System Design, Image Processing and Data Infrastructures
• GI-3: Atmospheric and meteorological instrumentation
• GI-4 Instrumentation, measurement strategies and methods for ocean-based geoscience investigations
• GI-5 Space Instrumentation, Planetary Landers and Rovers
• GI-6 Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar
• GI-7 Down-hole Instrumentation: Technology and Applications
• GI-8 Instrumentation for Polar Regions Research
• GI -9 From artifact to historical site : geoscience and non-invasive methods for the study and conservation of cultural heritageGI-12 3D Modelling in Earth Sciences

• GI-10 Electromagnetic sensing techniques and geophysical methods for critical and transport infrastructures monitoring and diagnostics

• GI-11 Geophysical tomography with high-energy particles: recent developments and applications
• GI-13 Campaign-based session
• GI-14 GMES Sentinel Satellites: New Possibilities for Science
• GI-15 Data publishing: paving the way to data-intensive science
• GI-16/GD3.2/SM3.9 Exploring crust and mantle under the oceans: innovative instrumentation, processing and interpretation of ocean-bottom data
• GI-17/ESSI13 Open standards and distributed architectures for the Observation Web: from the sensors to the user
• GI-18/SM1.7/CR11.10 Challenges of Polar Seismology: Logistics and technology, glacial and tectonic events
• GI-19/SM1.3/G3.8/GD3.7/TS8.7 Improving seismic networks performances: from site selection to data integration
• GI-20/NH10.2 Methods and IT-Tools Supporting Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Natural Hazards