SAMDAT | Service and archive for mass distribution and mass transportation data
The “International Center for Global Earth Models” (ICGEM) provides global Earth gravity field models and related data products to the international user community. The aim of the SAMDAT project is to extend and modernize the ICGEM service including the existing database and the integrated calculation and visualization services.
The SAMDAT project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), aims to increase the performance of the ICGEM service to meet the growing demands of users. The planned improvements cover the following aspects:
- Scientific and technical expansion of the existing database with new and interoperable platforms as well as additional and reformed research data and metadata,
- Modernization and expansion of the calculation and visualization services integrated in ICGEM, for which there is great interest in the scientific user community and in society.
- Direct connection to GFZ Data Services in order to trigger the DOI service for gravity field models, which has existed since 2015, directly in the ICGEM service.
Time frame
- June 2024 – May 2027
Funding Agency
- This project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Information Infrastructures for Research Data Funding Agency program (see also: gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/527258067).
Project coordination
- Sinem Ince (GFZ 1.2)
- Kirsten Elger (GFZ 5.1)
- Thomas Gruber (TU München)
Personell
- Christoph Förste (GFZ 1.2
- Josef Niedermaier (TU München)
- Alexander Torkhov (GFZ 5.1)
- Metehan Uz (GFZ 1.2)
Cooperations
- GFZ Sektion 1.2 Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field
- GFZ Sektion 5.1 Data and Information Management
- Technische Universität München, Ingenieurinstitut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie
Publications
- Ince, E. S., Barthelmes, F., Reißland, S., Elger, K., Förste, C., Flechtner, F., and Schuh, H. (2019): ICGEM – 15 years of successful collection and distribution of global gravitational models, associated services, and future plans, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 647–674, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-647-2019
Read more
ICGEM Website: https://icgem.gfz.de
