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European Mobile Seismic Instrument Pools

Who we are

Institutions/facilities interested in participation are encouraged to contact the SMC Co-Chairs and the ORFEUS SG.

Motivation, goals, vision

This group is working on improving the collaboration between the large European mobile seismic instrument pools and providing services for easier instrument access. Our goals were identified in Grenoble in late 2019, and can be summarised as follows:

  • Enhance availability of instruments for users
  • Improve information about and access to instruments
  • Increase utilisation of the instruments
  • Support large international experiments
  • Improve expertise on and availability of new instrument types

The goals will be achieved by:

  • Compiling and maintaining a live inventory of existing portable instrumentation and availability for renting
  • Collecting and transparently displaying access and data policies, promoting harmonisation where possible
  • Developing best practices, including software tools, for data curation and management for mobile pools, from site scouting to data archival, curation, dissemination
  • Providing support to joint initiatives: data management plans, training of PIs, scientists and technical staff, etc.
  • Promoting the establishment of and coordinating a European mobile pool, and/or pool swap in Europe.

Products and Services

An initial list of products is provided below; more items will be added as they become available. Currently we work towards an online mobile equipment inventory within EPOS-ON.

  • Best practices for field work, data management, and QC of temporary deployments (being developed in project EPOS SP for AdriaArray) - Download here.
  • Rules and data-transformation tools to help provide FAIR-compliant OBS data and metadata to data centers - OBSinfo
  • Mobile instrumentation inventory compiled by J. Diaz in EPOS IP - website