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end, I have left the MEDIAS-
France GIP in July 2003, after
Director.
services expected by the national institu-
tions (CNES, CNRS, IRD, METEO-
France, SPOT-Image and CLS) that
extended the life of this Public Interest
Group.
nagement of scientific data is currently
the service most required from this struc-
ture. The computer team (dozen engi-
neers) has succeeded in developing a
high quality know-how to achieve large
multidisciplinary databases. MEDIAS-
France technical products are now well
in-line with the scientists who supply
data, the modelling experts and the
requesting parties who expect the long-
term continuity of these data. Besides the
computer team, several MEDIAS-France
theme experts act as interfaces with pro-
ject scientists.
ment, which combines intensive mea-
surements of the pollution in the area of
Marseilles with digital modelling, in
order to forecast intense pollution events.
The database associated with this experi-
ment is both the most complicated and
the best completed achievement carried
out by MEDIAS-France in the last three
years.
nected with MEDIAS-France activities
in the field of data management.
matic, unit has been launched in 2003.
This national project aims at developing
the supply of bio-geophysical products
characterising land surfaces and derived
from satellite observation. Since the
beginning of 2004, a 6-engineer team
has been carrying out the first national
and European contracts won under the
POSTEL label. The POSTEL thematic
unit is presen-ted in this Newsletter by its
co-ordinator.
Newsletter has regained its size of fifty
pages (whereas the Newsletters 12 and
13 exceeded hundred pages). Second, to
note that the content of the Newsletter
refocuses on information regarding the
services that MEDIAS-France provide
to its users.