Defining the e-Infrastructure needs of european environmental research infrastructures.

The ENVRI project, "Common Operations of Environmental Research infrastructures" is a collaboration in the ESFRI Environment Cluster, with support from ICT experts, to develop common e-science components and services for their facilities. The target is on developing common capabilities including software and services of the environmental and e-infrastructure communities across the very diverse research infrastructures that can be deployed and operated at scale through collaboration with e-Infrastructure providers. This presentation will focus on the common challenges across the research infrastructures relating to data capture from distributed sensors, metadata standardisation, management of high volume data, workflow execution and data visualisation that are faced by applied scientists in this domain, and the early work going on in the project relating to the common standards, deployable services and tools that they will need to undertake their research.