News from the ThermoMap Project

Apr. 06, 2011 – Erlangen, Germany and Bucharest, Romania have hosted the first two meetings of partners of the ThermoMap project, with work well and truly commenced. ThermoMap stands for “Area mapping of superficial geothermic resources by soil and groundwater data” and started in September 2010. By September 2013, ThermoMap aims at fostering the environment information in order to develop shallow geothermal systems across Europe.

Much geographical data exists in the European Member States that is not accessible for the public. ThermoMap will develop a solution to combine the existing datasets for an area visualisation of geothermic resources by soil and groundwater data.

ThermoMap intends to visualize geothermal resources in superficial zones of the earth crust to 10 m depth by maps of medium to larger scales
Objectives of the project are:

• Exploitation of digital content by citizens, governments and businesses (overall target of the programme)

• Provide a target group specific ICT system

• Increase the use of spatial data by public and private sector organisations and citizens especially in the field of superficial geothermal resources

• Harmonisation of geographical information for superficial geothermal resources across Europe

• Involvement of European stakeholders

• Widespread dissemination

EGEC is responsible for the dissemination aspect of the project, and to this end the ThermoMap website has been launched on the 15th of December.

Source: EGEC