Environmental impact assessment of electricity production by photovoltaic system using GEOSS recommendations on interoperability

Within the Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-3 ) of GEOSS, we have developed a scenario called “environmental impact assessment of the production, transportation and use of energy for the photovolt aic (PV) sector through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)”. It aims at providing decision-makers and policy-planners with reliable and geo-localized knowledge of several imp acts induced by various technologies of the PV sect or. The scenario is implemented in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and benefits from the GEOSS interoperability arrangements. The FP7-co-funded EnerGEO project provides a GEOSS compliant Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW) that permits to discover the Web Processing Service (WPS) allowing computation of the environmental impact. A WebGIS client provided by the FP7-co-funded GENESIS platform allows users to interact with geospatial data and computation processes. This scenario has p roven to be an efficient tool to disseminate knowle dge on environmental impacts related to PV because of the GEOSS capabilities in interoperability.

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