Overview of the FP7 Project EO2HEAVEN “Earth Observation and Environmental Modelling for the Mitigation of Health Risks”

The project EO2HEAVEN “Earth observation and environmental modelling for the mitigation of health risks” advanced knowledge on the impact of environmental factors on public health outcomes. The multidisciplinary and user-driven project approach focused on the effect of atmospheric pollution (in case studies in Durban / South Africa and Saxony / Germany) on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and the waterborne disease cholera (in a case study in Uganda). EO2HEAVEN has developed methodologies, models, spatial data services (using OGC standards) and applications supporting the main activities involved in environmental health: discovery and acquisition of environmental data, integration of heterogeneous Earth observations (satellite, in-situ and field data), development of models of health effects, development of risk maps and predictions for early warning systems. EO2HEAVEN has specified and implemented a Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII). This is an open architecture based on international standards and geospatial web services supporting the large-scale initiative GEOSS of GEO.