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Welcome to the EuroPlanet IDIS Technical Node Homepage

This is www.idis.europlanet-ri.eu, the technical node of the Integrated and Distributed Information Service as part of the EuroPlaNet project, started with the support of the European Commission under the 6th Framework Program "Structuring the European Research Area" - Research Infrastructures Action.

Its development into an international research support environment is supported by the European Commission's 7th Framework Program, Europlanet Research Infrastructure, grant agreement 228319, as part of the Capacities Specific Programme / Research Infrastructures.

The EuroPlaNet Information Service

The EuroPlaNet information service provides access to lists of researchers, laboratories and data archives relevant for many aspects of planetary and space physics. Information can be accessed via search tools in the technical node or directly via services available in the different thematic nodes. Select any of the nodes presented in the link list above.

IDIS is built around six nodes located in different European countries. Each node deals with a subset of the disciplines related to planetary sciences, works together with international experts in these fields and provides a wealth of information to the international planetary science community. IDIS is complemented by a set of other EuroPlaNet activites under the responsibility of separate institutions. Each activity maintains its own Web-site with cross-links pointing to the other elements of EuroPlaNet. General access is provided via the EuroPlaNet Homepage.

The intention of IDIS is to provide easy-to-use access to resources like people, laboratories, modeling activities and data archives related to planetary sciences. IDIS by itself is not a repository of original data but rather supports the access to various data sources. These include already now several data access centers working as Virtual Observatories. The final goal of IDIS is to provide Virtual Observatory tools for the access of data from laboratory measurements and ground- and spaced-based observations to modeling results, allowing combining as divergent data sources as feasible.