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CASUS is currently setting up infrastructure to provide long term, high quality data on soil data, including information on the ecosystem and biodiversity.
CASUS is currently setting up an infrastructure to provide long term, high quality data on soil data, including information on the ecosystem and biodiversity.
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## Insights in current research at CASUS
As an institute of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf ([HZDR](https://www.hzdr.de/)), the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding ([CASUS](https://www.casus.science/)) is part of the Helmholtz Association. Therefor, the general use of HIFIS infrastructure and services is a good choice, as Michael Bussmann laid down in an [overview](hifis.net/usecases/). Here, he describes a specific use case for HIFIS services from the research field [Earth and Environment](https://www.helmholtz.de/en/research/research-fields/earth-and-environment/).
As an institute of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf ([HZDR](https://www.hzdr.de/)), the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding ([CASUS](https://www.casus.science/)) is part of the Helmholtz Association. Therefor, the general use of HIFIS infrastructure and services is a good choice, as Michael Bussmann laid down in an [overview](hifis.net/use-case/2022/08/04/use-case-casus.html). Here, he describes a specific use case for HIFIS services from the research field [Earth and Environment](https://www.helmholtz.de/en/research/research-fields/earth-and-environment/).
## Repository and analytics platform on soil ecosystem and biodiversity data
Soil is one of the critical ecosystems for the water cycle, CO2 cycle, biodiversity and agriculture.
CASUS is currently setting up infrastructure to provide long term, high quality data on soil data, including information on the ecosystem and biodiversity.
CASUS is currently setting up an infrastructure to provide long term, high quality data on soil data, including information on the ecosystem and biodiversity.
This data is curated and spans over decades and, in some places, almost a century.
Such rich, high quality, long term data is central to better assess the long term development of soil quality, biodiversity and ecological richness as well as its role in the global water and CO2 cycle in the view of global change.
Such rich, high quality, long term data is central to better assess the long term development of soil quality, biodiversity and ecological richness as well as its role in the global water and CO2 cycle from the viewpoint of global change.
The infrastructure that will be used for this project will built up on a very similar architecture as the medical application stack depicted in the use case from research field [Health](hifis.net/usecases/...).
The infrastructure that will be used for this project will be built upon a very similar architecture as the medical application stack depicted in the use case from research field [Health](hifis.net/usecases/...).
Again, the following HIFIS services will be used:
[OpenStack (HDF Cloud)](https://helmholtz.cloud/services?serviceDetails=openstack%20(hdf%20cloud)-FZJ) and [Rancher managed Kubernetes](https://helmholtz.cloud/services?serviceDetails=rancher-desy), a [JupyterHub](https://helmholtz.cloud/services?software=JupyterHub) for data analytics workflows and the [Helmholtz AAI](https://aai.helmholtz.de) for secure access and authorization.
While the provision of such data is a big step by its own, leveraging synergies with other research disciplines in building trustworthy statistical and AI models for such rich and large data sets is an important step to understand the complexity and dynamics of the systems from which this data is collected.
While this data analytics infrastructure is currently being built, a trustworthy, non-commercial, federated cloud infrastructure run by an internationally known and trusted entity is favoured by researchers, guideline organizations, clinics and pharma companies alike as the backbone for such an infrastructure.
While this data analytics infrastructure is currently being built, a trustworthy, non-commercial, federated cloud infrastructure run by an internationally known and trusted entity is favoured by researchers, guideline organizations and other stakeholders alike as the backbone for such an infrastructure.
Helmholtz and HIFIS are the ideal partners for providing such infrastructure across communities and country borders.
Secure and trusted data management and provision, a long-term commitment and the ability to scale such an architecture combined with decades of experience in providing research infrastructures to stakeholders from science to industry are key elements to the sustainability of such data platforms and the soft- and hardware infrastructure needed for them.
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