The Geothermal Information Platform (GIP)

Abstract

In a century of history, geothermal exploitation for power production and direct uses of geothermal heat has provided a large knowledge, and also underlined the different aspects characterising geothermal world. The exploitation of geothermal energy not only requires the knowledge of underground conditions and of different technologies, but also other relevant items such as regulatory, economical and social. A huge variety of information, such as research roadmap, training, energy demand, market request, needs and gaps, draws a complex picture. Advanced Business Intelligence (BI) tools, advanced catalogue software, advanced webGIS tools, platform for managing different users and roles, advanced and performance Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), are well known and largely used in geothermal but none of these is completely integrated. GIP is thought as a unique tool that can ensure a 360° data browsing (e.g., browsing from a catalogue to a document, from a document to a tabled info or spatial data) and allowing a deep survey into the geothermal knowledge.