Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) 

The goals of DIAS are a contribution to realize Japan’s comprehensive security and safety of national citizens according to collect and storing earth and each area’s observation data for a long time; to analyze such data in combination with socio-economic data, and convert data into information useful for crisis management with respect to global-scale environmental disasters, and other threats; and to make this information available within Japan and overseas.  Internationally, DIAS has connected to many data centers from all over the world of Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) participating countries. Furthermore, DIAS is also evaluated as the precedent case in terms of working most comprehensively on reviewing e-Infrastructure for interdisciplinary and super interdisciplinary collaboration within Belmont Forum, a forum among science and technology funding agencies (quoted from the Website).  The portal of databases and applications is here.