The first consortium meeting since the KoM is quickly approaching and this means the first year of the ERMES project is over. Apart from technical discussion and reporting about what project partners did over the past months, the meeting also includes a dedicated session with users and stakeholders for demonstrating, among other project results, the first release of the prototype application for the regional service. The prototype has obviously a few features right now (we started developing in January!) but tries to focus on essential features that are real needs for users. UJI team has just submitted the deliverable 7.1 “Spatial Data Infrastructure for ERMES geo-data and geo-information “ and is working hard on getting a first prototype up and running for the next project meeting by the end of March. The screenshot below shows a minimal user interface (work in progress, of course) to let users explore and compare sets of raster data files. In this case, the prototype allows to pick up one raster file (e.g., an NDVI image) from the 2014 NDVI time series collection for the northern of Italy. The client application interacts with an Image Service that’s based on a Mosaic data model for managing a catalogue of related raster data files.   Other project partners are building different pieces that will make up of an ERMES SDI. There are data providers who produce data products especially targeted to fulfil the project needs, and also create the associated metadata records. Others are tuning modelling solutions to be executed at regional and local scale. Others are developing data models schemas for the regional and local case because data requirements vary at each level.  So, there are right now so many developments in parallel at the data, service and client layers that need to be smoothly connected over the next months to form a cohesive and operational platform for deploying the ERMES application on top. This is a different story for next posts.