After months of hard work the Eye On Earth project has been launched and released to the public (go take a look).

The project undertaken for the European Environmental Agency allows users to view and rate up to date environmental information about both the air and water quality around Europe, utilizing many bleeding edge technologies such as Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Silverlight, the new Bing Maps control along with many more.

Here is just a short snippet from the official press release, that can be read in full here.

Eye On Earth gets not just a fresh look and feel for both air and bathing water information, it also becomes one of the newest applications built on Windows Azure and SQL Azure hosting the Geo Observatory Data Store. The site’s user interface provides interactive information from Europe-wide to street level, based on data from air-quality measurement stations and citizens’ input. It translates scientific data into easily understandable terms.

I will be posting more information about the project and what I have learned in helping to developing the solution, especially with regards to Azure in future posts.

Site Link – http://eyeonearth.eu/