Deliverable: D2.1 Requirements, Specifications & Software Development Plan for Underwater Services.

The objective of this first deliverable of the Underwater Sector was to analyze the data and computational requirements collected from the Underwater user communities and related application domains, as a first step to the co-design of innovative services for an interdisciplinary international community of end-users.

After the analysis of the actual needs, the state of the art and various cases-studies from academia (underwater archaeology and marine geology), as well as the energy sector (renewable energy, oil and gas sector), a number of 14 requirements (R1-14) were defined by the service consumers. These were handed over and discussed with the core services providers. After evaluation and classification of the required functionalities, the core service providers set the service specifications in order to identify the EOSC hub service modules to support the development of the Underwater specific services U1, U2 and U3 and proceed to the first release of NEANIAS EOSC underwater services, that will be further evaluated and assessed internally and externally.