title: [Creation and validation of the SPRING Internet site].
abstract: The Internet SPRING site has been created by five pollen european nets in relation with the spanish telephony firm: SADIEL. The aim of this project is to propose different services for persons concerned by pollen allergy (patients, scientists, pharmaceutical firms...) and to provide forecasts across Europe. The project validation was done during four months, comparing forecasts, announced on the site, with the real data obtained weekly by the analysts. Each country was divided in several zones and each zone controlled by three or four analysis sites. For France, six zones were identified and controlled. Others european nets want to joint now the SPRING project and everybody concerned by pollens could be informed daily (by phone or wap) of the pollen concentrations and the allergenic risk in each part of Europe.
authors.affiliation: CEMBREU, Centre Européen Médical et Bioclimatique de Recherche et d'Enseignement Universitaire-Rue Croix-de-Bretagne-05100 Villard Saint-Pancrace-Briançon, France.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Massot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thibaudon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lachasse
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005544:Forecasting; D005602:France; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D011058:Pollen; D006255:Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal; D013030:Spain