aera, an integrated solution to share spatial air emission

Firenze, 26th June 2013

AERA, an integrated solution to share spatial air emission data

Piedmont Region Consortium for the Information System

Simona Costamagna CSI-Piemonte, Territory Area

Firenze, 26th June 2013

CSI-Piemonte

www.csipiemonte.it/en

CSI-Piemonte is a public consortium grouping a large number of public bodies and it is organized along private lines. We focus on the development and operation of Information & Communication Technology projects for the public sector

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AERA (Air Environment Regions ALCOTRA) is a project developed in the operational framework of Italy/France Programme 2007-2013. www.aera-alcotra.eu

AERA - ALps COopertation TRAns-frontier programme


AERA partnership involves : Piemonte Region, Liguria Region, Valle d’Aosta Region, Rhone-Alpes Region and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region.

CSI-Piemonte is a technical partner of the Piemonte Region working on the ICT components, as expected in the sub-activity 3.2 “Implementation of tools to support the planning”


in order to improve the efficiency of protection plans for air quality and identify joint preservation strategies in cross-border areas

(“CAFE” Directive 2008/50/EC)

AERA is focused on:

comparing different air quality monitoring methods, in order to find critical points and possible technical interventions;

identifying common protection measures through procedural and normative instrument choices;

implementing shared information system on emissions inventory data, to arise both efficiency of public administration managements and citizen awareness.


The developed tool allows the identification of zones and agglomerations at risk for exceeding assessment thresholds for air pollutants specified in Annex II - Section A of the 2008/50/EC Directive on ambient air quality.

The tools can be useful to support

not only air-related decision processes (air quality plans), but also every kind of sustainable development assessment,

such as urban traffic plans, energy plans, EIA procedures and land use plans.

AERA 3.2 “Implementation of tools to support planning”


allows to develop sectorial

environmental policies and to

evaluate benefits of specific action plans in ALCOTRA territory

activities responsible

for major emissions

air concentration of pollutants


Data are calculated using standard algorithms, which express emission values following different parameters: activity types (e.g. energy production, transport, etc.); territorial units (e.g. municipality); fuel types; time period (e.g. year 2008); pollutant types (CO, CH4, CO, CO2, N2O, NH3, NMVOC, NOX, PM10,

PM2.5, PTS, SO2); emission types.

Emission Inventory Methodology


Emission Types AREAL SOURCES Total emissions aggregated to territorial entity domestic heating, small business, commercial, agricultural crops, pastures, forests

PUNCTUAL SOURCES Major plants and landfills energy production, refinery, production of vehicles, foundries, treatment / disposal of waste, chemical industries, food industries, …

LINEAR SOURCES Emission for road traffic


AERA emissions data are classified according to the SNAP nomenclature, defined within the CORINAIR project in order to adopt a clear classification of the many types of sources. SNAP classification is based on the distribution of emissions due to anthropogenic and natural activities into macro-sectors, further articulated in sectors and activities.

Eleven macro-sectors are considered: 1. Energy production and fuel transformation processing; 2. Non-industrial combustion; 3.Industrial combustion; 4. Production processes; 5. Fuel extraction and distribution; 6. Use of solvents; 7. Road transport; 8. Other mobile sources and equipment; 9. Waste treatment and disposal; 10. Agriculture; 11. Other sources and absorptions


provision of a standard format to share emission inventories in order to realize a common base usable in diffusional modeling systems

a Storage suitable for exchanging the output data of the emission inventories

a common database of pollutant emissions, greenhouse gases (source point, linear, area), emission factors to supra-regional scale;

Geo-Viewer: allows to compare data across borders, supporting interoperability services (OGC WMS and CSW) to disseminate and share AERA data and metadata, in order to make them reusable (e.g. in other geoportals of AERA partners).

AERA shared system implementation involves several tools/actions


AERA shared system

GeoViewer (use WMS and CSW OGC standard)

STORAGE (upload file .csv)

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Compliance checks (cod_nuts/cod_com,

cod_mac_set/cod_set/cod-att, cod_napfue, id_unit)

DATABASE POSTGIS (normalization emissions data)

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Consistency controls


AERA – Geoviewer and Geoservices Geoviewer allows to: display AERA Web Map Services:

• “Total Emissions”; • Eleven “macro-sectors” and ten “sectors”; • “Punctual Emissions” is dedicated to major plants and landfills; • “Administrative boundaries AERA” (Municipalities, Districts and Regions).

consult metadata delivered by partners using CSW provided by Piedmont Geoportal through the function “Metadata Explorer”

consult other data served in WMS, useful if overlapped with emission inventory data (e.g.: transport network, buildings, forest fires, forest map)


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Identify on Macro-sector 11 «Other sources and absorptions»


AERA – Discovery Metadata Discovery service is guaranteed in GeoViewer AERA by "Explorer metadata" that uses the Catalog Service Web (CSW) made available by AERA partners. e.g. Piedmont Region standard OGC™ CSW 2.0


AERA – Metadata


The solution is completely open source and based on the following main components: a storage area - restricted access only – with functions of upload,

research and download of regional emissions inventory data. The storage area is accessible to users through a specific Java Web application, allowing each partner to provide his own data, according to pre-defined format specifications. Shared data are always complemented by INSPIRE metadata;

automated procedures Java and PostgreSQL, developed for processing and publication of geospatial data. This component manages data ingestion from the storage area to the storage system, and performs format and structure harmonization;

AERA – Technological Solution 1


Storage system consists of a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database; MapServer provides WMS OGC standard geo-spatial services for

viewing maps; MapStore, a webgis Open Source framework developed by

GeoSolutions - http://mapstore.geo-solutions.it/ - provides the user interface, integrating and orchestrating MapServer OGC services and metadata explorer functionalities to browse the catalogues exposed in CSW format;

User interface is multilingual – Italian, French and English.

AERA – Technological Solution 2


What’s next?

As future steps, the project should increase quality and quantity of shared data, through: extension of pollutants range to macro and micro-pollutants; extension of emissions characterization at sectors level; integration of new emission sources ( e.g. traffic linear emissions); integration of new spatial aggregation levels (e.g. representation in

standard grid 4 km or 1 km).


Future at Technological level

INSPIRE requires a multi-language support and requests a list of all supported languages as well as the default language in the capabilities document We will exploit the new available function of MapServer 6 called “Multi-language for certain capabilities fields” to implement multi-language in the WMS:

http://mapserver.org/ogc/inspire.html#inspire-multi-language-support


Francesco Matera - Piedmont Region Environment Departement S. Costamagna, A. Navarretta, M. Actis Dato. T. De Carli - CSI-Piemonte Territory Area

Thanks for your attention!

Simona Costamagna [email protected]

www.csipiemonte.it/en

aera, an integrated solution to share spatial air emission

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