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TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT - European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU March 25-27, 2009 | Prague, Czech Republic

Better geoinformation for spatial planning:Implementation of GMES services

in the Czech Republic

Christian Hoffmann (GeoVille) & Tomas Soukup (Gisat)

Land consumption in Europe

Urban densification Urban sprawl

A house in the countryside – everyone’s dream …

Land consumption in Europe

Past …

…present…

…future?

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Urban sprawl, land consumption & soil sealing are one of the major challenges for Europe’s environment

Land / soil is a finite and non-regenerative ressource

Pressure from building activities causes loss of ecologically valuable areas

Land consumption in Europe

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How is land consumption developing?> 25% of the EU territory is directly affected by urban land use

> 75% of the European citizens live in urban areas Source: European Environment Agency

Every day, in Germany approx. 100 ha of soil are lost for urban developmentand transport infrastructure Source: Federal Statistical Office Germany

Strategies for soil protection and monitoring systems are neededon European and national level

GMES Spatial Planning services

Earth Observation Earth Observation based applications for based applications for

spatial planningspatial planning

serving needs onserving needs onEuropean,European,

national, andnational, andregional levelregional level

GMES spatial planning services for Europe and its regions:geoland2 Core Information Service

providing users with providing users with geogeo--information information and and toolstools

for better for better policy assessmentspolicy assessments

GMES Spatial Planning services

GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS)Pre-GMES monitoring

Built-up areas

Non-built-up areas

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Delivering timely, harmonised (=comparable) and standardised (=quality-assured) geo-information services for Europe

Do we haveenough free

space?

How sustainableare we using ourland resources?

How densely do we live?

How productiveis our land

consumption?

Is one scenario better than the

other one?

How attractiveis our living

environment?

Sub-national level

National level

European level

Spatial indicators Urban Growth ModelsModels & Scenarios:Landscape transformation

Based on SPOT & Landsat; Produced by GeoVille & Gisat Based on SPOT data; Produced by GeoVille Based on SPOT data; Produced by ARC/GeoVille

DESCRIBE EXPLAIN FORECAST

Geoinformation responding to policy questions

GMES Spatial Planning services

Number of projects to support their development

GMES SP services development

• testing of various base mapping products (compatibility with CLC standards, MMUs)

• testing of spatial planning downstream products specification

• testing of technical & financial feasibility• testing of processing lines setup• strengthening of operational capacities

of service providers • quality qualification / validation methodology• free services provision to users for testing in their

working environment• user federation support, consolidation of user

feedback

Guidance in further Land Monitoring and Spatial Planning services development towards operational services setup

GMES delivering operational products

Already successful spin-off „operational“ activitiesFTSP sealing - successful pan-European implementation of shared processing chainsUrban Atlas Mapping – 185 cities (2009-11) – spatial component to Urban Audit

Twin Pair, 8 bands

Final map of built-upareas

Operational shared capacitiesof service providers

Shared Services production

GeoVille and Gisat are long time pioneers in these developments using innovative approaches(e.g. OBIA approach – DEFINIENS awards)

Tested shared capacities and joint productions in the frame of ESA SAGE, ESA GSELAND and recently geoland2 projects

Good experience in shared processing chainsfor operational FTSP Sealing production

Number of GMES Services implementation/testing in the Czech Republic was done on local, regional and national level

GMES Services tested/implemented in CZ

Focus on Spatial Planning

Spatial Planning - Regional

Spatial Planning (Vltava/Ohře)

Sealing intensity

Sealing intensity

Impervious Areas (Pilsen Region)

Impervious Areas (Ostrava Region)

SP Indicators (Vltava/Ohře) Loss of soil by sealingBuilt–up areas 1991: 415.1 km²Built–up areas 2001: 446.3 km²

Increase of built-up areas 1991-2001:31.2 km² (+7.5 %)~ 8.550 m² / day 150 ha

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Increase of built-up area1991-2001

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Portion of high quality soil built-up

Very high suitabilityHigh suitability

Suitability of soils for agriculture Built-up area

Very lowsuitability

Low suitability

Medium suitability

Built-up area

High qualitysoils

SP Indicators (Vltava/Ohře)

Urban structure - 2001within whole mapping area

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1100067%

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1200024%

Structure of urban increasewithin whole mapping area

1300041%

1200049%

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SP Indicators (Pilsen Region)

Correlation of population and urban area increase

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SP Indicators (Pilsen Region)

Spatial Planning – Urban Atlas

Urban Atlas (Prague City Area)

Urban Atlas (Pilsen City Area)

Urban Atlas Indicators (Prague)

Urban Atlas Indicators (Prague)

Urban Atlas Indicators (Prague)

GMES Spatial Planning services address the policy needs on local, regional, national and EU level

SP services proved to be a key input for Urban development and sub-urbanisation monitoring delivering novel spatial insight into the urban processes

Number of successful implementation of SP services has been done in Czech Republic

Conclusions / Outlook

Cooperation of GISAT and GeoVille presents a good example how services can be chained as well as production capacities shared in future(recently proved by joint data service support project awarded by EEA)

New joint production takes place within geoland2 project further developing and delivering SP services for Dresden-Linz transect

Regular and systematic update based on sustainable funding is essential for operational uptake of SP services in planning activities

Conclusions / Outlook

Thank you very much Thank you very much for your attention!for your attention!

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