Max Craglia on behalf of the

EuroGEOSS Project

Fostering Multi-Disciplinary Interoperability for GEOSS

GEO Plenary, Istanbul, 16-17 November 2011

Global Research Challenge

•  To understand the complex relations between environment and society requires a stronger involvement and greater integration of the social sciences, health sciences, engineering and humanities, along with the natural sciences.

•  We need to move from disciplinary research to multidisciplinary research with more involvement of the ultimate stakeholders.

•  We also need to communicate science more effectively to close the gap with citizens and policy makers, and engage the public in the scientific process such as helping monitoring the environment, reporting observed and perceived changes and impacts for example via social networks (see ICSU Global Challenges, 2011).

The EuroGEOSS Project

•  EuroGEOSS contributes to the development of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure and to multidisciplinary interoperability by:

–  Developing interoperable infrastructures for for three thematic communities: Forest, Biodiversity, Drought.

–  Building bridges across communities through a brokering approach so that it is easier to find resources across disciplines.

–  Extending semantic search capabilities so that concepts from one disciplines can be related to concepts from another and used to find relevant resources.

–  Making it possible to transform the data from multiple sources to the same coordinate reference system, and format ahead of accessing the data

–  Using the data in models directly on the web without the need to download either the data or the models

–  Extending the interaction between science and the public through interoperability between the GEOSS Common Infrastructure and social networks

Three Interoperability phases

WP7: Capacity building

WP3: Forestry WP4: Biodiversity WP5: Drought

WP2: Multi-disciplinary interoperability

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AEGOS

III. Extend interoperabilityto other SBAs & systems

I. Enable thematicinteroperability &connections local to global

II. Enable multi-disciplinaryinteroperability

WP6: Cost benefit analysis

WP7: Capacity building

WP3: Forestry WP4: Biodiversity WP5: Drought

WP2: Multi-disciplinary interoperability

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GolbalSoilMap

AEGOS

III. Extend interoperabilityto other SBAs & systems

I. Enable thematicinteroperability &connections local to global

II. Enable multi-disciplinaryinteroperability

WP6: Cost benefit analysis

Forestry Operating Capacity Local, European, Global

eForest European Platform

Contributing to the Global Assessment

1990

2000

2005 Forest change map

FOR EACH POINT AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE LAT /LONG SATELLITE DATA IS USED TO CREATE FOREST CHANGE MAPS

With tools for validation by local experts

Biodiversity Operating Capacity Local, European, Global

eHabitat Biodiversity Platform

Developing web-based models of habitats uniqueness for ecological forecasting

Input thematic maps: •  % tree cover •  % herbaceous cover •  % barren cover •  Elevation •  Slope •  Aridity index •  % water bodies •  NDVI •  NDWI

Habitat modelling Mahalanobis Distances, Maximum Entropy

E-station

Climate Change

Agriculture

Deforestation

Other sources

Developing methods to assess and communicate Uncertainty with Uncertweb project

Realiza'on  No.  1/20  Std  Dev  Probability  >  0.5   Mean  

Drought Operating Capacity Local, European, Global

European Drought Observatory

Comparison of different indicators

Multilingual Implementation

Implementation in 3 languages (EN, FR, ES)

Supporting science-based policy The Ebro basin case study: Comparison of drought indices from different datasets and spatial resolutions

Enabling Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue: the EuroGEOSS Brokering Framework

EuroGEOSS  Brokering  Framework  

NEW!

   

Contribution to the evolution of the GCI

Requests form the Geo Web Portal are passed to the EuroGEOSS Broker in the System of Systems approach

   

Allowing the easy search by essential EO parameters

   

Providing categorization of results

   

Making it possible to find GEOSS Data CORE resources

   

Accessing the data after transformation to a common reference system

Finding and running a model directly on the web with the data found earlier

Reaching out to the public and participatory science: Web 2.0 Broker Clients

Open Search – Search Engine / RSS ATOM

EuroGEOSS is Research in

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