SEIS and EEA SDIStefan Jensen - head of group SEIS and data centre servicesGeoForum 18.5.2010

What is SEIS?

A collaborative initiative of the European Commission, EEA and Member States

Aiming at a modern system for organising environmental information

Overall objective: improve knowledge base for environmental policy; reduce administrative burden

Where SEIS is about...

• Sharing (organisation)- Political commitment (legislation) - Partnership (win-win)- Networking (connecting)

• Environmental Information (content)- Horizontal integration (e.g. data centres)- Vertical integration (local to global)- Online access - real time- For policy makers and public

• System (infrastructure and services)- Existing ICT Infrastructure- Inspire, Reportnet, GMES,...- New e-Services (e-Government)

Fragmented reporting systems

Shortcomings in relation to timeliness, availability, reliability, relevance of information

Shortcomings in ability to turn data into policy-relevant information

Underexploited opportunities offered by modern technologies

Many initiatives and processes in the right direction, but inadequate co-ordination

International Conventions and EU environmental legislation: main drive for collection of environmental data

A wealth of information is collected but:

EuroStat EC EEA OECD UNEP

ETC

DG

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National institutions

Users

UNECEWHO...

Why SEIS is needed

Why SEIS is needed … continued

• International Conventions and EU Environment legislation: main drive for collection of environmental data.

• A wealth of information is collected but:• Significant gaps remain• Fragmented reporting systems • Shortcomings in relation to timeliness, availability,

reliability, relevance of information• Shortcomings in ability to turn data into policy-relevant

information• Underexploited opportunities offered by modern

technologies• Many initiatives and processes in the right direction, but

inadequate co-ordination

Live Information SystemsThe current data flows

Member states Organisations Member states Organisations

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EEA

OECD

UNEP

Data reporting

Data reporting

Data reporting

Data reporting

Data reporting

MS

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EEA

OECD

UNEP

SEIS vision From Reporting to Online ServicesSEIS visionFrom reporting to online information services

Evolution of EEA’s data/information flows

Quality Assurance

Warehouse

National Reporting / Reportnet International

OperatorFilling Questionairs Forms

1) Reportnet questionnaires.Countries fill forms directly into reportnet

PackagingCDRDirectory ROD Data Dictionary

ConversionServices

DMM

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10%

30%Packaging Quality

AssuranceWarehouse

National Reporting / Reportnet International

PackagingOffline systems CDRDirectory ROD Data Dictionary

ConversionServices

DMMQuality Assurance

2) Reportnet data deliveries.Countries maintain an offline application and export for delivery in reportnet

PackagingQuality Assurance Quality

AssuranceWarehousePackaging

3a) Reportnet data deliveries.Countries maintain an online systen and export for delivery in reportnet

Online systems CDRDirectory ROD Data Dictionary

ConversionServices

DMM

System maintanance

Online systems

3b) Delivery happens near real time. Both systems are monitored. (SEIS)

Online systems

Quality Assurance

WarehousePackagingData flow consortium

System maintanance

System maintanance

Data Protocol

Conceptial data flow model

Data Protocol

Data Protocol

Near real time DB

Services

~Near real time

~6 months - 2 year

~Near real time

Online systems

4) Sensor web

Online systems

Quality Assurance

WarehousePackaging

System maintanance

System maintanance

Data Protocol Data Protocol

Data Protocol

Near real time DB

Services

~Near real time

~6 months - 2 year

~Near real time

Sensors alert when treshold occurs

QuestionairsQuestionairs

Standalone systemsStandalone systems

Online systemsOnline systems

10 European data centresEnvironmental data centres SEIS elements on the EU level

Expert services

Applications

System-to-system services

Data hosting

European data centre functionsEnvironmental data centres Service options by data centre

What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure

" A framework of technologies, policies, standards, and human resources necessary to acquire, process, store, distribute, and improve the use of geospatial data across multiple public and private organizations."

1. Partnerships, policies, agreements 2. Data3. Standards4. Network services

European Spatial Data InfrastructureEEA - EIONET information nodes

What is a Spatial Data InfrastructureThe role of the network

Vision and Principles

• Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively

• It should be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications

• Spatial data should be collected at one level of government and shared between all levels

• Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use

• It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use

SDI components

1. Policies and partnerships

The policy context

INTERNATIONAL• ISO www.iso.org• Open Geospatial Consortium www.opengis.org.• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure www.gsdi.org.

EUROPEAN• CEN www.cenorm.be • INSPIRE http://inspire.jrc.it/ • GMES www.gmes.info • EU Directives, Regulations

SDI components

2. Data

Annex I

1. Coordinate reference systems

2. Geographical grid systems

3. Geographical names

4. Administrative units

5. Addresses6. Cadastral parcels7. Transport networks8. Hydrography9. Protected sites

Annex II

1. Elevation2. Land cover3. Ortho-imagery4. Geology

INSPIRE Thematic Scope

Annex III

1. Statistical units2. Buildings3. Soil4. Land use5. Human health and

safety6. Utility and

governmental services

7. Environmental monitoring facilities

8. Production and industrial facilities

9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

10.Population distribution – demography

11. Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units

12. Natural risk zones13. Atmospheric

conditions14. Meteorological

geographical features

15. Oceanographic geographical features

16. Sea regions17. Bio-geographical

regions18. Habitats and

biotopes19. Species distribution20. Energy Resources21. Mineral resources

EEA SDI core data 2006

Needs AMP2006 for core geospatial dataset

Present data source used by EEA

INSPIRE Annex I

data

INSPIRE Annex II

data

INSPIRE Annex III

data

Administrative units EuroBoundaryMap Transport networks TeleAtlas Standard European reference grid EEA Geographical names EuroGlobalMap Rivers EGM River catchments CCM Protected sites CDDA Coastline Eurosion/IMAGE2000 Lakes CLC/EGM Ortho-imagery IMAGE2000 Elevation and bathymetry SRTM Land cover CLC Geology IGME 5000 Analytical units (zones) EEA Soil map of Europe JRC Population distribution EEA/JRC IMAGE2000 Settlements EUROSTAT

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Inspire Annex I,II and III data related to Eionet data flow

EIONET themes (bold = EEA lead data centre) ANNEX I ANNEX II ANNEX IIIAgriculture x xAir Emissions xAir Quality xChemicals xClimate Change xCommunication and Translation xEnergy xFisheries xGroundwater x xHealth and Environment xInformation Systems x x xMarine and Coastal Environment x xNature Protection and Biodiversity x x xNoise xPolicy Instruments and EvaluationResource Use xRivers and Lakes x xState of Environment Reporting x x xSoil xSpatial Analysis and Land Cover x x xTransport xWaste xWater Emissions xWater Quantity and Use x x

Key ETC role supporting the EEA SDI

Supporting the implementation and operation of reporting data flows

Preparing reference data sets - Crosscutting (ETC LUSI)- Domain specific (all ETCs)

Quality assuring (spatial) data

Supporting the INSPIRE data specifications for Annex II and III

Contributing to the assessment of spatial data and information

SDI components

3. Standards and interoperability

OpenGIS® specifications

• More

Standards and interoperabilityRelevant areas

• Catalogues • Metadata (ISO19115, INSPIRE)• Geo-referencing system (ETRS89)• Gazetteers• Data transfer (XML, GeoRSS, RSS)• Software and services (WMS, others)• Semantic issues (eGov, RDF, GEMET …)• Data quality

EEA services based on OGC standards

Available services around

CLC 1996CLC 2000Natura 2000

In preparation

CLC2006WISE RBD

at http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services

Example EEA service built on that

Spatial data quality elements

1. Completeness:”Presence and absence of features, their attributes and relæationships”

2. Logical consistency:”Degree of adherence to logical rules of datastructure, attribution and

relations”3. Position accuracy:

”Accuracy of the position of features”4. Temporal accuracy:

”Accuracy of the temporal attributes and temporal relationships of features”

5. Thematic accuracy:”Accuracy of quantitative attributes and the correctness of non-

quantitative attributes and of the classifications of features and their relationships”

SDI components

4. Network services

EEA/Eionet SDI services

Other network / SDI related services

EEA map viewers

Ozone Web

WISE distributed architecture – reporting pilot

ePRTR (later in 2009)

EyeonEarth v2 (Water and Airwatch) (Nov. 2009)

Natura 2000 GIS viewer (later in 2009)

... INSPIRE network services still to be built... INSPIRE network services still to be built

WISE principles are SEIS principles

• Cooperation of EU institutions and Member States• Information is managed as close as possible to its source ----

Distributed WISE nodes• Information is provided once and used for many purposes

As of 2007 Reportnet is the WFD reporting tool

• Information accessible for clients to make comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale and information available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, - (WISE map viewer displays of countries, river basins, catchment areas)

• European funding mechanisms should focus on delivering cost-effective analytical tools and services e.g. HarmoiCA (http://www.wise-rtd.info.)

INSPIRE compliant distributed network architecture I

SEIS in practice at EEA (II)

SEIS in practice at EEA (III)

Conclusions

SEIS implementation on EU level along data centre developement

Main ETC role in supporting SDI data related topics

EEA SDI stepwise rolled out

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