NESIS - A Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information System

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1 NESIS - A Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information System ICT PSP Grant Agreement No Giorgio Saio GISIG Danny Vandenbroucke, Rafal Wawer KU Leuven Paola Salmona - Iccops Rotterdam, 11th GSDI Conference, June 15-19th,

The NESIS context: SEIS SEIS as a collaborative initiative of European and National bodies to establish an integrated and sustained information

2 The NESIS context: SEIS SEIS as a collaborative initiative of European and National bodies to establish an integrated and sustained information system for sharing environmental data A system where the public authorities are the providers but also the main end-users and beneficiaries 2 (EEA source)

3 A contribution to SEIS the Thematic Network NESIS a Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable Information System Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP) Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Policy Support Programme (PSP) Grant Agreement N Duration: 30 months Starting date: 1 st May 2008

4 why NESIS To promote the uptake of ICT solutions to address the fundamental problems faced by public authorities in providing information related to monitoring and reporting environmental data. To support a shared vision for streamlining current information and reporting systems and to promote the adoption of an interoperable information infrastructure To provide a coherent ICT roadmap for the SEIS implementation with the consolidation of existing best practice. 4

5 SEIS components emvironmental data centres Air Climate Change Land use Biodiversity Water Soil Forests Waste Chemicals Natrual resources... Data and Information Data and information services ICT infrastructure, Inspire,... (EEA source)

6 Criteria Awareness that there is not a single model to organise data flow, to be developed upon diverse needs in the topic areas exploit the lessons of Good Practices From local to global and vice-versa, i.e. to improve data sharing at and among all levels promote the mutual exchange between different level authorities (Local-Regional-National- European) rather than a one-way flow 6

7 Objectives Outcomes -1 Reports of the state-of-play in Environmental Information systems and services for monitoring and reporting Collection and organisation of Good Practices Communication forum for stakeholders in environmental data management 7

8 Objectives Outcomes -2 An ICT roadmap for evolution towards a distributed, standards-based infrastructure for spatial and non-spatial environmental information based on the principles of shared access SEIS Promotion of a ICT Pilot initiative Establishment of a NESIS INSPIRE SDIC 8

9 ICT Roadmap work package Two complementary documents: ICT Roadmap for implementing SEIS, focuses on what to do Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental monitoring and reporting, focuses on how to do it

Ground component and target the EIONET component as a grounding community of some 900 experts from over 300 agencies and bodies in 38 Countries the long term

10 Ground component and target the EIONET component as a grounding community of some 900 experts from over 300 agencies and bodies in 38 Countries the long term target: regional and local stakeholders, and those of other Communities (public and private sector, Academy, NGO s, civil society), in the EFTA and EU Countries 10

11 16 partners 14 Countries 12 EIONET NFPs The initial partnership EEA, JRC, DG ENV, ICT experts in the Advisory Board 11

12 The initial partnership GISIG GIS International Group Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE) Czech Environmental Information Agency Slovak Environmental Agency Norwegian Pollution Control Authority Hungarian Ministry of Environment and Water ISPRA- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale Icelandic Environment and Food Agency Austrian Environment Agency Malta Environment and Planning Authority ICCOPS (IT) Institut Français de l Environnement TietoEnator Eesti (EE) Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Cyprus Environment Service Environmental Protection Agency (LT) plus PL Eionet NFP PortalU Gavle Univ. Nice Univ.. Disy Interest by UK & BE Eionet NFPs UNEP/GRID. 12

13 NESIS and SEIS potential stakeholders NESIS is an open Network (source EEA)

14 NESIS Preliminary Results First analysis of the State of Play in the Countries participating in the Network, about the ICT components that will contribute to the development of SEIS first round identification of good practices of ICT solutions for managing environmental data and collection of relevant information about them into the NESIS Good Practice Catalogue

15 State of Play at National Level Danny Vandenbroucke, Rafal Wawer KU Leuven 15

16 State of Play at national level Aims at defining the current state of play in terms of existing components which could contribute to SEIS Template for State of Play at national level Organization of the technical work Overview of SEIS related activities Data and information flows Infrastructure and systems Use of standards Obstacles Priorities for SEIS Good practices List of contacts, List of references List of standards in operation List of technologies and services in operation Reports drafted by: CENIA (CZ), SFT (NO), MoEW (HU), ISPRA (IT), IEFA (IS), UBA-A (AT), MEPA (MT), IFEN (FR), SEPA (SE), AAA (LT), ARI (CY)

17 Assessment at Europan level Objectives Comparative analysis and synthesis of the results from the National SoP Method Use of indicators: e.g. Architectural model (decentralised, centralised); Number of users of the system (components) 17

18 Digital data and information flows within NEIS a b c d e a. All data is in digital form b. Most of the data in digital form c. Considerable share of digital data d. Some o the data are digital e. No information SE NO MT LT IT IS HU FR CZ CY AT

19 Priorities of SEIS implementation Highest priority actions 9 8% 10 10% 11 7% 1 8% 2 8% 3 18% 8 5% Activity Share [%] 7 7% 6 10% 5 6% 4 13% 1 Creation of new data sets (GI, statistics, in situ measurement data, ) Creation of metadata for data sets Harmonisation of existing data sets and information Re-engineering data/information flows in order to reduce the timeframe for monitoring and reporting Automated creation of indicators and reports Set-up of own network services to have easier access to the information Set-up of network services at European level to have easier access to the information in a cross border context Development of end-user applications Implementation of standards Set-up of better coordinating mechanisms Incentives for better sharing

20 NESIS Good Practice Catalogue With the contribution of ICCOPS 20

21 NESIS and the Good Practice Catalogue The task Analysis and Good Practice collects existing best practice in ICT for environmental information management It creates a catalogue of practices about: organisations, dataflows and services, standards, data policies and other components relevant for SEIS. The Good Practice Catalogue allows to share such state of theart within the project partners and the larger network of NESIS stakeholders, to which it is as well open for enrichment 21

22 Key information Key-word(s) Theme(s) mainly addressed Geographical span Monitoring Reporting Organisational set-ups Infrastructure creation System integration Dataset harmonisation Metadata management Education & Research Public information Environmental information... Paola Paola Air Climate change Land-use Water Soil Forests Agriculture Biodiversity Waste Chemicals Natural resources Noise Risk Multi-purpose management of environmental data Environmental indicators... Local National European International / Global 22

23 Outline / General description Short description Kind of practice Drivers Legal aspects Geographical area covered Actors Users... Repository Catalogue Portal Information services E-government Targeted Project Organisational practice Training and capacity building Communication Data producer(s) Data analysis by Quality assurance by... Data producer(s) Data analysis by Quality assurance by... Primary users Other users 23

24 Data aspects Origins of data... Considered datasets... Metadata Yes Some No If yes, which standard? If yes, is there a Metadata Catalogue? Information flow... 24

25 Technical implementation/solutions Infrastructure / System architecture Data logging and transmission Technological description of information services SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) WSDL (Web Services Description Language) SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) REST (Representational State Transfer) XML-RPC (remote procedure call) RDF (Resource Description Framework) RDF Schema (a knowledge representation language) WMS (Web Map Service) WFS (Web Feature Service) WCS (Web Coverage Service) SWE (Sensor Web Enablement)... Others... 25

26 Information on the implementation Status of Planned In progress implementation Operational Funding Communication policy National EU Other... Year of start... Year of steady state... Future planned development... Problems, lessons,... recommendations Others... Reference person Organisation Department URL contact... 26

27 AUSTRIA Environment Portal Austria Good Practices Presently in the Catalogue CZECH REPUBLIC Information System of Statistics and Reporting (ISSaR) Information System of Technical Environment Protection (ISTOZP) Czech Environmental Metaportal Spatial Observation Services and Infrastructure (SOSI) FRANCE Geoportal Environmental Portal National Interest Group on the Soils NatureFrance, portal of the SINP: Système d Information sur la Nature et les Paysages Système d information sur l eau en France: Water Information System France GERMANY PortalU ICELAND Interactive map solution Icelandic nature ITALY GELSO - Best Practice database NORWAY Norway digital Norwegian Spatial Data Infrastructure The Artsdatabanken biodiversity information resources SWEDEN WaterInformationSystem Sweden (WISS) EEA (European level) Near real-time air quality system (Ozone web and PM web) 27

28 A very first synthesis The collected Practices answer to the following needs: Monitoring 5 Reporting 7 Organisational set-ups 10 Infrastructure creation 13 System integration 7 Dataset harmonisation 10 Metadata management 7 Education & Research 3 Public information 8 Environmental information 6 Other 3 Total 79 answers 28

29 ...address the following themes: Air 5 Climate change 5 Land-use 6 Water 10 Soil 8 Forests 6 Agriculture 4 Biodiversity 9 Waste 5 Chemicals 5 Natural resources 10 Noise 4 Risk 3 Multi-purpose mngmt. of env. data 8 Environmental indicators 3 Other 5 Total 96 answers 29

30 \ The Good Practices Catalogue (at upon registration) 30

NESIS Workshop at the Towards eenvironment Conference Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe (Prague, March 09) Conference conclusions.

31 NESIS Workshop at the Towards eenvironment Conference Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe (Prague, March 09) Conference conclusions... Recognizing the initial priorities identified for SEIS in consultation with countries through the user networks such as NESIS ( as: 1. Increasing usability of data sets and information through better documentation, harmonisation and interoperability; 2. Re-engineering data and information flows (to improve timeliness and ICT use for monitoring and reporting); 3. Establishment and support of sustained and stable data provision and network services for easier access to information; and 4. Automation of indicators and report creation..

32 Next step Summary report on the status of environmental monitoring and reporting in Europe 4 main chapters in the Summary Report 1. Methodology (NSoP, indicators) 2. Assessment at EU level (results' matrix, indicators) 3. Highlighting some Good Practices 4. Recommendations and recommendations Each chapter reviewed by NFPs and bodies addressing SEIS

33 NEXT NESIS EVENT: Genova (IT), 29 October 2009 Joint Workshop NESIS & SEIS-BASIS SEIS-BASIS - Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) Monitoring Capacity Baseline and Evolution Study Initiative launched by DG ENV and carried out by the JRC, in collaboration with the EEA and the Member States You are welcome in Genova! NESIS kick-off meeting Copenhagen May

34 Thank you, for your interest and contribution to NESIS For info please contact NESIS Secretariat at: NESIS kick-off meeting Copenhagen May

Exploitation towards Thematic Communities, Training Framework and stakeholders involvement

Exploitation towards Thematic Communities, Training Framework and stakeholders involvement Giorgio Saio GISIG eenvplus Workshop INSPIRE Conference, Florence (IT), 24 June 2013 Exploitation prospects eenvplus