SeaDataNet, Pan-European infrastructure for marine and ocean data management + EMODNET Bathymetry By Dick M.A. Schaap Technical Coordinator SeaDataNet & Coordinator EMODNet Bathymetry Limassol Cyprus, 18 November 2014, EastMed Symposium
Marine Data are relevant for many uses: Scientific Research to gain knowledge and insight Monitoring and assessment (water quality, climate status, stock assessment) Coastal Zone Management Modelling (including hindcast, now-cast, forecast) Dimensioning and supporting operations and activities at sea (shipping, offshore industry, dredging industry,..) Implementation and execution of marine conventions for protection of the seas Implementation of international Directives, such as in Europe directives for water (WFD), marine strategy (MSFD), coastal zone management Users originate from government, science sector, and industry, nationally and internationally Good and harmonised marine data management on a large scale is very important
Marine data acquisition EU cost benefit analysis: cost of marine observation in Europe is circa 400 Million Euro per year for space data and another 1 Billion Euro per year for in-situ data
EU MAST EU MASTII 90 s EU FP5 EU FP6 EU FP7 2002-2005 2006-2011 2011-2015 SeaDataNet has set up and is operating a pan-european infrastructure for managing marine and ocean data by connecting National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODC s) and oceanographic data focal points from 35 coastal states in Europe
NODCs are core partners National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODC s) are mostly divisions of major national marine research institutes and based in 35 countries, surrounding the European seas NODC s are experienced in managing data, which includes quality control, documenting, long term stewardship and publishing, for their own institute and for many other institutes in their country NODC s are members of IOC-IODE and ICES for sharing global practices NODC s are increasingly building national infrastructures on SeaDataNet basis to support their national networking and to connect other data centres in their country to the infrastructure
Portal with harmonised services, data products and tools for users and data centres h"p://www.seadatanet.org
Pan-European directory services
CDI service for discovery and unified access of data Already more than 100 data centres connected and more underway
CDI service for discovery and unified access of data
CDI Data Coverage November 2014 > 1,61 million CDI entries from 34 countries and 105 data centres and 509 originators for physics, chemistry, geology, geophysics, bathymetry and biology; years 1800 2014; 84% unrestricted or under SeaDataNet licence
Additional SeaDataNet achievements " Set of common standards for metadata and data formats for the marine domain, adapting ISO and OGC standards and achieving INSPIRE compliance " Controlled vocabularies for the marine domain (> 160.000 terms over > 60 lists) " Maintenance and dissemination of standard QA-QC procedures, with IODE and ICES " Common SeaDataNet Data Policy and SeaDataNet License " Set of tools to be used by each data centre " MIKADO: generator of XML descriptions of SeaDataNet catalogues " NEMO: reformatting software to SeaDataNet formats " Download Manager: local software to control downloading " ODV: Ocean Data View software adapted to SeaDataNet needs " DIVA: statistics software for product generation adapted to SeaDataNet needs " Services for visualisation and data products
Cooperation and synergy " Strategic cooperation with: EuroGOOS, Copernicus Marine Service, POGO, EurOcean, OGP (SIMORC), USA and Australia (ODIP) " Adoption of standards and data management cooperation in EU projects: Black Sea SCENE, Upgrade Black Sea SCENE, CaspInfo, Geo-Seas, CoCoNet, JERICO, Eurofleets 1 and 2, Micro B3, CitClops, CLIPC and others " Partner in developing and building: " As part of the Maritime Policy the EU proposed to take steps towards an overarching European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNet) " The initial Roadmap for EMODNet was released in April 2009 Resulting in uptake of SeaDataNet standards and expansion of the infrastructure of data centres giving data overview and access
EMODNet timeline 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Phase 1 limited sea basins (ca 6 MEuro) Phase 2 - low resolution (ca 16 MEuro) Phase 3 - multi-resolution (> 100 200 MEuro) PROTOTYPING: allows users to assess and improve product by trying it out
Preparatory Actions 2008-2010 " 6,450,000 spent " six portals now operational Thematic EMODnet portals upgrading from pilots to operational and EU coverage 14
EMODNet Bathymetry " Ongoing in 3 consecutive projects since 2009 with expanding consortium (at present >30 partners) " Consortium consisting of bathymetric and IT experts and data providers from National Hydrography Services, marine research institutes and SME s " Overall objective: to bring together bathymetric surveys of European seas and to produce, publish and serve a harmonised and medium resolution Digital Terrain Model of all European seas
Central portal for discovery and access to data and data products http://www.emodnet-bathymetry.eu
Progress " Up till today, > 10.000 survey CDI metadata records from 24 data centres and 162 data originators have been collated and imported into a dedicated EMODnet Bathymetry CDI Data Discovery and Access service. " In addition, 42 composite DTMs including metadata have been included " Selection of survey data and composite DTMs have been collated into regional EMODNet DTM s for several European regions that are available for viewing and downloading in several formats via the Bathymetry Viewing and Download service.
Ongoing activities " So far DTM coverage of: " the Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat and stretches of water such as Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forth, Forties,Dover, Wight, and Portland " the English Channel and Celtic Seas " Western Mediterranean, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea " Iberian Coast, Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) incl Madeira and Azores " Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) " Aegean - Levantine Sea (Mediterranean). " DTM at ¼ * ¼ minute grid resolution " Now expanding the DTM coverage to all European seas, including Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, Icelandic Sea, Canary Islands Increasing the grid resolution to 1/8 * 1/8 minute (mid Dec 2014) Including a number of multi resolution coastal pilots (mid 2015)
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service DTM for European sea basins current version
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service DTM for Eastern Mediterranean Current version
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service CDIs of Surveys used for Eastern Mediterranean DTM Current version
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service Source map of surveys and composite DTMs used for Eastern Mediterranean DTM Current version (note: Grey = GEBCO)
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service Retrieving parameters of an individual grid cell and retrieving CDI metadata of associated prevailing survey
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service Downloading DTM tiles in a range of formats
EMODnet Bathymetry DTM 3D-Viewer DTM loaded into 3D-Viewer as developed in Geo-Seas
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet Bathymetry DTM launch mid December 2014
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet Bathymetry DTM launch mid December 2014
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet Bathymetry DTM launch mid December 2014 GEBCO EMODnet Phase 1 Eratosthenes Seamount
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet Bathymetry DTM launch mid December 2014 Eratosthenes Seamount - new EMODnet Phase 2
Successful approach " Providers of bathymetric data sets understand and are welcoming the applied approach " Data sets are gathered for internal use by regional consortium groups to compile the DTM product which can be viewed and downloaded without any registration " Data sets are described and included in the CDI Data Discovery and Access Service and composite DTMs in the Sextant Data Products Service. " Each cell in the DTM product gives information about the data sets used and leads to the CDI / Sextant service for more information about the data provider and options for requesting the data itself " This works as a shop window and results in more data providers coming forward
Data centres in East Mediterranean region As connected to SeaDataNet infrastructure
Eastern Mediterranean region - challenges " Need for more data for EMODnet Bathymetry (see source map so far): additional data centres from the region are welcome to join the project and infrastructure Overview of environmental data data (CTDs, water quality,..) " Also we need more data centres to connect for other EMODnet lots, such as EMODnet Chemistry which is working on the data infrastructure for MSFD implementation " Plans for EMODnet Phase 3 Call for Tenders are under preparation!
www.seadatanet.org Contact: Dick M.A. Schaap dick@maris.nl www.emodnet-bathymetry.eu