1 ”Consolidation of” WISE Water Information System for Europe (as part of SEIS) ”Consolidation of” WISE Water Information System for Europe (as part of SEIS) Stefan Jensen Research Triangle Park

2 WISE system in year ONE Launch websitewww.water.europa.eu -WISE map viewer -Start of WISE GIS, guidance 2nd edition -WISE as a full Go (group of four) project (buy-in and contributions of EU bodies DG Env, Estat and JRC) December Handover of WISE reporting prototype (data) to EEA -Shift of main WISE co-operation partner in JRC (water to SDI/INSPIRE unit)

3 WISE system development in year TWO -Reference data sets / quality assurance -WISE GIS guidance -New content – data integration -New technology developments (distributed architecture) -WISE data model -WISE – SEIS project with Microsoft -User requirement study – part 2 -Update of WISE implementation plan

4 The WISE development team Content -ETC Water CZ, SI, DE (data integration, data model, user survey) -ETC Spatial ES; EEA GIS group (reference datasets) -SADL BE; EEA reporting group (data QA/QC) -WRC consortium UK, AT, DK (reporting schemas, GIS guidance) System and software development -ATKINS DK (map viewer) -Geosolution BE (architecture and system tools) With Guidance from the WISE technical group (DG Env, JRC, Estat, DE, FR, ES …)

5 Reference datasets Reference datasets WISE large rivers and lakes v1 River basin districts v1 (without transitional and coastal and coastline) WISE main rivers and lakes (methodology identified, first draft by late 2008)

6 Large rivers >5000 km 2 Main rivers >500 km 2 MS working scale (or CCM2) >10 to >100 km 2 Water bodies Point info Code-WBs Code-Rivers Code-point info Hydrological features Aggregation level (areal) EU levelNationalRBDSub-units Coding system Scale - + Upcoming reference data

(WFD RBD characterisation etc.) (WFD Monitoring (WFD RBM Plan) (UWWTD) (SoE) (SoE) (SoE) (Nitrate Directive) Data integration: WISE submission and update cycle Exemplified: surface water water bodies and monitoring stations (UWWTD) (SoE) Reference datasets (examples) water bodies 07 monitoring stations 07 water bodies 08 monitoring stations 08 water bodies 10 monitoring stations 10 water bodies 11 monitoring stations 11 Reported datasets (examples) WFD UWWTD SoE Nitrate Directive water bodiesmonitoring stations discharge points monitoring stations discharge points water bodies, monitoring stations (1) monitoring stations Deadline update cycle WISE/reference datasets; gives the reference date for the reference datasets Publishing date at WISE map viewer (22.3) water bodies, monitoring stations (1): either refering to reference dataset or submission of new datasets Submitted data refer to reference datasest

8 WISE GIS guidance (extract) Table of Contents 1.Introduction Purpose of guidance development of WISE via implementing WFD and other EU water sector legislation CONCEPTUAL 2.GIS in WISE: developing common understanding Scope of GIS guidance and purpose of GIS in WISE visualisation data integration data analysis

9 WISE GIS guidance (extract) Terminology GIS requirements under WISE for: WFD and other EU water policy legislation (UWWTD, BWD, NiD, DWD, floods, priority substances, marine, etc) SoE other 3.Definition of derived products (maps) Reference data sets – maps Background visualisation for WISE viewer Policy implementation visualisation Compliance assessments visualisation Scientific analysis visualisation

10 WISE GIS guidance (extract) 4.Principles of WISE compatibility and WISE interoperability What is WISE-compatible? Update of existing datasets Creation of new datasets TECHNICAL 5.Technical descriptions General approach for definition of datasets Overview of GIS layers and their relationship Data model definition Feature coding General principles Implementation of coding of surface waters Metadata implementation Standards for data exchange Web services

11 New content in WISE WISE map viewer March update Content WFD Art.8 SW (by country and RBD) WFD Art.8 GW (summary, quantitative, chemical) May update Content WISE SoE thematic maps Urban Waste Water 2007 Bathing water 2007 Technology improvements

12 New content in WISE - European

13 New content in WISE - Local

14 Technically open architecture early adopters/followers Exchange data according the INSPIRE guidelines (where information is available) open standards are used where possible/necessary WISE distributed architecture - requirements

15 The architecture has to be feasible with open source software procedure requirements Minimize data duplication Optimal data flow with minimum manual data handling Shorten time interval starting with reporting -> qa/qc -> compliance -> public available WISE distributed architecture - requirements

16 General architecture

17 Data flow MS -> EEA Push/pull vs obligations/voluntary Transaction based The member states should get certificates for: Data delivery Data processing/handling Scalability and performance XML formats Not focus on single implementations Factory design principle

18 WS-Reliable messaging

19 WS-RM & WISE

20 WS-RM details EEA

21 WISE service layer

22 WISE services Current locationFunctionalitySOA position WISE map viewer Request map RBD. Using SLD it should be possible to ask RBD collared according:  Mean annual nitrate in rivers for year xx  Mean annual BOD in rivers for year xx WMS WISE map viewer Request map countries. Using SLD it should be possible to ask countries collared according:  Mean annual nitrate in rivers for year xx  Mean annual orthophosphate in rivers for year xx  Mean annual BOD in rivers for year xx  Mean annual ammonium in rivers for year xx WMS WISE map viewer Request map lakes. Using SLD it should be possible to ask lakes collared according:  Mean annual nitrate for year xx WMS WISE map viewer Request map bathing water locations. Using SLD it should be possible to ask bathing water locations according:  Compliance checking of freshwater, coastal monitoring WMS...

23 WISE MS service layer

24 WISE metadata based on the INSPIRE, OGC and ISO standards Have to discuss on which metadata profile/application profile will be implemented WISE geoportal vs INSPIRE geoportal Cascading CS-W Relationship geoportal – discovery mechanisms Issues around access rights (see geoRM layer INSPIRE)

25 WISE data model Data sources included in current model Data sets as a data source for WISE data model (current status) Responsible organization and host of data sets in 2007 WFD Article 3, 5, 6DG Env (at JRC, transfer to EEA in 2008) WFD Article 8EEA WISE SoE data (EIONET-Waterbase)EEA

26 WFD Terms River basin is made up of streams, rivers and possibly lakes which all flow into a single river mouth, delta or into the sea. River basin district is made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters, coastal and transitional waters. It is the main administrative unit for management of river basins. Surface water body means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or canal, part of a stream, river or canal, transitional water or a stretch of coastal water.

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28 WISE - SEIS project with Microsoft bathing water (mock-up)

29 New development in WISE part 2 User requirement study part 2 Update WISE implementation plan