Multiscale Service for monitoring NATURA 2000 habitats of European community interest Dr Stefan LANG Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) University of Salzburg (PLUS) 5th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5) Feb 8-9, 2011 London, UK Area (Pre-operational validation of GMES services and products) SPA (Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas)

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang Biodiversity Target  Challenges …  not only for the conservation of biodiversity but also for preventing biodiversity loss  The CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) is the key for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits.  “Life in harmony” (Nagoya Biodiversity Summit COP 10)  Plan: installation of IPCC-like IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)  But: what are the ‘essential biodiversity variables’?  European NATURA 2000 concept (Habitat Directive) – role model worldwide? … an overall conservation target aiming to halt the decline of biodiversity by the end of the year 2010! “Biodiversity is (our) life!”

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - MS.MONINA  Overall aim  MS.MONINA supports European, national and local authorities in monitoring the state of European nature sites of 'community interest‘ … not only at the benefit of EU national authorities, but also aimed at local authorities that manage these sites, and EU authorities that oversee the overall development of the NATURA 2000 programme.  Overall design  The project is designed to provide three different kinds of services  At the local level the project will support site monitoring with information products meeting the requirements of site managers. These products are derived from high resolution satellite images and reflect habitat status and changes.  At the national level, the project engages in complete reporting on sensitive sites and habitats, delivered to national authorities responsible for reporting on the implementation of the Habitats Directive, and  at European level MS.MONINA provides region wide reporting on the implementation of the Convention on Biological diversity within the EU. © S Lang

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - Overall service concept

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - Service portfolio  Foster the use of GMES infrastructure and EO-based analysis and modelling systems for supporting NATURA 2000 monitoring requirements in pre-operational mode,  towards an integrated, multi-scale EO-based monitoring service as European contribution to sustaining global biodiversity  follows a multiscale approach, building upon specific SP/user networks on European, regional (sub-national), and local level (see figure next slide)  delivers geospatial products, as value-added to the Euroland CMS (grassland, wetland areas, etc), or directly derived from GMES EO space and in-situ data, tailored to user requirements in terms of level-of-detail, steadiness and reliability  in line with the European premise of data harmonization in terms of using common infrastructure (SDI) and standards (INSPIRE) towards Shared Environmental Information Space (SEIS)

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - WP 3 – MS.MONINA EU WP 4 – MS.MONINA State WP 5 – MS.MONINA Site WP 6 – Common toolkit and data access WP 8 – Dissemination, exploitation and others WP 2 – Emerging SP/user networks and user validation WP 1 – Project Management Z_GIS UAB INBO EFTAS CEMAGREF Z_GIS WP 7 – MS MONINA SDI and interoperability VITO NOA High-level workpackage structure

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - MS.MONINA service pilots  Detailed specification of pilots (EU, 6 state / 30 site pilots)  User needs  Data requirements (satellite and in-situ)  Site level  Documentation of general conditions  Potential threats and human impacts

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - An integrated service …  Two integration strategies  MS.MONINA ‘state integrator’ (pivotal mechanism, member states have core responsibilities)  Hierarchical service chain Among the many possible hierarchical relations between the EU (on top) and individual protected sites (on the bottom), there are member states (MS) in between, located in different biogeographical regions (overlapping). Vertical view within a specific biogeographical region (BGR), highlighting the hierarchical relationships among each of the levels (MS not necessarily within one BGR and vice versa). Selected vertical components (e.g. EU  MS E  sites b, c) are building a service chain. Service chains are formed by ‘trans-level’ applications within BGR, and including the EU level.

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - Research SMEs Users (with technical contribution) EKBY LLUR MONINA Service Providers MS.MONINA Partners Three complementary GMES actor groups User organisations (with technical contribution) Academia & Research Industry / SME

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - MS.MONINA Core Mapping Service Core Mapping Service MS.MONINA Viewing Services Core Mapping Service Core Mapping Service MS.MONINA Download Services Core Mapping Service Core Mapping Service Space Data Services In-situ Observation Data Services Reference Data Services MS.MONINA SDI Portal Discovery services client Viewing services client Download services client “native” Geoportal Applications and Geoportal Applications and Geoportals Network services (incl. rights Management Layer) Core Mapping Service Core Mapping Service MS.MONINA Discovery Services Core Mapping Service Core Mapping Service GMES Core and Downstream Services © by VITO 2010/11 MONINA SDI – GEOSS Portal

5 th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - MONINA SDI – Interoperability  Different Directives and Guidelines for different scales and their requirements (e.g. EU monitoring requirements vs. National monitoring guidelines)  Aim for an interoperable data integration and assessment  Merge of “horizontal” data of different sources to make them comparable  “Vertical” aggregation of data over different scales  Methodical assessment framework (regulation system) 11 Data Set 1 Data Set 2 Data Quality Assessment (integration, preparation) semantic relations WUSUSV Related Semantic Groups (Instances), e.g. Class definitions SVPCWIC geometric relations Planned Interoperable Assessment Model NATURA 2000 Assessment Model based on semantic instances IVIIIIVII V IVI Criteria of different Scales e.g. Conservation Status © by TUB 2010/11