Environmental data management Dar es Salaam,

Agenda  Our work in the environmental data section at NEA  Development cooperation  Important environmental data types  Naturbase – environmental database example  Aggregating environmental data, a standardizations approach  Standarization (INSPIRE, metadata, national spatial data infrastrucure - NSDI)  Commercial and open source software - challenges

Core business of the Environmental data management with NEA

NEAs strategy for environmental information  In cooperation with other institutions, be an active and reliable source of information for: Geographical data on biodiversity Aggregated knowledge for national and international reporting  In cooperation with other institutions, publish all relevant information  Ensure that we collect and present this information in a way that contribute to further use Photo: Bård Bredesen, Naturarkivet

Responsibility Environmental data division  Advising – data management biodiversity and nature conservation.  Development databases/GIS/web-portal  Distribution of important datasets  Technical support  International reporting  GIS-analysis, quality assurance, management  Internal and external coordination and representation Software and applications: ESRI/ArcMap, (QGIS), FME, Geoserver, SQL server, (Access), (PostGIS), Geocortex, OpenLayers (OpenSource and Licensed)

Aggregating environmental data, a standardizations approach

A partner in development cooperation through the Oil for Development program

The role of external development cooperation partners  Development cooperation is when a developing country enters into a partnership with a more developed country to work on a thematic area with development as an expected outcome.  Development cooperation GIS is when GIS is an important tool in the thematic area under the development cooperation.  Oil for Development has three pillars – environment is one of them

Oil for Development  Norway has national level discussions on the petroleum management

The general public is provided current information  Full access  Themes  Species  Nature types  Protected areas  Sensitive areas

Environmental data types - What kinds of data do we manage?

Biodiversity – data types Biodiversity  species distribution  habitat types  protected sites (international, national, local)  conservation plans and management plans points, lines, polygons, raster, grid Baseline

Data types continue..  Outdoor recreation areas  Air pollution  Freshwater  Waste  Noise  Climate Monitoring  Drivers, indicators and parameters Photo: Tore Høyland

Species distribution - birds

Species - priorities..priority species with an area with specific ecological functions in Naturbase. These species have been adopted by the King in Council as priority species by the Nature Diversity Act § 23.

Species distribution – grid value

Protected sites

Attributes protected sites

Land cover or vegetation cover

Marine areas

Habitat types - corals

Habitat types - sponges

Mapping marine biotopes MAREANO maps depth and topography, sediment composition, contaminants, biotopes and habitats in Norwegian waters. The results of the surveys are available on this website, visualised through maps.

Habitat types – values A, B, C Very important (A) Important (B) Locally important (C )..for biological diversity

Enviromental database example Naturbase.no

Environmental database example: The Nature Database - ”Naturbase” national “library” on important parts of the Norwegian nature more than objects covering: Protected areas Biodiversity - important habitats, migration routes, feeding areas etc Recreation areas Cultural landscapes data visualized in maps detailed information about objects is available

Naturbase – thematic data  National level  detailed level  Choose thematic layer(s)  Detailed information available about objects Protected area

Naturbase - combining thematic data Habitat area with important biodiversity (A) that has become a protected area.

An environmental resource database also represents a potential for reuse, over and over again

All this – alone?

Can we do all this alone?  Of course not!  We are part of a collaborative where we all provide data sets for our partners through a national level spatial data infrastructure.  It is based on an agreement (MoU) and trust  Norway diglitaly  We can not do without – nor can our partners!

This is our framework – it is also the framework of any other NSDI partner

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