SEIS and EEA SDI Stefan Jensen - head of group SEIS and data centre services GeoForum

What is SEIS? A collaborative initiative of the European Commission, EEA and Member States Aiming at a modern system for organising environmental information Overall objective: improve knowledge base for environmental policy; reduce administrative burden

Where SEIS is about... Sharing (organisation) - Political commitment (legislation) - Partnership (win-win) - Networking (connecting) Environmental Information (content) - Horizontal integration (e.g. data centres) - Vertical integration (local to global) - Online access - real time - For policy makers and public System (infrastructure and services) - Existing ICT Infrastructure - Inspire, Reportnet, GMES,... - New e-Services (e-Government)

 Fragmented reporting systems  Shortcomings in relation to timeliness, availability, reliability, relevance of information  Shortcomings in ability to turn data into policy-relevant information  Underexploited opportunities offered by modern technologies  Many initiatives and processes in the right direction, but inadequate co- ordination International Conventions and EU environmental legislation: main drive for collection of environmental data A wealth of information is collected but: Why SEIS is needed

Why SEIS is needed … continued International Conventions and EU Environment legislation: main drive for collection of environmental data. A wealth of information is collected but: Significant gaps remain Fragmented reporting systems Shortcomings in relation to timeliness, availability, reliability, relevance of information Shortcomings in ability to turn data into policy-relevant information Underexploited opportunities offered by modern technologies Many initiatives and processes in the right direction, but inadequate co-ordination

Live Information Systems The current data flows Member statesOrganisations Member states Organisations SEIS vision From Reporting to Online Services SEIS vision From reporting to online information services

Evolution of EEA’s data/information flows 60% 10% 30% Questionairs Standalone systems Online systems

10 European data centres Environmental data centres SEIS elements on the EU level

Expert services Applications System-to-system services Data hosting European data centre functions Environmental data centres Service options by data centre

What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure " A framework of technologies, policies, standards, and human resources necessary to acquire, process, store, distribute, and improve the use of geospatial data across multiple public and private organizations." 1.Partnerships, policies, agreements 2.Data 3.Standards 4.Network services

European Spatial Data Infrastructure EEA - EIONET information nodes What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure The role of the network

Vision and Principles Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively It should be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications Spatial data should be collected at one level of government and shared between all levels Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use

SDI components 1. Policies and partnerships

The policy context INTERNATIONAL ISO Open Geospatial Consortium Global Spatial Data Infrastructure EUROPEAN CEN INSPIRE GMES EU Directives, Regulations

ESDI backbone of SEIS

SDI components 2. Data

Data types within ESDI Spatial data Reference data Attribute data Core data Thematic data Inspire Annex I, II and III

Annex I 1.Coordinate reference systems 2.Geographical grid systems 3.Geographical names 4.Administrative units 5.Addresses 6.Cadastral parcels 7.Transport networks 8.Hydrography 9.Protected sites Annex II 1.Elevation 2.Land cover 3.Ortho-imagery 4.Geology INSPIRE Thematic Scope Annex III 1.Statistical units 2.Buildings 3.Soil 4.Land use 5.Human health and safety 6.Utility and governmental services 7.Environmental monitoring facilities 8.Production and industrial facilities 9.Agricultural and aquaculture facilities 10.Population distribution – demography 11.Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units 12.Natural risk zones 13.Atmospheric conditions 14.Meteorological geographical features 15.Oceanographic geographical features 16.Sea regions 17.Bio-geographical regions 18.Habitats and biotopes 19.Species distribution 20.Energy Resources 21.Mineral resources

EEA SDI core data 2006

Inspire Annex I,II and III data related to Eionet data flow

Key ETC role supporting the EEA SDI Supporting the implementation and operation of reporting data flows Preparing reference data sets - Crosscutting (ETC LUSI) - Domain specific (all ETCs) Quality assuring (spatial) data Supporting the INSPIRE data specifications for Annex II and III Contributing to the assessment of spatial data and information

SDI components 3. Standards and interoperability

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Standards and interoperability Relevant areas Catalogues Metadata (ISO19115, INSPIRE) Geo-referencing system (ETRS89) Gazetteers Data transfer (XML, GeoRSS, RSS) Software and services (WMS, others) Semantic issues (eGov, RDF, GEMET …) Data quality

EEA services based on OGC standards Available services around CLC 1996 CLC 2000 Natura 2000 In preparation CLC2006 WISE RBD at

Example EEA service built on that

Spatial data quality elements 1.Completeness: ”Presence and absence of features, their attributes and relæationships” 2.Logical consistency: ”Degree of adherence to logical rules of datastructure, attribution and relations” 3.Position accuracy: ”Accuracy of the position of features” 4.Temporal accuracy: ”Accuracy of the temporal attributes and temporal relationships of features” 5.Thematic accuracy: ”Accuracy of quantitative attributes and the correctness of non-quantitative attributes and of the classifications of features and their relationships”

SDI components 4. Network services

EEA/Eionet SDI services

Other network / SDI related services EEA map viewers Ozone Web WISE distributed architecture – reporting pilot ePRTR (later in 2009) EyeonEarth v2 (Water and Airwatch) (Nov. 2009) Natura 2000 GIS viewer (later in 2009)... INSPIRE network services still to be built

WISE principles are SEIS principles Cooperation of EU institutions and Member States Information is managed as close as possible to its source ---- Distributed WISE nodes Information is provided once and used for many purposes As of 2007 Reportnet is the WFD reporting tool Information accessible for clients to make comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale and information available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, - (WISE map viewer displays of countries, river basins, catchment areas) European funding mechanisms should focus on delivering cost-effective analytical tools and services e.g. HarmoiCA (

INSPIRE compliant distributed network architecture I

SEIS in practice at EEA (II)

SEIS in practice at EEA (III)

Conclusions SEIS implementation on EU level along data centre developement Main ETC role in supporting SDI data related topics EEA SDI stepwise rolled out THANK YOU!