EMODNET Preparatory Actions Hydrographic and Seabed Mapping Service Contracts MARE/2008/03 S and MARE/2009/07 S By Dick M.A. Schaap – Coordinator Brussels - Belgium, 7th February 2012, EMODnet Concertation Meeting

Members of the SeaDataNet consortium together with other organisations from marine science, the hydrographic survey community, and industry: MARIS – NL (Management, DM and IT expertise) IFREMER – FR (Research institute) ATLIS – NL (IT expertise, DM hydrography) IEO – ES (Research institute) NERC-NOC – UK (Research institute) GSI – IE (HO – Ireland) SHOM – FR (HO – France) UNEP-GRID Arendal – NO (International Organisation) OGS – Oceanography department (IT) (Research Institute) HCMR (GR) (Research Institute) Plus Data provider agreements with HO’s from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium Plus Associate partners: ISMAR-CNR –IT, OGS-RIMA – IT, LNEG – PT, UTM- CSIC – ES, NIOZ - NL (Research Institutes) + IHPT – PT (HO) + recently OceanWise (UK) + Israeli Government, Ministry of National Infrastructures (Israel) + negotiations with Lebanon

3 Progress

Up till today, 7197 survey CDI metadata records from 13 data centres and 114 data originators have been collated and imported into a dedicated EMODnet Hydrography CDI data discovery and access service. This service was launched in May 2010 and has been upgraded over time with extra functionality These survey data and other gathered composite DTMs have been collated into regional EMODNet DTM’s that are available for viewing and downloading in several formats via the Hydrography Products portal service. The dedicated EMODnet Hydrography products portal has been launched in May It sits atop of the central DTM database and interacts with the CDI service and with OGC WMS services The Hydrography portal has considerably been upgraded and relaunched in June 2011 in response of feedback and comments received.

Survey data of UKHO of the UK Civil Hydrography Programme Compilation by Ocean Wise Ltd

CDI metadata serviceData products service

Viewing service with digital bathymetry and overlay of CDI data sets

Retrieving parameters of an individual grid cell and retrieving CDI metadata of associated prevailing survey

CDI metadata service Data products service Under construction DTM metadata service

The majority of the services and used formats in the EMODNet Hydrography portal are already INSPIRE compliant Upgrading of CDI to ISO transport scheme is underway as part of SeaDataNet II project Use of external vocabularies is allowed. => SeaDataNet Common Vocabularies have been proposed to INSPIRE via SeaDataNet SDIC for various themes => awaiting feedback in March 2012 The Delivery of bathymetric survey data sets is done in NetCDF (CF). This is not excluded but not yet named in the INSPIRE Elevation specification. => Has been proposed to INSPIRE via SeaDataNet SDIC => awaiting feedback in March 2012 For the delivery of the DTM tiles present formats are allowed, but it seems recommended to support also the Bathymetric Attributed Grid Object (BAG), IHO S102, once this is mature => explore INSPIRE Compliance

11 Web statistics

MonthUnique visitors Number of visits PagesHits Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

MonthUnique visitors Number of visits PagesHits Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

A growing number of users that are finding and browsing through the EMODNet Hydrography portal and its CDI Discovery service. Last months we have > 500 visitors per month with an average browsing of 20 to 30 pages The publicity campaign undertaken via various offshore, oceanography and hydrography portals and online newsletters seems to have effect Also a growing number of users are finding the Hydrographic Products service and browse the new digital bathymetry layers. Last months we have >200 users per month with an average downloading of ca 250 DTM files per month Feedback by the online form is limited and if happening, always positive

15 Survey coverage of the European waters

Objectives : To compile an overview of multibeam and single beam surveys for Europe’s maritime basins To assess the coverage of European seas by high resolution multibeam data Estimating the costs for filling the gaps Approach: Using the already gathered CDI metadata records and exploring further their geographic coverage Questionnaire has been sent out to other potential sources (incl industry) to identify additional surveys and their coverage Calculate coverage and assess gaps

Identified multibeam bathymetry coverage around Europe

UK EEZ 75% (566,120 sq km) Ireland EEZ 18% (76,876 sq km) part Norway EEZ 82% (305,575 sq km) Percentages of EEZs unmapped by multibeam.

Coastal zone is missing/not well covered in most part of the gathered data sets and produced DTM Possible solutions in next tender: Applying a consistent hierarchy of resolution and a common mechanism of gridding to produce compatible grids allowing generalization without to recompute the DTM each time there a new scale specified which is relevant for the coastal zones Upgrading the gridding algorithm (also learning from Geo-Seas WP11 experiences) for less anomalies – apply for all regions Also prepare a fully smoothed (polished) version Also provide a projected grid (X,Y squares) next to the geographic grid (lat-lon boxes) to serve different user communities Provide technical support and staff capacity to HO’s for reworking / harmonisation of their DTMs and production of metadata (see North Sea HO’s)

20 Coming activities

Gather more data sets (surveys and composite DTMs) Continue with trying to get hold of surveys for composite DTMs of HO’s Finalise and integrate the Catalogue service for composite DTMs Together with Geo-Seas project a new freely downloadable 3D viewer is being finalised that will allow users to import the DTM files (NetCDF) and combine these with WMS services (eg geology surface layer) for 3D visualisations and analyses Produce upgraded release of the new DTMs in June 2012 Deeper analysis of geographical coverage of European seas by multibeam surveys and gaps analysis Demonstrate facilities for external loading of users own DTM data

23 INSPIRE compliance: CDI Data Discovery and Access Service ServicesDiscovery serviceOK Download serviceOK Viewing serviceOK StandardsCDI metadata format = ISO profile OK CDI transport format = ISO DTD; upgrading to ISO underway Underway SeaDataNet Common VocabulariesHas been proposed to INSPIRE by SeaDataNet SDIC Viewing by OGC WMSOK Survey data sets download format = NetCDF (CF) Closer look of ELEVATION theme

24 INSPIRE compliance: DTM Metadata Service (under construction) ServicesDiscovery serviceOK Viewing serviceOK Downloading service = Not applicable StandardsDTM metadata = ISO profileOK DTM metadata transport format = ISO OK SeaDataNet Common VocabulariesHas been proposed to INSPIRE by SeaDataNet SDIC Viewing by OGC WMSOK

25 INSPIRE compliance: Data Products Viewing Service ServicesDiscovery serviceOK Download serviceOK Viewing serviceOK StandardsViewing by OGC WMSOK DTM tiles formats = CSV, ESRI ASCII, NetCDF (CF), Geotiff and Fledermaus SD files Closer look of ELEVATION theme