1. Risk and Vulnerability Atlas Climate Change and Ecosystems 12 August 2010

2. Risk and Vulnerability Atlas Built on a Shared Platform – SAEON, CSIR, SAEOS – Risk Atlas, – World Data Centre for Biodiversity and Human Health Ecosystems/ Biodiversity is one of several inter-dependent themes Risk Atlas has a clear mandate Built on a Shared Platform – SAEON, CSIR, SAEOS – Risk Atlas, – World Data Centre for Biodiversity and Human Health Ecosystems/ Biodiversity is one of several inter-dependent themes Risk Atlas has a clear mandate Mandate Elements – Temporal – Spatial – Ontological Taxon Physical Property – Value Judgement – Value Addition Mandate Elements – Temporal – Spatial – Ontological Taxon Physical Property – Value Judgement – Value Addition

3. Scope of Discussion Concepts and ContextSoftware Platform: Walk-throughCurrent and Future Data Sets Examples of Tools, Visualisations, and Presentation Options

4. Context and Concepts

5. Risk Atlas is a National ‘Tool’ Fits into Global Change Grand Challenges planning Component (Tool) of an institutional architecture – Facilitate the science-policy link – Provide decision makers at national, provincial and local levels in South Africa with information to make timely and informed decisions that will improve the chances of adaptation. Broadly Supports Grand Challenge Outcomes

6. Centre of Excellence Applied Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Studies ( ACCESS ) Centre of Excellence Applied Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Studies ( ACCESS ) Global Change, Society, and Sustainability South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Africa Earth Observation Network (AEON) programmes Inkaba ye Africa/ Ikhure Africa Africa Earth Observation Network (AEON) programmes Inkaba ye Africa/ Ikhure Africa Space Agency (Global Change Monitoring Network) South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (R&V Atlas) SA Polar Research Entity Bureau on Global Change Science Global Change Performance and Investment Council Knowledge Brokering Support Unit Components of Architecture

7. Grand Challenge Outcomes

8. Vision: South African Risk & Vulnerability Atlas A ‘one-stop-shop’ for relevant global change findings – Especially tax-funded research – Outreach, communication and technology transfer platform for the decade-long Global Change ‘Grand Challenge’ Open and easy access – Via the internet – Hard-copy Atlas Based on an interactive electronic spatial database – Non-spatial studies will be accessible as well E.g. SA Health Information Network

9. Integration of data sources Integrated Development Plan Support – Case Studies – Theme pages (e.g. Health, Weather & Climate) Information will be available in the electronic spatial portal in the first phase New data sources will be added in second phase... for planning of a sustainable future

10. The Roles of Various Stakeholders DST is the ‘owner’ and initial sponsor CSIR is acting as its agent – Will be responsible for Project management, including subcontracting system design and implementation Content generation within some areas of expertise SAEON – Hosting, maintenance and archiving of the data system Specialists in universities, science councils, research institutions and government departments – Content generation and provision, including theme pages – Human Capacity development Steering Committee– guidance on information needs and priorities

11. Software Platform

12. The Bigger Picture CoSAMP (SAEON, CSIR) 2005 CoSAMP (SAEON, CSIR) 2005 CoGIS (SAEON, CSIR) 2007 CoGIS (SAEON, CSIR) 2007 Meta-Data I (SAEON, CSIR) 2008/9 Meta-Data I (SAEON, CSIR) 2008/9 Spatial Extensions (SAEON, SAEOS, WDS, R&VA) 2009 Spatial Extensions (SAEON, SAEOS, WDS, R&VA) 2009 Image Extensions Admin Extensions (SAEON, SAEOS) 2009/10 Image Extensions Admin Extensions (SAEON, SAEOS) 2009/10 Meta-Data II (SAEON, SAEOS, WDS, R&VA) 2009/10 Meta-Data II (SAEON, SAEOS, WDS, R&VA) 2009/10 Structured Data (SAEON, SAEOS, WDS) 2009/10 Structured Data (SAEON, SAEOS, WDS) 2009/10 Knowledge (CSIR, SAEON) 2010/11 Knowledge (CSIR, SAEON) 2010/11 Process (CSIR, SAEON) 2010/11 Process (CSIR, SAEON) 2010/11 Open Source Local Capacity Local Capacity URS I URS II URS III Citations Service Orientation (SAEON, SAEOS, R&VA, WDS) 2009/10 Citations Service Orientation (SAEON, SAEOS, R&VA, WDS) 2009/10

13. Broad Concept Meta-Data Driven Catalogues – Rely on widely adopted standards – Describes data for discovery and future application Search and Discovery – Advanced Search Capabilities – GEO compliance Mapping, Charting, and Visualisation – Rely on web sources (WMS, WFS, KML, GeoRSS, …) – Allows map composition and persistence (Web Context) – Allows integration with portal search facilities – Visualisation and Informal Correlation Admin – Usage Statistics – Forced Registration Structured Data – Visualisation and Informal Correlation

14. Main Use Cases

15. Portals and Platform Spatial Data Other Data Documents and Publications Meta-Data and Data Management Functions Data Visualisation and Presentation Data Analysis and Processing Main Platform Services Main Stakeholders and Themes NSIF SAEOS WDC SAEOS WDC SAEOS WDC CSIR SAEON RAVA LGEP Other SAEOS Portal SAEOS Portal NSIF Application NSIF Application SAEON Nodes and Themes CSIR Risk and Vulnerability Atlas World Data Centre for BHH Limpopo GeoEconomic Portal

16. Data and Documents Meta-Data Collections Site Map R&VA Landing Page (Home) Themes Partners & Stakeholders Case Studies Search Services GEO-Compliant Services Content Topical Search Topical Search Advanced Search Spatial Search Legal Terms and Conditions, Licenses Data Policy Disclaimer Static Login/ Registration Contact Particulars Custodian Pages Tools CoGIS Services CoGIS Services Map-Based Visualisation Meta-Data Collections Data and Documents

17. Walk-Through (Live)

18. Main Functions Sharing of data and publications Discovery and Visualisation of Data Informal Correlation of Data Collaborative Development and Value Addition

19. Site Layout

20. Data Status

21. Phase 1: Direct Data Initiatives Climate: – Climate Systems Analysis Group (UCT): – Temperature downscaling for most global models – Rainfall downscaling for most global models – Two scenarios in addition to a baseline Human Settlement and Activity: – CSIR Built Environment: – Integration with the Toolkit for Integrated Planning (TIP) – Example Data Sets, to be extended in Phase 2 Biodiversity and EcoSystems-Related – SANBI/ BGIS: – Important layers as Examples – To be extended and directly integrated with BGIS in Phase 2

22. Indirect Data Initiatives SAEON – All SAEON-Related Data Sets on an ongoing basis – All SADCO/ NCCH Data Sets on an ongoing basis – All SANPARKS data sets – All GBIF Data Sets SAEOS – Currently Targeting – All SAC Data Sets – AFIS/ Fire Services/ WAMIS – ICSW Data Sets – Water, Agriculture, Disasters, Health, Climate, Energy, Weather,... World Data Centre – All USGS/ NBII Data Sets for Africa in fields of Biodiversity and Health – All PANGAEA Data Sets – Selected Health-Related Data Sets

23. Example: Rainfall Anomaly and Amphibian Species Density

24. Example: Conservation, Active Fires, and Population

25. Next Steps