1. P. Blonda, P. Mazzetti/ 23rd October 2017
From Data to Knowledge: Biodiversity and Ecosystem the Ecopotential scenario
P. Blonda, P. Mazzetti/ 23rd October 2017

2. ECOPOTENTIAL at a glance
Improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations
What question are you answering?
State and pressures of ecosystems and ecosystem services?
ECOPOTENTIAL aims at creating a unified framework for ecosystem studies and management of protected areas (PA)
Focus on internationally recognized PAs in Europe and beyond in a wide range of biogeographic regions
Assess the current state and estimate
the future evolution of ecosystem services
by applying macro-system ecology concepts

3. Operational objectives
EODESM system (1)
ECOPOTENTIAL aims at creating a unified framework for ecosystem studies and management of protected areas (PA).
Best use of Earth Observation (EO) and additional multi-source (e.g., COs) monitoring data through the development of the
Earth Observation Data for Ecosystem Monitoring (EODESM) system
EODESM integrates EO data, biophysical variables, and ancillary data for providing Land Cover (LC), habitat and ecosystem maps as well as and change maps. FAO-LCCS2 taxonomy is used, with translations to FAO Land Cover Meta language (LCML)
Credit: R. Lucas (UNSW), D4.2

4. Operational objectives From data to knowledge (2)
EO & Socio-economic Data
SDGs
Ecosystem Essential Variables
Primary Indicators
Targets
(who, what, where, when)
(how)
«What-if»
Data
Information
Knowledge
Target Assessment
EVs creation
Business Processes execution
Indicators generation

5. Operational objectives Modelling for new services (3)
Assimilate EO data/products in modelling approaches to:
Understand ecosystem dynamics and functioning as well as resilience to natural and anthropic pressures;
Assess the conservation status of ecosystems and their services;
Provide the evidence and knowledge base for nature based solutions to address environmental and societal challenges, with linkages to other EU projects (e.g. ERA_Planet-Strand1);
Future PAs delineation
Provide open and interoperable access to data and knowledge through a GEO Ecosystem Virtual Laboratory Platform, fully integrated in GEOSS.

6. The ECOPOTENTIAL VLAB ECOPOTENTIAL VLAB EO Infrastructure VLab
Knowledge bases
EO products
EO Infrastructure
Datasets
ECOPOTENTIAL
VLAB
Long-term preservation
archives
Workflows
VLab
Portal and apps
Source code
VLab APIs
Remote processing services
VLAB App Developer
VLAB End User

7. Generating products ECOPOTENTIAL VLAB EO Infrastructure VLab
EO products
EO Infrastructure
Datasets
Long-term preservation
archives
ECOPOTENTIAL
VLAB
Workflows
VLab
Portal and apps
Source code
Remote processing services
Model Developer
VLAB End User

8. Current workflows
Earth Observation Data for Ecosystem Monitoring – EODESM
Despeckling module
Phylogenetic Diversity Estimation
Sea surface wind fields (on-going)

9. ECOPOTENTIAL Ontology
Domain ontology:
Ecosystem
Protected Area
Storyline (scenario)
Workflow (scientific business process)
Data/Observation
Product / Essential Variable
Users

10. ECOPOTENTIAL VLAB meets the GEOSS Platform
Ontologies
Workflows
Products
GEOSS Platform
GEOSS Portal
ECOPOTENTIAL VLAB
GEO DAB
VLAB API
GEOSS API
Community Portal
datasets
SBA knowledge body
workflows, products