1. Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Africa Scenario
Steve Peedell
Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit
European Commission Joint Research Centre
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2. Ecosystems and Biodiversity : Africa - Scenario Development
Introductions
All participants to scenario development
JRC role in Africa
Geographic distribution
Confirmation of scenario description
Role of climate change, socio-economic, humanitarian effects
Continent wide / Region specific?
Show the good, the bad and the ugly?
Political implications
Time scale e.g. short term / long term
Long term impact of short term events…..
Direct and indirect participants
Links to other scenarios - climate change, wildfire
Links to other pilots - GEO, FedEO
Links to other SBA’s
Infrastructure issues - role of GEONETCAST?
Development of script
What are the key messages?
Common / scenario specific
For which audience?
Ministerial / technical / public
Using which tools?
Identification of data / services
Does the scenario fit the available data or vice versa?
Schedule and tasks - Wednesday
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3. Africa Observatory - Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Continent wide
Systematic
Input to scenario - results of evaluation
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4. Scenario Description
As per Kick Off Work Plan -Scenario on ecosystems, biodiversity and climate change in Africa (CFP B.2.6.4)
Or as per CFP (Ecosystems and Biodiversity:Africa)?
Cranfield, FGDC, JRC GeoConnections, GEOmon, JPL, Meraka et.al., NOAA/EOG, SERVIR, UT/JAXA, GBIF, NASA (SEDAC), STFC, …….
Scenario objectives / key messages
Strong on data discovery and access
Limited processing, workflow
RM ODP description of pilot
Entries of contributed resources to go in the GEOSS Registry
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5. CFP
0 Identify the key questions for long- term decisions Is the existing network of protected areas (PAs) for preserving biodiversity adapted for preserving hot spots of biodiversity and resilient to current and features threats?
1. Evaluate the current value of PAs Do the current PAs preserve the major groups of species and their habitats? Can we rank the existing PAs? Are important hot spots of biodiversity not covered?
2. Evaluate the current threats on PAs How human activities impact on the territorial integrity or connectivity of PAs? Can we identify the most threaten areas?
3. Evaluate the future threats on PAs How climate change and demographic increase will modify the biodiversity value and the threats (fires, droughts, floods, extractive activities, agriculture...)?
4. Adapt the distribution of PAs How can we mitigate the threats on biodiversity by measures on existing PAs and by creating new ones?
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6. Data Requirements Etc etc….. Land use GLC2000 GLOBCOVER(300m JRC)
Protected areas WDPA
Wildfire Muenster S. Africa only
Population (human and other species) GBIF SEDAC
Including migration and changes due to humanitarian crises
Climate - long term average and climate change scenarios
Gazetteer
Topography
Soil resources - WOSSAC (Nigeria??), GeographyNetwork
EO data L-Band SAR and Optical
Wildlife sightings
Habitat Monitoring
Visitor information
Infrastructure - communications, transportation etc
UN DevInfo
Etc etc…..
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7. Pilot components checklist
Catalog services
CS/W, Z39.50, ISO 23950, CS/W-ebRIM, CS/W-ISO, UDDI, Clearinghouse
OGC Core, ISO, EO, Darwin Core, DDMS, FGDC,
Data access services
WFS, WCS, SOS, SPS, Workflow Manager, OPeNDAP
Portrayal services
WMS, SLD WMS
Data transformation / processing services
WPS, WCTS, WICS
Other services
WNS, Alerts, Portals, Ordering, SQL RDBMS
Not services
WMC, GML, ISO / 19139, ABCD, SensorML, SLD, TML, NetCDF, RSS
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8. GEO /Trilateral Pilot Objectives
Use scenarios to exercise discovery and access
Develop and register persistent GEOSS services
Demonstrate use of GEOSS architecture around scenarios
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9. Contributions Storyboard development (up to end June)
Local stakeholder engagement
Service creation / provision
Including proxy hosting
Catalogue population
Links to other scenarios / pilots
Key messages
Sharing brings results
What we are aware of is the tip of the iceberg
Justify data acquisition / cataloguing
Demonstrate potential value
Added value of the GEO process
Repatriation of data
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