1. MOTIIVE / RISE More Services at Lower Cost - The role of INSPIRE in GMES
Keiran Millard1, Andrew Woolf2, Jeremy Tandy3 ,Chris Higgins4, Roger Longhorn5, Rob Atkinson6
1HR Wallingford, Wallingford, UK
2Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Harwell UK
3Met Office, Exeter, UK
4EDINA, University of Edinburgh, UK
5IDG, Belgium
6Social Change OnLine, Australia
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2. What’s driving the developments?
GMES, GEOS, GOOS…. The badge may be different, but the general need to pull together different data sources, processing services and users in a cost-effective (interoperable) manner remains.
Nothing new…
find and use data…
but this is a hard problem to solve
Operational Oceanography and needs;
less concerned about charting and map production
More concerned with service chaining
INSPIRE… How do you use ISO & OGC standards to deploy cost-effective services? - MOTIIVE
Extend service to new jurisdiction (region) -Add New data sources -Add new processing models -Add new customer
Weakness is at the interface
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3. Using Data
Real World
My Data may be difference from ‘Your Data’ – including my customers data needs
Structure, content, encoding, portrayal
Not just ‘parameter’ and ‘coverage’
This has fundamental implications for how the data can be used
How to ensure a consistent approach to realising ‘My Data’ ?
Such that is can be exposed in a consistent and objective way
My Sampling
First lets look at how the data has been created
My Data
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4. Marine Community defining Features?
Dredging & Extraction
Navigation =
Energy
Science
Physical
Chemical
Water Quality
Meteorology
Biological
Fisheries Aquaculture
Conservation
As this is the community, the lack of clear rules means there is significant scope for variation in how the feature is defined; these feature types may lack coherence and consistency with each other. So….
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5. Back to ISO TC211
The key to interoperability is the formalisation of shared knowledge in communities through the definition and cataloguing of ‘feature types’.
But what is ‘a Feature?’ and how should is be defined?
Conceptual models for features can be formalised in a canonical XML encoding through the Geography Markup Language (GML).
But what is the best way to develop a GML Application Schema? – RISE Methodology
Registries can be used to manage Features
But we don’t have a reference registry implementation
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6. Separation of Concerns…
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7. MOTIIVE Deployment Service binding to FTCs Water Level on map
Water level as time series
Water level as report
Water level as ‘specialist’ FT
To meet different user needs…across all jurisdictions
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8. MOTIIVE in Action
Agreement with marine GMES projects (IP WIN / GSE MARCOAST) on the ‘best approach’ for using OGC / ISO specifications to underpin data services.
This ‘best approach’ highlights the need for a reference implementation of a Feature Type Catalogue to facilitate the development and deployment of Application Schema.
Establishment if a ‘Domain Modelling’ WG’ under the auspices of OGC
Long term sustainability
Engagement with World Meteorological Organisation and United Nations Working Group on Geographic Information with regard to development and alignment of best practices and supporting infrastructure for deployment of data standards.
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9. MOTIIVE / RISE (WFD Example)
Illustrates the need for…
A method for users (such as EEA) to realise a Feature Type Catalogue for their needs
Would inherit from other FTC (e.g. IOC, IHO, ICES)
A method for data suppliers to use reference specification to publish their data
Marine:Marine integration and Marine:Land integration
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10. INSPECCT – Integrated Synoptic view of Pollution Effect-Cause in Coastal Typologies
Illustrates ‘value adding’ to a GMES service to deliver management information
Water Framework Directive – Need to identify sources of diffuse pollutants in the marine (transitional waters) environment.
Conceptual framework – Pollutant X at location P is caused by Y at source Q.
Objective of the current study is to understand the value of a broad scale screening tool
lacks precision but good repeatability, wide coverage and low cost.
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11. Base Information for Service
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12. Sediment cells in Scotland
WFD TRAC Boundaries and contributing catchments overlaid with sediment cells
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13. Run off: 03/2003 (wet) and 10/2003 (dry)
Correlation exists between land run-off and coastal water quality
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14. WQ Risk: 03/2003 (wet) and 10/2003 (dry)
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15. Presently Target data specification is not clearly defined
What is required (content, structure, encoding, portrayal)?
Cannot pull in data from across Europe
No common services (CD-ROM / FTP)
Ad-hoc data specs, often poorly defined
Hence extending jurisdiction of service relies on customisation rather than automatation
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16. Summary
Common approaches to defining data and what you can do with it is a cornerstone to the uptake of OO services
Customers/Communities describe their needs
publish a FTC
Providers deliver services
Subscribe to this FTC
Can make use of existing services e.g. OGC services (WFS, WCS)
Reduces deployment costs
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17. Developments in Marine Standards
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