1. Stefan Jensen EU water directors meeting, Saarisälkaa, FI 30.11.2006
The launch of the public WISE viewer and website days to launch -
Stefan Jensen
EU water directors meeting, Saarisälkaa, FI

2. Key WISE IT system principles
A joint development initially by DG Environment, Eurostat, the JRC and EEA
stepwise opening up to other partners
Tasks allocated to all partners
Distributed system architecture
5 year WISE planning and management
Overcome the seperation between SoE and regulatory reporting
Currently guided by a set of groups and processes under the WfD (MS participation)

3. What do we develop:
A public website ( ) offering information on European water issues incl.
data and themes - EEA water data centre
policy – DG Environment
projects – RTD/JRC
A public map viewer providing access to data
displaying European datasets available under WISE
integrating those datasets following predefined ”expert queries” and thematic maps

4. The draft data website II. MAP Viewer I. Welcome Screen III. VI.
Quick Information
Reporting obligations
Background
Background of
WISE Viewer
Assessment reports
III.
Administrative
items
VI.
Water
Status
Objectives
River Basin Districts
Quality Elements
Competent Authorities
SW Status
II.
MAP
Viewer
Ecoregions
GW Status
EEA EIONET
Background
Surface Waters
IV.
Water
Bodies
VII.
Monitoring
Monitoring Sites
Groundwater
Surface Waters
Artificial
Water Bodies
Groundwater
Heavily Modified
Water Bodies
IX.
Resources
Protected Areas
Overview
Drinking Water
Overview V.
Water
Pollution
VIII.
Protected
Areas
Recreational Water
Point Sources
FAQs
Glossary
Links
Message Board
Disclaimer
Economical Species
Diffuse Sources
Nutrient Sensitive
Prevention Strategies
Bird Protection
-means topic has spatial data content i.e. is linked to MAP Viewer
Habitat Protection

5. Which data will it contain at the launch:
Thematic data
EIONET water data
water quality data from monitoring stations on rivers and lakes
WFD Art.3 data
river basins, river basin districts and international river basin districts
competent authorities
large rivers and lakes
main rivers and lakes OR Teleatlas data - where Art3. data is not available / too difficult to integrate
Derived from WFD Art.5 data
waterbodies at risk
heavily modified waterbodies
(if delivered and quality assured)
European bathing water data
Data from EU15 countries reporting under the Urban Waste Water Directive
agglomerations, sensitive areas (where useful)
Intercalibration (simplified)

6. Which data will it contain at the launch:
Expert queries
e.g. based on the full SoE data as in EIONET water
Water quality data in rivers, lakes and groundwater (overview)
Pollutants (nitrates, ammonium, BOD5, phosphorus) in rivers and lakes – latest year and timeseries
Summary of monitoring stations by catchments size (pending)
Relation between nitrate concentration in rivers and agriculture
River basin districts, competent authorities, main rivers and lakes ...
Thematic maps
e.g. Nitrates from monitoring aggregated to Rivers Basins Districts
Integrated data in support of an Ecosystem approach

9. Which data will it contain at the launch:
Background data (optional for viewing)
Teleatlas rivers and lakes
Digital elevation model
CCM2
Corine Landcover CLC 2000 land-use data
Image 2000 (satellite data)

10. Where we are on technology:
Distributed node technology developed and partly applied (“multi-connector”)
XML based communication between modules developed and enabled
Map viewer draft version available
- map viewing and navigation (INSPIRE service)
- data query function
- simple graphs
- simple time series
In 2007 and 2008 further INSPIRE type services will be developed:
Metadata catalogues
Data downloading functions (determined by WISE data policy)

11. Map viewer user profiles
Users
Public/
neighbourhood
thematic maps
Experts/
advanced
Messages
Potential issues on water quality in ”my area”
Simple, overview messages on the European scale
Full access to European datasets, many combination,
Data used
Point data from EIONET-water, UWWT and bathing water
Simple maps from EIONET water, Art.3 and UWWT
All data layers
available
Implementation
Simple „1-2 click“ approach
„flexible navigation“
Many clicks
Services
View, simple query
View, potentially data download,
notification
View, manipulate,
download, link systems,notify

12. Water directors are informed and asked for comments
Please try out the application from 22nd of March 2007 at
Thank you for your attention!