1. Bringing Eye on Earth Down to Earth
From a non-technical communicator
DG Environment December 2011

2. Global public information service
A tool

3. One website, many contributors
Free access
Org/Country ...
Windows Azure
ESRI SAAS
Microsoft SAAS
Windows Azure
ESRI SAAS
Microsoft SAAS

4. Eye on Earth – Sharing is everything
Use of own infrastructure & sharing some services w. EoE
Hosted by Germany and partly EEA
JRC
Hosted via EEA Managed and owned by Slovenia
NGO’s and small communities DE SE
Eye on Earth (sharing is everything)
EEA SL
UNEP
Servers partly in the cloud and on own premises. Sharing w. partners
you
WHO
EEA: European Environment Agency
JRC: Joint Research Centre, WHO: World Health Organisation
SE: Sweden, SL: Slovenia
(These are just examples)

5. Diverse data in ONE place
Official sources
Environment
knowledge base
Sectoral
GMES?
Public sources
(e.g. crowds,
citizen science)

6. EEA’s technological evolution??

7. Diverse data and apps in ONE place
All shared!
Official sources
Environment
knowledge base
Sectoral
GMES?
Public sources
(e.g. crowds,
citizen science)
Web tools
(e.g. map-making)

8. Eye on Earth - A global public good
Web map services
Data
GPX – GPS Exhange format
KML – Google keyhole file
CSV – Comma seperated file
SHP – Esri Shape file
ArcGis – Esri web-services
WMS – OGC services
KML – OGC / Google services
Applications
Mapping tools

9. Maritime shipping 2010 & Natura 2000 protected sites

11. SHOWCASE at the eye on earth summit Abu Dhabi 12 – 15 December 2011
EEA Watches:
AirWatch WaterWatch NoiseWatch
and others later (e.g. NatureWatch)

13. Thanks for your attention

14. Discomap
Application
Cloud
Web service

15. What goes on the EEA site???