1. WISE / INSPIRE Hans Dufourmont Albrecht Wirthmann INSPIRE 02 June 2006
Eurostat D-2 Regional Indicators & Geographical Information
March 2007
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2. Aims of WISE
WISE
Efficient management of all water-related information on EU level
Coherence between various reporting mechanisms and needs
Access to information / data for various purposes and needs

3. WISE Topics Cover all water related information arising from EU policy
Integration of water related datasets, e.g. EIONET water, UWWTD, bathing water, ...
Integration of spatial and non-spatial data

4. INSPIRE
INSPIRE scope
02 June 2006
Creation of a European Spatial Information / Data Infrastructure
Deliver integrated spatial information services
Frame for integration of spatial water data into European Spatial Data Infrastructure
Focus on public authorities (Sharing)
Focus on performance of public tasks
No new data collection required
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5. Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)
WISE and INSPIRE will be integrated into the initiative of DG Environment on creating a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS).
WISE is water-related component
INSPIRE is infrastructural component related to spatial information.
Environmental data centres will feed this infrastructure environmental data.

6. Environmental Data Centres
“Group of 4” - European bodies
DG Environment, European Environment Agency, Joint Research Centre, Eurostat
Technical Arrangement: 10 Data Centres: Natural Resources – Waste – Products – Soil – Forestry – Air – Climate Change – Water – Biodiversity – Land Use

7. ©2007 Google-Grafiken ©2007 AeroWest
SEIS, WISE, INSPIRE
WASTE
FOREST
SOIL
Report
INSPIRE
MAPS
MAPS
WISE
AIR
Report
WATER
INSPIRE
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8. INSPIRE

9. INSPIRE principles
Data should be collected once, maintained at the most appropriate level and shared with all other levels
Geo-Information needed for good governance should be abundant under acceptable conditions
It should be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications
It should be easy to discover, to evaluate its fitness for use and to know which conditions for use do apply

10. INSPIRE Objectives
Provide access to relevant and harmonised spatial data
for Community environmental policy
national and regional administrations
for the citizen
Integrated spatial information services
Distributed network of data sources
Common standards and protocols
Build upon national SDIs

11. GI Institutional framework GI technical standards
Memorandum of understanding signed in 2002
between DG ENV,
Eurostat and the JRC for developing
INSPIRE initiative; renewed in 2006 for the implemen-tation of INSPIRE.
GI Institutional framework
GI technical standards
Bringing data and services together through a
Spatial Data Infrastructure
Spatial Information Services
Basis GI data sets

12. Spatial Data Interest Communities
INSPIRE organisation
Consolidation Team
Assure usage of standards and the flow back to the standardizing committees
EC, MS
ISO, CEN, ..
Drafting Teams
Convert specifications into implementing rules and draft guidelines
SDICs
SDICs provide reference material for Drafting Teams and participate in validation process
Spatial Data Interest Communities
User
User
User

13. DT Metadata The scope of MD needs more focus
clarification of boundaries between discovery, exploration, evaluation, exploitation and use is needed
articulation of different levels of granularity of MD according to relevance for each user community
IR to include both MD on data and services (v.1 April 2006)

14. DT Data Harmonisation Detailed definitions on data specs and exchange
Survey of existing initiatives
Definition of Annex Themes and scope
Report on findings of survey
first draft generic conceptual model
first draft methodologies for specification development
first draft IR for data exchange ( )
v.1 of generic conceptual model
impact assessment on use of this model

15. INSPIRE
Network services
02 June 2006
MS shall establish and operate a network of following services:
discovery services (data & services)
view services
download services
transformation services
middleware services
discovery and view services free of charge
charging exception for large volumes AND high update frequency (meteo data)
if charged for, then via e-commerce
protection against (commercial) proliferation allowed
The Commission will run an EU geo-portal
Implementing Rules will be adopted
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16. Data sharing
Each MS shall adopt measures for sharing of spatial data sets and services between its public authorities, for the purposes of environmental policies
Sharing measures shall preclude any restrictions likely to create practical obstacles, occurring at the point of use

17. Spatial Data themes Annex I data Annex II data
Co-ordinate reference system
Geographical grid system
Geographical names
Administrative units
Addresses
Cadastral parcels
Transport networks
Hydrography
Protected sites
Annex II data
Elevation
Land cover
Ortho-imagery
Geology

18. Spatial Data themes Annex III data Statistical units Buildings Soil
Land use
Human health and safety
Utility and government services
Environmental monitoring facilities
Production and industrial facilities
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Population distribution - demography
Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units
Natural risk zones
Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Oceanographic geographical features
Sea regions
Bio-geographical regions
Habitats & biotopes
Distribution of species
Energy resources
Mineral resources

19. Data theme definitions
Transport networks:
Road, rail, air and water transport networks and related infrastructure. Includes links between different networks. Also includes TEN.
Hydrography:
Hydrographic elements, including marine areas and all other water bodies and items related to them, including river basins and sub-basins. Where appropriate, according to the definitions set out in the WFD, and in the form of networks

20. Data theme definitions
Land Cover:
Physical and biological cover of the earth’s surface including … water bodies
Soil:
Soils and subsoil … and anticipated water storage capacity
Utility and governmental services:
… water supply …
Environmental monitoring facilities:
Location and operation of environmental monitoring facilities including … measurement of emissions …
Production and industrial facilities
… water abstraction facilities …

21. Data theme definitions
Area management/restriction zones and reporting units:
… restricted areas around drinking water sources, nitrate vulnerable zones, … river basin districts, relevant reporting units …
Natural risk zones:
… all hydrologic, … phenomena that, because of their location, severity and frequency, have the potential to seriously affect society
Habitats and biotopes:
geographic areas characterised by …, includes terrestrial and aquatic areas distinguished by geographical, abiotic and biotic features…
Energy resources:
energy resources including … hydropower …

22. Important feature types
Watercourse
Name
Hydrologic code
Hydrologic persistence (perennial, intermittent)
Hydrographic Origin Category (natural, man-made)
Type (stream, canal, aqueduct, ditch, estuary, …, virtual)
Position/ground
Navigability
Lake, pond
Name (if any)
Other entities on water network, such as waterfall, sluice, lock, dam
Isolated water infrastructures, such as fountain, pumping station
River basin
name
hydrologic code
level (“administrative importance”)

23. WISE GIS

24. WISE technical group Lead: EEA
Partners: ENV, JRC, Eurostat, DE, FR, IT, SE
Mandate
Support WISE steering group concerning technical issues

25. WISE technical group Tasks Design and implement Information system
Assure data access and exchange
Update WISE GIS guidance
Profile on geographic metadata
Definition of geographic reference datasets
Proposal for hydrological coding system

26. WISE GIS
Development of WISE GIS component as an important building block of Spatial Data Infrastructure
Key Services
Visualisation of georeferenced data
Enable interoperability between EU and national/RBD systems
Enable analysis and assessment possibilities
Integration of different data sources and types

27. Long term objectives (2010)
Implementation of Infrastructure integrating EU WISE and national water information systems
Main purposes
Visualisation
Policy assessment
Compliance assessment
Scenario / modelling analysis

28. Short term objectives (2007-08)
Emphasis on visualisation
web mapping, paper maps, WISE viewer (
Review of WFD reported data and integration of relevant reference datasets
Scope is EU27 + accession, candidate, EFTA and other European countries
Collaborative process between EU services and member states

29. WISE GIS Guidance Based on WFD GIS guidance 2002
Description of structure and implementation of WISE GIS
Clarification of roles and responsibilities of involved actors
Update of list of datasets and maps

30. WISE GIS Guidance Issues to be covered EU hydrographic reference layer
Use and exploitation of other datasets
Planning for development of new layers (canals, reservoirs)
Improvement reported national datasets
Intended scope of visualisation
Definition of reference areas for visualisation (comparable sub-units)
Feature coding
Metadata aspects
Interoperability aspects between WISE and national information systems

31. WISE GIS Guidance Management Aspects
Process led by new WISE Technical Coordination Group
Participation of EU services and MS representatives
Updated Guidance until 2007/8

32. WISE GIS Guidance TOC Purpose of Guidance
Implementing the WFD and WISE development
Role of GIS in WISE
Definition of products (maps) and functions
Visualisation of WISE GIS data
Information on policy implementation
Compliance Assessment
Scientifc Analysis, Assessment, Modelling

33. WISE GIS Guidance TOC General approach for definition of datasets
Technical Aspects
Options for creating new datasets
Technical Description
GIS layers
Data models
Feature Coding
Metadata implementation
Data exchange
Web Services

34. WISE GIS Guidance TOC Harmonisation Coordination General principles
EU Core dataset
Development of new layers
Reference Units for Visualisation
Coordination
Organisations, responsibilities (Who)
Working procedures (How)
Phases of development
Interaction with other organisations, initiatives, developments

35. Conclusions
WISE is European data and information management system for water
WISE will integrate data from water related European legislation (UWWTD)
WISE GIS contains spatial data related to water
INSPIRE will provide infrastructural component of WISE related to spatial information.
WISE GIS guidance will define spatial component of WISE
Spatial data from UWWDT reporting will be integrated into WISE GIS component