1. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary NEFIS Work Package 3 Status Report Mid-term Meeting IUFRO, Vienna 24-25 May 2004

2. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Work Package 3 Deliverables –D2 – NEFIS/GFIS KnowledgeBase –D2a- Technology Reviews –D9 – Extended UML EFIS++ design, including schema for additional forest information domains WP Calendar May 2004 March 2003April 2005

3. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary WP3 Milestones Establishment of web presence Design of the kb web site and information repository –Population of the KB with content – ongoing UML meeting KB meeting – ongoing –UML designs of extended EFIS – ongoing

4. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary UML Meeting Presentations PresentationAuthor Spatial Data Infrastructure StandardsHans Voss GIS in the InternetSimon Scheider, Natalia and Gennady Andrienko Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Data and Decision Making Using Interactive Maps and Linked Dynamic Displays. Tutorial Natalia and Gennady Andrienko Web services and NEFISKeith Rennolls Architecture and InteroperabilityMoh Ibrahim NEFIS Knowledge BaseNguyen Thanh Binh Population of the Knowledge Base and FAQsJarmo Saarikko NEFIS User RequirementsMichael Köhl and Aljoscha Requardt Introduction to UMLAlex Fedorec Executable UML: The need for xUMLMoh Ibrahim NEFIS use case analysisAlex Fedorec Meeting Presentations are available at http://www.efi.fi/projects/nefis/

5. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary WP3 Components Technology Review Web Services Architectures Standards in the GI Sector WP3 NEFIS KnowledgeBase NEFIS UML Design Use Cases/ Story Lines Design WP2 Development Population Done Ongoing User Requirements VT Training Course

6. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary The following slides are taken from the various presentations given at the WP3 meeting in Bonn. They are intended to summarise the main points raised during the meeting. The logo of the presenting institution can be found on each slide.

7. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Web Services: Simple Specific Usage Language 1 Op.Syst.1 Hardware 1 Platform 1 Platform 2 Language 2 Op.Syst.2 Hardware 2 Different RDF XML HTML WSDLWSDL WSDLWSDL Common SOAP HTTP UDDI

8. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary EFIS functionality Catalogue function; node of GFIS. –Searchable register of Forest Inf. Objects. –DC, XML, WS OK Distributed Database (ddb) –Interoperable data access… WS Federation, Grids, etc –…of mutually compatible and comparable data –…for processing, analysis and decision support Agregation, Comparision, Modelling and Forecasting.

9. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary PROBLEM 1 The data in national databases (i.e. Forest Inventories) are NOT consistent or compatable. –Forest area; dbh; volume-to; productivity class…. Well known to EFICS (89, 97) which looked at : –Harmonisation (adoption of common standards - very expensive) –Standardisation (adjustment/scaling of data to compatibility – not easy) CONCLUSION: Data-access interoperability is not enough, by itself.

10. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary SOLUTION Standardisation models required to: –Convert National inventory data to a common flexible STANDARD –Convert between different National standards Empirical Data is required. –Too expensive? –Use of Heuristic Modelling Patches in NEFIS demonstrator? (From EFICS data???) Need a Standards Conversion Toolkit (SCTK)

11. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary PROBLEM 2 All the national databases have different base-dates. Hence, the national databases are base-date inconsistent.

12. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary SOLUTION? National Inventory up-dating models are needed. Equivalent to Inventory-based forecasting models. Forest Inventory Forecasting Toolkit? Not Easy!!! Expensive! Localised or Centralised?

13. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary PROBLEM 3 Where do the standardisation and up-dating processes fit within the EFIS++ ddb interoperability middleware?

14. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary SOLUTION(S) In the central EFIS ++ processing engine? –Possible. –This may be complicated, and very slow. Possible alternative solution: Construct a centralised standardised and updated Data Warehouse of European Forest Inventories. –Re-freshed only periodically –High quality –Fast access –Easy to analyse, model and mine.

15. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Standards in the GI Sector Standards –ISO –OpenGIS Abstract Specifications –Spatial Catalogues and Metadata, including Z39.50, XML, ISO & FGDC –Web Mapping –Vector Features – GML –Grid Features –Coordinate Reference Systems

16. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Overview ISO 19101 - Reference model ISO 19101 - Reference model ISO 19102 - Overview ISO 19102 - Overview ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language ISO 19104 - Terminology ISO 19104 - Terminology ISO 19105 - Conformance and testing ISO 19105 - Conformance and testing ISO 19106 - Profiles ISO 19106 - Profiles ISO 19107 - Spatial schema ISO 19107 - Spatial schema ISO 19108 - Temporal schema ISO 19108 - Temporal schema ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers ISO 19113 - Quality principles ISO 19113 - Quality principles ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures ISO 19115 - Metadata ISO 19115 - Metadata ISO 19116 - Positioning services ISO 19116 - Positioning services ISO 19117 - Portrayal ISO 19117 - Portrayal ISO 19118 - Encoding ISO 19118 - Encoding ISO 19119 - Services ISO 19119 - Services ISO/TR 19120 - Functional standards + new rev ISO/TR 19120 - Functional standards + new rev ISO/TR 19121 Imagery and gridded data ISO/TR 19121 Imagery and gridded data ISO/TR 19122 - Qualifications and certification of personnel ISO/TR 19122 - Qualifications and certification of personnel ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and functions ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and functions ISO 19124 - Imagery and gridded data components ISO 19124 - Imagery and gridded data components ISO 19125 - Simple feature access - SQL option ISO 19125 - Simple feature access - SQL option ISO 19126 - Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO 19126 - Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface

17. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Spatial Catalogs/Metadata Models –OGC Topic 13 (catalog services) –ISO 19915 (metadata) –FGDC content standard Implementation specs –OGC Web Registry Server DCIS –ISO 19915 XML definitions –OGC Catalog Services –ISO 23950 (Z39.50)

18. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Open Source Web Mapping Systems Web mapping system to compliment OpenGIS: MapServer deegree

19. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary EFICS Interest Groups EFICS – Interest Groups 1. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 2. Ministry of Environment 3. State Forestry Organisations 4. Forest Industry Association or industry sector associations 5. Associations of private forest owners 6. Nature Conservation/Environmental Organisation(s) 7. The main Forest Research Organisation(s) in the country 8. Members of the EU Standing Forestry Committee Dresden University of Technology

20. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Data Assessment & Analysis Dresden University of Technology

21. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Aggregation of National Assessments Dresden University of Technology

22. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Standardisation Dresden University of Technology

23. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Use Service Reporting Decision Support Research Toolkit Resource User «includes» «extends» Visualisation Locate Resource «includes» «extends» «includes» Adhere to Kyoto/EU regs etc. enhance dissemination Provide raw and aggregated datasets Information aggregation and synthesis Provide information input for models GIS, tabular… Locate Standardise Catalogue Function UML & xUML

24. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Use Case - Story Lines Use Case Story Line Forest Resources Temperate & Boreal Forest Resources Assessment Forest Products Trade Flows Certification Forest Management Criteria & Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management Forests & Environmental Conventions Land Use & Land Cover Change component of IPCC relating to forests EU Framework JRC – Forest Focus

25. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary NEFIS Story Lines TBFRA Use Case

26. NEFIS Mid-term Meeting Vienna May 2004 WP3 Summary Where Now for WP3? Progress the population of the NEFIS KB Progress the analysis/understanding of European forest information processes, requirements and actors through Use Cases. Progress the analysis of a European Forest Information System for Decision Support through UML. Closer integration with WP2.