Environmental data management Dar es Salaam, 21.10.2014 rla@miljodir.no

Environmental data management

Dar es Salaam, 21.10.2014rla@miljodir.no

Agenda

Our work in the environmental data section at NEADevelopment cooperation Important environmental data typesNaturbase – environmental database exampleAggregating environmental data, a standardizations approach

Standarization (INSPIRE, metadata, national spatial data infrastrucure - NSDI)

Commercial and open source software - challenges

Core business of the Environmental data management with NEA

NEAs strategy for environmental information

In cooperation with other institutions, be an active and reliable source of information for:• Geographical data on biodiversity• Aggregated knowledge for national and international reporting

In cooperation with other institutions, publish all relevant information

Ensure that we collect and present this information in a way that contribute to further use

Photo: Bård Bredesen, Naturarkivet

Responsibility Environmental data division

Advising – data management biodiversity and nature conservation.

Development databases/GIS/web-portal

Distribution of important datasets

Technical support

International reporting

GIS-analysis, quality assurance, management

Internal and external coordination and representation

Software and applications:

ESRI/ArcMap, (QGIS), FME, Geoserver, SQL server, (Access), (PostGIS), Geocortex, OpenLayers (OpenSource and Licensed)

Aggregating environmental data, a standardizations approach

A partner in development cooperation through the Oil for Development program

The role of external development cooperation partners

Development cooperation is when a developing country enters into a partnership with a more developed country to work on a thematic area with development as an expected outcome.

Development cooperation GIS is when GIS is an important tool in the thematic area under the development cooperation.

Oil for Development has three pillars – environment is one of them

Oil for DevelopmentNorway has national level discussions on the petroleum management

The general public is provided current information www.oceanvalues.no

Full accessThemesSpeciesNature typesProtected areasSensitive areas

Environmental data types

- What kinds of data do we manage?

Biodiversity – data types

Biodiversity species distribution

habitat types

protected sites (international, national, local)

conservation plans and management plans

points, lines, polygons, raster, grid

Baseline

Data types continue..

Outdoor recreation areasAir pollutionFreshwaterWasteNoise Climate

MonitoringDrivers, indicators

and parameters Photo: Tore Høyland

www.dirnat.no

Species distribution - birds

Species - priorities

..priority species with an area with specific ecological functions in Naturbase. These species have been adopted by the King in Council as priority species by the Nature Diversity Act § 23.

www.dirnat.no

Species distribution – grid value

www.dirnat.no

Protected sites

Attributes protected sites

http://iucn.org/

http://www.protectedplanet.net/

www.dirnat.no

Land cover or vegetation cover

www.dirnat.no

Marine areas

www.dirnat.no

Habitat types - corals

www.dirnat.no

Habitat types - sponges

Mapping marine biotopes

MAREANO maps depth and topography, sediment composition, contaminants, biotopes and habitats in Norwegian waters. The results of the surveys are available on this website, visualised through maps.

http://www.mareano.no/en/

www.dirnat.no

Habitat types – values A, B, C

Very important (A)Important (B)Locally important (C )

..for biological diversity

All this – alone?

Can we do all this alone?

Of course not!

We are part of a collaborative where we all provide data sets for our partners through a national level spatial data infrastructure.

It is based on an agreement (MoU) and trust

Norway diglitaly

We can not do without – nor can our partners!

This is our framework – it is also the framework of any other NSDI partner

Contact Information

www.miljodirektoratet.no

ragnvald.larsen@miljodir.no

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