Report on Session 2European contribution to Global Data Sets relevant to the implementation of

the GEO 2009-11 Work PlanExisting data sets and potential to support GEOSS

Rapporteur: U. Gärtner, DLR

IntroductionEC-DG RTD, Gilles Ollier

• Basic questions – Are there data sets under development or already

available which can contribute to GEOSS?– Are there obstacles to allow access to data sets by

registering with GEO GCI, what kind of difficulties like technical issues, data sharing issues?

Data: Way forward-GEO and INSPIRE M.Craglia

Issues• Global datasets (with europ. Contributions)• Services for access to data and information• Implications of GEO data sharing principles• Data quality• Information architecture

INSPIRE provides global data sets and information architecture

GEO Global DatasetsD. Cripe, GEO Sec

Basic requirements• Interoperable Architecture and Standard • Formats to benefit fully from Earth Observation

Systems

• Technical Specifications for Collecting, Processing, Storing, and Disseminating Data and Products

• Based on Non-proprietary Standards• Defining System Compliance for Contribution to

GEOSS• Follow GEO Data Sharing Principles

Land Data SetsGMES- Geoland, M. Facchini, GMES Bureau

• Core Mapping Services - CMS– Basic, generic geo-information on:

• land cover / use incl. seasonal and annual change• biophysical parameters describing continental vegetation stage,

surface radiation budget and water cycle• local to global scales• update frequency: 1 day to 12 months

• Core Information Services - CIS– Specific information addressing reporting obligation:

• spatial planning: describe / predict urban land use change in Europe• water quality: estimation of pollution sources • agri-environment: assessing impact of agriculture on environment• forest management: improved forest class and biodiversity indicator

information• land carbon: asses impact of weather and climate variability

on terrestrial biospheric carbon fluxes• natural resource monitoring in Africa: environmental monitoring capacity

over African countries• global crop monitoring: real-time assessment and yield forecasts

GEOLand (ctd)

• GMES Land Monitoring Portal – www.land.eu– Central access point to GMES land geo-

information– Browsing, viewing and ordering based on web-

map server

• geoland2 portfolio downloadhttp://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/files/research/ geoland2_core_products_and_services_update_081103_en.pdf

Global Land CoverJ.Bequignon, ESA

Europe is expanding EO capacities

Sentinels – dedicated satellites 2 x SAR imaging (S1) 2 x Superspectral imaging (S2) 2 x Ocean monitoring (S3)

atmospheric measurements onboard a geo-stationary satellite (S4)

atmospheric measurements on board a low orbit satellite (S5) preceded by a precursor satellite

Related ground facilities

FREE and OPEN data policy

Data access to satellites from Member States, EUMETSAT, commercial partners

Formation of Climate Change Initiative

Satellite based ECV

Global Soil DataV.van Engelen, ISRIC

• Supporting the development a Global Soil Map building upon the work of ongoing and completed projects

• Incorporating data from global, regional and national soil data projects into a coherent system using a common dictionary

GEO 2010 Baseline Initiative to include Soils as a data set

Planned global soil datasets (from 2010 onwards):

• area soil class information (traditional soil map) with latest information at a resolution of 1 x 1 km

• continuous soil property surfaces (digital soil mapping products) with an increasing resolution starting from 10 x 10 km and going towards 90 x 90 m

Geological Map -OnegeologyI.Jackson, BGS

• A project to make web-accessible the best available geological map data worldwide

• Initiated in 2006 as a contribution to the UN International Year of Planet Earth

• Being delivered by 111 geological surveys worldwide

Geological Map (ctd)• What dataset components are you developing relevant to the

implementation of the GEOSS? • Geological map datasets - relevant to all 9 GEOSS themes

• Can you register data, observations, information, products into GEOSS? • Yes – on or before January 2010 (but see resource question below*)• Would a GEO registration session help facilitate the process? • Yes, especially if it would encourage those who have yet to serve their

data to OneGeology/GEOSS• What resources are required to enable the data, observations,

information, products to be registered? • *Geological surveys are using their own resources, with additional,

external resources we could accelerate registration considerably

OceanSea Data Net - MARIS

Major elements • Unified access to distributed data centres• InteroperabilityCCCC• Cross sector involvement

– EuroGOOS, POGO, GMES Marine Core Services, Humboldt , SIMORC

GMES - My OceanE. Ozsoy,METU

MyOcean overall objectives are to

set up a concerted and integrated pan-European capacity for

ocean monitoring and forecasting, using nationally-available skills and resources.

demonstrate the operationality of the system, based on a « service oriented » organization, according to the European quality standards, and to achieve operational qualification and eventually qualification of Service.

bring a new pan-european value for the benefit of the marine service providers on duty at national or european levels.

contribute to the long-term sustainability of this pan-European capacity.

GMES –My Ocean (ctd)MyOcean is focussed on a strict core service limited to :

• « Easy-download-of-bulk-and-assessed » information• + « Discovering & Viewing » of this ocean information

Delivery : two kinds of Users• Registered / Regular Users (Met’Offices, Navies,…)• Occasionnal Users (Researchers, EU Citizen, …)

Duration : 36 months from 1st April 2009 Service (in V0) : already available

www.myocean.eu.orgon-line catalogue with existing products

New Service (in V1) : will be available by end 2010Fully operational & professional

WATER Watercycle - M.Menenti, ENSPS

MozaicA. Wahner, Jülich

• Ozone and water vapor in the UT/LS play a key role in climate• Large variability in space and time.

• Comprehensive observations are needed for• the assessment of climate change• understanding the interactions between climate and atmospheric

chemistry • Passenger aircraft are a powerful observing platform for studies on• Atmospheric transport and chemical processes • Budgets of ozone and water vapor in the UT/LS

• Inter-annual variability and longterm trends

• Aircraft impact on the atmosphere

• http://mozaic.aero.obs-mip.fr – Data Sets for GEO

EDGAR – CO2 mapping M. Craglia, JRC

Time series: 1970-2005 (annual), for selected projects (monthly emissions) for commission policy studies 2005-2050

Source categories (main groups):- Energy: Fuel Combustion (IPCC 1A) and Fugitive emissions from fuel

(IPCC 1B)- Industrial Processes (non-combustion, IPCC 2)- Product Use (IPCC 3)- Agriculture (including Savanna burning), (IPCC 4)- Land Use Change and Forestry (IPCC 5)- Waste (IPCC 6)- Other anthropogenic sources (fossil fuel fires) (IPCC 7)

Spatial allocation: base grid 0.1x0.1 degree grid (also available on 0.5 and 1 degree grid)

EDGAR (ctd)1. Data available for greenhouse gases• a. files with emissions by country• b. grid files with emissions on grid (netcdf, asci)

2. Nall ot detail is downloadable due to copyright

3. Users can apply data for studies and in publications under signing a disclaimer/copyright statement at registration on the edgar webpage.

• More information on EDGAR website: • http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu

• or e-mail EDGAR project leader

• john.van-aardenne@jrc.ec.europa.eu

MACCL.Rivier, LSCE

• Main capabilities

Comparison of CO2 fluxes from several inverse systems

Comparison with terrestrial and ocean models

Many items selection :

Emission type: total, natural, land, ocean

Flux parameter: raw, anomaly, filtered, seasonal cycle

Averaging period: yearly, monthly

Region: global, land, ocean, north America, Europe, Africa, …

CH4 fluxes also available on carboscope

Animation

MACC (ctd)

• Future development

Include uncertainties : statistical incertainties

returned by the systems and external error

Validation diagnostics

Add new results from inverse systems and

ecosystems / ocean models

Add more inverse systems from the transcom

project community

Conclusions• - The session was very constructive with good presentation in most cases

meeting the expectations• • - There is a huge amount of datasets available in Europe both as • - global datasets or• - European contribution to global datasets• - There is wide will to provide full and open (and free as far as possible)

access to these data sets

• - Main limitations to "full and open" are:• - Licensing, copy right issues• - Security matters• Registering process for the GEO portal is easy, help is offered

Conclusions (ctd)•

• - We had the confirmation that Earth Observation is not only Space but in-situ too.• • - Different providers may provide datasets that are not consistent:• - neighbouring data sets are not compatible• - data sets on same areas are different!• ------> Need for harmonisation• • - INSPIRE has a key role in producing European datasets. How can INSPIRE impact the

development of GEO Data Sharing Principles ?• • - Need to think about the infrastructure for distribution of data: is the portal solution presented

by IOC TF the right one for Europe? Shall we have multiple (mirror) portals? Are there any new technological solutions foreseen? Who should provide them?

• On the GMES part:• GMES has the objective to provide "full and open" access.• Security and commercial restrictions may apply.• GMES is still in the preoperational phase and products are generated by FP7 projects.• From the EC perspective, projects can register their datasets in GEO.• In registering, a uniform formulation for all of them has to be proposed.• When operational (2014+), GMES services will see how to register

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