A contribution to the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative

A contribution to the Global Monitoring for Environment and

Security (GMES) initiative

Carsten Brockmann

Brockmann ConsultGermany

Brockmann Consult

• Environmental Informatics• Geo-information Products

• Located near Hamburg in Geesthacht

• 12 Software-Engineersand Scientists

• Customers from public section, national and European

Hamburgca. 40 km

• GMES– Global Monitoring for Environment and Security– Common EC and ESA Initiative (implies use of EO technologies)– is aimed at the establishment by the year 2008 of a European capacity for

the provision and use of operational information for monitoring and management of the environment and for civil security

Some Key Infos

“A political initiative to provide Europe with an independent information gathering system for key strategic parameters in environment and security”

Luigi Fusco ESA Brussels, June, 2002

• Elements– EU Scientific Research Activities– ESA: GSE = GMES Service Element

• Budget: – EU: GMES is part of Air and Space Thematic Area (1075 Million)– ESA: 83 Million Euro over 5 years

• International collaboration– Share data and information from international systems– Offer GMES as a contribution international efforts– GMES is the European contribution to the preparation of GEO

(Global Earth Observing System)

Exchange Information

Align Schedules

Joint Meetings or reviews

Access Models (Hind/now/forecast)

Transfer Algos & Software (IPR)

Validate Products

Test New Services

Agree Common Standards

Common Approach to users

IPIntegrated

Project(R&D

+ demo)

Research methods and

demonstration

OperationalServiceProvision

Coordination mechanisms

GSE

Implementation Period (stage 2)

Autonomous & Operational European capacity for GMES

GMES Action plan endorsed by EC & ESA council

(Nov 01)

ESA councilDecision on

implementationplan

GMESReport

Initial Period

Baveno Manifesto(Oct 98)

servicereviews

programmereview

Total Budget [83M, 5yrs]

Initial Phase:10 projects

[1.5M] [20months]

GMES requires a space component insuring EO data continuity

Deployment of GMES space component

(Earth Watch Sentinels)

Sustainability

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GSE Consolidation

GSE Full operationalisation

GMES / GSE plan

• Forest Monitoring : GAF (De)

• SAGE : Infoterra (De)

• GMFS : Vito (Be)

• URBAN : Indra (Es)

• TERRAFIRMA : NPA (Uk)

• RISK-EOS : Astrium (Fr)

• RESPOND : Infoterra (Uk)

• ROSES : Alcatel (Fr)

• CoastWatch : ACRI (Fr)

• Northern View : C-Core (Ca)

• ICEMON : Met No (No)

• PROMOTE : KNMI (Nl)

USER in the DRIVING SEAT

Right info, at the right time, at the right place

Delivered to International / Regional /

Local users such as EU institutions,

Environment Agencies, Regulatory

bodies,

Statistical agencies, natural resource,

mapping agencies

GSE portfolio

Information servicesfor coastal zones environment

www.brockmann-consult.de/cw-nordic

www.coastwatch.info

Target policies

• Large number of European and International policies acting in the coastal zone– Complex policy framework– Diverse and scattered information needs

• Move towards umbrella policies in the coastal zone– ICZM Recommendation for sustainable use of coastal

zone resources– WFD and Marine Conventions for integrated

management of water resources in the coastal zone.

ICZM recommendation

Challenges from ICZM Information needs (maps, indicators)

• To restrict further developmentof the undeveloped area

• To use natural resources wisely

• To protect, enhance and celebratenatural and cultural diversity

• To ensure appropiate/ecologicallyresponsible coastal protection

• Land take by build up areas

• Urban sprawl

• Dominant Landscape types

• Flood risk• Coastal erosion patterns

• Proportion of coastal zone protected by nature conservation

• Pressure on the coastal ecosystem (Build up in the distance of the coast)

WFD & Marine Conventions

• Strong linkage with international conventions such as :– OSPAR (North East Atlantic)– HELCOM (Baltic sea)– BARCOM (Mediterranean sea)

Monitoring requirements Information needs

Surveillance

Operational

Investigative

Protected areas

• Water quality elements• Biological• Hydromorphological• Physico-chemical• Specific pollutants

Coordinated timelines

CWImplementation

Stage

ConsolidationOperational

Stage

Service portfolio

• Water quality: – Monitoring and Assessment– Algae Bloom

• Coastal Habitat mapping.• Coastal Vulnerability and risk assessment.• Coastal indicators.• Geophysical information mapping.

– Near-shore wave and wind

Geophysical parameters: Water quality mapping Coastal land cover mapping Wave and wind mappingMarine surveillance

From Data ...

Indicators : Coastal erosion Pressure on protected areas Oil spill

… to Information ...

Decision-support info. :o Integrated GISo Integrated spatial assessmento Strategic planningo Forecast & alert

… to Recommendations

The service portfolio is build to serve three levels of information :

Coastal habitat mapping (user EEA)

Percentage of coastal strip protected by Natura 2000 (Nuts 3, 10km land, 10 km sea)

* Finland and Spain coverage

Coastal land cover & land use change mapping

Coastal Land Cover 1:15.000 Extraction of bare sands

Coastal Land use change

Coastal flood risk mapping

Coastal flood risk map for sea defence assessment (UK EA)

Algae bloom monitoring (user RIKZ)

• In 2002 about 200 M€ loss of mussel cultures in the River Scheldt area.

• Predicting of risk based on EO-data Chlorophyll and wave data.

• Decision support for closing dams to keep Harmful algae blooms outside the estuary.

Wave exposure monitoring

Time (UTC) | Latitude | Longitude | U10 (m/s) | SWH (m)

11:05:06.9 51.60 1.75 0.80 0.35

11:05:09.9 51.43 1.67 0.89 0.56

11:05:10.9 51.37 1.64 0.89 1.71

11:05:16.7 51.03 1.48 0.89 1.26

11:05:17.7 50.97 1.46 0.89 2.15

11:05:18.7 50.92 1.43 1.19 2.64

Water exposure monitoring in support to WaveNet

system (CEFAS)

provision of real-time coastal wave data for Flood, Coastal Managers and other stakeholders in England and Wales

UK ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH

GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA

IPIMAR

EEA

RIKZ

User organisations

BSH

CEDRE

BRGM

IFREMER

SHOM

INC

Coordination Centre for ICZM

Regional Service Provider

Nordic Seas

Brockmann Consult

Regional Service Line

Standard CWprocessing line

AssessmentReporting

BSH

RegionalSerivces

BC

Basic WQ products

Basic WQproductsVA products

Validation reportingQuality assessmentImprovement rec.

In-situ dataModels

EO Data

Regionalalgorithms,

data, HR data

EO raw dataGlobal

algorithms

Service Requirements North Sea

• Regionally optimised products

• Statistical comparison with in-situ data at MARNET positions– Chl, SPM, YS, turbidity– NxN km² average around station– Basic statistics

• Extraction and interpretation of frontal structures

• Statistical comparison with ship cruise in-situ data

• Compatibility with BSH NOAA-SST grid

Water quality monitoring (user BSH)

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Service Example – Cruise Comparison

Service Example – Station Statistics

• Forest Monitoring : GAF (De)

• SAGE : Infoterra (De)

• GMFS : Vito (Be)

• URBAN : Indra (Es)

• TERRAFIRMA : NPA (Uk)

• RISK-EOS : Astrium (Fr)

• RESPOND : Infoterra (Uk)

• ROSES : Alcatel (Fr)

• CoastWatch : EADS (Fr)

• Northern View : C-Core (Ca)

• ICEMON : Met No (No)

• PROMOTE : KNMI (Nl)

USER in the DRIVING SEAT

Right info, at the right time, at the right place

Delivered to International / Regional /

Local users such as EU institutions,

Environment Agencies, Regulatory

bodies,

Statistical agencies, natural resource,

mapping agencies

GSE portfolio

• Marine and Coastal Services

Timescales: 0-2-5-10y

• At start of GSE 2002– Precursor-services– Archives

• 2002 - 2004– Existing data sources– Mature methods– Core user group

• Next 2 - 5 years– New data sources, methods and systems– Service Provider Networking– New users on local, regional, national and

institutional level

• 5-10 years– New infrastructure

TODAY

Giving and Taking

New data sourcesNew methodsNew systemsNew ideas

CW servicesTailored productsServices Baltic Region user needs

Marine and Coastal ServiceNordic Seas Service ProviderBrockmann Consult

Thank you for your attention

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