INSPIREd solutions for Air Quality problems

Alexander Kotsevwww.jrc.ec.europa.eu

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INSPIREd solutions for Air Quality problems

The European data puzzle

The European data puzzle

• 24 official languages• 3 official alphabets• Different institutional setups• Diverse data governance• Celebrated diversity

Air Quality data exchange on EU level

• Broad spectrum of initiatives & projects• Excellent results on project level, however …

Projects do end … Full European coverage on finite scale is still a challenge On EU level still no operational capability for:

– Easy combination of data– Across domains– Across borders– In near-realtime– Mutual use of official data and such collected by citizens– Combinations of all the above

• New EEA e-Reporting on ambient air quality• Operational from Jan 2014

Interdisciplinary perspective on Air Quality

• AQ is closely related to at least the following:• Environmental Noise

Same sources of AQ and noise pollution• Health• Exposure of population

long term and short term

• Meteorology and Climate change• Quality of life measures• Ecosystem services

INSPIRE to the aid

• EU-wide SDI perspective on data

• Ultimate goal is to unlock spatial data and lay

down foundations of European SDI

• INSPIRE is a Framework Directive• Into force since 15th of May 2007

• Detailed technical provisions are laid down in:

Implementing Rules on• Metadata

• Spatial Data

• Network services

• Data and Service sharing (policy)

INSPIRE principles

Data should be collected once

Distributed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Possible to combine data from different sources

Focus on information relevant for governance

Focus on reusability

GI should be easily discoverable, together with

its metadata

INSPIRE thematic scope

Annex I1. Coordinate reference

systems2. Geographical grid

systems3. Geographical names4. Administrative units5. Addresses6. Cadastral parcels7. Transport networks8. Hydrography9. Protected sites

Annex II1. Elevation2. Land cover3. Ortho-imagery4. Geology

Annex III1. Statistical units2. Buildings3. Soil4. Land use5. Human health and

safety6. Utility and

governmental services7. Environmental

monitoring facilities8. Production and

industrial facilities9. Agricultural and

aquaculture facilities10.Population distribution

– demography

11. Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units

12. Natural risk zones13. Atmospheric

conditions14. Meteorological

geographical features15. Oceanographic

geographical features16. Sea regions17. Bio-geographical

regions18. Habitats and biotopes19. Species distribution20. Energy Resources21. Mineral resources

A collaborative effort

INSPIRE Roadmap for Implementation

2010 Metadata Annex I and II

2011 Discovery and view services

2012 Download and transformation services

2013 New Annex I data interoperable, Harmonized conditions for access to dataMetadata Annex III

2015 New Annex II and III data interoperable

2018 All Annex I data

2020 All Annex II+III data

Value added of INSPIRE

• Platform for establishment of partnerships• Fully synchronized with other EU policies

• Re-use of public sector information (PSI, Directive 2003/98/EC)• Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) principles• Domain specific EU legislation (AQ directive, END directive, etc.)

• Built around• Consensus of all stakeholders from:

Domains Member States

• International standards• CEN• ISO• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Value added of INSPIRE• Building blocks for interoperable SDI in the

following context• Cross-country• Cross-domain• Combination of the above

• Harmonization and standardization of environmental data across Europe (and beyond)

• Legally binding for public administrations with data in scope

• Business aspects of INSPIRE• Rapidly growing geospatial sector

• Powered by INSPIRE conference

Relevant components

• Consolidated data model (extensible)• Encoding into GML• Coordinate and temporal

reference systems• UML model

• INSPIRE Metadata• Enable the discovery of

Data and Services in a SOA

Relevant components

INSPIRE Registry

Online service for common identifiers and definitions for data encoding purposes

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/registry/

Relevant componentsINSPIRE Network services

• In INSPIRE data should be made available where best managed1. Discover

Expose metadata through INSPIRE compliant discovery service2. View

Interactive view of data through an INSPIRE compliant data service

Unified portrayal through OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)3. Download

Web Feature Service Atom feeds

4. Transform ETL

Relevant components

INSPIRE Geoportal• Central access point to the INSPIRE

infrastructure and resources (250000+)

“The face” of INSPIRE

• Connection to all MS network services

cross-border data discovery and visualisation

support to policy making

Conceptual data models Registers

• objects types, properties & relationships

• cross-domain harmonization

• based on a common modelling framework

• managed in a common UML repository

Harmonised vocabularies

• to overcome interoperability issues caused by free-text and/or multi-lingual content

• allow additional terms from local vocabularies

Encoding

• conceptual models independent of concrete encodings

• standard encoding: GML, but also possible to derive other encodings (e.g. based on RDF)

• provide unique and persistent identifiers for reference to resources

• allow their consistent management and versioning

Key pillars of data interoperability

described in INSPIRE Conceptual Framework documents

D2.6:Methodology

for Specification Development

D2.10.3: Common data models

D2.9: O&M Guidelines

D2.5: Generic Conceptual Model

D2.7: Guidelines for Encoding

JRC INSPIRE/Air Quality pilot

Apply INSPIRE and Shared Environmental Information System

(SEIS) principles to Air Quality e-Reporting to the EEA

• Close collaboration with• European Environmental Agency

• DG Environment

• Volunteer Member State institutions

Project Outputs• One reporting model, satisfying both the legally binding

requirements of:

1. Extension of INSPIRE (2007/2/EC) data model with reporting obligations

from Directives 2004/107/EC and 2008/50/EC as regards the reciprocal

exchange of information and reporting on ambient air quality.

• Cross-border case study for the exchange of harmonized air quality data in near-real time (NL-BE)

• Open source reporting instruments

• INSPIRE compliant Sensor Observation Service (SOS)

• Air Quality “Plans and Programs” e-Reporting tool

• Reflect lessons learned for INSPIRE evolution

Air Quality “Plans and Programs” e-Reporting platform• Platform for e-Reporting in compliance with AQ directive

implementing provisions • High relevance to Appraisal FP7 project

• Open source solution

• Hierarchy of regional levels

• Multilingual

• Data Upload

• Exports into xml

• Fully compliant with Directives 2004/107/EC and 2008/50/EC

Air Quality “Plans and Programs” e-Reporting platform

Thank you

the INSPIRE community looks forward to working with you

• INSIRE forum: http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

• INSPIRE National contact points• Joint Research Centre JRC team

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/