Multiscale Service for monitoring NATURA 2000 habitats of European community interest Dr Stefan LANG Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) University of Salzburg.

Multiscale Service for monitoring NATURA 2000 habitats of European community

interest

Dr Stefan LANGCentre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS)

University of Salzburg (PLUS)

5th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)Feb 8-9, 2011

London, UK

Area 9.1.1 (Pre-operational validation of GMES services and products)SPA.2010.1.1.04 (Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas)

5th GEO European Projects Workshop (GEPW-5)| Feb 8-9, 2011 London | S. Lang - [email protected]

2010 Biodiversity Target

Challenges … not only for the conservation of biodiversity

but also for preventing biodiversity loss The CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity)

is the key for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits.

“Life in harmony” (Nagoya Biodiversity Summit COP 10) Plan: installation of IPCC-like IPBES

(Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)

But: what are the ‘essential biodiversity variables’?

European NATURA 2000 concept (Habitat Directive) – role model worldwide?

… an overall conservation target aiming to halt the decline of biodiversity by the end of the year 2010!

“Biodiversity is (our) life!”

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MS.MONINA

Overall aim MS.MONINA supports European, national and local authorities in

monitoring the state of European nature sites of 'community interest‘ … not only at the benefit of EU national authorities, but also aimed at local authorities that manage these sites, and EU authorities that oversee the overall development of the NATURA 2000 programme.

Overall design The project is designed to provide three different kinds of services

At the local level the project will support site monitoring with information products meeting the requirements of site managers. These products are derived from high resolution satellite images and reflect habitat status and changes.

At the national level, the project engages in complete reporting on sensitive sites and habitats, delivered to national authorities responsible for reporting on the implementation of the Habitats Directive, and

at European level MS.MONINA provides region wide reporting on the implementation of the Convention on Biological diversity within the EU.

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Overall service concept



Service portfolio

Foster the use of GMES infrastructure and EO-based analysis and modelling systems for supporting NATURA 2000 monitoring requirements in pre-operational mode, towards an integrated, multi-scale EO-based monitoring service

as European contribution to sustaining global biodiversity follows a multiscale approach, building upon specific SP/user

networks on European, regional (sub-national), and local level (see figure next slide)

delivers geospatial products, as value-added to the Euroland CMS (grassland, wetland areas, etc), or directly derived from GMES EO space and in-situ data, tailored to user requirements in terms of level-of-detail, steadiness and reliability

in line with the European premise of data harmonization in terms of using common infrastructure (SDI) and standards (INSPIRE) towards Shared Environmental Information Space (SEIS)



WP 3 – MS.MONINA EU

WP 4 – MS.MONINA State

WP 5 – MS.MONINA Site

WP 6 – Common toolkit and data access

WP 8 – Dissemination, exploitation and others

WP 2 – Emerging SP/user networks and user validation

WP 1 – Project Management Z_GIS

UAB

INBOEFTASCEMAGREF

Z_GIS

WP 7 – MS MONINA SDI and interoperability

VITO

NOA

High-level workpackage structure



MS.MONINA service pilots

Detailed specification of pilots (EU, 6 state / 30 site pilots) User needs Data requirements

(satellite and in-situ) Site level

Documentation of general conditions

Potential threats and human impacts



An integrated service …

Two integration strategies MS.MONINA ‘state integrator’ (pivotal mechanism, member

states have core responsibilities) Hierarchical service chain

Among the many possible hierarchical relations between the EU (on top) and individual protected sites (on the bottom), there are member states (MS) in between, located in different biogeographical regions (overlapping).

Vertical view within a specific biogeographical region (BGR), highlighting the hierarchical relationships among each of the levels (MS not necessarily within one BGR and vice versa).

Selected vertical components (e.g. EU MS E sites b, c) are building a service chain. Service chains are formed by ‘trans-level’ applications within BGR, and including the EU level.



Research

SMEs

Users (with technical

contribution)

EKBYLLUR

MONINA Service Providers

MS.MONINA Partners

Three complementary GMES actor groups• User

organisations (with technical contribution)

• Academia & Research

• Industry / SME



MS.MONINA

Core Mapping Service


MS.MONINA

ViewingServices



MS.MONINA

DownloadServices



Space Data Services

In-situ Observation Data

Services

Reference DataServices

MS.MONINA SDI Portal• Discovery services client• Viewing services client• Download services client

“native” GeoportalApplications and GeoportalApplications and Geoportals

Network services (incl. rights Management Layer)



MS.MONINA

DiscoveryServices



GMES Core and

DownstreamServices

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MONINA SDI – GEOSS Portal



MONINA SDI – Interoperability

Different Directives and Guidelines for different scales and their requirements (e.g. EU monitoring requirements vs. National monitoring guidelines)

Aim for an interoperable data integration and assessment Merge of “horizontal” data of different sources

to make them comparable “Vertical” aggregation of data over different scales Methodical assessment framework

(regulation system)

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Data Set 1

Data Set 2

DataQuality

Assessment (integration,preparation)

semanticrelations

W U SU S V

Related Semantic Groups (Instances), e.g. Class definitions

S V PC W IC

geometricrelations

Planned Interoperable Assessment Model

NATURA 2000Assessment Model based on semantic

instances

IV I III V II

V II II IV I

Criteria of different Scalese.g. Conservation Status

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Multiscale Service for monitoring NATURA 2000 habitats of European community interest Dr Stefan LANG Centre for Geoinformatics (Z_GIS) University of Salzburg.

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