Post on 13-Mar-2018
Max Craglia on behalf of the
EuroGEOSS Project
Fostering Multi-Disciplinary Interoperability for GEOSS
GEO Plenary, Istanbul, 16-17 November 2011
Global Research Challenge
• To understand the complex relations between environment and society requires a stronger involvement and greater integration of the social sciences, health sciences, engineering and humanities, along with the natural sciences.
• We need to move from disciplinary research to multidisciplinary research with more involvement of the ultimate stakeholders.
• We also need to communicate science more effectively to close the gap with citizens and policy makers, and engage the public in the scientific process such as helping monitoring the environment, reporting observed and perceived changes and impacts for example via social networks (see ICSU Global Challenges, 2011).
The EuroGEOSS Project
• EuroGEOSS contributes to the development of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure and to multidisciplinary interoperability by:
– Developing interoperable infrastructures for for three thematic communities: Forest, Biodiversity, Drought.
– Building bridges across communities through a brokering approach so that it is easier to find resources across disciplines.
– Extending semantic search capabilities so that concepts from one disciplines can be related to concepts from another and used to find relevant resources.
– Making it possible to transform the data from multiple sources to the same coordinate reference system, and format ahead of accessing the data
– Using the data in models directly on the web without the need to download either the data or the models
– Extending the interaction between science and the public through interoperability between the GEOSS Common Infrastructure and social networks
Three Interoperability phases
WP7: Capacity building
WP3: Forestry WP4: Biodiversity WP5: Drought
WP2: Multi-disciplinary interoperability
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AEGOS
III. Extend interoperabilityto other SBAs & systems
I. Enable thematicinteroperability &connections local to global
II. Enable multi-disciplinaryinteroperability
WP6: Cost benefit analysis
WP7: Capacity building
WP3: Forestry WP4: Biodiversity WP5: Drought
WP2: Multi-disciplinary interoperability
...
GolbalSoilMap
AEGOS
III. Extend interoperabilityto other SBAs & systems
I. Enable thematicinteroperability &connections local to global
II. Enable multi-disciplinaryinteroperability
WP6: Cost benefit analysis
Forestry Operating Capacity Local, European, Global
eForest European Platform
Contributing to the Global Assessment
1990
2000
2005 Forest change map
FOR EACH POINT AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE LAT /LONG SATELLITE DATA IS USED TO CREATE FOREST CHANGE MAPS
With tools for validation by local experts
Biodiversity Operating Capacity Local, European, Global
eHabitat Biodiversity Platform
Developing web-based models of habitats uniqueness for ecological forecasting
Input thematic maps: • % tree cover • % herbaceous cover • % barren cover • Elevation • Slope • Aridity index • % water bodies • NDVI • NDWI
Habitat modelling Mahalanobis Distances, Maximum Entropy
E-station
Climate Change
Agriculture
Deforestation
Other sources
Developing methods to assess and communicate Uncertainty with Uncertweb project
Realiza'on No. 1/20 Std Dev Probability > 0.5 Mean
Drought Operating Capacity Local, European, Global
European Drought Observatory
Comparison of different indicators
Multilingual Implementation
Implementation in 3 languages (EN, FR, ES)
Supporting science-based policy The Ebro basin case study: Comparison of drought indices from different datasets and spatial resolutions
Enabling Multi-Disciplinary Dialogue: the EuroGEOSS Brokering Framework
EuroGEOSS Brokering Framework
NEW!
Contribution to the evolution of the GCI
Requests form the Geo Web Portal are passed to the EuroGEOSS Broker in the System of Systems approach
Allowing the easy search by essential EO parameters
Providing categorization of results
Making it possible to find GEOSS Data CORE resources
Accessing the data after transformation to a common reference system
Finding and running a model directly on the web with the data found earlier
Reaching out to the public and participatory science: Web 2.0 Broker Clients
Open Search – Search Engine / RSS ATOM
EuroGEOSS is Research in
Action!