Eye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEEA Microsoft partnership Water watchEEA Microsoft partnership Water watch

http://www.eyeonearth.eu/

Microsoft – EEA partnershipMicrosoft – EEA partnership

Vision – Elicit a Climate Observatory Initiative by launching a series of environment applications to impact people’s quality of life as well as a series of joint marketing activities to create environmental awareness amongst governments and the broad public.

Scope - Cooperation under the Climate Observatory Initiative, to be implemented by cooperation agreements and statements of services.

Duration - Five years

First Cooperation AgreementFirst Cooperation Agreement

Portal on Bathing Water quality - Built on MS technologies using EEA data.

Main Futures – Virtual Earth, Water Quality ratings, Near-real time data, User Ratings, User Comments, Search for location, Gadget download

Languages – EN, IT, DE, PT, NL

EEA-MS Partnership announcement – Portoroz, Slovenia 14 May 2008

Launch – End of July 2008

BackgroundBackground

Legal status: EU Bathing Water legislation -- 14.400 coastal and 6.800 freshwater bathing sites annually (2007 figures) submitted under BWD to EEA (first time in 2008 through Reportnet)

Methodology: Various samples of 2 bacteria aggregated to an annual indicator for the past season

The information system: Currently WISE map viewer and PDF maps on EU bathing water website

What we already have…What we already have…

Bathing water quality points in Eye on EarthBathing water quality points in Eye on Earth

User Rating iconsUser Rating icons

Actors and architecture componentsActors and architecture components

Browsing Web SiteBrowsing Web Site PDA/Cell Phone

EEA Italy Portugal Germany Netherlands UK

Channellization

Country A Country B Country ECountry DCountry C

ETC-W

SQL 2005

SQL 2008MOSS 2007 AppMOSS 2007 VE

Biz TalkNon-automated data flow

GeoRSSData Flow

Virtual Earth

Population in coastal settlementsPopulation in coastal settlements

Oil spills in European regional seas

Eurosion: Costal erosion patternsEurosion: Costal erosion patterns

INGV* water temperaturesINGV* water temperatures

*INGV: Istituto Nazionale di Geologia e Vulcanologia

Next on Eye on Earth – Water WatchNext on Eye on Earth – Water Watch

More structured user comments

User provided images, Web-cams

Delegation of administration to countries/regions

Historical data for all EU27

Near-real time data for 20 countries

NL, DE, GR data via GeoRSS Simple

Air quality with a possible link to healthcare information systems