General Overview of the COBWEB Project - Bart De Lathouwer and Chris Higgins
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Presentation given at the 33rd CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) Workshop, part of the Joint CEN/TC 287 and OGC Workshop which took place on 30th September 2013, Frascati, Italy. Find out more about the COBWEB Project at: http://cobwebproject.eu/dissemination/ access management,citizen observatory,cobweb,cobwebfp7,eu grant agreement number 308513,european union,fp7,geoss,saml
Transcript of General Overview of the COBWEB Project - Bart De Lathouwer and Chris Higgins
General Overview of
the COBWEB project
30th Sept, 2013,
33rd CEN Workshop in Frascati
Slides by
Chris Higgins,
Project Coordinator,
EDINA National Data Centre,
University of Edinburgh.
Presented by
Bart De Lathouwer
Interoperability Program
OGC
The bare bones…
• Project started 1st Nov, 2012 and will run for 4 yrs
• Funded under the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 (Grant No: 308513)
• Crowdsourced environmental data to aid decision making
• Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty
• Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data…
• Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives– National SDI’s in UK, Greece and Germany
– INSPIRE
– GEOSS
FP7-ENV-2012 observatories
Name Lead Topic
Citclops Barcelona Digital
Centre Tecnològic
(Spain)
Coast and ocean
optical
monitoring
WeSenseIt University of
Sheffield (UK)
Water
Management
CITI-SENSE Nilu (Norway) Air quality
Omniscientis Spacebel (Belgium) Odour
monitoring
COBWEB UEDIN (UK) Various
Project Partners
University of Edinburgh (Coordinator) UK (Scotland)
University of Nottingham UK (England)
Aberystwyth University UK (Wales)
Welsh Assembly Government UK (Wales)
Environment Systems Limited UK (Wales)
Ecodyfi UK (Wales)
Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) Limited UK
University College Dublin Ireland
Technische Universitaet Dresden Germany
Secure Dimensions GmbH Germany
University of Western Greece Greece
OIKOM – Environmental Studies Ltd Greece
GeoCat BV Netherlands
Essential context – WNBR
• UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programmes
(MAB) World Network of Biosphere Reserves
– Sites of excellence to foster harmonious integration
of people and nature for sustainable development
through participation, knowledge sharing, poverty
reduction and human well-being improvements,
cultural values and society's ability to cope with
change, thus contributing to the Millennium
Development Goals
• 610 reserves in 117 countries
COBWEB Biosphere Reserves
1. UK (Wales): Biosffer Dyfi
2. Germany: Wadden See and Hallig Islands
3. Greece:
– Mount Olympus
– Gorge of Samaria
Left open possibility of expansion to further BRs
later in project
Stakeholder Engagement – OGC TC
• COBWEB using OGC processes, e.g.,
– GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilots
– Interoperability Experiments
– OWS
– OGC Network
– OGC/AGILE/EuroSDR Persistent Testbed (PTB)
– IoT
– AGILE side event
– Mass market
• Crowd Sourcing , Authentication
