General Overview of the COBWEB

project25th Sept, 2013,

OGC TC in Frascati

Mass Market DWG

Slides by

Chris Higgins,

Project Coordinator,

EDINA National Data Centre,

University of Edinburgh.

chris.higgins@ed.ac.uk

Presented by

Bart De Lathouwer

Interoperability Program

OGC

bdelathouwer@opengeospatial.org

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