WISE European System for Water Information
• WISE – part of Eionet (European Environment Information and Observation Network)
http//www.eea.europa.eu
WISE - Aims and opportunities
Aims• Efficient management of information on water• Coherence between various reporting mechanisms• Access to information/data
Opportunities• Long term vision• Policy tool• Different interests of EU bodies (ENV, JRC, EEA,
EUROSTAT), WISE based on joint EU position
WISE - Delivery of Information through EIONET via Reportnet services
WISE – Useful links
WISE• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/index.html • http://themes.eea.europa.eu/Specific_media/water • http://agrienv.jrc.it/activities/catchments/• http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/
WISE – How is it organised?
DG ENV – leading the policy and strategic part
EEA – water data centre and
hosting public WISE web page
EUROSTAT – collecting water
statistics, GIS part
JRC – responsible for data
synchronisation
A WISE data flow (all steps involve QA/QC)A WISE data flow (all steps involve QA/QC)
Submission
Analysis
Development Database
Acceptance
Viewing, GIS visualisation
Production Databases (WISE nodes)
Data definition/requirements Step 1: Compliance or SoE, voluntary (or through comitology)
Step 2: End-user tool, schema/DEM, XML/shape/GML, other tools (DD, glossary), help desk
Step 3: central holding area (CDR), management of access rights
Step 4: Standardised manual or automatic tests, feedback to data submitters
Step 5: Final data storage
Step 6a: Public or restricted viewing, map service, aggregation, statistics, GIS reference dataset
Step 6b: Tools for compliance or SoE assessment, CCM2
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