EEA’s approach of implementing SEIS through Eye On Earth

October 2011

Governance – The Shared Environmental Information System

The SEIS principles are basis for EEA‘s EyeOnEarth work Data and information are:

• Managed as close as possible to its source.• Collected once, and shared with others for many purposes.• Readily available to easily fulfil reporting obligations.• Easily accessible to all users.• Accessible to enable comparisons at the appropriate geographical

scale, and citizen participation.• Fully available to the general public, and at the national level in the

relevant national language(s).• Supported through common, free open software standards.

Content: Thematic areas and data sources

Air• Zones and

air quality thresholds

• Air quality database

• Noise

Water• Rivers,

lakes• River basin

districts• Bathing

waters status

Land• CORINE

land cover and changes

Nature/Biodiversity• Natura 2000• Biogeographic

regions• Species• Ecological

regions

Climate change• Meteorological

data• Droughts• Precipitation

Based on EEA’s (and partners) ready web serviceshttp://discomap.eea.europa.eu/

Current services – Web Applications

Services – Web Applications

Commercial

Data providers

MemberCountries

EEA SDIData repository

Thematic Experts(European topic

centres)

Eye on Earth(communities)

Other institutions

Data warehouse

Web services

Web Applications

Internal SDIData providers External SDI Community access

ESA

JRC

GMES

DG Env

MACC

UNEP

WHO

...

ESNL

DKFR

...

Outside EEA

Overall infrastructure – Overview

EyeOnEarth - Community consuming services

GPX – GPS Exhange formatKML – Google keyhole fileCSV – Comma seperated fileSHP – Esri Shape file

ArcGis – Esri web-servicesWMS – OGC servicesKML – OGC / Google services

Web-services accessible to a wider public

Intelligent tools

Web services

Applications

File based sources

Based on social media principles

Web site

Create Users• Link to web-services• Link to web app’s (url)• Upload data/tools/app (zip)• Upload web-service (zip)• Create map’s (mashup)

Create Groups• Invite users• Add resources• Secure content

Citizen Data

Operational Layers

Basemaps

Data & service market

My location

My observatio

nMy

statistics

Maritime shipping 2010 & Natura 2000 protected sites

Citizen feedback & SMS service

Crowd sourcing

Social media integration

Floods in Europe

Floods in Twitter and Flickr

GLOBAL RELEASE AT THE EYE ON EARTH SUMMIT ABU DHABI12 – 15 DECEMBER 2011

All EEA Applications and available web-services

+ Some from external Int. Org.

+ Some from countries.