Geological Survey of Ireland

and

INFOMAR seabed survey,

issues and the future view.

Koen Verbruggen & Ray Scanlon, GSI

Geological Survey of Ireland• Dept of Comms, Energy & Natural Resources

• Ireland’s Geoscience Agency

• Mapping – Geology, Groundwater, Geotechnical...

• INFOMAR - National Marine mapping (with MI)

• Advisory Service/Knowledge Centre

• Projects – Gov, LAs, 3rd Level, EU (interReg, FP7..)

• Data Repository c.100Tb +10Tb p.a.

• Data Delivery, >2,500 web customers > 10tb p.a.

• Free Digital Data Policy - 2007

How does it work & where’s it going?

• How do we generate and store data? X

• How do stakeholders find it?

• How is it delivered?

• How do we justify Free Data?

• What’s new?

• Where is it going?

WebMapping sites

• GSI public viewer

• INFOMAR viewer

• Groundwater viewer

• Geotechnical viewer

• Brefnie viewer

• Mineral “Open Files”

• GeoUrban Dublin viewer

51% of visitors to gsi.ie next click on online mapping tab (Google analytics, 2012)

Most stakeholders prefer a “sectoral viewer”All served from one ArcSDE GSI Mapstore

Link to WMS service

Closer/QuickerMetadata to map

Move to more Open linked Data

Borehole database 250km2 area

Attributed 3D model

Data Map 3D Model

Alluvium

Glacial TillGravels

Volumetric assessment of subsurface.Important for;

• Engineering applications• Resource assessment• Groundwater modelling• Etc.

3D visualisation - cross section under O’Connel Street

• Data Monster!

• 2 x 25 Tb Servers – on boats!

• Huge PC/Processing CPU/time overhead

• Critical – MSFD/EU policy/offshore energy

• Extensive use of web/WMS in applications

• 3D visualisation & 3D processing

Marine Safety/ChartingA picture paints a thousand ….

A steep outcrop of rock rising to a chart depth of 12.2 metres insurrounding water depths of 30 to 40 metres (charted as >30m)

3D Merged DTMs onshore/offshore

Free Data?

• €100k sales revenue v €1.5m Project revenue

• 250 V 2,500 customers

• CBA on INFOMAR 4-6: 1 (with free data)

• Removes “pay barrier” (excuse for best practice)

• US Model/EC recommendation

• Precedent

• Moral high ground

Future IT Challenges (DCENR)

• Cloud / Virtualisation

reduce costs, space and energy. Productivity gains-high availability and riskmitigation to business operations. But heavy data users need >bandwidth

• HTML.5

Identify applicable services which can utilise HTML5 to meet converged webstandards and interactivity

• IPv6

Align with IPv6 adoption as the next generation protocol for the internet tosupport internet growth and security

• Big Data

Invest in up-to-date database management systems and data analysis toolswith Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2010 to capture and store data in a robustand retrievable manner (& always more storage & back ups!)

GSI Data Challenges

• Ease of consumption V visibility/origin

• Quality Control V Demand for data now

• Standards/data management V ease ofcreation/distribution – still RIRO

• GIS “only a tool” V Expert data managementskills

• N.B. Getting & retaining good IM-GIS people

Next?

• Mobile apps – BGS/ESRI (arcgis.com)

• Subsurface modelling > detail

• 3D > Visualisation to interp

• 4D modelling – Groundwater/Erosion

• 3D web

• > use of gaming technology/physics engines

• > convergence & integration

Better Planning Tools

Marine/Foreshore (MI)

New Generation viewers

3D Web – Landslide Viewer/Render Tool

1:500,000 Bedrock Geology

Video Tutorials Tool

Google Utilities

Exporting Data3D Render Tool

Using the Map“How To”

Easier to use/ more intuitive/less techy

Physics Engines/Gaming technologies

Seabed mapping+

Adjustable Turbine properties+

Adjustable weather=

Virtual Test site

•Increased territory =Increased state revenue•4:1 Return (€360m) onInvestment

NationalMarineProgramme Shared Services

Avoid Infraction (e.g. WFD)

Siteinvestigations

Per site costreductions of up to€1m

GeoParks

> €1m EU funding•Creates sustainableemployment

Landslidesusceptibility

Potentiallymillions €insurance

>2000registeredusers

Online dataholdings

With thanks to Mick Byrne, ESRI

The value proposition