Dr. Saulius Urbanas, EuroGeographics

Eugenija Schuren, European Environment Agency,

GISC (GMES in-situ coordination) project

Guido Lemoine, European Commission,

Joint Research Centre

OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSURING EFFICIENT

USE OF NATIONAL REFERENCE IN-SITU DATA IN GMES

EMERGENCY MAPPING SERVICES

INSPIRE Conference, Istanbul 2012

GIO Emergency Management Service

Validation

Rush mode products

• On demand

• Standardized

• Hours-days

Reference maps

Disaster response maps

Non-rush mode products

• On demand

• Standard base adaptable to

user requests

• Weeks-months

Reference maps

Pre-disaster situation maps

Reference maps

Post-disaster situation maps

GIO EMS users

• Authorised Users (AU) – trigger EM services by sending request to

Emergency Response Centre (ERC)

• National Focal Points (NFPs) – National Civil Protection Organisations (NCPOs)

• EU Services: DG ECHO, DG HOME, DG REGIO, DG DEVCO

• The Situation Room of the European External Action Service (EEAS)

• Associated Users (ASCU) – coordinate with and go through the AUs

for triggering EMS

• Local, regional and other public entities in MS

• International Governmental Organisations

• Entities and institutions belonging to EEAS

• General public users

Reference in-situ data requirements

• Usability • Use in geo-referencing or ortho-rectification of satellite images;

• Enrichment of the map content (and the readability) with layers such as roads, urban

extent, hydrography, infrastructure, etc. that are easily recognised by the end-users;

• Enabling the generation of derived data and statistics combining the information of

specific GIO-EMS mapping layers with reference data layers

• Type of data

• base topographical and thematic map layers, such as transport layers, urban areas,

building footprints, infrastructure, hydrography, etc.

• digital orthophotos;

• DTMs or DEMs, contours

• Access

• via internet is preferred – WFS, WMS, WCS, TMS

• Dedicated accounts for internet access

• The most sensitive aspects

• timeliness of data access, data accuracy and detail

Preparatory actions

• EEA-EuroGeographics agreement• To secure the timely availability and delivery of national geospatial data during crisis

situations in Europe in order to provide the best possible basis for crisis

management;

• To provide a framework for knowledge exchange between National Mapping &

Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs) and the GMES emergency management service

concerning the provision and use of geospatial data required for the GMES

emergency management service operations

• EuroGeographics surveys

• Survey (1) on available national collaboration frameworks between National

Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCA) and National Civil Protection

Organisations (NCPO)

• Survey (2) on available datasets and web services from NMCAs

Survey (1) - NMCAs role in national

Emergency Mapping

Provides ref data to NCPO

Produces or participate

producing emergency maps

Other

No role in relation to EM

Survey (1) - Arrangements to support

adjoining countries NCPOs

Denmark

Finland

Poland

France

Germany

Spain

Portugal

Greece

ItalyTurkey

Switzer-land

Austria

CzechRepublic

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Belarus

Ukraine

RomaniaHungary

SlovakiaMoldova

Bulgaria

Russia

Ireland

Great Britain

Monte-negro

Serbia

Slovenia

CroatiaBosnia-Herze-govina

Mace-donia

Albania

Nether-

lands

Belgium

Luxembourg

Malta

Iceland

Norway

Cyprus

Georgia

Sweden

Survey (1) - Access to reference and

cadastral data to NCPOs

Agreements Data provision (access) arrangements

17

13

8

4

Yes

No

NCPO gets access to

spatial data by law and

no agreement is

required

Not yet, to be

concluded soon

0 5 10 15 20

Access via geoportal or dedicated

webservice(s)

Manual supply spatial data to NCPO

By email or via secured FTP server

Survey (1) - Existing on-line data delivery

options

Web services

Dedicated FTP servers

Survey (2) Available datasets and

webservices

• Vector datasets

• By INSPIRE theme

• By scale

• By webservice

• Raster datasets

• Ortophotos

• Raster topographic maps

• Digital Elevation Models

• Resolution

• Vertical accuracy

No

indication

7%

1:10 000 or

larger

42%1:50 000 -

1:25 000

26%

1:100 000

and smaller

25%

Vector datasets by scale

WFS

6%

WMS

29%

WFS and WMS

12%

WFS and WCS

2%

Other

3%

Not yet, under

preparation

13%

No or no indication

35%

Survey (2) – Vector datasets by

web services

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

Admin

Transport

Hydro

Geographical names

Buildings

Addresses

Protected Sites

Land cover / Land use

Soil

Utility and Governmental services

Survey (2) – Vector datasets,

465 in total

Ortophotos

1:25 000 – 1:50 000

1:10 000 or larger

Digital Elevation Model

5m and lower

1,5 - 5 m resolution

Higher than 1,5m resolution

Conclusions based on survey results

• Strong link between NMCAs and NCPOs

• All NCPOs have data access or pre-delivery data arrangements

• NCPOs maintain usage rights to NMCAs products

• Data exchange / update provision focused to (INSPIRE) webservices

• Reference data from NMCAs of EU and candidate countries are

available by remote access (FTP or webservices)

• NMCAs maintain wide range, reliable and high accurate spatial

datasets

• Due to INSPIRE development NMCAs are in process of launching

more webservices

• EuroGeographics recognises to strength collaboration between its

members by establishing Knowledge Exchange Network on

Emergency Data

Follow up: test in 5 countriesGreat Britain, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden

• Priorities to dataset content are defined as following

• Ortophotos at 0,5m pixel size or larger

• Raster topographic maps at scale 1:50 000 or larger

• Vector topographic datasets at scale 1:50 000 or larger

• DEM, 30m resolution or better

• NMCAs data access for EMS service provider will be arranged via

NCPOs

• Using available license arrangements

• Signing new license agreements (if necessary)

• EMS service provider to be recognised as a subcontractor of NCPO

• Non exclusive right agreement is necessary

Operational Procedures:

Roles and Responsibilities

• EuroGeographics

• Maintains the list of national geospatial datasets and services owned and hosted at

NMCAs

• Serves EG products

• Reviews of performance of arrangements

• JRC

• Tests data quality and access to webservices

• Passes received information and data to GMES Service provider

• Maintains and shares information about Service provider

• EEA

• Maintains reference data requirements

• Defines Operational Procedures

• Coordinates and reviews of performance of arrangements

• GMES Service provider

• Get access to the reference data

• Upon completion of tasks fills feedback form

Business

Natural

resources

Health & Human

services

Defence

Education

Public Safety

Government

Transportation

Utilities and

Communications

Insurance/

Reassurance

appHealth statistics

INSPIRE

Geoportal

Emergency

Mapping

Open Source

Code Sprints

Real Estate

Community

PortalOpen Source

Demo app

Community

Maps

Future outlook – access to NMCAs

webservices via cloud – ELFI project

Thank you for the attention!

http://portal.ems-gmes.eu