Shared Environmental Information

Systems to Address and Sustain

Environment-Related INSPIRE

Challenges

Dr. Cristian VASILE, Dr. Cristina OANA, Drd. Simona STAICULESCU, Dr. Lucian

ZAVATE, Dr. Ionut SANDRIC, Vlad TEODOR

INSPIRE Conference Aalborg, Denmark - Wednesday 18th June 2014

Current Romanian SEIS as part of eReporting and

further INSPIRE implementation on Environment

The EU legislation in all Member States Protected Areas

• Article 6, Habitats Directive, 1992;

Articles 9 and 12, Birds Directive, 2009

• The INSPIRE directive , 15 May 2007

Annex I and III

SEIS

Sharing/Coorperation

Environmental Information/Content

Knowledge Infrastructure

INSPIRE

Data/Metadata

Service to Acces Data and Metadata

Spatial Data Infrastructure

STANDARDS

DIRECTIVES

Data and Information

Data and Information servicesICT Infrastructures/Inspire...

SEIS for Monitoring Biodiversity in Protected Areas

• Developed under the Sectoral Operational Programme Environment – Priority Axis 4:

Implementation of adequate management systems for nature protection” in a joint

effort with different stakeholders

• Available at local, regional and national level

Romanian SEIS Purpose:

• to lead us to a decentralized but integrated and web-enabled, national environmental information

system - based on a network of public information providers (protected areas management

authorities) that share environmental data and information – in order to monitor biodiversity

• ensuring interoperability and expanding the access to spatial data, metadata, web services and

applications as part of the Romanian national spatial infrastructure

• providing information on natural variability and an early warning system for large-scale

environmental disturbances

• support stakeholders in protected sites management activities

• national and regional reporting of status and trend in species and habitats integrity

• fulfilling Romanian legal reporting obligations under EU and sustaining environment-related

INSPIRE challenges

SEIS

Arhitecture

Each tier includes

indicators, measures,

monitoring and reporting

tools that are intended

to operate at a range

of scales.

These three tiers

collectively contribute

to measuring and

reporting on biodiversity

integrity.

SEIS Components

• Content (Biodiversity Data)

- different sources of data, but mostly coming from field data collection and

monitoring

- distribution maps genereted based on INSPIRE European GRID

- basemaps with topographic and imagery

- enterprise geodatabase INSPIRE compliant in terms of centralized information

• Infrastructure

- an effective web-enabled technical infrastructure that takes full advantage of the

most cutting-edge ICTs

- Web-enabled database for biodiversity data

- Esri GeoPortal Server technology for dissemination

- Web services and metadata INSPIRE compliant

• Sharing/Collaboration/Cooperation

- portal functinallity integrated; interoperability ensured

- cooperation and governance structure is ensured by protected sites authorities,

environmental agencies, project owner

All Romanian SEIS that are available are structured around three main components -

the pillars of a SEIS in general

Environmental Data

• For each project the SEIS include a central enterprise database that includes

especially environmental datasets related to INSPIRE Annex I and III Themes:

• I.8 Hydrography

• I.9 Protected sites

• III.7 Environmental monitoring facilities

• III.8 Production and industrial facilities

• III.11 Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

• III.13 Atmospheric conditions

• III.16 Sea regions

• III.17 Bio-geographical regions

• III.18 Habitats and biotopes

• III.19 Species distribution

• Also, topographic and imagery basemaps that include support data

• II.1 Elevation

• II.2 Land Cover

• II.3 Imagery

• II.2 Geology

• III.3 Soils

• III.4 Landuse

Distribution Maps for Species and Habitats

• Distribution MapBooks

templates – delivered as an

integrated Solution Map Pak

for Biodifersity Monitoring

in all the SEIS

Biodiversity Geoportals as SEIS for monitoring

biodiversity

• Based on Esri Geoportal Server -

enables users to provide, manage,

query, display and explore data

regarding flora and fauna in the

protected areas

• INSPIRE compliant in terms of metadata,

search and discovery services

• User functionality

- discovery and viewing of spatial data

sets and services for biodiversity

(WMS, WFS, etc.)

- using a federated search based on

metadata

- exploring live data using the

integrated map viewer

- publishing new datasets using the

Online Metadata Editor and Inspire

Metadata Standards

Biodiversity Geoportals as SEIS for monitoring

biodiversity – improved colaboration

Siriu Geoportal

Ceahlau national Park Geoportal

Pangarati, Vaduri

and Cuejdel

Protected Lakes

Geoportal

Lunca Muresului Geoportal

Natural Park Balta Mica a Brailei

Geoportal

Macin National Park Geoportal

Calimani

Geoportal

Biodiversity Geoportals linked to eReporting Sistem

• This national e-reporting system was implemented in a Consortium with the National Institute of Biology, and

has already made significant progress to support Romanian legal reporting obligations under European Union

and International Environmental Policies and Legislation

Roadmap

• Further work was focused on unifying all these local solutions and

data in the E-Reporting System, with national coverage, developed in

association with the Romanian National Institute of Biology.

• For a successful implementation at national level it is tremendously

important to have a decentralized solution in order to develop a large

scale assessment.

• The National E-Reporting System will further address and sustain the

INSPIRE Directive Implementation in Romania.

more than 10 projects…

Some of the

Romanian SEIS

Demo

http://www.geoportal-mediu.ro/geoportal/

http://www.geoportal-mediu.ro/geoportalceahlau/

http://lm.geoportal-mediu.ro/geoportal/ http://bio.geoportal-mediu.ro/geoportalmacin

http://bio.geoportal-mediu.ro/bmb http://bio.geoportal-mediu.ro/geoportalcalimani

http://www.geoportal-mediu.ro/geoportalneamt/

www.simshab.ro...

… will sustain Environment-Related INSPIRE

Challenges

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