Citclops - Citizens' observatory for coast and ocean optical monitoring

Luigi Ceccaroni, BDigital GEO-X, Geneva, 2014.01.15

Barcelona Digital (ES)

CSIC (ES)

Mariene Informatie Service MARIS (NL)

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research – NIOZ (NL)

Coastwatch Europe (IE)

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (DE)

Kinetical Business (ES)

Noveltis (FR)

VUA (NL)

Deltares (NL)

TriOS Mess- und Datentechnik (DE)

Project partners

Seawater color, transparency and fluorescence

Data to retrieve and use

An application to contribute to ocean-colour research

An application focused on individual citizens for the improvement of scuba-diving activities

An application focused on users of the beach and consisting in ranking the best beaches

An application focused on policy makers consisting in the development of early-warning systems for bio-chemical hazards

An application to retrieve/consult sensor measurements from low-cost moorings

An application focused on water transparency

Applications to be developed

Data flow

Public

Policy makers GEOSS

Crowdsourcing raw data

QA/AC (partially embedded) transfer

Crowdsourcing raw database

Crowdsourcing processed databaseGIS data integrationData interpretation

Knowledge based integration

Data management and interoperability

Water opticalproperties

Architecture

In the marine domain, activities for data standardisation and interoperability follow EU INSPIRE recommendations [http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/] – via EU projects/initiatives:• SIMORC – System of industry metocean data for the offshore

and research communities [http://www.simorc.org/]• SeaDataNet (at present SeaDataNet II, 2011-2015)

[http://www.seadatanet.org/]• EMODnet - European marine observation and data network

[http://www.emodnet-hydrography.eu/], coordinated in the framework of INSPIRE, Copernicus (previously known as GMES) and GEOSS.

The SeaDataNet infrastructure and standards have been adopted as core elements of EMODnet data management.

Plans to make data openly available through GEOSS

SeaDataNet maintains common vocabularies, governed by an international board, for describing data parameters, devices, countries and sea areas.

Common data index (CDI), based on ISO 19115: central piece of the discovery service in SeaDataNet, enabling users to know availability and geographical extent of marine data.

It also provides the link from the discovery services towards the delivery services, because it is directly related to the data sets, to which the users can request access.

Citclops adopted and adapted SeaDataNet metadata, standards and principles, and its portal will be made interoperable with EMODnet, and thus with GEOSS.

Plans to make data openly available through GEOSS

Objective: managing and giving harmonised access to ocean and marine observation data from organisations such as governmental departments and research institutes in all countries around the European seas.

EMODnet provides data to WISE-Marine [http://water.europa.eu/], which is intended to fulfil the reporting obligations of the MSFD and to inform the European public on indicators for good environmental status of sea basins, and GEOSS.

The data coverage includes monitoring and research data for physical oceanography, marine geology, marine chemistry, bathymetry, biology, both in archives and in near real-time.

[http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/dc]

[http://www.geoportal.org/]

Plans to make data openly available through GEOSS

• Citclops focuses on using mobile platforms • to collect data • to give citizens access to these data, and to analyses and

interpretations

• All projects which use mobile devices to collect data and as an extra platform to serve out specific data sets can benefit from Citclops’s technology.

Technology that can be used by other citizen-observatory projects

Citclops - Citizens' observatory for coast and ocean optical monitoring

Luigi Ceccaroni, BDigital GEO-X, Geneva, 2014.01.15