EuroGEOSS for Drought - Linking the European Drought Observatory to global and local scales Barbara Hofer, Stefan Niemeyer, EC-JRC INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010
Drought Relevance Droughts are natural hazards that can affect all regions in Europe The number of areas and people affected by droughts [in Europe] went up by almost 20% between 1976 and 2006. One of the most widespread droughts occurred in 2003 when over 100 million people and a third of the EU territory were affected. The cost of the damage to the European economy was at least 8.7 billion. The total cost of droughts over the past thirty years amounts to 100 billion. The yearly average cost quadrupled over the same period. (1st Interim Report of the Water Scarcity and Droughts Expert Network, Nov. 2006) INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 2
Drought Relevance Drought occurrence Climate Change source: JRC, EEA INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 3
Drought Relevance European Commission addresses the issue by: Communication on Water Scarcity and Droughts in 2007 (COM(2007) 414 final) Follow-up process with work program on WS&D 2008-2012 European Drought Observatory (EDO) as contribution to improved drought risk management INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 4
European Drought Observatory (EDO) Joint Research Centre (JRC) develops the prototype of EDO by 2012 for: drought detection drought monitoring drought forecasting drought assessment EDO provides: Continental overview information on droughts Visualization and analysis Seamless access to regional and national drought information in Europe INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 5
European Drought Observatory (EDO) Multi-scale approach based on subsidiarity that integrates drought information from various scales: continental (inter-) national regional and local Interoperability of drought information systems required INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 6
EuroGEOSS for Drought Objectives Explore and define interoperability arrangements for drought information systems in Europe ( EDO recipes ) Establish interoperability between EDO and national and regional drought information from various sources ( EDO pilots ) Contribute to multi-discipline research and exchange with other thematic areas of EuroGEOSS Facilitate global access to European drought information through GEOSS Requirements Tool for search & discovery of drought-relevant information Means to access relevant drought data services INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 7
EuroGEOSS Drought Thematic Area INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 8
EuroGEOSS portal Forest Catalogue Biodiversity Catalogue Euro GEOSS User BROKER Drought metadata catalogue Metadata Partner providing drought information EDO portal Map services Data & Maps Country / Regional Level DO User Data & Maps Continental Level EDO MapServer INSPIRE Conference Country, 2010 Region Cracow June 24, 2010 9 Europe
EDO map server: http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 10
http://eurogeoss.unizar.es/search/search.html INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 11
Demonstration Scenario 1 Assessment of the drought situation in Europe: Who: an administrative user What: get an overview of the drought situation in Europe and detailed information on affected regions How: start from the EDO map server http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/php/index.php?action=view&id=201 INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 12
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Demonstration Scenario 2 Exploration of drought data services through a drought expert: Who: a drought expert user What: identification and accessing of drought-related data sets for drought research How: start from the Metadata catalogue http://eurogeoss.unizar.es/search/search.html INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 15
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Results Link established between metadata catalogue and EDO map server Direct discovery and display of drought resources Drought metadata catalogue EDO map server Drought data on different scales are connected Europe, Spain and South-East Europe INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 17
Outlook - Technical Metadata catalogue: Improve search criteria, distributed version Develop a download functionality for drought data Add analysis tools to current map server Updating and archiving Add more partner resources (CHE, BRGM, OSE etc.) INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 18
Outlook - Thematic Addressing drought research questions, e.g. Multi-source drought detection and assessment Scaling of drought indices Regional drought studies (Spain, SE Europe) Contributing to interdisciplinary collaboration R&D with thematic areas of EuroGEOSS Global Dimension: EDO as a building block of a Global Drought Early Warning System INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 19
Thank you! INSPIRE Conference 2010 Cracow June 24, 2010 20