The story of sharing environmental data Kallio, Pyhälahti, Harju, Teiniranta, Lahtinen, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE OKFestival, Finnish Open Data, 18. Sep 2012
Contents Call for environmental knowledge Who are we? GIS / EO / data sharing history Data policy and sharing advantages User statistics Metadata portal General user interface for the EO datasets EO products and services The development of EO / GIS solutions Algorithm and software development with open source tools 2
Call for environmental knowledge is increasing From water protection to environmental protection Climate change mitigation Green economy Sustainable use of natural resources Biodiversity Ecosystem services Baltic Sea Interdisciplinarity, internationalisation Global challenges Increasing environmental awareness Decade of water protection 1970 1983 1986 1995 National Board of Waters Ministry of the Environment SYKE National Board of Waters and the Environment
Finnish Environment Institute Data and Information Centre Geoinformatics
Data sharing progress at the Environmental Administration Oldest observations from 1800s on Tornio river ice melt! 5
Sharing principles and advantages SYKE was one of the first govermental institutes having free data policy SYKE has a very open data policy all datasets can be used free-of-charge by anyone also commercial use is allowed Through network self services no fees are charged Sensitive data is filtered from open datasets (like personal data, detailed location of threatened species, ) Benefits of sharing Better environmental decisions Transparency Research and development projects rise when the data is available for free No duplicate work Data validated by users 6
Data sharing required according to the EU INSPIRE directive standards INSPIRE directive aims to create a European Union (EU) spatial data infrastructure. This will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe. 32 INSPIRE themes in national GIS portal, which offers a possibility to browse dozens of map levels, produced by different organizations, on different themes www.paikkatietoikkuna.fi/web/en/ 7
SYKE Spatial Datasets I Protected sites: Natura2000 sites, Nationally designated sites I Hydrography: River network, Lake database, River basins and catchments Annex III Annex I Annex II II Geology: Groundwater II Elevation: Bathymetry II Land Cover: Corine2000, National Corine2000 III Land Use:Land Use plans, Land Use Regulations plans Environmental monitoring facilities Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Natural risk zones, Sea regions, Bio-geographical regions, Habitats and biotopes, Species distribution Over 100 datasets covering the whole of Finland A lot of data from other producers in our GIsystem
29.11.2013 Direct access to environmental data systems through OIVA www.ymparisto.fi/oiva Environmental Information System, which consists of various subsystems including information on, among other things, monitoring of water quantity and quality, environmental protection, biological diversity, land use and environmental loading. Map interface for viewing the data (gis + observations) Use via wms-interfaces File download system Data download for certain areas (municipal, rectangle..) via map winodw? (WMS, download and regional download GIS services) 9
29.11.2013 Terms of use in OIVA service The user shall have a non-exclusive, nontransferrable license to use the material The source of material must be mentioned in connection with the presentation of a report or other material, including service name and date when downloaded from the service Copyright and ownership to the material shall remain with the Finland s environmental administration OIVA is for registered users at the moment, registration removed in the near future WMS services available with no authentication 10
Statistics on environmental data download >30 downloadable GIS datasets GIS software is needed to use the datasets Themes of data download 11
LifeData project 2011-2015 Opening research data for multiple use in the organizations of the project represent LYNET, Finnish Partnership for Research on Natural Resources and the Environment Finnish Forest Research Institute Metla Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute RKTL Agrofood Research MTT 12
Metadata portal To be opened in the internet 2012. Content: Spatial data Services EO products Environmental information systems Research data Not only spatial data, even the ISO standard 19115 is followed 13
Delivery solutions for the EO datasets Calendar search Near Real Time products Time series and seasonal averages Map services for individual projects Tests to deliver EO products in the MMEA project Snow Covered Area and Snow Water Equivalent WCS services View service for operative RS is planned to be built during 2013 from datasets in WMS interfaces 14
The environmental variables monitored with remote sensing Mapping and monitoring of land cover Fractional snow cover monitoring using Earth observation data Water Sea Surface Temparature Algal Blooms in the Baltic Sea Water quality in lakes and coastal waters Turbidity Chlorophyll-a Oil spill detection Mean and std chlorophyll a concentration from weekly mean composites from Hankoniemi 80 Mean EO chl-a 70 Mean insitu chl-a Chlorophyll a concentration (µg/l) 60 50 40 30 20 10 0-10 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 Week number 15
New approach to operational data processing: Saukko Saukko processing system concept (Saukko, Lutra Lutra; otter in Finnish) Version control system extension for creating operatively available data processing software from scientific and expert-defined models Scientific development of models is a continuous relatively uncontrollable process Scientists are typically not software engineers why should they? Think of DevOps Processing framework for controlled ondemand & scheduled distributed processing chains Processing phases in different servers, service provider systems, organisations Saukko is being developed in EU Life+ project GisBloom: To be released in open source (EUPL) in full scale during 2013 16
29.11.2013 Scientific software encapsulated or embedded in standardized part of a generic processing chain Assisting data processing using interconnected models in routine work
29.11.2013 Processor
29.11.2013 Processor: Optimized version of model for operative processing in pipe
Data sharing progress at the Environmental 20
Thanks! www.environment.fi/syke We have the skills, ambition and courage to open new avenues for improving the environment.