the medina e-infrastructure: indicators and models for marine ecosystem assessment roberto pastres
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The MEDINA e-infrastructure: indicators and models for marine ecosystem assessment Roberto Pastres Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatic and Statistic [email protected]. MEDINA: Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa http://www.medinaproject.eu/ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The MEDINA e-infrastructure: indicators and models for marine ecosystem assessment
Roberto PastresDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Informatic and
• MEDINA: Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
• and Indicators for North Africa http://www.medinaproject.eu/
• FP7 Collaborative Project
• Duration: 36 months
• Start date: 01/10/2011
• 12 Participants from 9 countries
• Coordinator: Roberto Pastres
1 Università “Ca’ Foscari” Venezia (UNIVE) IT
2 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) ES
3 Universidade Pablo de Olavide (UPO) ES
4 Université Abdelmalek ESSAADI (UAE-FPL) Morocco
5 Joint Research Centre - EC (JRC) EU
6National Inst. for Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF)
Egypt
7Union International pour la Conservation de la Nature et de ses ressources (IUCN)
CH
8 Commissariat National du Littoral (CNL) Algeria
9 Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) GB
10 ACRI Etudes et Conseil (ACRI) Morocco
11 European Space Agency (ESA) FR
12 CNR -IIA Istituto sull’Inquinamento Atmosferico IT
MEDINA Overall objectives (1):
-To contribute to the assessment of coastal ecosystem status in North African countries;
-To enhance the monitoring capacity for those regions.
-To identify major risks due to climate change and suggest adaptation strategies.
-To feedback MEDINA’s scientific contribution within the EU regulatory framework.
MEDINA Overall objectives (2):
-To ensure the optimal exploitation of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) capabilities in supporting on-going monitoring&assessment, also through the fusion of satellite Earth Observation and conventional monitoring data.
-To promote international cooperation for sharing data and services with on-going EU efforts, with the relevant GEO Community of Practices and with GOOS-Africa
MEDINA’s key features:
- Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response conceptual framework for on-going monitoring and assessment.
- Use of mechanistic models (biogeochemical, Habitat Suitability, Food Web etc ….) for establishing causal links between Drivers/Pressures and State/Impacts.
- Fusion of remotely-sensed and in-situ observation, through modelling, for monitoring optimization.
Ecologicalindicators
Environmentaldrivers/stressors
EO indicators
GCOMS model
In situdata
Model hindcastsand forecasts
Regionalecosystem
assessment
Regionalecosystem
assessment
FVCOM model Localecosystem
assessment
Localecosystem
assessment
Pilot cases
Habitatmodel
EIA model
Foodwebmodel
WP5
WP4
WP3
The e-Infrastructure is the key component of MEDINA
The Medina e-Infrastructure is being developed by
• The MEI, built in WP3, will act as a tool for discovering, accesing and visualising spatial, indicators and model results.
• It will be fully compatible in design and usability with GEOSS GCI, and thus accesible through GEOSS website.
• MEDINA e-infrastructure will guarantee viability, compatibility and sustainability with existing databases.
To achieve the goals of MEDINA, a key element is the use and exploitation of existing data and spatial information
What is the MEDINA e-Infrastructure?
• Infrastructure that supports access to geographic interoperable spatial information.
• Distributed geographic database, based on standardized protocols to ensure interoperability.
• A tool to disseminate Medina products.
MeI conceptual model
Main features and components of the MeI
FEATURE
(i.e. what?)
DISCOVERY
VISUALIZATION
DELIVERY
DATA ACCESS
COMPONENT
(i.e. how?)
CATALOG
MAP SERVICES (WMS),
ONLINE VIEWER,
MAP SERVICES
(WFS, WCS)
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How will the MeI work
Access MEI
Download, visualise and use maps
Medina e-Infrastructure
The MEDINA e-Infrastructure will be tested at 5 pilot sites.
Chlorophyll a Bathymetry
Tests on MEDINA indicators (WP5-UAB) are ongoing: MeI Viewer (www.medinageoportal.eu)
MEDINA will also make available web-based models :
Habitat Suitability model for Posidonia oceanica (ACRI+UNIVE)
The model was calibrated at five mediterranean areas and is now being tested on North African
sites
Model output (green = presence) Observations
We presented the HS model as case study at GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot.
Phase-6.
• The aim of this pilot is to demonstrate the added-value of developing the models in the context of the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI).
• A new Business process Broker component will be used to extend the current GCI capabilities. Where needed, new interoperability arrangements will be developed to integrate new capacities underpinning MEDINA and this pilot.
MEDINA contribution to GEOSSTask Description Relevant AreaIN-02 C2 Earth Data Sets Provide a suite of global datasets based on
improved and validated data sources.IN-05 C1 GEOSS Design and Interoperability Execute and document Architecture
Implementation Pilots (AIPs) and related research activities – this is a software test environment
SB-01 C1 Global Ocean Information Coordination and Access
Develop vulnerability and integrated management of coastal zones in order to inventory, protect and monitor coastal lands
SB-01 C2 Operational Systems for Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
Establish a global coastal network of observations and modeling that target sentinel and reference sites for rapid detection of changes in ecosystem states caused by land-based sources of pollution,fishing and climate change
SB-01 C3 A Global Operational Ocean Forecasting Network for sustainable fishery and aquaculture
Develop and test the next generation of systems extending from open-ocean into shelf-seas and coastal waters,
SB-01 C4 Applications of Earth Observations and Information
Design and implement a suite of ecological indicators. Making available EIA models
BI-01 C1 Global Biodiversity Observation Develop standards for monitoring biodiversity.