A Shared Environmental Information Systemfor Environment and Statistics

Stefan Jensen I 10.11.2015 I European Forum for Statistics EFGS confernce - Vienna

Trends and tasks, their interactions and a call for enhanced cooperation

• SEIS in the European Union and EEA Member Countries

• SEIS in the European neighbourhood

• UN GGIM and the sustainable development agenda

• Key innovation projects amongst European Institutions

• The developing area of Geostatistics

• New and „big data“

• Reference data initiatives related to INSPIRE

SEIS – 2015 and beyond

• SEIS and EIONET - an integration and modernisation initiative

• SEIS communication (2008)

• Better regulation communication (2013)

• INSPIRE (since 2007) - after mid-term evaluation

• New, strong policy framework: EU „better regulation agenda“

• Fitness check of EU environmental monitoring & reporting Streamling reporting – focus group (internal)

• Key performance indicators (KPI)

• High level dialog Environment and Statistics (DIMESA)

SEIS – in the European Neighbourhood

• Environment is a clear priority at regional level and in the ENP-wide programme for the cooperation with the ENP East region in the period 2014-2020

• Governance set-up brings togther Environment and Statistics as equal partners

• Further development of regional indicators as input to future regional assessment (next pan-European assessment 2016). Synergies with key partners and UN bodies (UNECE in particular) deemed essential

• Next phase projects for East and South (covering Q4 2015 – Q5 2019) is to be contracted in November 2015

• Results (amongst others): Improved capacities in the national administrations to manage and use environmental statistics, data and information in support to decision-making in line with EU/EEA best practices

ENPI-SEIS Project• Main outcomes: Enhanced

networking and improved capacities for handling environmental data and information, ensuring open access to it through compatible and freely available exchange tools.

• Coverage: 15 ENP partner countries (6 in the East, 9 in the South region)

• Duration: December 2009 – March 2015

• Budget: €5.7 M

• Support to EU policies: external policy framework (ENP, UfM, EaP), thematic policies (MSFD, WFD, ICZMS), horizontal policies (SEIS, Inspire, GMES)

SEIS – in the European Neighbourhood

Sustainable development goals and UN GGIM Europe

• A key international policy framework

• UN GGIM Europe discusses the Europena contribution

• Indicators in support of the SDGs are just emerging

• Data – indicator relationship is not straightforward

• Working group established under to define „core data“

• More involvement of both environmental and statistical stakeholders needed

• A good piece of work ahead ...

European Commission

• Eurostat– Indicators of SDG: under preparation– GI information required for them– Eurostat has made same exercise as us: identify the SDG

targets consuming GI• => check their list, revise ours if necessary

– Requirements regarding data (core content, open data, etc.)

• EEA – Global monitoring will increase– Use of satellite images (Copernicus)– NMCAs may help by providing expertise, data content

and data access

Slide courtesy to UN GGIM European Plenary, Belgrade October 2015

KIP – natural capital and accounting

Knowledge Innovation Project on Integrated System for Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Accounting in the EU

• Project developed by a partnership of European Commission services (DG ENV, DG CLIMA, DG JRC, DG ESTAT, DG RTD and EEA)

• Objective to strengthen the knowledge base for the implementation of the 7th EAP

• Knowledge Innovation Projects (KIPs) have the ambition to address gaps in environmental knowledge, using an innovate approach

• Data integration allows making use of existing data• Expertise and data available with key partners, incl. accounting, monitoring,

analysis and modelling• Gradual adjustment of existing data collections (such as LUCAS 2018)

towards better contributing to ecosystem accounting• EU level data sets are integrated by EU-level bodies – no extra work for EU

member states but an opportunity to "plug in"

KIP – natural capital and accounting

Elements of the potential solution:• A system of nested and datasets within a common framework;• Integration of existing initiatives – assessment of ecosystems,

modelling ecosystem services…;• Use of models to transfer data into accounts and fill data gaps

FSS

Forest stats

Copernicus Land monitoringIn situ coordination

LUCASNatura 2000/CDDA

Ecosystem mapping (extent)

Ecosystem condition (state)

Biodiversity assessments (monitoring)

Land use/coverdata

Ecosystem data

Environmental reporting

Geostatistics

• Progress on geospatial data integration related to land and population topics

• Integration with the census

• Growing cooperation between Statistical Institutions, National Mapping Agencies and Environmental institutions

Admin. & statistical boundaries

Addressing, Place Names

Transport, Water

Land and Property

Elevation and Depth

Imagery

Positioning

Foundation Spatial Data Frameworks – Fundamental Elements

Data layers:

NSS Socio-Economic Datasets

Land Valuation and Use

Immigration

Others …

Core Statistical

Census, Demographics, Agriculture, Building,

Labour Force, etc.

Tax

Income and Business Tax

Health

Medicare, Pharmaceuticals,

Workforce

Social WelfareUnemployment,

Disability, Family Support

SSF bridge

Statistical Community Spatial Community

Slide courtesy to Maire Halderson, Statistics Sweden, „How Geospatial Statistics can measure climate change”

Flooding – how to prepare

Example of GIS-application for calculation of consequences of a dam failure

Slide courtesy to Maire Halderson, Statistics Sweden, „How Geospatial Statistics can measure climate change”

New and Big Data

• Growth of Open data activities

• Citizen science and crowdsourcing

• New ways of monitoring emerging

• Data from new providers e.g. mobile phone operators

• Remote sensing of various kinds e.g. availability of Copernicus data

Tools and methodologies for integration emerging

Reference data

A growing set of initiatives

• EU Member States start delivering through INSPIRE

• Eurogeographics provides a European Location Framework (ELF)

• Copernicus in-situ needs encourage more common refernce data

• UN GGIM Europe aims to identify „core data“

• On the EU level, COGI starts defining sets of common reference amongst Commission services

Initial reflection on progress and status

Processes Governance Content Infrastructure

SEIS in EU

SEIS in the neighbourhood

SDGs and UN GGIM

Key Innovation Projects

Geostatistics

Big data

Reference data

Recommended further activities ...

Keep strengthening the links and the governance!

Further continue developing common use cases

Use the excellent data landscape out there

Engage and cooperate in joint projects

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

... between Statistics, Environment, Mapping Agencies