Drought information exchange

Platform Activity 1.3

GWP CEE Council Meeting Hodrusa Hamre; 13 October 2013

Gregor Gregorič Environmental Agency of Slovenia Gregor. Gregoric@gov.si Luka Honzak BO-MO LTD. luka@bo-mo.si

What is “platform”

• An information architecture and an intelligent infrastructure that enables exchange of data, relevant for drought analysis, as well as continous automated sensing, monitoring and decision support for drought risk management operations.

• Act. 1.3: review existing platforms and make a proposal for an integration of IDMP products and data into one of them in order to design a common concept of capacity development and knowledge transfer.

Examples – WMO network

Products/monitors BOM

Australia

ICPAC

Africa

NDMC

USA EDO

Basic indicators

Complex

indicators SPI

SPI, CMI,

PDSI SPI, CDI

Remote sensing

data NDVI

VegDRI,

NDVI

fAPAR,

NDWI

Field reports

Impact data

Bulletins

Bureau of Meteorology – Australia (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/) IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (http://www.icpac.net/) U. S. Drought Monitor (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu) European Drought Observatory – EDO (http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu)

Drought monitors

U. S. Drought Monitor

Tmap is updated weekly by combining a variety of data-based drought indices and indicators and local expert input into a single composite drought indicator.

U. S. Drought Monitor

IImpact reporter ccommitment of stake holders Sstandardization of response

Joint Research Centre

• Directorate-General of the European Commission (the “in-house science service”), providing independent scientific and technological support for EU policy-making

• 7 different locations; Institute for Environment and sustanability (IES) located in Ispra, Italy

European Drought Observatory (EDO)

edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu

EDO provides: Continental overview of

information on drought Visualization and analysis Seamless access to

regional and national drought information

Why EDO?

• Long term commitment to European countries (not limited to EU members!)

• Continuity of outcomes of the projects

• Large past investments into infrastructure

European Drought Observatory (EDO)

Information on current droughts (reports, “drought in media”) Data and tools – “factsheets”

EDO Mapviewer

• A web-based Map Viewer, available on EDO webpage

(DATA&TOOLS->EDO MapViewer)

• It enables the visualisation, overlay/comparison and interrogation of spatial datasets over the Internet using WMS (Web Map Service) protocol.

EDO Mapviewer - overview

EDO Mapviewer – multiscale approach

EDO Mapviewer – compare indicators

EDO Mapviewer – compare indicators

EDO Drought Metadata Catalogue

• Web application for searching and updating the drought catalog (http://vap-xjedo.jrc.it/Search/Search.html), developed by the University of Zaragoza for EuroGEOSS Project.

• Metadata adjustments have been made to ensure ISO (19115, 19119, 19139) and INSPIRE compliancy.

• The catalogue functionalities were improved including a “Drought Vocabulary”, defined and implemented during the project.

• The catalogue provides search, discovery and preview facilities of spatial and non – spatial metadata.

EDO Drought Metadata Catalogue

EDO Drought Metadata Catalogue

GWP IDMP project and EDO

• Example of successfull story: EUROGEOSS project, where we made DMCSEE drought products available in EDO Mapviewer.

• EUROGEOSS (http://www.eurogeoss.eu/)

– FP7 project , focused on three strategic areas: drought, forestry and biodiversity

– Demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks.

EUROGEOSS – EDO

DMCSEE GIS

application

EDO

DMCSEE WMS

server (UNM

Mapserver)

http://www.dmcsee.org/en/drought_monitor/

EUROGEOSS - EDO

PProject

destription

under Home -

> Projects (http://edo.jrc.ec.eur

opa.eu/edov2/php/i

ndex.php?id=1004)

OWS (OGC Web Services)

• Standards defined by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

• WMS – Web Map Service

• WCS – Web Coverage Service

• WFS – Web Feature Service

• WPS – Web Processing Service

• CSW – Catalogue Service for the Web

WMS – Web Map Service

• Service used to display geospatial information in a raster format; it is mainly a view service.

http://www.dmcsee.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/tmp/dmcsee_wms/dmcsee_wms.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:4326&HEIGHT=360&WIDTH=760&FORMAT=image/png&BBOX=11,33.995,47.005,50&LAYERS=SPI6&TIME=19991001

WMS – how does it work?

spatial

data WMS server

server user

Spatial

presentation

Return WMS capabilities in XML document

2. Invoke »GetMap« operation

Return map image in .gif, .png, or .svg. format

Client WMS Server 1. Invoke »GetCapabilities« operation

Future work - Implementation guide • In work, final version end of November.

DATA – country participation – Proposed set of drought indicators.

– SPI 1,2,3,6,12.

– Description of indicator, base period …

– Rasted data prepared in georeferenced format.

EDO – Raster data – WMS (Web Map Service)

– Vector data – WFS (Web Feature Service)

• Technical support - next workshop