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Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security (GMES):
Marine data management & policy issues.
A Edwards
DG Research, European Commission
E-mail: [email protected]
The Colour of Ocean Data - The Palais des Congrès, Brussels, Belgium,
25-27 November 2002
Overview
• A brief introduction to GMES
• GMES and Global Ocean Monitoring
• GMES and Data
• Conclusions
GMES Objectives
(GMES is a Joint EC-ESA Initiative)
• By 2008: to establish an operational and
autonomous European capacity for Global
Monitoring of the Environment and for
Security.
• By 2003: to identify the strengths and
weaknesses of the current capacity and the
needs for improvement in the scientific,
technical, socio-economic and institutional
domains, (including data mgmt. and policy).
The EU Council Resolution on
the GMES Initial Period
• Urges the Commission to start, together with
ESA and stakeholders, the Initial Period of
GMES (2001 - 2003)
• Asks to build on existing infrastructures and
capabilities: terrestrial, air- & sea-borne, spacebased
• Prepare the next phase of GMES (2004-2008) to
achieve an OPERATIONAL & AUTONOMOUS
European capability by 2008
Initial GMES Priority Themes
A. Land Cover Change in Europe
B. Environmental Stress in Europe
C. Global Vegetation Monitoring
D. Global Ocean Monitoring
E. Global Atmosphere Monitoring
F. Support to Regional Development Aid
G. Systems for Risk Management
H. Systems for Crisis Management & Humanitarian Aid
I. Information Management Tools
GMES Provisional Planning
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008 …....2009
R&D
EC (FP6)
EC (FP5)
Implementation Phase
Report
GMES
Action Plan
Initial Period
FP6
Results
Capacity build-up
ESA Elements
GMES Capacity
Build-up
ESA
EC (tbd)
…………
EC Elements
Service elements
Capacity build-up and operations programme (tbd)
……….
GMES and Global Ocean Monitoring
• (Pre-) Operational Oceanography is a well
established
scientific
and
technological
discipline, both NATIONALLY within most EU
Member States, and also at the European
Community level.
• For example, the total EC commitment to
Operational Forecasting Research in FP5
exceeds 31 M€.
Example of EC funded
Pre-Operational Forecasting Research
SST 3-day Forecast from the Med.
Forecasting System Pilot Project
GMES and Data
• If the GMES Initiative is to succeed, proper
data management strategy(s) and policy(s)
must be established.
(Remember that GMES should bring
together operational marine, atmospheric
and terrestrial monitoring systems.)
Selected GMES
Data Mgmt Issues
• Access to data: GMES is an Operational
System & requires rapid (and free?) access
to all relevant Quality CONTROLLED data.
• Control of data: ownership, IPR rights, etc.
• Safeguarding data: Long term archiving
• Sustainable Funding: European & national
for the “public good”, or private funding?
GMES Data Mgmt
A Possible (Simplified) Example
STOREROOM
or Archive
In-Situ
Systems
Remote
Sensing
Data
Data
Archive
Data
“Just in Time”
DATA WAREHOUSE
“Just in Time”
Model
Output
Info
Products
Modelling Factory
Real-Time
Alarms
Policy
Info
Service Providers
Real-Time
Forecasts
Predictions
Reports
Conclusions
Basic proposition discussed within the GMES Fora
(to which everyone is invited to contribute.)
“Effective data management and policies are
essential to ensure that the right information can
be made available in the right form and at the
right time. To date, data management and
policies within European countries can differ
greatly and are poorly adapted to the changing
monitoring and surveying technologies, and the
changing needs of policy.”