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IHO SEMINAR 2005
8 November 2005 (Rostock - Germany) The GEO
and GMES initiatives relevance for the field of
hydrography

Gilles OLLIER Head of Sector EUROPEAN
COMMISSION Earth Observation DG RTD
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• GMES/GEO STATUS
• FP contribution to marine/observing systems
• FP7

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GMES GEO

• A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE GMES (GLOBAL MONITORING
  FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY)
• A GLOBAL INITIATIVE GEO (GROUP ON EARTH
  OBSERVATION)
• THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IS INVOLVED IN BOTH
  INITIATIVES IN DIFFERENT WAYS
• THEY BOTH REFER EXPLICITLY TO MONITORING AND
  OBSERVING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT (GEO SOCIETAL
  BENEFITS RELEVANT TO OCEAN GMES MARINE
  SERVICES)

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GMES GENERAL OBJECTIVE

• The Global Monitoring for Environment and
  Security (GMES) initiative is to enable decision
  makers in Europe to acquire the capacity for
  global as well as regional monitoring so as to
  effectively realise the EUs objectives in a wide
  variety of policy areas
• (First sentence of the COMMUNICATION FROM THE
  COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE
  COUNCIL (3.2.2004) Global Monitoring for
  Environment and Security (GMES) Establishing a
  GMES capacity by 2008 - (Action Plan (2004-2008))

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EC Communication GMES capacity to be provided
through

• Space observing systems integrating the
  available systems and defining the future
  generation
• In situ (including airborne) observing systems
  closing the gaps
• Data integration and information management
  setting-up a shared information capacity
• User-oriented services defining and specifying
  the priorities for the users and the relevant
  data policies

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GEO GENERAL OBJECTIVE

• FROM first EO SUMMIT in Washington in July 2003
• CALL FOR A GREATER INTEGRATION OF EARTH
  OBSERVATION SYSTEMS INTERNATIONALLY
• DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM
  OF SYSTEMS

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The GEOSS Concept
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GMES management 2004 2005A joint EC-ESA
initiative

• GMES Programme Office
• Undertakes the operational management of GMES
  using the mechanisms foreseen in the EC/ESA
  Framework Agreement. Populated in part by
  seconded experts from Member States and relevant
  international organisations (e.g. EEA, EUMETSAT).
  
• GMES Advisory Council
• Brings together EU/ESA Member States, the
  European Commission and ESA, as well as other
  stake-holders on an ad-hoc basis relevant
  international organisations (e.g. EEA, EUMETSAT,
  European Maritime Safety Agency, EU Satellite
  Centre, etc.), representatives of end-users,
  industry, service providers, research
  organisations, academia.gt long-term strategy,
  political support

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GMES Action Plan for 2004 - 2005

• Analysis of existing or planned GMES activities
• Demonstration of the initial services at the
  Earth and Space week (12-20 February 2005)
• Strategic socio-economic viability study of
  GMES
• Strategic socio-economic cost benefit study
• Possible funding scenarios
• Proposal for GMES implementation
• Approach for the governing structure related
  funding scenarios Role of Industry?
• New Commission communication (to be released on
  Tuesday 8th November
• Final proposal to be submitted by EC to the
  Council European Parliament by end 2005

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GMES fast track services to be implemented by
2008

• Information for Crisis (Emergency) Management
• Land Monitoring Services
• Marine Core Services

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The GMES Marine Service chain
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Supporting Programmes

• Three main actors
• European Commission
• Framework Programmes FP(5), FP6, and FP7
• European Space Agency
• GMES Service Element (2002-2006)
• Service Consolidation
• Scaling-up Services
• Member states
• Provide Infrastructure for Observing Systems
• National Programmes

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Useful GMES Web addresses

• GMES web site
• http//www.gmes.info
• Space web site
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/space
• ESA web site
• http//earth.esa.int/gmes/
• Cordis
• http//www.cordis.lu/fr/home.html
• http//fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/calls.cfm
• Security web site
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/security
• http//www.cordis.lu/security
• rtd-pasr_at_cec.eu.int

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IMPLEMENTATION OF (GEO)

• GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of
  Systems)
• Acquires observational data from all different EO
  platforms
• Processes data into useful products
• Exchanges, disseminates and archives shared data,
  metadata and products
• Undertakes activities to continue EO related
  Research, capacity building and outreach.

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GEO STRUCTURE

• Membership open to all countries of the world
• 55 countries (plus the EC) endorsed the GEOSS
  10-year Implementation plan and are current GEO
  members
• International organizations are participants
• 43 organizations are represented in GEO since
  GEO-6
• GEO Secretariat
• Permanent GEO Secretariat is being installed at
  WMO (Geneva) until autumn 2005
• Governance
• Plenary meetings of all members and participating
  organisations
• Executive committee to facilitate ad hoc GEO
  activities in periods between plenary meetings

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GEO Executive Committee

• Facilitates work of GEO in between plenary
  meetings
• 12 Members elected for 2 years term
• Regional representations
• Africa (2)
• Americas (3)
• Asia and Oceania (3)
• CIS (1)
• Europe (3)
• Elected by regional caucuses

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GEO Executive Committee

• CIS
• Russia
• Asia
• China
• Japan
• Thailand

• Europe
• European Commission
• Germany
• Italy

• Africa
• Morocco
• South Africa
• Americas
• Brazil
• Honduras
• United States

indicates Co-Chair
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GEO Executive Committee

• 4 Co-Chairs
• Elected by Plenary from Executive Committee
  members
• 2 from Developing Countries, 2 from Developed
  Countries
• Zheng Guoguang China
• Achilleas Mitsos European Commission
• Rob Adam South Africa
• Conrad Lautenbacher United States.

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Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

• GEO 2005 activities
• GEO Transition period during year 2005
• Commitments by GEO members to provide resources
  for GEO Secretariat on a regular basis
• Installation of GEO Secretariat (including
  appointment of director)
• Development of 2006 GEO Work Plan
• Installation of 4 standing groups (data
  architecture, user interface, capacity building,
  and science and technology)

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Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

• Societal benefit areas of GEOSS (approved by
  GEO-4)
• Reducing loss of life and property from natural
  and human
• induced disasters
• Understanding environmental factors affecting
  human health
• and well being
• Improving management of energy resources
• Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating
  and adapting
• to climate variability and change
• Improving water resources management through
  better
• understanding of the water cycle
• Improving weather information, forecasting and
  warning
• Improving the management and protection of
  terrestrial,
• marine and coastal ecosystems
• Supporting sustainable agriculture and combating
  
• desertification
• Understanding, monitoring and conserving
  biodiversity

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Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

• How do we get organised in Europe?
• Setting up of a European Geo High Level Working
  Group (HLWG)
• The Commission provides a secretariat for and
  chairs the HLWG
• Role of the HLWG to develop a European
  convergent approach within GEO
• Example discuss the GEO 2006 work plan and
  tries elaborating a European strategy

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Contributions of Europe to GEOSS currently under
discussion1) Activities in the MS, research
(modelling IT development), GMES2) Community
budget flagged is mostly research Commission can
mostly contribute to GEOSS research
activities3) Flagged topics for GEOSS under FP6
(ENV 4th call) FP7 (ENV) IST4)
Contribution to GEOSS should be through bridging
European initiatives with other international
ones5) Global databases should bring in exiting
EU database (Marine ones -Seadatanet, Co2 -
Carboeurope/Tacos, Seismicity - Meridian/orfeus
etc)6) Appropriate monitoring mechanisms to
follow the European contribution
Group on Earth Observations(GEO)

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More information

• Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
• (-gt download of GEO documents)
• http//earthobservations.org
• EU environment research http//www.cordis.lu/sust
  dev/environment/
• EU Point of contact
• Tobias Fuchs, email tobias-berthold.fuchs_at_cec
  .eu.int

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FP5 Marine Data Projects (selected example)
(1998-2001)
MarineXML A pre-standardisation dev. for marine
data interoperability using XML The Project
has demonstrated how the approach adopted
supports data interoperability, widens data
re-use and improves end-to-end data management in
marine observing systems. The MarineXML
Project can play a vital role in promoting
interoperability between marine observing systems
in the GEOSS
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FP5 Marine Data Projects (selected example)
(1998-2001)
Sea-Search The gateway to Oceanographic and
Marine Data Information in Europe To provide
an effective navigation tool to oceanographic and
marine data and information sources for European
marine waters and to centres in Europe with
expertise and skills in oceanographic and marine
data information management. http//www.sea-sear
ch.net/welcome.html
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European Sea Level Service - Research
Infrastructure (ESEAS-RI)
The primary objective of the ESEAS-RI project is
to support the European Sea Level Service (ESEAS)
research infrastructure through 1)Quality
control of tide gauge data (2)Determination of
vertical land movements at tide gauges bias
(3)Determination of sea level variations on
inter-decadal time scales (4) improvement of the
network of ESEAS Observing Sites Coordination
Norwegian Mapping Authority Information at
http//www.eseas.org/eseas-ri/
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Strategic FP6 measures in support to the
development of a Europeanobserving/monitoring
systems (2002-2006)
SEPRISE (SSA) - Developing GMES maritime
services GRAND (SSA) - European Contribution
to the participation of developing countries
within GOOS SIMORC (SSA) - Access to the
Metocean data collected by the industry ESONIM
(SSA) - Contribution to the development of the
underwater segment of the ocean observing
system ASCABOS (SSA) - Development of observing
and operational forecasting system in the
Black Sea region
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FP6 research projects relevant to the
implementation of observing/monitoring systems
MERSEA (IP) - Provide observations from the
global ocean and facilitate maritime
services for environment and
security CARBOOCEAN (IP) Includes establishing
an observing system for surface marine CO2 in
the Atlantic DAMOCLES (IP) - FIRST ATTEMPT TO
ESTABLISHING AN ARCTIC OCEAN OBSERVING
SYSTEM COBO (STREP) - COASTAL BENTHIC
OBSERVATORY EXCOCET (STREP) - Development of
specific instrumentation for the
observing/monitoring of deep-water
ecosystems
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SIMORC SSA

• Project to establish a System of Industry
  Metocean data for the Offshore and Research
  CommunitiesA very substantial volume of
  metocean in situ data is collected by or under
  contract to major oil gas companies
• SIMORC SSA is to create an Internet central index
  and database of metocean data sets, collected by
  the oil and gas industry.
• SIMORC will facilitate harmonisation in quality
  and formats,
• High relevance to GEO and GMES contribution to
  the building of a Global Ocean Observation Data
  Set
• Project status starting date 1st June 2005
  duration 2 years Contact MARIS (Marine
  Information Service)

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ASCABOS (SSA) A Supporting Programme for
Capacity Building in the Black Sea Region
towards Operational Status of Oceanographic
Services

• Communications, data and information exchange are
  the key elements of the operational ocean
  monitoring and forecasting networks, defined in
  the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
• Development of observing and closely related
  operational forecasting system in the Black Sea
  region requires the exchange of significant data
  and information volumes.
• ASCABOS is designed to strengthen the
  communication system ensuring flexible and
  operative infrastructure for data and information
  exchange between partners and end users.
• Project status Expected starting date autumn
  2005 duration 2yrs - Cordinator/contact
  Bulgarian Institute of Oceanology

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SEADATANET (FP6 - Infrastructure)

• To provide timely, coherent and integrated
  access to long time series of in-situ and
  satellite marine data with emphasis on the
  North-East Atlantic and its regional seas
• To develop an efficient data management system
  for the present and future ocean observing,
  monitoring and forecasting programmes
• To secure long-term data stewardship
• To avoid unnecessary redevelopment of new
  heterogeneous data management systems and
  optimise the overall costs of data management
• to prepare synthetic value added information
  products and indicators

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Implementation

• 5 years project estimated cost 12 M
• Submitted to EC in March 2005, is about to start
  tasks to be conducted
• Networking
• Transnational integrated access to data,
  meta-data and products
• Joint research to develop and improve the system
• Project information
• www.seadatanet.org

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IDENTIFIED GAPS IN THE RESEARCH NEEDED FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF A EUROPEAN OCEAN OBSERVING
SYSTEM Last Call FP6 ENV priority

• VI.1.1 European underwater ocean observatory
  system (Topic for up-to-one NoE)
• VI.1.2 Integrated development of European coastal
  and regional seas forecasting systems (Topic for
  up-to-one IP)
• VI.1.3 European atmospheric observation systems
  (Topic for up-to-one IP)

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Building the Europe of Knowledge

• Proposals for the 7th Research
• Framework Programme 2007 - 2013

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STRUCTURE
4 Sections (likely to become 4 specific
programmes)

• Cooperation Collaborative research
• Ideas Frontier research
• People Human potential
• Capacities Research capacity

Marine Sciences to contribute to / benefit from
the 4 specific programmes
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• Cooperation Collaborative research
• 9 Thematic Priorities

• Health 8 317 M
• Food, agriculture and Biotechnology 2 455 M
• Info. Communication Technologies 12 670 M
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new
  Production Technologies 4 832 M
• Energy 2 931 M
• Environment (including climate change) 2 535 M
• Transport (including Aeronautics) 5 940 M
• Socio-Economic Sciences Humanities 792 M
• Space and Security research 3 960 M

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Environment (incl. climate change)
Climate Change, Pollution and Risks
Sustainable Management of Resources
Environmental Technologies
Earth Observation and Assessment Tools
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Sustainable Management of Resources
Evolution of marine environments Impacts of
human activities on the marine environment and
its resources pollution and eutrophication in
regional seas and coastal areas deep sea
ecosystems assessment of marine biodiversity
trends, of ecosystem processes and of ocean
circulation seabed geology.
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Environmental Technologies

• Environmental technologies for observation,
  prevention, mitigation, adaptation, remediation
  and restoration of the natural and man-made
  environment related to water, climate, air,
  marine, urban and rural environment, soil, waste
  treatment, recycling, clean production processes,
  chemicals safety, protection of cultural heritage
  and of the built environment.

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Earth Observation Assessment tools

• Earth observation Contribute to the development
  and integration of observation systems for
  environmental and sustainability issues in the
  framework of GEOSS interoperability between
  systems and optimisation of information for
  understanding, modelling and predicating
  environmental phenomena.

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FP7 Timetable