co-funded by the European Community eContentplus programme

The “Protected Areas” scenario of the HUMBOLDT project

Roderic Molina

GISIG

NATURE-SDIplus Good Practices workshop“Experiences in data modelling and management for nature conservation”

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The HUMBOLDT Project

GMES project 27 partners from 14 European countries

Will contribute to the implementation of an European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI)

HUMBOLDT is a registered SDIC of INSPIRE and contributes to INSPIRE Testing

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HUMBOLDT = Data Harmonisation

A Europe-wide harmonization of the data does not yet exist.

Trans-sectoral ,trans-lingual, trans-border use of information

Development of a framework for data harmonisation and service integration

facilitating the harmonization of the spatial data by automating the necessary processes

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HUMBOLDT Data Harmonisation issues

different data formats different data models missing / inconsistent / outdated metadata meaning of objects, i.e. semantics different coordinate reference systems Scale, amount of detailGeometric consistency between datasets...

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HUMBOLDT Data Harmonisation Framework

Collection of tools, components, and concepts for harmonisation

To be used by the European geodata providers in a standardized way.

Technology will be available as Open SourceTested and validated against the end user

requirements in the HUMBOLDT scenarios

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HUMBOLDT Scenarios

Proof of concept and Framework in different real domains: border security, water, forest, ocean, etc...

One of this scenarios is Protected Areas (GISIG)Implementation of an end user application using

harmonised dataEvaluation against user requirements

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GISIG's Protected Areas Scenariodemonstrates the INSPIRE approach in a specific

application fieldUsing Protected Areas data from Portugal and Italy

(very heterogeneous data sources)Phases:

system specification: use cases, user stories, identification of harmonisation needs

data specification: analisis of datasets, creation of a data profile (identification of features and atributes)

creation of a comprehensive Protected Areas conceptual data model

End user application to demonstrate the framework capabilities with scenario harmonised data

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Testing the HUMBOLDT Framework with Protected Areas data

Tourism Valorisation use case (Optimization of touristic exploitation of Protected Areas)

Harmonisation Phases:Discovery and Acquisition of data requires several different types of data setsAnalysis of HeterogeneitiesApplication of Processing and Analysis capabilitiesDemonstrated example for tourism valorisation

Result: heterogeneity aspects can automatically be resolved.

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Verifying the requirements for a datamodel for Protected Areas scenario

Analisys of heterogeneous data sources, provided by the project partners

creation of common data profile for protected areasUML modelling: tentative creation of classes and

sub-classes according to the INSPIRE Annex I, II and III classification, to meet the issues arising in the scenario.

Proposal for a “target” model of the Protected Areas scenario that will be used as the reference for schema harmonisation

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INSPIRE datamodel compliance

common “target” data model for Protected Areas scenario using as reference the Protected Sites datamodel from INSPIRE

Matching HUMBOLDT vs. INSPIRE

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HUMBOLDT datamodel process

Showing the INSPIRE features/attributes with the matching Humboldt data features/attributes, and with the matching available data.

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HUMBOLDT datamodel process

Proposal for a specific HUMBOLDT Protected Areas scenario conceptual datamodel

co-funded by the European Community eContentplus programme

Thank you

r.molina@gisig.it