Transcript Environmental data types

Environmental data management
Dar es Salaam, 21.10.2014
[email protected]
Agenda
 Our work in the environmental data section at NEA
 Development cooperation
 Important environmental data types
 Naturbase – environmental database example
 Aggregating environmental data, a standardizations
approach
 Standarization (INSPIRE, metadata, national spatial data
infrastrucure - NSDI)
 Commercial and open source software - challenges
Core business of the Environmental
data management with NEA
NEAs strategy for environmental information
 In cooperation with other institutions,
be an active and reliable source of
information for:
• Geographical data on biodiversity
• Aggregated knowledge for national
and international reporting
 In cooperation with other institutions,
publish all relevant information
 Ensure that we collect and present this
information in a way that contribute to
further use
Photo: Bård Bredesen, Naturarkivet
Responsibility Environmental data division
 Advising – data management biodiversity and nature
conservation.
 Development databases/GIS/web-portal
 Distribution of important datasets
 Technical support
 International reporting
 GIS-analysis, quality assurance, management
 Internal and external coordination and representation
Software and applications:
ESRI/ArcMap, (QGIS), FME, Geoserver, SQL server, (Access),
(PostGIS), Geocortex, OpenLayers (OpenSource and Licensed)
Aggregating environmental data, a
standardizations approach
A partner in development cooperation
through the Oil for Development
program
The role of external development cooperation
partners
 Development cooperation is when a developing country
enters into a partnership with a more developed country
to work on a thematic area with development as an
expected outcome.
 Development cooperation GIS is when GIS is an important
tool in the thematic area under the development
cooperation.
 Oil for Development has three pillars – environment is
one of them
Oil for Development
 Norway has national level discussions on the petroleum
management
The general public is provided current
information www.oceanvalues.no
 Full access
 Themes
 Species
 Nature types
 Protected areas
 Sensitive areas
Environmental data types
- What kinds of data do we manage?
Biodiversity – data types
Biodiversity
 species distribution
 habitat types
 protected sites (international,
national, local)
 conservation plans and management
plans
points, lines, polygons, raster, grid
Baseline
Data types continue..
 Outdoor recreation areas
 Air pollution
 Freshwater
 Waste
 Noise
 Climate
Monitoring
 Drivers, indicators
and parameters
Photo: Tore Høyland
Species distribution - birds
www.dirnat.no
Species - priorities
..priority species with
an area with specific
ecological functions in
Naturbase. These
species have been
adopted by the King in
Council as priority
species by the Nature
Diversity Act § 23.
Species distribution – grid value
www.dirnat.no
Protected sites
www.dirnat.no
Attributes protected sites
http://iucn.org/
http://www.protectedplanet.net/
Land cover or vegetation cover
www.dirnat.no
Marine areas
www.dirnat.no
Habitat types - corals
www.dirnat.no
Habitat types - sponges
www.dirnat.no
Mapping marine biotopes
MAREANO maps depth and topography, sediment composition,
contaminants, biotopes and habitats in Norwegian waters. The results
of the surveys are available on this website, visualised through maps.
http://www.mareano.no/en/
Habitat types – values A, B, C
Very important
(A)
Important (B)
Locally
important (C )
..for biological
diversity
www.dirnat.no
All this – alone?
Can we do all this alone?
 Of course not!
 We are part of a collaborative where we all provide data sets
for our partners through a national level spatial data
infrastructure.
 It is based on an agreement (MoU) and trust
 Norway diglitaly
 We can not do without – nor can our partners!
This is our framework – it is also the
framework of any other NSDI partner
Contact Information
www.miljodirektoratet.no
[email protected]