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Availability and Accuracy of Mediterranean
Databases Relevant to Agricultural Water Uses
M. Awad, M. Khawlie – NCRS - Lebanon
J. Crimi, C. Giupponi, A. Sgobbi – FEEM - Italy
Wasamed final conference
Valenzano 15 | 02 | 07
Introduction
NOSTRUM-Dss (Network on gOvernance, Science and Technology
for sustainable water ResoUrce Management in the
Mediterranean. The role of Dss tools. Contract no: INCO-CT-2004509158) - COORDINATION ACTION - Duration 2004-2008
ALGERIA
CROATIA
CYPRUS
EGYPT
FRANCE
GREECE
ITALY
LEBANON
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SPAIN
TUNISIA
TURKEY
MOROCCO
SYRIA
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ISRAEL/PALESTINE
Introduction
GOALS:
1. to establish durable links between scientific institutions,
governments, NGOs, SMEs and other stakeholders and improve
public awareness on water management;
2. to improve scientific knowledge and applied methodologies in
IWRM;
3. to promote the development of suitable Dss tools built upon real
needs of policy making in IWRM.
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By establishing a network between the science, policy, and civil society
spheres,
Fostering active involvement of the relevant stakeholders in the different
project’s stages,
Through the development and dissemination of Best Practices Guidelines for
the design and implementation of Dss tools for IWRM in the Mediterranean
Area.
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Introduction
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Introduction
In the framework of Nostrum-dss CA, WP4 was dedicated to: GIS, Remote sensing, and
Statistical Information in support of policy making:
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Task a) Statistical data issues: to investigate the needed data for meaningful research
and informed policy making, as well as existing database and efforts in the socioeconomic sector (SUMER).
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Task b) Territorial analysis & implementation of GIS systems: to set up a knowledge
base about the availability of geographical data (remote sensed information, geophysical
databases, monitoring networks, etc.) (NCSR).
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Task c) Water and climate change in the Mediterranean: inventory of data and studies
on climate change, and climate change modelling and scenario building, in the
Mediterranean area. A state of the art review on the topic will be performed, in order to
provide policy makers with long term perspective needed for decision making towards
sustainability.(MEDIAS FRANCE).
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Task d) Data needs assessment for supporting Dss use for IWRM: the final aim is to
compile an interactive meta-data analysis based on the data surveys performed in task a),
b) and c) (NCSR).
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Task a and b
To investigate the needed data for meaningful research and informed policy making, as well as existing database and
efforts in the socio-economic sector
To set up a knowledge base about the availability of geographical data (remote sensed information, geophysical
databases, monitoring networks, etc.)
 SUMER and NCRS carried out a desk survey of relevant
information centers and sources in the Mediterranean basin
including all information pertinent to the availability of:
– Statistical
– geographical data (remote sensed information,
geophysical databases, monitoring networks, etc.)
 These surveys relied on many sources such as the National
reports, Internet, books and journals, as well as MEDIAS
contribution…
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Task c)
Water and climate change in the Mediterranean
To set up a knowledge base about the availability of geographical data (remote sensed information, geophysical
databases, monitoring networks, etc.)
Data sets : generally “global seasonal forecast categories maps or global climate predictions”
(temperatures, rainfall) coming from
– Metoffice,
– IRI (International Research Institute for Climate and Society) Columbia University-USA)
– ECPC (Experimental Climate Prediction Center) - USA
– IPCC (Data Distribution Center (DDC) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hosted by University of East Anglia (UK)…
They include climatic scenarios simulations from
– CERA Database (Climate and Environmental Retrieving and Archiving) Hamburg – Germany ;
– IMAGE 2,2 Implementation of the SRES scenarios (Integrated Model to Asses the Global
Environment) - Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) (Netherlands) ;
– MAGICC (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change) and SCENGEN
(A Regional Climate SCENario GENerator)
– National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Colorado-USA
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Projects
– LandWaterMED (Geo-Information for Sustainable Management of Land and Water Resources in
the Mediterranean Region)
– MED-CLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARiability and predictability)
– MEDEX (Mediterranean Experiment on Cyclones that produce High Impact Weather in the
Mediterranean)…
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Organizations are the ones linked to
– the data sets like Universities or National Meteorological offices
– the described projects like research laboratories or others
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Task d) Data needs assessment for supporting
Dss use for IWRM
The final aim is to compile an interactive meta-data analysis based on the data surveys performed in task a), b) and c).
The task leader will organise the 3rd Thematic Workshop (NCSR).
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Once this collection has been completed, the need for a common
repository for different sort of information became evident: NCRS
therefore built up a Meta-database in MS Access.
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The main menu of this repository allows:
– entering and browsing information about institutes and
organizations working in the field of Remote Sensing, GIS,
statistical and Climatic information
– and searching for information about the availability of Remote
Sensing, GIS, statistical and Climatic data related to Water
Resources Management in these organizations and institutes
The DB consists in fact of many entities (tables) such as
Organizations, Projects, Datasets…etc as detailed in the following
schema
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META-DATABASE Structure
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META-DATABASE Interface
 To widen the impacts of this survey:
– e.g. to avoid scarce dissemination and to
provide policy makers/advisors with an
effective tool
– e.g. to facilitate its use
 It has been decided to deploy the DB on the
WWW…
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WEB interface
NOSTRUM-Dss is a Co-ordinated Action (CA) funded by the EC; it started in August 2004 and will last 3 years. It addresses the needs for reorientation
of science to support policy making and for the adoption of multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approaches by analyzing the needs expressed by
stakeholders and fostering mediation between policy objectives and scientific knowledge. The goal is to create an enabling environment for a more
equitable and efficient water resource management in the Mediterranean Basin trough the development of Best Practice Guidelines. The ultimate aim of
NOSTRUM-DSS Co-ordination Action is to contribute to bridge the gaps between science and real life, in order to provide Dss developers with insight
into the language and the needs of policy makers (PMs) and stakeholders, and subsequently to provide PMs effective tools based on an integrated
approach for problem solving in the context of IWRM.
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Browsing the Meta-database: Projects
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Browsing the Meta-database: Projects
NOSTRUM-Dss is a Co-ordinated Action (CA) funded by the EC; it started in August 2004 and will last 3 years. It addresses the needs for reorientation
of science to support policy making and for the adoption of multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approaches by analyzing the needs expressed by
stakeholders and fostering mediation between policy objectives and scientific knowledge. The goal is to create an enabling environment for a more
equitable and efficient water resource management in the Mediterranean Basin trough the development of Best Practice Guidelines. The ultimate aim of
NOSTRUM-DSS Co-ordination Action is to contribute to bridge the gaps between science and real life, in order to provide Dss developers with insight
into the language and the needs of policy makers (PMs) and stakeholders, and subsequently to provide PMs effective tools based on an integrated
approach for problem solving in the context of IWRM.
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Browsing the Meta-database: Datasets
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Browsing the Meta-database: Datasets
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Browsing the Meta-database: Datasets
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Browsing the Meta-database: Organisations
NOSTRUM-Dss is a Co-ordinated Action (CA) funded by the EC; it started in August 2004 and will last 3 years. It addresses the needs for reorientation
of science to support policy making and for the adoption of multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approaches by analyzing the needs expressed by
stakeholders and fostering mediation between policy objectives and scientific knowledge. The goal is to create an enabling environment for a more
equitable and efficient water resource management in the Mediterranean Basin trough the development of Best Practice Guidelines. The ultimate aim of
NOSTRUM-DSS Co-ordination Action is to contribute to bridge the gaps between science and real life, in order to provide Dss developers with insight
into the language and the needs of policy makers (PMs) and stakeholders, and subsequently to provide PMs effective tools based on an integrated
approach for problem solving in the context of IWRM.
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Browsing the Meta-database: Organisations
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Browsing the Meta-database: Administrative tasks
NOSTRUM-Dss is a Co-ordinated Action (CA) funded by the EC; it started in August 2004 and will last 3 years. It addresses the needs for reorientation
of science to support policy making and for the adoption of multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approaches by analyzing the needs expressed by
stakeholders and fostering mediation between policy objectives and scientific knowledge. The goal is to create an enabling environment for a more
equitable and efficient water resource management in the Mediterranean Basin trough the development of Best Practice Guidelines. The ultimate aim of
NOSTRUM-DSS Co-ordination Action is to contribute to bridge the gaps between science and real life, in order to provide Dss developers with insight
into the language and the needs of policy makers (PMs) and stakeholders, and subsequently to provide PMs effective tools based on an integrated
approach for problem solving in the context of IWRM.
Existing policies
10 years plan for Additional water
resources for drinking water and irrigation
Laws and regulations related
to basic water use rights and
protection
Monitoring water
resources operations
How these policies are
implemented
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Editing the Meta-database: LOGIN
NOSTRUM-Dss is a Co-ordinated Action (CA) funded by the EC; it started in August 2004 and will last 3 years. It addresses the needs for reorientation
of science to support policy making and for the adoption of multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary approaches by analyzing the needs expressed by
stakeholders and fostering mediation between policy objectives and scientific knowledge. The goal is to create an enabling environment for a more
equitable and efficient water resource management in the Mediterranean Basin trough the development of Best Practice Guidelines. The ultimate aim of
NOSTRUM-DSS Co-ordination Action is to contribute to bridge the gaps between science and real life, in order to provide Dss developers with insight
into the language and the needs of policy makers (PMs) and stakeholders, and subsequently to provide PMs effective tools based on an integrated
approach for problem solving in the context of IWRM.
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Editing the Meta-database
 A serious concern about the information
deployed is its updating and maintenance:
– Add new information
– Correct changed information
–…
 Many IT tools do now exist (such as Wiki)
etc… but they need experienced users
 NOSTRUM-DSS decided to use directly the
web interface to edit the records…
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Editing the Meta-database: LOGIN
Add new record
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CONCLUSIONS
Future improvement
 Changing from MS-ACCESS to SQL 2000 for better performance
 Fixing problems of updating
 A restyling of the home page (logo, description, help)
 A complex query tool ( searching all entities)
 A link to other sites and resources
 A geographical query method will be added
 A secure access to the site (partners will be given a username and password)
depending on the need for using this site
Next month, the Meta-database will be published on the Nostrum-dss web site:
http://www.nostrum-dss.eu
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Metadata base – cartographic data
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Cartographic data sets : most of them have a global scale (1km) and
are free of charge for use constraint :
– World soil Resources from FAO’s (32 classes) ;
– Forest maps (FRA2000) from USGS, FAO, UN, … ;
– Global Land Cover (GLC2000) ;
– Global lakes and wetlands (developed in partnership with WWF) ;
– Satellite images (VEGETATION 10 days synthesis archive) ;
– …
3rd NOSTRUM-DssThematic Workshop
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The Global Land (GLC 2000) database is a land cover dataset.
The project was carried out to provide accurate baseline landcover information
to the International Conventions on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification,
the Ramsar Convention and the Kyoto Protocol.
This map is derived from a NDVI-SPOT-VEGETATION dataset
(data spanning from 1rst November 1999 to 31 December 2000). - 27 land cover classes – 1 km resolution
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