INSPIRE/WISE and the Floods Directive Jean Dusart European Commission Joint Research Centre

1. INSPIRE/WISE and the Floods Directive Jean Dusart European Commission Joint Research Centre Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit http://sdi.jrc.ec.europa.eu Thematic Workshop of Flood Mapping 17 – 19 September 2008

2. Objectives of the presentation • To give an update of progress on the INSPIRE Directive (transposition and Implementing Rules development) • To illustrate how INSPIRE can be beneficial to the Flood Community • To demystify some of the more technical aspects of geospatial interoperability • To stimulate discussion on shared experiences

3. The INSPIRE Directive lays down general rules to establish an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe for the purposes of Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment This infrastructure shall build upon infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States. Which data/services? Existing spatial data held by or on behalf of a public authority operating down to the lowest level of government when laws or regulations require their collection or dissemination. JRC is the Technical Coordinator of the INSPIRE Directive

4. How Implementing Rules (will) look like? • A Directive has a framework structure, which needs further technical refinement through Implementing Rules (IRs) • Commission Regulations (even if other forms could be possible) • Deadline for implementation set in the INSPIRE Directive or • directly in the legal act • Published, as the Directive, on the OJ in all official languages • If Regulations, directly applicable without transposition into National legislation • Distinction between proper legal act and accompanying guidelines • Taking into account as much as possible (but avoiding formal binding to) evolving standards

5. Current status of INSPIRE • Preparatory phase (2004-2006) • Co-decision procedure • Start of preparation of IRs • Transposition phase (2007-2009) • Directive entered into force 15 May 2007 • INSPIRE committee starts its activities 26 June 2007 • Continuation of preparation of IRs • 2nd meeting of the INSPIRE committee on 14 May 2008 • Transposition into national legislation by 15 May 2009 • Adoption of IRs by Comitology • Implementation phase (2009-2013) • Implementation and monitoring of measures • Continuation of preparation of IRs • Adoption of IRs by Comitology

6. Challenges of Becoming compliant in : • Metadata content and existence • Metadata publication and access - Discovery Services • Publishing data online as maps - View Services • Publishing data for access - Download Services • Timeline • INSPIRE MD IR May 2008 adopted by the INSPIRE Committee, +2 years MD available (for Annex I and Annex II data) • INSPIRE NS Discovery / View Nov 2008 Adopted, May 2010 operational • INSPIRE NS Download May 2009 Adopted, May 2011 operational • INSPIRE NS Coordinate Transformation May 2009 Adopted, May 2011 operational

7. Implementing Rules on Metadata • Result of extensive collaborative work between Drafting Team, Commission, and stakeholders through 2005-07. • Proposal for a Regulation unanimously approved by INSPIRE Regulatory Committee on 14/5/2008. • European Parliament completed its scrutiny on 18/6/2008. Formal adoption by the Commission now started. • Expected adoption Autumn 2008. • Already transposed in WISE GIS Guidance Document version 2: • Chapter 5.5. Metadata Implementation • Appendix with revised WISE Metadata Profile

8. Key features • Focus on Discovery and elements needed to implement the requirements of the Directive and allow interoperability through standards • Non-binding guidelines that allow conformance with EN ISO 19115 (data) and EN ISO 19119 (services) + interoperability with e-government through ISO 15836. • Technical coherence with standards tested with MD on-line Editor freely available via EU Geoportal: http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/inspireEditor.htm

9. Metadata editor

10. Implementing Rules on the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial data sets and services • The development of INSPIRE Implementing rules for the interoperability and, where practicable, harmonisation of spatial data sets and services follow a two-step approach: • Development of conceptual framework and specification methodology: • Definition of Annex Themes and Scope • Generic Conceptual Model (GCM), • Methodology for Specification Development. • Guidelines for Encoding • Development of data specifications for each data theme based on the • conceptual framework • common specification development methodology • and on the INSPIRE roadmap

11. INSPIRE – Annex I Data DEFINITION (INSPIRE) Hydrographic elements, including marine areas and all other water bodies and items related to them, including river basins and sub-basins. Where appropriate, according to the definitions set out in Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy *, and in the form of networks. * OJ L 327,22.12.2000, p.1. Directive as amended by Decision No. 2455/2001/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2001, p.1.). Coordinate Reference Systems Cadastral Parcels Addresses Transport Networks Geographical Grid Systems Hydrography Geographical Names Protected Sites Administrative Units Target : Agreed specifications by May 2009

12. Geographical Names - names of water features Administrative Units - administrative borders defined by hydrographic elements Socio-political coastline Natural coastline Addresses Canals/houseboats Transportation - water navigation Waterways Shipping channels Cross-theme issues for Hydrography (Annex I) Page 12

13. Elevation Land Cover Ortho-imagery Geology INSPIRE – Annex II Data • Cross-theme issues for Hydrography • Geometric consistency, definition of coastline • Wetlands, water bodies, snow, ice and glaciers • both land cover and part of the hydrographic network • Ground water bodies and geomorphology Target : Agreed specifications by May 2012

14. INSPIRE – Annex III Data (overview descriptions drafted) • Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units • Natural risk zones • Atmospheric conditions • Meteorological geographical features • Oceanographic geographical features • Sea regions • Bio-geographical regions • Habitats and biotopes • Species distribution • Energy Resources • Mineral resources • Statistical units • Buildings • Soil • Land use • Human health and safety • Utility and governmental services • Environmental monitoring facilities • Production and industrial facilities • Agricultural and aquaculture facilities • Population distribution – demography In red the themes of direct relevance to the Floods Directive Target : Agreed specifications by May 2012 (less comprehensive than Annex I/II)

15. Cross-theme issues for Hydrography – Annex III Utility and governmental services - water supply and discharge points Environmental monitoring facilities - hydrometric stations (water level, discharge, etc.) plus monitoring of water quality Production and industrial facilities - water abstraction facilities Agricultural and aquaculture facilities - irrigation systems Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units - WFD sub-units and River Basin Districts Natural risk zones - flood risk zones, erosion zones Sea regions - concerning the limit between land and sea Oceanographic geographical features - marine areas Page 15

16. Interelations between WISE and INSPIRE • For the data according to point 8 of Annex I – Hydrography), the Member States have • committed themselves to establish and operate a network of services that are described under Article 11 (1). • These are: • discovery services (making it possible to search for spatial data sets and services on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and to display the content of the metadata), • view services (making it possible, as a minimum, to display, navigate, zoom in/out, pan, or overlay viewable spatial data sets and to display legend information and any relevant content of metadata), • data download services (enabling spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly full data sets or their parts), • transformation services (enabling spatial data sets to be transformed with a view to achieving interoperability), • services allowing spatial data services to be invoked.

17. Implementing Rules on Network services: Discovery Services • INSPIRE Discovery Services provide the functionality to search through catalogues • Describe, publish, discover, manage, harvest • Mature area of standardisation • Existing standards & specifications available • Community endorsement & deployment • OGC Catalogue Service for the Web ISO 19115/9 Application Profile shall be used as the reference specification for the INSPIRE Discovery Service

18. Discovery services

19. Implementing Rules on Network services: View Services • INSPIRE View Services provide the functionality to serve visual representations of the data covered by the Directive Annexes • Publish, request, feature info, manage • Mature area of standardisation • Existing standards available • Community endorsement & deployment • ISO 19128:2005 (OGC Web Map Service 1.3.0) shall be used as the implementation standard for the INSPIRE View Service

20. View services

21. Implementing Rules on Network services: Download Services • Download services: enabling copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be downloaded, and where practicable, access directly. • Data set: • one or more physical files serialized in an encoding format • Database realized in a concrete database system • part of one of the above specified by some filter(query, …) • Generic use case: • Discover using a discovery service on metadata, • Select desired data sets, • Apply filter to identify part of selected data sets (if appropriate), • Download using one or more download services defined in the IR.

22. Technical overview - Architecture • Architecture diagram (next slide): • Publish-find-bind pattern • Separation between 4 layers: Application, GeoRM, Service, Data • INSPIRE services shall be Web Services (W3C): • SOAP protocol to be used for INSPIRE services • Transport of a Rights Management Key • No standards available for managing licences • GeoRM is a conceptual model, with some test implementations • Multiligualism: rules for each service, language parameter mandatory • Performance requirements => 6 criteria selected • Performance, Capacity, Availability (shall be monitored) • Reliability, Security, Compliance •  Evolution of WISE towards a Distributed Architecture

23. DT NS Process Phases Publish Find Agree Bind Appl. Applications and Geoportals Service Bus Rights Management Layer Service Registry Service Discovery Service GeoRMServices Transf. Service ViewService DownloadService InvokeSDService Tiers DT MD DT DS Register Data Service Metadata Data Set Metadata GeoRM Data Spatial Data Set Data TWG TWG TWG Publish-find-bind pattern Separation between Application layer GeoRM Layer Service Layer Data Layer Thematic DS Framework for harmonized DS

24. Other Implementing Rules • Data and service sharing: • IRs governing access and rights of use to spatial data sets and services for Community institutions and bodies • Monitoring and reporting: • MS shall monitor the implementation and use of their infrastructures and shall make the results of this monitoring accessible to the Commission and to the public on a permanent basis

25. Participation in the Thematic Working Groups Number of groups still to be fixed, as well as calendar (Annexes II and III together?) Participation in the User requirement survey for the Annexes II & III themes Ensure relevant communities well represented Description of data requirements stemming from European legislation Description of cross border user scenarios Description of best national practices Data requirements should be expressed in terms of level of details, scale/resolution, attributes, etc Participation in reviewing Two options: 1. through the WISE SDIC (Spatial Data Interest Communities); 2. through individual organisations (please avoid duplication of comments) Participation in testing Based on the first draft specifications to get early feedback for fitness Possible Involvement of the Working Group F

26. Conclusions Middle of transposition (May 08 – May 09) most countries preparing legal acts nomination of INSPIRE Contact Points first set of Implementing Rules Ambitious and unprecedented Truly stakeholder driven process Real test of the specifications Needs to be transparent to most users

27. Thank you for your attention ! http://sdi.jrc.ec.europa.eu http://ec-gis.org/inspire http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu E-mail:jean.dusart@jrc.it