Eye on Earth - the global citizen observatory EEA Microsoft partnership Water watch http: //www. eyeonearth. eu/
Microsoft – EEA partnership Vision – Elicit a Climate Observatory Initiative by launching a series of environment applications to impact people’s quality of life as well as a series of joint marketing activities to create environmental awareness amongst governments and the broad public. Scope - Cooperation under the Climate Observatory Initiative, to be implemented by cooperation agreements and statements of services. Duration - Five years
First Cooperation Agreement Portal on Bathing Water quality - Built on MS technologies using EEA data. Main Futures – Virtual Earth, Water Quality ratings, Near-real time data, User Ratings, User Comments, Search for location, Gadget download Languages – EN, IT, DE, PT, NL EEA-MS Partnership announcement – Portoroz, Slovenia 14 May 2008 Launch – End of July 2008
Background Legal status: EU Bathing Water legislation -- 14. 400 coastal and 6. 800 freshwater bathing sites annually (2007 figures) submitted under BWD to EEA (first time in 2008 through Reportnet) Methodology: Various samples of 2 bacteria aggregated to an annual indicator for the past season The information system: Currently WISE map viewer and PDF maps on EU bathing water website
What we already have…
Bathing water quality points in Eye on Earth
User Rating icons
Actors and architecture components Geo. RSS Data Flow Biz Talk Non-automated data flow MOSS 2007 VE Virtual Earth MOSS 2007 App SQL 2008 SQL 2005
Population in coastal settlements
Oil spills in European regional seas
Eurosion: Costal erosion patterns
INGV* water temperatures *INGV: Istituto Nazionale di Geologia e Vulcanologia
Next on Eye on Earth – Water Watch More structured user comments User provided images, Web-cams Delegation of administration to countries/regions Historical data for all EU 27 Near-real time data for 20 countries NL, DE, GR data via Geo. RSS Simple Air quality with a possible link to healthcare information systems
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