GEO welcomes FP 7 Constanta Romania 15 th

GEO welcomes FP 7 Constanta, Romania 15 th September 2006 Dr. Florin Serban Romanian Space Agency agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

LUCIUS – National Land Use Land Cover Network and INSPAM – Geospatial Data Infrastructure for Environment Protection ROSA initiatives for GEO development in Romania

Contents • Role of Romania and implication of ROSA in regional development of GEO • Our vision on GEO • The two projects • Main work packages and status (LUCIUS) • Main work packages and status (INSPAM) • Main expected results agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Role of ROSA in regional development of GEO activities • • Due to its geographic position Romania can play an important role in GEO ROSA is the national administrator of Aerospatial, Security, CEEX – Aeronautics and Space, CEEX – Space and Security R&D programs – more than 50 projects covering GEO related themes (e. g. 25 in Aerospatial program) and has an excellent view on GMES community Involvement in various European and international R&D projects Initiative taken in 2005 when many proposals have been submitted to CEEX (2005 and 2006) – success rate > 90% LUCIUS and INSPAM – contracts signed in October 2005 agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Our vision on GMES - GEO • Integration of space and in-situ observations for enabling user driven / defined services offering reliable and timely information on security and environment in an operational way to support policy making • Expertise and applied research work is needed to exploit existing results and mature means for enabling better exploitation EO capacity to serve user needs • Data and services display, access and use rights is an important issue addressed at European level by INSPIRE • Raise public awarness on GMES - GEO importance and potential impact agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

The two projects • 3 years execution schemes, CEEX complex projects, • Budget cca 850 000 EUR for the two projects, • ROSA – main contractor and consortium leader LUCIUS: main objective of the project is to exploit experience acquired by consortium members and build a network providing the scientific and technological regional support for the development of GMES applications through institutional development and capacity building in geospatial data (space and in-situ) acquisition, processing and management INSPAM: main objective of the project is to initiate and develop an interoperable framework able to contribute to establishing a national spatial data infrastructure following the European initiatives in this domain (GMES, INSPIRE, ORCHESTRA etc. ) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Consortium members • Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) – consortium leader • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (UAICI) • Danube Delta National R&D Institute (INCDD) • Forestry Research and Management Institute (ICAS) • National Hydrology and Water Management Institute (INHGA) • National Authority for Meteorology (ANM) • Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy (ICIA) • Romanian Agency for Standardization (ASRO) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main work packages and status (LUCIUS) WPs • Infrastructure development (hardware and software for data acquisition, processing and storage) • Concept definition and system architecture • System components development and implementation • Networking and dissemination Status (activities performed) • Need assessment • General architecture and equipment acquisition agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main work packages and status (INSPAM) WPs • System concept and architecture • Components and system implementation • Networking and dissemination • Case studies and pilot projects • Results evaluation and recommendations Status (activities performed) • Data inventory • National and international status on SDIs • Geospatial data services and communication architectures agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main expected results (LUCIUS) Information flow process – research topics EO Space EO in-situ Thematic Processing Data fusion Interpretation Data mining Acquisition Pre-processing Presentation Products Delivery Services Validation Quality control Ancillary data Reference data agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main expected results (LUCIUS) Product specifications LU / LC products Identified user needs for data and services Level 1 LULC 1: 1 000 Level 2 LULC 1: 100 000 Level 3 LULC 1: 25 000 Level 4 LULC 1: 5 000 – urban For each level Data acquisition needs (space & in-situ) Product components Algorithms (best practice) Update frequency Access / use rights (proposals) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main expected results (LUCIUS) Product components • Vector layers: polygon representation of LU/LC types • Multispectral Imagery (see Image 2000) and derived products (e. g. NDVI) • Digital elevation model and derived products (e. g. aspect, slope) • Reference data (basemap) agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main expected results (LUCIUS) Prototype services • • • Water management Urban planning Border security Disaster management Forest management Coastal zone management agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Main expected results (INSPAM) SDI architecture – thematic networks • • Data models Metadata profiles Catalog services and portals Gazetteer services Web map server Web feature server Communication technologies and protocols Data access policy / use rights / IP rights agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Related activities • • • INSPIRE workgroup - OM 4147 / May 23, 2005 ROSA – coordination role Status: sub-groups defined • • Reference data and metadata Geospatial data models and specifications Data services and communication architectures Data and services sharing Implementation and monitoring Leading institutions have been assigned to form-up the groups INSPAM will be the main information source and main tool for the workgroup allowing test and validation of decisions made inside the group agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Related activities – PECS initiatives GSE Land Information Services - aiming to deliver geo-information services over large areas and for a wide spectrum of land applications. - They are based on general geo-information on Land Cover and Vegetation created from Earth Observation data which is harmonised and standardised allowing cross-border applications and comparisons agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Related activities – PECS iniatives RISK-EOS Flood and Fire Risk Information Services deliver existing Assets Mapping, Flash Flood Early Warning, Flood Risk Analysis and Flood Rapid Mapping services fully compliant with the RISK-EOS ones agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency

Contact Florin Serban Ion Nedelcu Tel. Fax florin. serban@rosa. ro ion. nedelcu@rosa. ro +(40)21 3168722 +(40)21 3128804 http: //www. rosa. ro agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency