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EMODNET – Bathymetry
By
Dick M.A. Schaap – Technical Coordinator SeaDataNet &
Coordinator EMODNet Bathymetry
Limassol – Cyprus, 18 November 2014, EastMed Symposium
Marine Data are relevant for many uses:
•  Scientific Research to gain knowledge and insight
•  Monitoring and assessment (water quality, climate status, stock assessment)
•  Coastal Zone Management
•  Modelling (including hindcast, now-cast, forecast)
•  Dimensioning and supporting operations and activities at sea (shipping,
offshore industry, dredging industry, ..)
•  Implementation and execution of marine conventions for protection of the
seas
•  Implementation of international Directives, such as in Europe directives for
water (WFD), marine strategy (MSFD), coastal zone management
Users originate from government, science sector, and industry,
nationally and internationally
Good and harmonised marine data management on a large scale is very
important
Marine data acquisition
EU cost – benefit analysis: cost of marine observation in Europe is circa 400 Million
Euro per year for space data and another 1 Billion Euro per year for in-situ data
EU – MAST
EU –MASTII
90’s
EU FP5
EU FP6
EU FP7
2002 - 2005
2006 - 2011
2011 - 2015
SeaDataNet has set up and is operating a pan-European infrastructure for
managing marine and ocean data by connecting National Oceanographic
Data Centres (NODC’s) and oceanographic data focal points from 35 coastal
states in Europe
NODCs are core partners
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National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODC’s) are mostly divisions
of major national marine research institutes and based in 35
countries, surrounding the European seas
NODC’s are experienced in managing data, which includes quality
control, documenting, long term stewardship and publishing, for their
own institute and for many other institutes in their country
NODC’s are members of IOC-IODE and ICES for sharing global
practices
NODC’s are increasingly building national infrastructures on
SeaDataNet basis to support their national networking and to
connect other data centres in their country to the infrastructure
Portal with harmonised services, data products
and tools for users and data centres
h"p://www.seadatanet.org Pan-European directory services
CDI service for discovery and unified access of data
Already more than 100 data centres connected and more underway CDI service for discovery and unified access of data
CDI – Data Coverage – November 2014
> 1,61 million CDI entries from 34 countries and 105 data
centres and 509 originators for physics, chemistry, geology,
geophysics, bathymetry and biology; years 1800 – 2014;
84% unrestricted or under SeaDataNet licence
Additional SeaDataNet achievements
"   Set of common standards for metadata and data formats for the marine
domain, adapting ISO and OGC standards and achieving INSPIRE compliance
"   Controlled vocabularies for the marine domain (> 160.000 terms over >
60 lists)
"   Maintenance and dissemination of standard QA-QC procedures, with IODE
and ICES
"   Common SeaDataNet Data Policy and SeaDataNet License
"   Set of tools to be used by each data centre
"   MIKADO: generator of XML descriptions of SeaDataNet catalogues
"   NEMO: reformatting software to SeaDataNet formats
"   Download Manager: local software to control downloading
"   ODV: Ocean Data View software adapted to SeaDataNet needs
"   DIVA: statistics software for product generation adapted to SeaDataNet
needs
"   Services for visualisation and data products
Cooperation and synergy
"   Strategic cooperation with: EuroGOOS, Copernicus Marine Service,
POGO, EurOcean, OGP (SIMORC), USA and Australia (ODIP)
"   Adoption of standards and data management cooperation in
EU projects: Black Sea SCENE, Upgrade Black Sea SCENE, CaspInfo,
Geo-Seas, CoCoNet, JERICO, Eurofleets 1 and 2, Micro B3, CitClops,
CLIPC and others
"   Partner in developing and building:
"   As part of the Maritime Policy the EU proposed to take steps towards
an overarching European Marine Observation and Data Network
(EMODNet)
"   The initial Roadmap for EMODNet was released in April 2009
Resulting in uptake of SeaDataNet standards and expansion of
the infrastructure of data centres giving data overview and access
EMODNet timeline
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Phase 1 – limited sea basins (ca 6 MEuro)
Phase 2 - low resolution (ca 16
MEuro)
Phase 3 - multi-resolution (> 100 – 200 MEuro)
PROTOTYPING:
allows users to assess and
improve product by trying it out
Preparatory Actions 2008-2010
"€
  6,450,000 spent
"  six portals now operational
Thematic EMODnet portals
upgrading from pilots to
operational and EU coverage
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EMODNet Bathymetry
"   Ongoing in 3 consecutive projects since 2009 with expanding
consortium (at present >30 partners)
"   Consortium consisting of bathymetric and IT experts and data
providers from National Hydrography Services, marine research
institutes and SME’s
"   Overall objective: to bring together bathymetric surveys of
European seas and to produce, publish and serve a harmonised and
medium resolution Digital Terrain Model of all European seas
Central portal for discovery and access to data and
data products
http://www.emodnet-bathymetry.eu
Progress
"   Up till today, > 10.000 survey CDI metadata records from 24 data centres
and 162 data originators have been collated and imported into a dedicated
EMODnet Bathymetry CDI Data Discovery and Access service.
"   In addition, 42 composite DTMs including metadata have been included
"   Selection of survey data and composite DTMs have been collated into
regional EMODNet DTM’s for several European regions that are available for
viewing and downloading in several formats via the Bathymetry Viewing and
Download service.
Ongoing activities
"   So far DTM coverage of:
"   the Greater North Sea, including the Kattegat and stretches of water such
as Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forth, Forties,Dover, Wight, and Portland
"   the English Channel and Celtic Seas
"   Western Mediterranean, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean
Sea
"   Iberian Coast, Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) incl Madeira and Azores
"   Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean)
"   Aegean - Levantine Sea (Mediterranean).
"   DTM at ¼ * ¼ minute grid resolution
"   Now expanding the DTM coverage to all European seas, including Black
Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, Icelandic Sea, Canary Islands
Increasing the grid resolution to 1/8 * 1/8 minute (mid Dec 2014)
Including a number of multi resolution coastal pilots (mid 2015)
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service
DTM for European sea basins – current version
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service
DTM for Eastern Mediterranean – Current version
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service
CDIs of Surveys used for Eastern Mediterranean DTM – Current version
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service
Source map of surveys and composite DTMs used for Eastern
Mediterranean DTM – Current version (note: Grey = GEBCO)
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service
Retrieving parameters of an individual grid cell and retrieving
CDI metadata of associated prevailing survey
Bathymetry Viewing and Download service
Downloading DTM tiles in a range of formats
EMODnet Bathymetry DTM – 3D-Viewer
DTM loaded into 3D-Viewer as developed in Geo-Seas
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet
Bathymetry DTM – launch mid December 2014
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet
Bathymetry DTM – launch mid December 2014
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet
Bathymetry DTM – launch mid December 2014
GEBCO
Eratosthenes Seamount
EMODnet Phase 1
Preview of new higher resolution EMODnet
Bathymetry DTM – launch mid December 2014
Eratosthenes Seamount - new EMODnet Phase 2
Successful approach
"   Providers of bathymetric data sets understand and are welcoming the applied
approach
"   Data sets are gathered for internal use by regional consortium groups to
compile the DTM product which can be viewed and downloaded without any
registration
"   Data sets are described and included in the CDI Data Discovery and Access
Service and composite DTMs in the Sextant Data Products Service.
"   Each cell in the DTM product gives information about the data sets used and
leads to the CDI / Sextant service for more information about the data
provider and options for requesting the data itself
"   This works as a shop window and results in more data providers coming
forward
Data centres in East Mediterranean region
As connected to SeaDataNet infrastructure
Eastern Mediterranean region - challenges
"   Need for more data for EMODnet Bathymetry (see source map so far):
additional data centres from the region are welcome to join the project and
infrastructure
Overview of environmental data
data (CTDs, water quality, ..)
"   Also we need more data centres to connect for other EMODnet lots, such
as EMODnet Chemistry which is working on the data infrastructure for MSFD
implementation
"   Plans for EMODnet Phase 3 Call for Tenders are under preparation!
www.seadatanet.org
Contact:
Dick M.A. Schaap
[email protected]
www.emodnet-bathymetry.eu