GMES & user involvement Arno KASCHL DG Environment 3 March 2011

What is GMES? GMES – Global Monitoring for Environment & Security

>>> 6 GMES Services Monitoring of the Earth system Land Services provide information products (e.g. maps, datasets, gridded fields, assessment reports, targeted alerts, etc.) Marine Atmosphere Horizontal applications Security Emergency Climate

GMES state of play GMES Regulation (EU No. 911/2010) has entered into force 9 November 2010! establishes a Programme, envisaging long-term gives money for Operations („GMES initial operations“ 2011-13), on top of research! open data policy for Sentinel satellites & where EU is owner Establishes User Forum This is a game changer, away from R&D, towards operational services & products!

User Involvement in GMES  User Forum In the past, GMES mostly provider-driven. New framework enables to better bring in users! Need to make user needs of particular communities clear, e.g. supporting the reporting requirements of MS regular exchange of views with the users needed, to set priorities and provide feedback on GMES 'products‘  „User Forum“ in GMES Regulation advises EC on defining and validating user requirements on a thematic basis (Land monitoring, Atmosphere, Marine,..) thematic facilitators such as ENV, EEA (plus EIONET) to help consultation process with particular communities and national processes to underpin the User Forum

User Forum Preparatory Workshop Land 9 March: Broad range of stakeholders, you are invited! Objectives: - take stock of existing user consultation process - present scope and implementation foreseen for 2011-13 - to discuss future user consultations and User Forum implementation Provide feedback! GET INVOLVED! Make your needs e.g. for reporting known! Either directly to ENV (arno.kaschl@ec.europa.eu) Or to GMES coordinator Or GMES User Forum representative in your country First „official“ USER FORUM in May 2011

Some examples of GMES relevance to water  on-going Preparatory action (tender): (1) DEM Europe, freely available (2) hydrographic layer Initial Operations 2011-13: (1) Pan-European: Corine Land Cover, plus 5 high-resolution layers (soil sealing, forests, small waterbodies, wetlands, grasslands) (2) Hotspots: Urban atlas (300 cities), repeat of 2009 plus biodiversity-relevant areas, focusing on e.g. coastal, wetlands (3) Emergency Response: SAFER follow-on (response maps, reference maps), support to EFAS (European flood alert system)

Some water-relevant products, e.g. Prep action on reference data Tender 2009 (€2 MIO) in support of land monitoring/emergency services: DEM over Europe: 38 countries, 1 arcsec horizontal resolution, average 5 m vertical resolution freely accessible! (2) Hydrographic layer: homogeneous European wide coverage of a hydrographical network that is fully connected, geometrical accuracy consistent with the resolution scale (1:100.000 to 1:250.000 range) based on ECRINS, and CCM (JRC), basins from 5 -500 km2 (100 km2 on average), incorporated lakes and dams A step towards integration of various existing datasets and convergence to single reference at EU level enables considerable improvement of spatial modelling for Community environmental policies  MS reporting under WFD directive in WISE

Initial operations Land Monitoring Pan-European Land Cover services (€17 MIO, 2011-2013) to produce up to 5 High Resolution layers of dominant land-cover classes EEA39 (wall to wall coverage) Spatial resolution 20x20m, MMU 1 ha „Imperviousness“: sealing density, builtup areas (change) Forests: cover, type, crown density Small Waterbodies Wetlands: RAMSAR def., pressures/changes Grasslands: natural/cultivated  intensity/dynamics to ensure the continuity of CORINE Land Cover time series; and to support the harmonisation effort of MS for aggregating their national products at European level

URBAN ATLAS 300+ larger urban zones, CORINE classes  Repeat of 2009 exercise in 2012 in addition, further action on biodiversity-relevant zones envisaged (up to €3MIO) „Zooming on hotspot areas“ Ca. 50x50 km Based on multispectral VHR 2.5m satellite data MMU = 0.25ha Positional Accurarcy: 5m €3 MIO

Some relevant products for floods, e.g. SAFER project

Some relevant products, e.g. emergency actions in initial operations €12 MIO 2011-13 “SAFER follow on” (i) emergency response maps (rush mode  impact, damage, follow evolution of disaster in the hours and days after the crisis (ii) geographic reference maps, basic topographic on area, especially infrastructure (2) Prevention (EWS):Contribution to EFAS (European Flood Alert System) (i) Twice-daily pan-European flood forecasts provided to MS national and regional hydrological services, and the European Commission (ii) A daily updated pan-European overview at low scale of ongoing floods available on a public website