1. EEA Neighbourhood project - Presentation to 10 th Eionet workshop on air quality Tim Haigh 17 – 18 October 2005

2. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

3. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

4. EEA strategy 2004 – 2008 An extensive geographic Internet portal to regional and selected localised information will be made available. The objective is to enable the public to locate information about their surrounding environment. By simply entering postal codes or by using interactive maps and tools, people will be able to find information on environmental conditions (…). The system will contain a variety of historical and real-time data on environmental quality.

5. EEA strategy 2004 – 2008 An extensive geographic Internet portal to regional and selected localised information will be made available. The objective is to enable the public to locate information about their surrounding environment. By simply entering postal codes or by using interactive maps and tools, people will be able to find information on environmental conditions (…). The system will contain a variety of historical and real-time data on environmental quality.

6. The EEA Neighbourhood vision Enable comparison over time and geography; Make better use of available data; Show the connection between the local situation and EU policy – benchmarking Improve: visibility of, and access to information providers Warehouse views Portal …for the public

7. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

8. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

9. Key outputs in 2005 Focus groups set-up; Collect information on existing and planned national ‘local/neighbourhood’ services; Identify EEA role and links to countries; Feasibility study; Involvement of 3+ countries secured; Initial supporting GIS infrastructure in place; Prototype for flood risk.

10. Key outputs in 2005 Focus groups set-up; Collect information on existing and planned national ‘local/neighbourhood’ services; Identify EEA role and links to countries; Feasibility study; Involvement of 3+ countries secured; Initial supporting GIS infrastructure in place; Prototype for flood risk.

11. Focus groups Purpose – reality check with public users!  User priorities;  User preferences;  EEA added value;  Refine user scenarios.

12. Role of EEA EEA as a starting point… European pictures; Compare between locations; Overcome discovery, knowledge and language barriers; Compare to standards and EU policy; …not an end point.

13. Elements of the feasibility study Country input Data availability and review Focus groups (public & GIS users) reports Flood risk mapping prototype Lessons learned Feasibility study paper

15. Data exchange poll 90% transfer real-time data; No data exchange standards or data content standards followed; 80% publish to the public; 80% update frequency is 1 hour; Ftp, CSV very common approaches. Everybody interested in cooperating with EEA!

21. The poll is at … http://air-climate.eionet.eu.int/rtpoll Additional responses welcome! The results (Excel file) will be sent after workshop.

22. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

23. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

24. Neighbourhood project - air quality focus Real-time ozone is a starting point; European perspective with benchmarking to standards; Health impacts; Pollution episodes; Start-point to navigate to other resources (portal); Extend to wider air quality.

25. User scenarios What is the picture across Europe? How do two regions compare? How is AQ in a region with reference to EU / WHO limit values? What is happening where I am going on holiday? Which parts of Europe are affected by episodes now? What pollution will be exported / imported to a region? Tell me when something is happening in ---  Where can I get more info

26. Ozoneweb in first half of 2006 Get near real-time data in and out; redesign interface; Align functionality with real-life requirements; Integrate into the EEA’s SDI; Get started with web services.

27. Charter for data providers Value data providers data and services and make visible; Reference sources; Make it easy to provide data and keep control; Offer services in return (web / map / OPD); Make EU products (not local); Send users to data providers own info services as soon as no European context; Transparency (access to data); Not used for compliance.

28. Actions 1.Get on board early – more stake in defining project. 2.Tell me about what you want.me 3.Plan for a few days focus on ozone real-time data exchange in 2006!

29. Questions

30. NRC on air quality Expertise: Air quality monitoring networks; Air quality exposure; Deposition of air pollutants; (exceedances of critical loads). Skills and technology : Monitoring, Data, Information; Assessment, Reporting, Knowledge; Communication; Policy.

31. The Neighbourhood and INSPIRE  Neighbourhood can be seen as an INSPIRE Pilot  Neighbourhood will be integrated into EEA SDI  INSPIRE Policy priorities include 6EAP Air quality strategy (CAFE)

32. Neighbourhood AQ users General public (in specific scenarios) Expert users – data access & exchange Media – episodes, benchmarking comparison Data providers – services and data

33. EEA business case – rationale for project Interactive / graphic presentation of environmental information; spatial context to information at relevant scales; channel for communication with wider public; mechanism to improve data use; a platform for disseminated data exchange and visualisation; support EEA and member country on Århus Convention.

34. Prototype on flood risk - Objectives The prototyping exercise will: Give a thematic focus to the project in initial stages test data collection and cooperation with countries and other organisations; develop and test systems, processes, spatial infrastructure and web GIS mapping; create awareness and understanding of the Neighbourhood project within EEA networks and wider audiences.

35. Information mandate Up-to-date information on ambient concentrations of SO2, NO2, NOx, PM, Pb, benzene and O3 shall be routinely made available to the public and appropriate organisations. Exchange of information about ozone episodes and exceedences of limit values. EU: 1999/30/EC Art. 8 (1), 2000/69/EC Art. 7 (1), 2002/3/EC Art. 6 (1)

36. Ozone prototype and EFNET Many links to EFNET; Scoping work and knowledge already exists in Eionet; Data aqcuisition processes and issues understood;  Considerable potential to create synergies.

37. You are creating a new dataflow NO! Data is collected and available; Monitoring format and standards exist; Data suppliers network exists; Ozoneweb has been on-line since 2001; Data is exchanged bilaterally; Legislative framework exists.

38. ID&P steps to enlightenment 1.Correct presentation of AQ status and forecasts 2.People use information and gain knowledge 3.Health impacts reduced (choices & policy) 4.Pollution episodes reduced ID&P = Information Dissemination and Presentation Derived from NILU concepts

39. Requirements for enlightenment 1-2 hr old on-line air quality data is key to enhance understanding and knowledge of air quality; Forecasts are most interesting information on air quality in urban areas for the general user in Europe; Time and geographic presentation / context need to be appropriate; Internet, SMS / e-mail are good pull/push dissemination channels.