1. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency GEO welcomes FP7 Constanta, Romania 15th September 2006 Dr. Florin Serban Romanian Space Agency

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

3. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.)

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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)

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

14. agentia spatiala romana - romanian space agency Main expected results (INSPAM) 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 SDI architecture – thematic networks

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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