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Working towards a European Geological Data Infrastructure Tirza van Daalen TNO

Working towards a European Geological Data Infrastructure Tirza van Daalen TNO. GIC 2013, Orleans, France. European Geological Surveys. CHALLENGES FOR EUROPE. How to stimulate economic recovery and create jobs and growth?

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Working towards a European Geological Data Infrastructure Tirza van Daalen TNO

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  1. Working towards a European Geological Data Infrastructure Tirza van Daalen TNO GIC 2013, Orleans, France

  2. European Geological Surveys

  3. CHALLENGES FOR EUROPE • How to stimulate economic recovery and create jobs and growth? • How to secure energy and natural resources needed by citizens and industry? • How to secure clean water, sufficient food and a clean and healthy environment? • How to protect citizens against natural hazards and the consequences of climate change? • How to comply with global agreements and targets and maintain a solid position in a rapidly changing global playing field? • EUROPE 2020 Targets: • Increasing Employment • Increasing investment in R&D • Combatting Climate change and Increasing Energy Sustainability • Better Education • Fighting Poverty and social exclusion

  4. EU CHALLENGES REQUIRE EU ANSWERS • Zooming in on geological knowledge and data to support policy development and implementation: • Raw Materials Initiative • Thematic strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste • SET Plan (to establish an energy policy for Europe) • Soil thematic strategy • Blue Growth (maritime/marine) • Water Framework Directive • INSPIRE • etc.

  5. Raw Materials example • EU raw materials initiative: • access to raw materials on world markets at undistorted conditions • fostering sustainable supply of raw materials from European sources • reduction of the EU’s consumption of primary raw materials UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE STILL FAR FROM THERE… !

  6. Raw Materials example • Static system • Non-EU source • 1700 mining locations in all of Europe Source: USGS

  7. Raw Materials example • Static system • Central database • Sustainability? Source: Pro Mine

  8. Raw Materials example • Dynamic system • Distributed database • >1700 mining locations in Portugal alone • Limited coverage • Sustainability? Source: EuroGeoSource

  9. Raw Materials example • Conclusions • Different information systems • One system compiled by USGS; two built with EU funding • Two static system, one dynamic • EU systems not maintained • Coverage and quality vary • Not completly INSPIRE compliant (EU) • Underlying issue: many different (national) data policies • Conclusion: It is not possible to produce an unambiguous map of geological resources in Europe

  10. Soils example • EU policy objectives for soil protection • prevention of soil degradation • mitigation of its effects • restoration of degraded soils • integration into other sectoralpolicies • Erosion • Salinisation • Contamination • Land slides • Compaction • information: parentmaterial map

  11. incomplete coverage of superficial deposits • data gaps between soil substrate in soil maps and bedrock in geological maps (e.g. for modelling groundwater quality) • very coarse resolutions • inconsistent definitions

  12. Soils example • Many different systems • All are static systems • No system is maintained basis • Several (totally) different interpretations • Conclusion: It is not possible to produce an unambiguous European-scale parent material map

  13. Geothermal energy example • Key question: can Europe produce enough geothermal energy? • Geothermal energy ambition • 2013  1.5 Gwe • mainly Italy and Iceland • 2020  5-10% of RE portfolio • magmatic/supercritical sources • heat from geothermal aquifers • seasonal storage of heat and cold • 2050  5% of global energy • magmatic/supercritical sources • power and heat from Engineered Geothermal Systems Natural heat flow in Europe (www.thermogis.nl/worldaquifer)

  14. Geothermal energy example • Pan- European temperature compilations >20 years old • only paper reports • Temperature data are confidential in several countries • Conclusion: it is not possible to produce an unambiguous European geothermal potential map

  15. So, we are still very far from serving geological data on a European scale … AEGOS BALANCE Barents Ecogeochemistry BLAST BRISEIDE BSS CGS-Europe COMET DG Enterprise andIndustry DORIS Earthquake Data Portal Eccsel ECORD eEarth eENVplus EGG EGRM EMINENT E-SOTER EUCoRes EUDATAdaptAlp EuroGeoSource EVOSS EWATER FOREGS GEMAS GENESI-DEC GEOMIND GeoMol GeoElec GeoRG Geo-Seas GeoWOW GLOBVOLC ANO GMES Emergency Response Service GMOS GS Soil GSI3D ImpactMin LESSLOSS MAREMAP MEREDIAN MINEO NARAS NEAREST NERA NERIE NORISC OneGeology OneGeology-Europe ORFEUS PanGeo PREVIEW ProMine RADPAR SAFELAND SAFER SARMa SEAHELLARC SERIES SHARE SUBCOAST Terrafirma ThermoMap Topo-Europe TRACE TRANSENERGY TRANSFER TRANSTHERMAL URGE NORDKALOTT Geochemistry • Many EU projects are set up to develop EU geoscience data • investments 400-700 mly. € (source: EGDI-Scope) • Most of them disappear > 3 yrs after project completion

  16. … and organising data is just the start End-Users Coast & Seas Climate/CO2 Energy Geohazards Health Infrastructure Minerals Soils Water Sustainabil ity ? : Portals built in • Translating geoscience information and knowledge to end-users requires research (applied, demand-driven) • Harmonisation and maintainance of data infrastructures is a conditio sine qua non… • … to enable research projects are not sustainable! Portals Webservice (WSDL Sustainability ? : INSPIRE obligation / SOAP on national level Mapping and Sustainability ? : linked to INSPIRE Data Services transformation obligation on Webservice Sustainability ? : linked to INSPIRE National database obligation on Webservice

  17. Current situation • There is a lack of unambiguous, harmonised geological information at EU scale • Production of geo-information and knowledge is incident-driven (many projects) • Data, data policy, information and knowledge differ from country to • country

  18. Custodians of geoscientific information: national Geological Surveys • Long tradition in collecting, managing and analysing geological data and information • Owners of comprehensive (national) databases • Each country has its own tradition in data management, mapping and data policy • Most suffer from budget cuts due to economic depression • 33 European surveys are member of EuroGeoSurveys

  19. Geological Surveys of Europe: digitalization geological surveying at different speeds • Paper map 3D and 4D sub-surface models • Analog data integrated database systems • Large scale small scale • Task driven / science driven / user driven • Depending on: • Geological situation and complexity • Use of the subsurface (e.g. presence and type of resources) • Population density • Economic situation • Different institutional settings • Etc.

  20. EuroGeoSurveys: towards a European Geological Service • How to jointly develop supporting knowledge on EU topics? • How to achieve interoperability of data, information and models on schematic, semantic and conceptual levels? • How to effectively support the European Commission with high level knowledge on a pan-European level? • How to secure mandates and durable funding? European Geological Service Joint research with impact at EU policy level Harmonizing and sharing pan-European geological data Sharing knowledge, capacities and infrastructure The Geological Surveys of Europe

  21. EGDI-Scope: Towards the European Geological Data Infrastructure Objectives • Preparing for an E-Infrastructure for serving pan-European, interoperable, geological and derived thematic data • Act on questions from European society • Sustain results from past, on-going and future European projects • Build on relevant (inter-)national/ regional existing datasets and infrastructures • datasets from European Geological Surveys • Implementing INSPIRE Involved: • 33 European Geological Surveys • Project consortium of 4 surveys + University Leuven • EGS (EuroGeoSurveys) • Stakeholders: • Stakeholder Panel • Stakeholder Forum Main result • Implementation Plan for realization EGDI (2014) FP 7 project and contract

  22. EGDI-’cube’ • Resolution: • Local, regional, (inter-)national scales • 2D+, 3D+, 4D+, • Themes (on-/offshore): • Earth resources (energy, minerals) • Geohazards • (Ground-)water • Infrastructure/ Urban dev. • Soils/ Habitats • Coverage: • 33 European countries • Data: • Public • Freely available • Charged ? • Restricted ?

  23. Conclusions • Geoscientific data, information and knowledge crucial for EU • To establish an European geoscientific information and knowledge infrastructure, a permanent structure is necessary to keep data and knowledge up to date and state of the art • We need stable investments rather than a suite of projects • EGDI Scope is NOT only about technology • EGDI Scope is NOT only about data • EGDI Scope is about building a sustainable geological information backbone which is vital for Europe

  24. Thank you for your attention

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