Presentation given at the 33rd CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) Workshop, part of the Joint CEN/TC 287 and OGC Workshop which took place on 30th September 2013, Frascati, Italy. Find out more about the COBWEB Project at: http://cobwebproject.eu/dissemination/ access management,citizen observatory,cobweb,cobwebfp7,eu grant agreement number 308513,european union,fp7,geoss,saml

1. General Overview of
the COBWEB project
30th Sept, 2013,
33rd CEN Workshop in Frascati
Slides by
Chris Higgins,
Project Coordinator,
EDINA National Data Centre,
University of Edinburgh.
chris.higgins@ed.ac.uk
Presented by
Bart De Lathouwer
Interoperability Program
OGC
bdelathouwer@opengeospatial.org

2. The bare bones…
• Project started 1st Nov, 2012 and will run for 4 yrs
• Funded under the European Commission’s
Framework Programme 7 (Grant No: 308513)
• Crowdsourced environmental data to aid decision
making
• Introduce quality measures and reduce uncertainty
• Fusion of crowdsourced data with reference data…
• Spatial Data Infrastructure - like initiatives
– National SDI’s in UK, Greece and Germany
– INSPIRE
– GEOSS

3. FP7-ENV-2012 observatories
Name
Lead
Topic
Citclops
Barcelona Digital
Centre Tecnològic
(Spain)
Coast and ocean
optical
monitoring
WeSenseIt
University of
Sheffield (UK)
Water
Management
CITI-SENSE
Nilu (Norway)
Air quality
Omniscientis Spacebel (Belgium)
COBWEB
UEDIN (UK)
Odour
monitoring
Various

4. Project Partners
University of Edinburgh (Coordinator)
UK (Scotland)
University of Nottingham
UK (England)
Aberystwyth University
UK (Wales)
Welsh Assembly Government
UK (Wales)
Environment Systems Limited
UK (Wales)
Ecodyfi
UK (Wales)
Open Geospatial Consortium (Europe) Limited
UK
University College Dublin
Ireland
Technische Universitaet Dresden
Germany
Secure Dimensions GmbH
Germany
University of Western Greece
Greece
OIKOM – Environmental Studies Ltd
Greece
GeoCat BV
Netherlands

5. Essential context – WNBR
• UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programmes
(MAB) World Network of Biosphere Reserves
– Sites of excellence to foster harmonious integration
of people and nature for sustainable development
through participation, knowledge sharing, poverty
reduction and human well-being improvements,
cultural values and society's ability to cope with
change, thus contributing to the Millennium
Development Goals
• 610 reserves in 117 countries

6. COBWEB Biosphere Reserves
1. UK (Wales): Biosffer Dyfi
2. Germany: Wadden See and Hallig Islands
3. Greece:
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Mount Olympus
Gorge of Samaria
Left open possibility of expansion to further BRs
later in project

7. Stakeholder Engagement – OGC TC
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COBWEB using OGC processes, e.g.,
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GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilots
Interoperability Experiments
OWS
OGC Network
OGC/AGILE/EuroSDR Persistent Testbed (PTB)
IoT
AGILE side event
Mass market
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Crowd Sourcing , Authentication