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Seaspace Livingplanet R1r0 SeaSpace Advancing ISIS – Integrated Sea Information Systems for Offshore Engineering Community Driving benefits for the Space and Renewable Energy Sector SeaZone.com 1 ISIS Community > ISIS aims to provide “the information needed” to organisations engaged in the offshore energy sector. > It has the aim to forecast the dangers to this sector over a complete lifecycle (construction, operation, decommissioning). > It recognises that these dangers include harm to people and harm to the environment. > ISIS Leverages and supports existing initiatives supplying marine information ISIS will accelerate the development of the € 6.4 Trillion Offshore Wind Energy Industry in European Seas ISIS – Why? > EU target to reduce GHG emissions to 20% below 1990 levels and derive 20% of the EU’s final energy consumption from renewable energy sources, both by 2020, the so-called ‘20-20 by 2020 target’. > Reduce the cost of per MW of Offshore Wind, thereby delivering EU targets on energy competition without subsidy by 2030. The only tangible way to reduce the cost of offshore energy is to reduce the risks in their construction and operation and this can only be done by better information on both their performance and the marine environment This includes known information gaps and unknown information gaps - industry knowledge is far from complete 2 ISIS - Information required ISIS – Benefits > Offshore Indsutry ° Reduce risk (costs) in all aspects of development, construction and operation of offshore wind farms ° Advance better data management > Other marine users ° ISIS information can be shared and re-used ° Benefit from a „better managed “ offshore energy industry > European Union ° Demonstrate and drive value from EU operational data services such as GMES and ESA „Globprojects“ ° Advances public:private operation of these services ° Improved EU energy security not reliant in imported fossil fuels This is in addition to the over-arching benefits of reduced greenhouse cases and climate change from the previous slide. 3 ISIS – Overview Strorage and Access Visualisation GIS Map and Globes Webservices Virtual reality Cloud Storage Statistics EU Climate Data HPC Services ECWMF Standards Technology INSPIRE Enabling GMES Core Services Industry EMODNET ISO SEADATANET Infrastructure Data Legal Data Licences Condition Monitoring Ownership Generating Characterisitcs Process & Data & Component MTBF Liabilities & Insurance Procedures Information Industry Data Services Process OceanWeather Operating Procedures ISIS SeaZone Roles and Responsibilities Community Agreements More “ready to use” Information ISIS drives the update and advancement of data services. It plugs the gap between what exists and what is needed ISIS in a picture ISIS is based on combining data from ISIS contains a group of organisations with ISIS will research data models for multiple existing initiatives expertise in providing information to users. specialist risk products. The aim is to Marine Environment They have identified the need to collaborate establish a range of INSPIRE-compliant From Harm to deliver the next generation of information standard products that communicate Harm to Harm Operations in a commercially sustainable way risk in a standard way to users. Generation and maintenance This project will focus on three products to test the ISIS concept. Community Community Standards Meteorological Service Community Interface ISIS Winds, Waves Infrastructure EMODNET & Development SEADATANET Lifecycle GMES Core Service Currents, Temperature, Salinity, Ocean Colour Supply Supply Demand Charting Services Hydrographic Offices Demand SeaZone Recommendations New Services ISIS will make use of open standards for Custom in-situ and EO data exchange, data aggregation and The standards adopted by ISIS Information is required to manage numerical modelling to allow data streams members will ensure users receive ISIS recognises that to meet customer the danger of infrastructures being to be combined both rapidly and at reduced consistent information on the quality, further data may be required damaged by the environment or cost dangers affecting their activities from other data sources. ISIS will the environment being damaged establish when this is required and by the infrastructure Technologies for visualising and make recommendations to improve the ISIS will work with the data supply stack to communicating risk will be ’data supply stack’ establish agreements for use, improve standardisation and advance data quality investigated 4 ISIS - Standard Products cd Data Model Traditional Information Products: «FeatureType» NaturalRiskZone Temperature + ID: ScopedName «FeatrureType» Salinity SeaRegion Wave height ISIS Products:- ID: ScopedName «FeatureType» SeaBedStability Currents SeaBedStability«FeatureType» OceanSpatialFeature + Extent: TM_Position + IssuingBody: Author + ID: ScopedName MaxWaveLoading + Location: Location + ObservationFeature: ObservationFeature + Parameters: Param PeakCurrent + Validity: TM_Position TotalClimate «FeatureType» «FeatureType» Kinetic Power«Coverage» Potential Observ ationFeature ModelFeature Observ ationResult + GridSeries: GridSeries «realize» + PointSeries: PointSeries Information needs to be precise so that it can be directly+ ProfileSeries: consumed ProfileSeries in the decision making process SeaSpace SeaSpace is a ‘bite-sized’ pilot for ISIS focussing on EO and numerical model data. An important subset of the wider ISIS agenda upon which ISIS can grow > SeaSpace is executed through the UK International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) and funded by UK Space Agency ° Short term high impact projects to demonstrate proof of concept > ISIS Partners ° SeaZone and Mainstream and partners at ISIC > ISIC Partners already interested (wider marine exploitation) ° Marine Security (BMT Argoss) ° Data processing (Magellium) 5 SeaSpace SeaSpaces delivers precise information from big geospatial datasets to marine communities. Users get the benefit of the information with out the overhead of managing ‘big data’ ISIC Earth Observation ISIS Search Oil Other Data & Spills ? Rescue S e a S p a c e Large Binary Large Binary Datasets Numerical Modelling Data SeaSpace – Deployment Operational ocean model is operated by ISIC HR Wallingford and provides data as a HR Wallingford mesh file of multiple parameters Data is downloaded from MyOcean and CEMS provides core processing of the EO Operational GlobWave websites datasets, allowing Ocean Model using automated scripts large coverages to FTP developed at HRW transform to vector features MyOcean Results of ISIC processing can be CEMS published in CEMS MyOcean has existing service desk catalogue. They can interface to supply data processed to EO Data Data Load be licensed to third Level II.I HRW currently download Processing parties to provide these datasets FTP value-adding services GlobWave EO Data VideoWall Data Export Processing FTP HR Wallingford Processed data is delivered in through standard webservices to be consumed by standard MarineBaseMap webclients. These service Web Mapping Host feeds can be licensed by WMTS SeaSpace to provide revenue to ISIC. Licensees may be part of ISIS, but also outside WMTS WebDatabase organisations UserSite WebClient 6 SeaSpace BaseMap SeaSpace Online 7 SeaSpace in ArcMap SeaSpace @ UK Space Catapult 8 SeaSpace - Conclusions ° SeaSpace is about making big geospatial datasets consumable in the marine community ° It is part-funded by the UK SpaceCITI programme ° SeaSpace demonstrates and drives value from EU operational data services for EO data such as GMES and GlobWave ° ISIS is the catalyst for this – a community dedicated to offshore renewable energy ° SeaSpace services are not limited to ISIS and are designed to be shared and re-used across marine industry sectors SeaSpace – Where Next? ° SeaZone/HR Wallingford SaaS for tidal model on HPC at Daresbury ° SeaZone advanced tidal and ocean current product – Already supplied to NL government ° Re-process GlobWave data to identify errors ° SAC Processing Infrastructure – Deployment on CEMS – Scale SeaSpace to inlcude more than UK200 – Advertise as a resource for others to use – ESA IAP Funding? ° Links to SAC marine market development – Satellite derived bathymetry 9 [email protected] [email protected] www.hrwallingford.com/seaspace http://www.seazone.com/HydroViewNow.php http://www.hrwallingford.com/projects/seaspace SeaSpace 10.
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