Abstract

Sharing Near Real-Time Environmental Data across Europe
Track: Education and Training
Authors: Peter Christian Kjeld, Simon Jirka, Wytzisk Andreas, Arne Bröring, Jon Maidens

Over the last years, the importance of near real-time access to environmental data has steadily increased. For organisations such as the European Environment Agency (EEA), which receives environmental data from a large number of providers, an efficient exchange of data is challenging. In this work, we describe an EEA-funded project which addresses these data integration challenges and envisions the interoperable exchange of environmental data across Europe. The key element of EEA's strategy to facilitate the integration of multiple data providers is the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) technology of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Benefits such as openness, domain independency, interoperability, and vendor independency will be explained. At the same time the challenges related to this approach (e.g. profiles for the SWE standards, adaptation to existing environments) will be discussed and ways to address them will be presented.