This document summarizes the project of Team 13 from the INSPIRE hackathon. The team aimed to combine Arctic meteorological and oceanographic data with fisheries statistics to investigate potential links between climate change and activity in the polar region around Svalbard. They explored data sources using QGIS and CKAN and APIs like WMS and OPeNDAP. The team hopes to further develop visualizations of combined data to provide insights into natural resource management, food security, and economic activity in the Arctic.

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TEAM 13: Arctic Geodata and Fishery Statistics
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TEAM MEMBERS AND SUPPORTING PROJECTS
• Torill Hamre (NERSC), Bente Lilja Bye (BLB), Markus Fiebig (NILU),
• Arnfinn Morvik (IMR),
• Per Gunnar Auran, Bård Johan Hansen, Ståle Walderhaug, Arne Jørgen
Berre (SINTEF),
• Jovanka Guliscoska (Viderum)
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PROJECT IDEA
• The targeted area is sustainable aquaculture and bio-economy.
• We want to combine different types of met-ocean data (e.g. ice
edge, SST) and fishery statistics to investigate potential links
between climate change and activity in the polar region in and
around Svalbard.
• We will evaluate if the FAIR principles are met for the chosen
variables, using Copernicus, BarentsWatch and other open data
resources.
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PROJECT RESULTS
• Initial exploration of
data sources with
WMS API in QGIS
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PROJECT RESULTS
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• Initial exploration of data sources
with WMS API in CKAN

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INPUT OR NEW DATA
• CMEMS Sea Ice Edge (OSI TAC)
• CMEMS Sea Ice and Ocean Temperature (OSI TAC)
• Fisheries Information (BarentsWatch)
• Fishery statistics (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries)
• Small pelagic fisheries planning and fish stock assessment (DataBio)
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USED OR GENERATED SOFTWARE/TOOLS
• QGIS - Open Source GIS - https://www.qgis.org/
• Supports a wide range of APIs (e.g. WMS, WCS, …)
• Easily extensible (plugins)
• Many community plugins available
• CKAN - Open Source Data Portal Platform - https://ckan.org/
• Rich feature set (e.g. datastore, dataset registration, catalogue harvesting)
• Defines Action API for clients to access core functionality
• Can write own extensions (plugins)
• Over 200 community extensions
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USE OF APIs
• OPeNDAP (for CMEMS data)
• OGC WMS (making maps)
• OGC WCS (getting gridded data)
• BWOpen (fisheries facilities, AIS)
• other APIs to be explored…
• APIs to be created (Fishery Directorate, others)
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INSPIRE/GEOSS/COPERNICUS/ RELEVANCE
• INSPIRE: downloading data, visualize, transform
• Copernicus: use of Copernicus data sets, enrichment of
Copernicus data with INSPIRE data
• GEOSS: Create new information, result oriented use of Earth
observations
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CROSS SECTORAL OR CROSS BOUNDARY
INTEROPERABILITY
• The enrichment of Arctic Copernicus data can be applied on
other areas than fisheries, e.g. shipping, arctic tourism etc.
• Interoperability lies in i) using APIs and ii) visualization so
that new information becomes evident (time series, trends)
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BUSINESS/INNOVATION
• The information products derived from the INSPIRE data
(statistics) enrichment of Copernicus data have a potential
of commercialization (new information, time saving)
• Cooperation with other INSPIRE hackathon teams can be
fruitful and result in more information products (e.g.
Tunafishing pilot in DataBio, former INSPIRE hackathon
team)
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ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIETAL AND/OR
ECONOMICAL CHALLENGES
• The resulting INSPIRE data enriched Copernicus data and
services can provide
• natural resources management
• food security monitoring
• secure activities in the Arctic both equipment (boats,
fish farms, etc) and humans
• economic foresight
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FOLLOW-UP
• The team has planned to combine further data sets, like
zooplankton (IMR), AIS (SINTEF) and also involve other
partners (Fishery directorate, BarentsWatch, OECD, other)
• Further use and development of visualizations of the
combined APIs (time series animation)would be interesting
for next INSPIRE hackathons.
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