This document discusses platforms for exchanging drought information and monitoring drought conditions. It proposes reviewing existing platforms to integrate drought products and data in order to design a common concept for capacity development and knowledge transfer. Examples of existing drought monitoring platforms from Australia, Africa, the US, and Europe are described. The European Drought Observatory is presented as a platform that could integrate this information, providing drought monitoring maps, data, and reports across Europe.

1. Drought information exchange
Platform
Activity 1.3
GWP CEE Council Meeting
Hodrusa Hamre; 13 October 2013
Gregor Gregorič
Environmental Agency of Slovenia
Gregor. Gregoric@gov.si
Luka Honzak
BO-MO LTD.
luka@bo-mo.si

2. What is “platform”
• An information architecture and an intelligent
infrastructure that enables exchange of data,
relevant for drought analysis, as well as continous
automated sensing, monitoring and decision support
for drought risk management operations.
• Act. 1.3: review existing platforms and make a
proposal for an integration of IDMP products and
data into one of them in order to design a common
concept of capacity development and knowledge
transfer.

3. Examples – WMO network

4. Drought monitors
Bureau of Meteorology – Australia
(http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/drought/)
IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (http://www.icpac.net/)
U. S. Drought Monitor (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu)
European Drought Observatory – EDO (http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu)
Products/monitors
Basic indicators
Complex
indicators
Remote sensing
data
Field reports
Impact data
Bulletins
BOM
Australia
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ICPAC
Africa
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SPI
NDVI
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NDMC
USA
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SPI, CMI,
PDSI
VegDRI,
NDVI
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EDO
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SPI, CDI
fAPAR,
NDWI
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5. U. S. Drought Monitor
Tmap is updated
weekly by
combining a
variety of databased drought
indices and
indicators and
local expert input
into a single
composite drought
indicator.

6. U. S. Drought Monitor
IImpact reporter
ccommitment of
stake holders
Sstandardization
of response

7. Joint Research Centre
• Directorate-General of the European Commission
(the “in-house science service”), providing
independent scientific and technological support for
EU policy-making
• 7 different locations; Institute for Environment and
sustanability (IES) located in Ispra, Italy

8. European Drought Observatory (EDO)
edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu
EDO provides:
 Continental overview of
information on drought
 Visualization and analysis
 Seamless access to
regional and national
drought information

9. Why EDO?
• Long term commitment to European countries (not
limited to EU members!)
• Continuity of outcomes of the projects
• Large past investments into infrastructure

10. European Drought Observatory (EDO)
Information on
current droughts
(reports, “drought in
media”)
Data and tools –
“factsheets”

11. EDO Mapviewer
• A web-based Map
Viewer, available on
EDO webpage
(DATA&TOOLS->EDO
MapViewer)
• It enables the visualisation, overlay/comparison and
interrogation of spatial datasets over the Internet
using WMS (Web Map Service) protocol.

12. EDO Mapviewer - overview

13. EDO Mapviewer – multiscale approach

14. EDO Mapviewer – compare indicators

15. EDO Mapviewer – compare indicators

16. EDO Drought Metadata Catalogue
• Web application for searching and updating the drought
catalog
(http://vap-xjedo.jrc.it/Search/Search.html),
developed by the University of Zaragoza for EuroGEOSS
Project.
• Metadata adjustments have been made to ensure ISO (19115,
19119, 19139) and INSPIRE compliancy.
• The catalogue functionalities were improved including a
“Drought Vocabulary”, defined and implemented during the
project.
• The catalogue provides search, discovery and preview
facilities of spatial and non – spatial metadata.

17. EDO Drought Metadata Catalogue

18. EDO Drought Metadata Catalogue

19. GWP IDMP project and EDO
• Example of successfull story: EUROGEOSS project,
where we made DMCSEE drought products available
in EDO Mapviewer.
• EUROGEOSS (http://www.eurogeoss.eu/)
– FP7 project , focused on three strategic areas:
drought, forestry and biodiversity
– Demonstrates the added value to the scientific
community and society of making existing systems
and applications interoperable and used within
the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks.

20. EUROGEOSS – EDO
DMCSEE GIS
application
DMCSEE WMS
server (UNM
Mapserver)
EDO
http://www.dmcse
e.org/en/drought_
monitor/

21. EUROGEOSS - EDO
PProject
destription
under Home > Projects
(http://edo.jrc.ec.eur
opa.eu/edov2/php/i
ndex.php?id=1004)

22. OWS (OGC Web Services)
• Standards defined by Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC).
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WMS – Web Map Service
WCS – Web Coverage Service
WFS – Web Feature Service
WPS – Web Processing Service
CSW – Catalogue Service for the Web

23. WMS – Web Map Service
• Service used to display geospatial information in a
raster format; it is mainly a view service.
http://www.dmcsee.org/cgibin/mapserv?map=/var/www/tmp/dmcsee_wms/dmcsee_wms.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=
1.0.0&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:4326&HEIGHT=360&WIDTH=760&FORMAT=image/png&BB
OX=11,33.995,47.005,50&LAYERS=SPI6&TIME=19991001

24. WMS – how does it work?
server
spatial
data
user
Spatial
presentation
WMS server
Client
1. Invoke »GetCapabilities« operation
Return WMS capabilities in XML document
2. Invoke »GetMap« operation
Return map image in .gif, .png, or .svg. format
WMS Server

25. Future work - Implementation guide
• In work, final version end of November.
DATA – country participation
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Proposed set of drought indicators.
SPI 1,2,3,6,12.
Description of indicator, base period …
Rasted data prepared in georeferenced format.
EDO
– Raster data – WMS (Web Map Service)
– Vector data – WFS (Web Feature Service)
• Technical support - next workshop