Lise Schrøder & Henning Sten Hansen Aalborg University

Building MSDI solutions enabling stakeholder cooperation in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea regions

Baltic LINes – partners

Two MSP projects 2016-19

http://www.vasab.org/index.php/balticlines-eu/about http://www.northsearegion.eu/northsee

Two MSP projects 2016-19 • Baltic LINes: Development of pan-Baltic planning solutions for shipping routes and linear energy infrastructure and integration of these in national plans • NorthSEE: Improvement of cooperation between the MSP authorities in the North Sea Region – and achieving greater coherence between national plans and planning processes regarding shipping, energy and environmental protection. http://www.vasab.org/index.php/balticlines-eu/about http://www.northsearegion.eu/northsee

NorthSEE – partners • • • • • • • • • • • •

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie / Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu / Ministry of Infrastructure and the EnvironmentNeeds – data and functionality Federal Overheidsdienst Mobiliteit Directoraat Generaal Maritiem Vervoer / Federal Government Service for Mobility Director General Maritime Transport Scottish Government Havs- och vattenmyndigheten / Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management Aalborg Universitet / Aalborg University Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg / Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg World Maritime University NHTV University of Applied Sciences / NHTV international hogeschool Breda Provincie Noord-Holland / Province of Noord-Holland Havsforskningsinstituttet / Institute of Marine Research Miljødirektoratet / Norwegian Environment Agency

Agenda • Stakeholders – creating awareness and defining needs • The planning perspective – how to facilitate collaboration across borders • Needs – data and functionality • The INSPIRE perspective • Conclusions

Stakeholders – perspectives • Maritime spatial planning (MSP)

– How to create awareness concerning processes and challenges (Blue growth strategies, sustainability, ecosystems approach, etc.) – How to learn from each other (some countries have just started to implement the EU directive on maritime spatial planning) – how to facilitate collaboration across borders

• Marine spatial infrastructures (MSDI)

– How to support usability – focus on actual needs concerning data and functionality – How to get access to data that fits the purpose

The Helcom geoportal

http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/index.html

Baltic Sea data and maps

http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/index.html http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/index.html

Existing centralised database Datasets from various sources – stored at Helcom

Existing centralised database Freely awailable

A new distributed solution Datasets from various sources – displayed by Helcom

Access to data and services To be searched for, viewed, and downloaded

What do the planners need?

http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/index.html

National data

Stakeholder involvement

Planner/system perspective

Planner

Maritime Spatial Planning Geoportal Visualisation tool

Harmonisation tool Location of Marine Ecosystem Services

Data

Data

Data

Data

Data services - Metadata - WMS - WFS - Other

Data

Data

Playing games with MSP data

http://www.mspchallenge.info/msp-challenge-2050-2013.html

System development perspective

Maritime Spatial Planning

MSP challenge

Stakeholder involvement

Maritime Spatial Planning Geoportal Visualisation tool

Harmonisation tool Location of Marine Ecosystem Services

Data

Data

Data

Data

Data services - Metadata - WMS - WFS - Others

Data

Data

User needs – functionality • Main elements

– Viewer – Data services – Metadata – search, view and download

• Harmonisation – focus on definitions and semantics • Data services:

– metadata – Data from the source: WMS, WFS, SHP-files, others – Harmonised map – possibility to download

• Levels of authorisation

The INSPIRE perspective

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/Themes/Data-Specifications/2892

User needs – how to proceed Datasets - A few categories and subcategories - Focus on which attributes are important? Which of these data exist in which format? Which of these data are freely awailable?

User needs – how to proceed On-going work on data – various working groups on data Ongoing work on maritime spatial planning - Already a lot of results from other projects in the Baltic (Baltic Scope, Baltspace and others) - Interviews planners (plus eventually technicians) MSP Challenge - On-going collaboration in BalticLines – and NorthSEE

Conclusions • Very important to be able to plan across the borders • Fit for purpose approach

– from the planners perspective it is not necessarily important to have a lot of complex datasets – need for focussing on semantics and especially, which attributes are important

• Still big diffences among the countries • The project puts focus on the need for INSPIRE

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