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Eye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEye on Earth - the global citizen observatoryEEA Microsoft partnership Water watchEEA Microsoft partnership Water watch
http://www.eyeonearth.eu/
Microsoft – EEA partnershipMicrosoft – EEA partnership
Vision – Elicit a Climate Observatory Initiative by launching a series of environment applications to impact people’s quality of life as well as a series of joint marketing activities to create environmental awareness amongst governments and the broad public.
Scope - Cooperation under the Climate Observatory Initiative, to be implemented by cooperation agreements and statements of services.
Duration - Five years
First Cooperation AgreementFirst Cooperation Agreement
Portal on Bathing Water quality - Built on MS technologies using EEA data.
Main Futures – Virtual Earth, Water Quality ratings, Near-real time data, User Ratings, User Comments, Search for location, Gadget download
Languages – EN, IT, DE, PT, NL
EEA-MS Partnership announcement – Portoroz, Slovenia 14 May 2008
Launch – End of July 2008
BackgroundBackground
Legal status: EU Bathing Water legislation -- 14.400 coastal and 6.800 freshwater bathing sites annually (2007 figures) submitted under BWD to EEA (first time in 2008 through Reportnet)
Methodology: Various samples of 2 bacteria aggregated to an annual indicator for the past season
The information system: Currently WISE map viewer and PDF maps on EU bathing water website
What we already have…What we already have…
Bathing water quality points in Eye on EarthBathing water quality points in Eye on Earth
User Rating iconsUser Rating icons
Actors and architecture componentsActors and architecture components
Browsing Web SiteBrowsing Web Site PDA/Cell Phone
EEA Italy Portugal Germany Netherlands UK
Channellization
Country A Country B Country ECountry DCountry C
ETC-W
SQL 2005
SQL 2008MOSS 2007 AppMOSS 2007 VE
Biz TalkNon-automated data flow
GeoRSSData Flow
Virtual Earth
Population in coastal settlementsPopulation in coastal settlements
Oil spills in European regional seas
Eurosion: Costal erosion patternsEurosion: Costal erosion patterns
INGV* water temperaturesINGV* water temperatures
*INGV: Istituto Nazionale di Geologia e Vulcanologia
Next on Eye on Earth – Water WatchNext on Eye on Earth – Water Watch
More structured user comments
User provided images, Web-cams
Delegation of administration to countries/regions
Historical data for all EU27
Near-real time data for 20 countries
NL, DE, GR data via GeoRSS Simple
Air quality with a possible link to healthcare information systems