MS.MONINA Service Design

MS.MONINA supports European, national and local authorities in monitoring the state of European nature sites of community interest – not only at the benefit of EU national authorities, but also addressing local authorities that manage these sites, and EU authorities overseeing the overall development of the NATURA 2000 programme.

Multi-scale approach

There are many possible hierarchical relations between the EU (on top) and individual protected sites (on the bottom), and member states (MS) in between, located in different biogeo-graphical regions (BGR). Connected vertical elements (e.g. EU – member state MS E – sites b, c) together outline a service chain. Service chains are hence formed by ‘trans-level’ applications, complemented by the EU level.

Service portfolio

The MS.MONINA service portfolio follows this three scale approach, building upon specific SP/user networks on European, regional (subnational), and local level. It delivers geospatial products, as value added to the Euroland CMS, or derived from Copernicus (formerly GMES) data. It will be in line with the European premise of data harmonization using common infrastructure (SDI) and standards (INSPIRE), and by this supports the effort of setting up a Shared Environmental Information Space (SEIS).

 
 
FP7 SPACE project MS.MONINA (Multi-scale Service for Monitoring NATURA 2000 Habitats of European Community Interest). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community‘s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. 263479.
Area of activity: SPA.2010.1.1.04 Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas