Mikael Pedersen, GEUS – WP2 leader
Katy Lee, BGS – WP3 leader
EGDI-Scope Full Consortium Meeting, Vienna 28th April 2014
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Why develop an EGDI?
◦ To make a sustainable platform for European geological
datasets and information
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Why develop use cases?
◦ To ensure usability of the future EGDI
-> Usability is key to sustainability!
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What do users request?
◦ Easy accessible and reliable data and information
◦ Intuitive functionality
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What do users not have today?
◦ Answers to many basic questions needing geological data.
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Have provided clearer picture of use situations
Have provided insight into issues dealt with by past
European project
Have provided requirements for
◦ Data
◦ Functionality
◦ System design and operation
Stakeholders
Themes
Other natural resources
• Freshwater
• Soils
• Seas and oceans
Partners
Geohazards
• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Flooding
• Subsidence
• Landslides
• Erosion
• Mining
• Geochemical: Radon,
Mercury…
Geology
Non-Energy minerals / resources
• Metals
• Industrial minerals
• Construction materials
Other
• Geothermal
• CCS
• Secondary raw materials and
waste
• Urban
• Climate change
• Aquifers
• Ecosystems
• Higher-res geological maps
• 3D geology
• Marine
• Geochemistry
• Radioactive waste
• Land use
Prioritisation
Energy minerals / resources
• Shale gas, oil shale, shale
oil
• Solid fuel minerals
• Oil and gas
• Gas hydrates
Raw Materials
Geohazards
Water
Soil
Geology
◦ OneGeologyEurope 1: 1 million surface geology
◦ OneGeologyEurope 1:1 million bedrock
◦ EMODnet-Geology I - 1:1 million substrate map
Mineral Resources
◦ Promine dataset on mineral deposits,anthropogenic concentration
layers, mineral potential maps, predictive maps
◦ EuroGeoSource dataset on mineral occurrences and mines
◦ -> Minerals4EU & EURare
Water Resources
◦ Hydrogeological map of Europe (IHME) 1: 1.5 million.
◦ Aquifer Typologies for hydrochemical characterization (BRIDGE
project)
Geohazards
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PanGeo ground stability polygons, geohazard descriptions and
associated PSI data
Soil
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Geochemical distribution maps based on GEMAS
Soil/parent material map?
Geology
 A geologist creating a geological map of the Alps for an excursion
 A geology student making a map showing the distribution of
Archaean rocks in Europe
 A consultant wanting to evaluate and download the marine substrate
map from a specific offshore area.
Mineral Resources
 A geologist preparing a report of the best REE deposits in Europe for
the Commission
 An Internet user wanting an overview of the largest REE deposits in
Europe
Water Resources
 The EEA assessing the groundwater chemical status based on natural
background levels of pollutants
Geohazards
 A local authority planner assessing inhabited areas in risk of
subsidence
Superficial deposits
 The EEA wanting to download the 1GE+ geological map of Europe
for ecosystem mapping using desktop GIS applications
 The EEA wanting to assess the effect of Phosphorous in superficial
deposits on certain European ecosystems
Decision Makers
Expert Users
The General Public
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Geological Service
Knowledge Base
Pool of Experts
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The use cases support the concept of a
European Geological Information System
But….
An underlying data infrastructure will
probably be needed in some cases