RSA
Schillerstrasse 25
5020 Salzburg, Austria
DLR
Muenchner Strasse 20
82234 Wessling, Germany
SUPARCO
Islamabad, Pakistan
Location and supply optimization of bio-energy plants
- a case study for Pakistan in the
GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot – Phase 5
(AIP-5)
Response Due Date: 6 April 2012
Markus Biberacher
Markus Tum
markus.biberacher@researchstudio.at
markus.tum@dlr.de
+43 662 908585-221
+ 49 8153 28-1572
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(RSA / DLR / SUPARCO) Response to the GEOSS AIP-5 CFP
1 Overview
Utilizing biomass for energetic issues is a growing topic. Relevant optimal infrastructure
setups are dependent on numerous aspects. Since biomass has - compared to other energy
carriers – a relatively low specific energy content an intelligent infrastructure setup especially in a spatial context - is crucial for an economic utilization. That means optimal
biomass plant sizes and locations with regard to optimal biomass supply areas and the
knowledge on spatial discrete biomass growth rates are crucial for an economic efficient
system setup.
Based on the model approaches BETHY/DLR and TASES/RSA within AIP-5 a case
study will be done for the region of Pakistan. The case study will address spatial and
temporal discrete biomass growth, spatial discrete energy demand that could be covered
by biomass and already existing transport, plant and grid infrastructure. The period of
investigation will be 2000 – 2010. It will come out with scenarios on optimized system
setups with regard to optimal biomass plant locations and sizes. Biomass supply areas
with respect to transportation effort are a driver as well as possible connections to
existing infrastructure.
In order to assess sustainable energy potentials earth observation data (i.e. Leaf Area
Index time series and Land cover / land use information) derived from the sensor
VEGETATION onboard the satellite SPOT will be used to drive the vegetation model
BETHY/DLR. Further driving parameters are meteorological time series (i.e.
precipitation, temperature, radiation and wind speed) which are taken from ECMWF. The
model output (Net Primary Productivity, NPP) will be transferred to energy units taking
into account land use and land use management.
The TASES/RSA model will then be used to identify optimal biomass plant locations and
sizes with regard to optimized supply areas and connection to infrastructure.
Geographical datasets on population densities, settlements, logistic infrastructure will be
utilized to elaborate geographic discrete evaluation criteria relevant for decisions on
optimals system setups.
2 Proposed Contributions
2.1.1 Societal Benefit Area Alignment and Support
The “Information for Societal Benefit” section of the GEO 2012-2015 work plan has a
dedicated section on Energy. Within this Energy section the following task was defined:
EN-01 Energy and Geo-Resources Management. The main aims of this task are to:

Support the development of Earth observation products and services for energy
and geo-resource management
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Encourage the use of Earth observation and information for informed energy and
geo-resources policy planning in developing and developed countries.

Promote collaboration between users and providers of Earth observation and
information.
The proposed response is fully aligned with this task and will support it. In addition the
European Commission FP7 funded project EnerGEO has been listed in the GEO 20092011 work plan.
2.1.2 Component and Service Contributions
Based on the work in the EU FP7 Energeo project the project partners DLR, Suparco and
RSA will contribute results and public adopted input geo-resources of the analysis
providing well suited biomass plant locations based on optimized supply areas of the
region of Pakistan in the EU FP7 Energeo Discovery and Knowledge portal.
The Case study will be performed by in collaboration with the project partners by sharing
data, and presentations as part of the
Energeo Portal: A GEOSS community portal that can be accessed worldwide.
Data sharing: Geographically and EO data will be shared via the portal.
Web Map Services: The case study will present the results in user centered app like web
presentations based on OGC compliant WMS services
The results of the case study rely on the model approaches of BETHY and TASES.
The AIP 5 Service Contributions will focus on providing information from the project
(EnerGEO) actors regarding the publishing discovery and presentation and access
following the GEOSS information viewpoint topics:

Service Oriented Architecture

Catalog/Registry Services

Data Access and Order Services
Open standards support:
For the organization of the resources in a catalogue the case study will contribute the
documentation of the used resources and results via OGC Catalogue Service interfaces
(OGC CSW 2.0.2) via the EU FP/ Energeo Geoportal which is already registered with the
GEOSS portal as Energy Community portal (Energy Beneficial area regarding the
GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI))
To support reuse of the results of this case study,

The model results will be made available for web based presentations as OGC
Web Map Service 1.3.0 (OGC WMS 1.3.0).

As Download services
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the raster based results of the case study will be made available as OGC Web
Coverage Service 2.0.0) (OGC WCS 2.0)

the vector based results will be made available as Web Feature Service layers
(OGC WFS 1.1.0)
The results will be presented in a custom Application oriented Web-Map service
consuming OGC WMS and OGC KML resources which will be made available as Open
Source Software after the end of this AIP-5 case study.
The resulting components will be available also after AIP-5 in the EU FP7 Energeo
Knowledge Portal.
2.1.3 Architecture and Interoperability Arrangement Development
The system arranged for this AIP-5 is provided by the pilot partner RSA. It is focusing on
a distributed service architecture utilizing well established Open Geospatial and ISO
interface standards like OGC/ISO Web-Map-Service, Web Feature Service and Web
Coverage Service) and OGC Web processing (WPS) for defining processing
environments.
RSA will organize the presentation of the pilot results of in the EU FP7 Energeo
community portal including search facilities. The portal will be designed and
implemented based on international standards for catalogue discovery (OGC Catalogue
Services CSW 2.0.2, OGC, 2007).
To enhance the user experience on the geoportal RSA will provide a one stop shop to
applications and resources of the AIP-5 pilot, giving users a complete solution rather than
a “raw” metadata catalogue. Results of the redesign developed under the working title
“Knowledge Portal” are shown in following figure:
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Figure: EnerGEO “Knowledge Portal” – A task-centric approach for an energy
resources portal.
This approach is a mixture of the two types of spatial portals as divided commonly in
literature. These are
1) Catalog portals: They allow users to create, maintain and query catalogs of metadata.
The portal arranges metadata records into a searchable catalog and also provides the
interface that makes it available to users. The major aim of catalog portals is to facilitate
sharing of spatial resources (such as datasets or services) and offer access to up-to-date
metadata containing information on e.g. resource quality or fitness for purpose.
2) Application portals: Application portals tend to have more structured interface than
catalog portals. They provide an index of specific tools and applications with GIS
functionality that are relevant to the user’s work. While catalog portals offer a query or
browsing interface for discovering any kind of registered spatial data or service, an
application portal links to specific web applications relevant to the user group it was
designed for. It can often be found in a form like map galleries.
The Energeo portal with the AIP-5 results included will be available via
http://geoportal.energeo-project.eu/
The Service Link for CSW Discovery will be accessible via
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http://energeo.researchstudio.at/energeo/csw/discovery?Request=GetCapabilities&Servic
e=CSW&Version=2.0.2
For programmatic and technical questions please contact:
manfred.mittlboeck@researchstudio.at
Software used:
All resources and results will be made available as OGC compliant services using
OpenSource Geoserver. As Energeo portal solution, a customized version of Open
Source Geoportal Server will be used.
For programmatic and technical questions please contact:
manfred.mittlboeck@researchstudio.at
3 Description of DLR and RSA
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) will contribute through Land Surface Applications
team of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) department. The DFD has a
long-term expertise in the development of advanced image analysis and patternrecognition methods for environmental information extraction from Earth observation
data, including bio/geophysical parameter estimation from satellite images. The DFD
is/was involved (as either prime- or co-investigator) in several (inter)national projects.
The contribution to AIP-5 will consist in the generation of maps of sustainable bioenergy potentials for Pakistan.
DLR – DFD key persons:
Markus Tum, Kurt P. Günther
The Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (RSA) will contribute with
their experience and modeling knowledge regarding geographical disperse energy system
aspects. On different geographical scales RSA has developed optimization models with
dedicated focuses. In AIP-5 the contribution of RSA will be focused on identifying
optimal system setups with regard to relevant supply radii for biomass plant installations
based on maps provided by DLR. Additionally RSA will provide the Geo-knowledge
portal for presenting the results and a GEOSS compliant portal for discovery. The
cooperation with DLR is based on an excellent experience already proofed in several
national and international projects.
RSA key persons:
Markus Biberacher, Manfred Mittlböck
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