Mariner project, improving the management of accidental marine 

pollution response in Galicia through INSPIRE

INSPIRE Conference 2016Barcelona, 30th September 2016

B.Vila, G. Ayensa, P. Montero, S. Allen‐PerkinsINTECMAR

Background

Galicia

Background• Fishing and Environmental Resources

• High marine traffic density

• Experience in accidental spills

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Galician Regional Government

INTECMAR Galician Coast Guards

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Galician Regional Government

INTECMAR Galician Coast Guards

Regional Contingency Plan

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Galician Regional Government

INTECMAR Galician Coast Guards

• Scientific Information• Tools for response• Forecast spill track• GIS 

Regional Contingency Plan

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Galician Regional Government

INTECMAR Galician Coast Guards

Maritime Safety and Rescue Agency

Spanish NationalGovernment

• Scientific Information• Tools for response• Forecast spill track• GIS 

Regional Contingency Plan

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Galician Regional Government

INTECMAR Galician Coast Guards

Maritime Safety and Rescue Agency

Spanish NationalGovernment

• Scientific Information• Tools for response• Forecast spill track• GIS 

Regional Contingency Plan

National Contingency Plan

Marine Contingency Plan of Galicia (Plan CAMGAL)

Galician Regional Government

INTECMAR Galician Coast Guards

Maritime Safety and Rescue Agency

Spanish NationalGovernment

• Scientific Information• Tools for response• Forecast spill track• GIS 

Regional Contingency Plan

National Contingency Plan

It was a normal day, when suddenly...

It was a normal day, when suddenly...

An oil spill was reported!!!

It was a normal day, when suddenly...

An oil spill was reported!!!

A guy released drifters

Satellites and aircrafts took pictures of it

Somebody tried to forecast its movement

It was a normal day, when suddenly...

An oil spill was reported!!!

A guy released drifters

Satellites and aircrafts took pictures of it

Somebody tried to forecast its movement

At the very best,after 1 hour...

It was a normal day, when suddenly...

An oil spill was reported!!!

A guy released drifters

Satellites and aircrafts took pictures of it

Somebody tried to forecast its movement

Is anybody there???

At the very best,after 1 hour...

Scenario

During a pollution event, the response unit has to:

Restrictions:• The geographic data must be disseminated to different end users(managers, modellers, press…)

• Not all the information generated is allowed/valuable for everybody

• The tool must be robust, quick and accurate

• The tool must be easy to incorporate in the structure of the organizations

• Deal with very disparate information (satelliteimages, coastlines, model outputs, etc)

• Deal with several sources of information fromdifferent institutions (Coast Guards, MetOffice,local authorities, etc)

Spill Response Common Operation Picture (COP)

A COP is established:

• By gathering, collating, synthesizing and disseminating incidentinformation

• To all appropriate actors involved in an incident

Trajectory Modelling

Satellite Images

POLREP

UnifiedCommand

AdvisoryBoard

Protected Areas

COP

Response Assets

Aerial Surveillance

Drifters

Stakeholders& Public

MARINER

January 2009 August 2012

Expertise:Reinforce the preparedness and response to oil and HNS spills

in Atlantic regions.

January 2014 September 2015

January 2012 February 2014

MARINER

January 2009 August 2012

Expertise:Reinforce the preparedness and response to oil and HNS spills

in Atlantic regions.

January 2014 September 2015

January 2012 February 2014

MARINER:Improve regional cooperation in planning, preparednessand response to HNS spills.

Co‐financing Programme: Call 2015 for prevention and preparednessprojects in the field of civil protection and marine pollution. DG‐ECHO.Period: 01/01/2016 – 31/12/2017

COP Plan CAMGAL

Challenges:• To get previous information (coastal inventory, risk analysis, etc) required to react to spills from internal or external SDIs

• To deal with near real‐time information

• To create Web viewers customized on the fly for different kind of users

Moreover:• To use OGC standards to display catalogued layers

INSPIRE the COP!• Before a crisis:

• Catalogue (create metadata) spatial data of our responsibility

• Discover geographic information• Ensure the interoperability of data managed

• During a crisis:• View the information needed to manage a spill incident

• Download spatial data• Distribute data to other systems

• Also:• Creation of GML/SLD to share HNS incident’s data

Web Viewer Example

Physical Cartography

Web Viewer Example

Coastal Resources

Web Viewer Example

Modelling

Web Viewer Example

Drifters

Overview• A COP was built in order to produce the cartography of oil or HNS spill crisis

• Based on Open Source, OGCprotocols and INSPIRE Directive

• Management of data from different sources (external and internal)

• Different users of COP have access to different information based on access control

• Currently used by Galician Coast Guards and technical stakeholders

Thank you!!!

Begoña Vilabvila@intecmar.orgwww.intecmar.gal