GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-3) Energy Scenario. Use case of the environmental impact assessment of the production, transportation and use of energy for the photovoltaic (PV) sector
Résumé
During Phase 3 of the Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP3) of GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) MINES ParisTech with the help of two FP7 European funded project (GENESIS and EnerGEO) developed a scenario called "environmental impact assessment of the production, transportation and use of energy for the photovoltaic (PV) sector through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)". This scenario aims at providing decision-makers and policy-planners with reliable and precise knowledge of several impacts induced by the various technologies used in the Photovoltaic (PV) sector, and consequently at helping them in selecting the most appropriate technologies or identifying the most relevant locations for PV installations. Several components have been provided with respect to the GCI (GEOSS Common Infrastructure) architecture to perform the scenario. These components allow users to access, search and use the data, information, tools and services. They include: - An Energy Community Portal (www.webservice-energy.org) where several OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Web Services including WMS (Web Map Service) and WPS (Web Processing Service) have been deployed. These Web Services give access to data that are needed to assess environmental impacts along the complete PV supply chain, such as the HelioClim-3 solar radiation database from MINES ParisTech and Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) information made available by Ecoinvent. - A GEOSS compliant OGC CSW (Catalogue Service for the Web) Catalogue, provided by the FP7 EnerGEO project, enabling the Web Services to be searched and discovered by GEO Portal end-users (energeo.researchstudio.at). - A Geographic WebGIS client provided through the FP7 GENESIS project platform (gppf.genesis-fp7.eu) that allows end-users to run environmental impact assessment scenarios by means of the above-cited WPS. The resulting impact calculations are visualized as maps (using WMS) and in tabular and graph form (using data encoded in OGCs Geography Markup Language -GML). The focus of the presentation will be put on the architecture that must be built to address GEOSS recommendation for interoperability from a data provider perspective.