EO 2 HEAVEN Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling

EO 2 HEAVEN Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of HEAlth risks Overview of the EO 2 HEAVEN contribution to GEOSS GEO IX, EC Side Event, Foz do Iguacu, November 21, 2012 Kym Watson (Fraunhofer IOSB) FP 7 244100, 2/2010 – 5/2013 © EO 2 HEAVEN Consortium

EC FP 7 Project EO 2 HEAVEN studies impact of environmental factors on health Air Quality and/or Aeroallergens WEB-ENABLED PROCESSING, MODELLING AND FUSION RISK MAPS ALERTING TOOLS Image: UKZN HEALTH DATA Durban, Saxony Water borne disease cholera Image: S. Woodborne, CSIR EARTH OBSERVATIONS Uganda

Multi-Disciplinary Approach • Health • Epidemiology • Microbiology • Geo-informatics, ICT • Modelling and Statistics Makerere University College of Health Sciences 3

Case Study I: Dresden / Saxony, Germany • Environmental effects on allergies and cardiovascular diseases • Environmental parameters: – Meteorological conditions, e. g. temperature – Air pollutants, e. g. O 3, Particular Matter (PM 10) – Evaluation of usability of data from in-situ sensors, satellites and micro-drones • Health Data – Aggregated from health insurance data, but very difficult to use as for billing not research 4

Modelling of Air Pollution With a Multidimensional Feature Space Approach Traffic density Street density PM 10 Elevation Land Cover

Animated Visualization of Space and Time Play! 6 Check out: http: //time 2 maps. dyndns. org

Case Study 2 Durban: Environmental challenges to health due to air pollution Located on the eastern seaboard of South Africa, mix of heavy industrial activity and residential settlements in close proximity, high exposure of community to industrial pollutants 7

Case Study 2 Overview • IT system to estimate meteorological and air quality that influences pollution > leading to respiratory health outcomes • Using available sources of data – Air Quality Monitoring System (SO 2, PM 10, NOx) – Health data from a respiratory disease study on school children in Durban

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Durban Health Risk System 11 Pollution concentration map for period of 10 minutes Risk map for likely respiratory diseases for period of 24 hours

Case Study 3: Uganda • Investigating the impact of environmental and climatic variables on cholera outbreaks • Goal: Better understand the underlying processes causing cholera disease outbreaks – Run a water sampling campaign – Analyse cholera bacteria type, abundance and toxicological state – Analyse EO data – Fuse with health data • Environmental parameters: – Meteorological conditions, e. g. temperature, rainfall – Water surface temperature – UV 12

Case Study 3: Cholera, Uganda • A data visualization tool presenting research and modeling results, and an environmental vulnerability index, to enable decision makers and local authorities to better understand the environmental risk and the level of vulnerability of communities to potential cholera outbreaks. • integration in a Scientific Workflow environment to meet needs of researchers in the environment/health domain. Example map of spatial autocorrelation of cholera cases 13

Recording cholera cases in Uganda 14

Cholera cases in Uganda 15

EO 2 HEAVEN is developing components of a Health Risk Information System, e. g. for use in the WHO GIMS Early Warning System Components of an early warning system Population Demographics, Transportation and Migration EO 2 HEAVEN Epidemiological surveillance (health) Ocean, Climate and Environmental Observation, Monitoring and Forecasts Risk Analysis, Vulnerability Asessment Predictive models Disease Watch Early Warning Evaluation and Feedback Social and Behavioral Factors Response Strategy Communication and Action Components to be supported by EO 2 HEAVEN Other components in the Health Early Warning System 16 Diagram adapted from J. Trtanj / NOAA, IEEE GEOSS Workshop XXXI - Using Earth Observation for Health; a workshop of the GEO Health and the Environment Community of Practice, 2009

Spatial Information Infrastructure Analysis / Evaluation maps Info-Center Archive Command & Control Center Catalogue Service Infrastructure using International Standards (e. g. Open Geospatial Consortium OGC) Domain data Geo data Metadata 17 documents Sensors

S&T Innovation, Research Challenges • Interoperability and linking with other data sources – mobile clients, repositories, … • • • Fusion of EO and in-situ data Relations environment – microbiology - epidemiology Development of health risk indices for decision support Extendibility of modeling to other contexts Controlled access to data and services – esp. health related 18

EO 2 HEAVEN Contributions to GEO Workplan 2012 -2015 • HE 01 Tools and Information for Health Decision Making – C 1 Air-borne Diseases, Air Quality and Aeroallergens – C 2 Water-borne Diseases, Water Quality and Risk • EO 2 HEAVEN leads the AIP 5 SBA Health threads (in IN 05 GEOSS Design and Interoperability) – See the presentations on Friday morning !! • Participates in Health & Environment Community of Practice 19

Making the results sustainable • Capacity building with stakeholders • Best practices – Spacial Information Infrastructure for health & environment data (researchers / stakeholders) – Microbiological sampling • Software Components as open source • SII Specifications openly available through OGC • Collaboration with organisations in GEO Health & Environment Co. P 20

Upcoming major events and dissemination activities • Air Quality & Health Workshop at GEO IX, November 22 • AIP-5 Demonstrations & Presentations at GEO IX, November 23, 10: 00 -12: 00, 2012 • 2 nd EO 2 HEAVEN Stakeholder and Training Workshops in Durban, Pretoria and Kampala, February, 2013 • Final Event, Leuven near Brussels, May 13 -14, 2013 21

Thank you for your attention Kym Watson Coordinator EO 2 HEAVEN Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB Karlsruhe, Germany kym. watson@iosb. fraunhofer. de José Lorenzo Research Coordinator EO 2 HEAVEN Atos, Madrid, Spain jose. lorenzo@atosresearch. eu Ingo Simonis Technical Manager EO 2 HEAVEN and leader GEO AIP 5 Thread SBA Health Open Geospatial Consortium isimonis@opengeospatial. org www. eo 2 heaven. org 22