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Data for the Environment – Connecting and Governing Data for Sustainability:�A Shared Environmental Analytics Facility��Prof Owen T Nevin, Chief Executive Officer WABSI��Anniversary Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Cumbria, UK�Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, CQUniversity Australia�

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Samuel’s Environmental Data Supply Chain

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Shared Analytic Framework for the Environment (SAFE)

Shared Analytics Framework for the Environment (SAFE)

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  1. Index of Biodiversity Surveys for Assessments (IBSA) (implemented 2018, 500 surveys ~ AU$40m annually)

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  • Digitally Transforming Environmental Assessment Case (completed 2019, ~$150m NPV benefit annually)

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  • Index of Marine Surveys for Assessments (implemented 2020, 50 surveys ~ AU$50m annually)

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  • Biodiversity Information Office (BIO) (under way 2020 – 24, ~ AU$10m), CoA Biodiversity Data Repository $4m

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  • Environment Online / Digital Environmental Assessment Program (under way 2020 -2022, ~ AU$50m)

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  • Shared Analytic Framework for the Environment (SAFE)

What has been achieved?

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Shared Environmental Analytics Facility

(SEAF)

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Shared Environmental Analytics Facility (SEAF)

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Landing zones created for specific users or use-cases

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Data Ingestion into specific private zones or shared data lakes available to all.

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Data Transfer zones ensure security is maintained in Private Zones

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Encrypted Data Flow

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RTIO Zone

Data Cleanse

  • Take relevant biodiversity datasets
  • De-duplication of records
  • Taxonomic review and update of species names
  • Other checks (location, validation of values, etc)

RTIO Zone

Regional Vegetation Map

  • Take quadrat data
  • Run processes to convert to vegetation associations
  • Produce spatial vegetation map layer

HI Zone

Biodiversity Data

PI Zone

Biodiversity Data

HI Zone

Quadrat Data

PI Zone

Quadrat Data

Clean Biodiversity Data

Regional Vegetation Map

RTIO and Regulator Zone

Species Baselines

  • Calculate species per area unit
  • Calculate species per vegetation association
  • Produce set of standard values for the Pilbara

RTIO and Regulator Zone

Regional Fauna Habitats

  • Bring in other datasets (e.g. climate) that are relevant to the process
  • Run processes to create fauna habitat areas

RTIO Zone

Exclusions and Restrictions

  • Bring in other datasets (e.g. heritage) that are relevant for the process
  • Run processes to create restriction areas
  • Run processes to create exclusion areas

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Operationalise 2025

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Translating science knowledge �and data analytics into streamlined decisions

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A COLLECTIVE EFFORT

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Shared Environmental Analytics Facility

  • Robust, repeatable & sustainable
  • Scalable
  • Trusted
  • Secure – public and private data zones
  • Operationalised delivery of knowledge products informed by the best science and data

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PILOT: COCKBURN SOUND SEAF SPOKE  

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COCKBURN SOUND

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COCKBURN SOUND - CSEIM

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COCKBURN SOUND SEAF SPOKE

  • Industry operation and growth
  • Industrial Area Groundwater Model/Maps
  • Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Models
  • Integrated Marine Ecosystem Biogeochemistry and Ecological Models and Maps
  • Terrestrial Emissions Models and Maps
  • Cockburn Sound "State of the Environment" Reporting

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COCKBURN SOUND SEAF SPOKE

Robust – independently validated, trusted, rigorous science

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Repeatable – operational data and products for a region, standardised, validated and secured, re-run with new information, multiple users (industry and regulator)

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Sustainable – valued and held in perpetuity, continuously improved, used and trusted

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PILOT: THE PILBARA

  • Sub-regional approach
  • Single factor – groundwater
  • Foundation for expansion
    • Regional extent
    • Partners
    • Factors – flora & fauna

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SEAF: A FUTURE VISION

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seaf.org.au

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