The BlueBRIDGE Project - Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI, BlueBRIDGE Technical Coordinator

1. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
BlueBRIDGE
Building Research environments for fostering Innovation, Decision
making, Governance and Education to support Blue Growth
Pasquale Pagano
BlueBRIDGE Technical Director
CNR-ISTI
pasquale.pagano@isti.cnr.it
Digital Infrastructures for Research
November 30 2017
Brussels, Belgium
Pioneering EOSC
thematic domains:
the Blue Growth case
and beyond

2. BlueBRIDGE Services Offer
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D4Science
Infrastructure
Web-based Virtual Research Environments for supporting
multisciplinary knowledge production activities
by exploiting capabilities offered through “data infrastructures”

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BlueBRIDGE Services Offer
Data services addressing the whole data management value chain
Infrastructure services to access and manage infrastructure resources

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Storage
Database GIS NoSQL
Computing
D4Science EGI SeaDataNet
Data
OSCAR Copernicus
BlueBRIDGE Services Offer

5. D4Science and VREs
External e-Infrastructures, repositories & services
Integrates
Analytics
EngineAggregatorStorage Mediator ….. Service CommonsRegistry
Enables
VRE
VRE
VRE
WP
S
58 VREs
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/explore
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6. Spatial Planning
Protected Areas Impact Maps
Reporting tool for AICHI-11
Target
Geospatial intersections
computations on the fly
Complete PDF Reports
Layers can be added e.g.
Biodiversity
Socio-economic
Fisheries / aquaculture sites
Released 8 NOV 2017
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/protectedareaimpactmaps
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7. Aquaculture detection from
Spatial EO data
Reporting tool for countries and FAO
Interoperable infrastructures:
CLS France Aquity => EO Analysis
D4Science => Geospatial based analysis
Greece: 8699 fish cages; 1 931 043 m²
Indonesia: Ponds vs. Rice
Sentinel1 & 2, Landsat combi
EO Timeseries analysis
Will be reviewed by Ministry of fisheries
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/aquacultureatlasgeneration
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8. Global Tuna Atlas
From fragmented T-RFMO
data
to publish a global, harmonized,
open dataset on global capture
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/fao_tunaatlas
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9. Fisheries Models: DLM Methods, CMSY, SS3, VPA, and Ecopath
Innovative VREs with:
Rstudio: unique cloud based implementation
DataMiner: host and expose R/WPS based models
Rshiny: unique proxy based user interfaces
Support to replicability and transparency
Data analytics
Tools for Stock Assessment comparison (in
collaboration with NOAA) exploited by
• FAO – Marine and Inland Fisheries Branch
• ICCAT – International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tuna
• IOTC – Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
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10. Big Data,
Big Problems, Big Methods
Invasive Species Model for FAO
The puffer fish Lagocephalus
sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789)
Expansion calculated up to 2050
Invasion pattern useful to management
Impact analysis
Climate change Maps
Match data across models
For use in cross-domain
science
Forecast model
Climate (NASA 130 GB)
Water temperature (IPSL)
2 Scenarios available
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/biodiversitylab
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11. Basis for computing regional or global indicators on the status of fish stocks
One-stop-shop for 2000+ stocks across the Fisheries and Resource
Monitoring System (FIRMS), the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment
Database and
FishSource (program of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership)
The collation process results in
semantically rich and multifaceted
information
Global Record of
Stocks and Fisheries
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/grsf
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12. Aquafarming operational
analysis
Performance Evaluation
enable companies to evaluate and optimize their production performance
Benchmarking and decision making
benchmark their production performance against best
practices and the competition
Strategic investment analysis
support aquaculture companies to define their business plans
enable scientific research communities and policy makers to identify the
strategic locations of interest that meet multifactor selection criteria
• Site location
• Temperature
&
environmental
site profile
Site Setup Model Setup What-If Analysis
• Upload historical
production data
• Generate KPIs
(FCR, SFR,
Mortality %)
models
• Production
planning
• Create scenarios
• Assess KPIs
• Benchmarking
• Set parameters of the
aqua farm
investment
• Estimate Investment
Performance
Indicators
Techno Economic
Investment Analysis
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/strategicinvestmentanalysis
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/web/performanceevaluationinaquaculture
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13. Beyond aquaculture and the
ecosystem approach to fisheries …
Agro Climate
Modelling
Food Security
Risk Assessment
Modelling and
Knowledge
Integration Platforms
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14. Contact details
Visit the BlueBRIDGE Website:
http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Visit the BlueBRIDGE Catalogue & VREs:
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/catalogue