Initial non-climate data manipulation and visualisation tools description

Deliverable 4.1 represents the interim report of the full activity earmarked in task 4.1. This report will present the interim progress about the provision of support to the local services providers through a set of services and software tools for manipulating locally-sourced socio-economic, demographic and EO data (previously identified in WP1- WP2) relevant to locally contextualising climate data.This interim report will explain progress on the following tasks: Populating the various local databases into a GeoNetwork catalogue (following the guidelines provided by WP2), as well as the EO data and Copernicus services available and being of interest for building indicators to inform about climate risk. This task will involve all the local service providers participating in the demonstrators, under the coordination and support of TerraNIS, and HCU. Making available a data ingestion toolbox to get access to the data registered in the metadata catalogues as provided by WP2. These tools will allow to ingest the data and images necessary for the relevant areas of interest into a GeoServer dedicated to the local area, with a common geographic and time reference, in order to allow easy further manipulation of these different data (optimising data access and data extraction on the time and spatial axis, resampling data). The data normalisation toolbox, which allows to express the different data (local databases, EO images and land use maps) into common geographical units (hexagonal grids or local administrative units) allowing further merging and alignment of these data with different spatio-temporal resolutions.