EurOBIS / EMODnet Biology OGC Web Services

EurOBIS is the european node of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) and part of the LifeWatch Belgium Species Information Backbone and EMODnet Biology. It aims at containing a wide range of taxonomic and species related data; the main goal being the integration of distributed biodiversity data repositories and operating facilities. EurOBIS plays an important role in this as the central storage facility for marine biogeographic data from all over Europe.

The EurOBIS data infrastructure is used as the central hub for making biological data available within the biological lot of EMODnet. Through EMODnet Biology the biodiversity occurrence data are available as a Web Feature Service (WFS) in accordance with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications. This webservice supports requests for geographical feature data (with vector geometry and attributes).

Date ( Creation): 2010-01-01

Status: On going / operational

Point of contact

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) - EurOBIS Data Management Team

Keywords: data management

Keywords: biogeography

Keywords: marine

Keywords: biodiversity

Keywords: biological occurrence

Keywords: web feature service

Keywords: web map service

Keywords: species coverage

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/terms-use

OnLine resource: R package 'eurobis' (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

OnLine resource: EurOBIS / EMODnet Biology OGC Web Services Web Feature Services (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

OnLine resource: EurOBIS / EMODnet Biology OGC Web Services Web Map Services (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

OnLine resource: Marine Regions Web Coverage Services (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

Operation name: VLIZ GeoServer

Web site: https://geo.vliz.be

Description: The Flanders Marine Institute runs an instance of GeoServer. GeoServer publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer implements several Open Geospatial Consortium protocols including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). Additional extensions are available for Catalogue Service (CSW) and Web Processing Service (WPS).

Function: The VLIZ GeoServer is used to publish the EurOBIS database through EMODnet-Biology, in addition to data products.

Topic Category: Species distribution

Service Category: data access

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Funding: The maintenance and further development of EurOBIS services and tools relies on financial contributions and support of its host institution: VLIZ. EurOBIS is currently funded through the LifeWatch Belgium project.