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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Gschwind, Benoît"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Development and Integration of a Local Solar Atlas into a GEOSS compliant Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Menard, Lionel; Wald, Lucien; Blanc, Philippe; Gschwind, Benoît
    In the framework of the Architecture Implementation Pilot - Phase 5 (AIP-5) of GEO (Group on Earth Observation) and with the support of the European Commission FP7-project (Seventh Framework Program) ENDORSE (ENergyDOwnstReam SErvices - Providing energy components for GMES; 2011-2013), we have developed a scenario to provide a free-access infrastructure to discover and exploit the solar potential of the Provence Alpes Cote d Azur (PACA) region located in the South East of France. Several tens of calibrated maps of solar irradiation have been produced at a high spatial resolution (200 m) allowing to perform local level studies, i.e. at 1/250 000 scale. Providing online map and time series services offers an interesting trade-off between an educative and a fully expert approach to access solar radiation information as on-line local atlas. It is suitable for decision-support in solar energy policy planning and private investment as well as for educational purpose to promote solar energy. A Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) has been developed that includes a community portal, a geographical server for hosting geospatial data, a geospatial data catalog allowing search and discovery of data of interest and a WebGIS client providing a user friendly application gathering in a single and dedicate GUI (Graphical User Interface) all data needed for practitioner to enable decision making for energy related projects. Thanks to the respect of international standards enabling interoperability, the components of the GSDI has been integrated and connected among others to larger international initiative such as GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) and UNEP-GRID (United Nation Education Program) allowing a wider dissemination of the resources for the benefit of data providers on the one hand and of the renewable energy community on the other hand.
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    Development of a GIS-based spatial model for the estimation of sustainable biomass potentials in different regions of North West Europe
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Menard, Lionel; Wald, Lucien; Blanc, Philippe; Gschwind, Benoît
    Within the EU-project BioenNW a GIS-based spatial model for the estimation of the amount and the spatial distribution of different biomass residues, originating e.g. from agriculture, forestry and municipal waste, is being developed using the integrated development environment Eclipse together with the programming language Python and the software ArcGIS. This study presents the model structure and exemplary results for the estimation of residue potentials from cereals and root crops cultivation on arable land in the district Dueren (Germany). Besides to theoretical potentials, so called sustainable potentials are estimated assuming different types of ecological and techno-economic restrictions. The sustainable residue potentials are estimated for the EEA reference grid (1 km) including maps data on land cover, protected areas, soil erodibility and soil organic carbon content together with statistical data on land use and crop yields for the year 2010.
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    Environmental impact assessment of electricity production by photovoltaic system using GEOSS recommendations on interoperability
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Menard, Lionel; Gschwind, Benoît; Blanc, Isabelle; Beloin-Saint-Pierre, Didier; Wald, Lucien; Blanc, Philippe; Ranchin, Thierry; Hischier, Roland; Gianfranceschi, Simone; Smolders, Steven; Gilles, Marc; Grassin, Cyril
    Within the Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-3) of GEOSS, we have developed a scenario called “environmental impact assessment of the production, transportation and use of energy for the photovoltaic (PV) sector through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)”. It aims at providing decision-makers and policy-planners with reliable and geo-localized knowledge of several impacts induced by various technologies of the PV sector. The scenario is implemented in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) and benefits from the GEOSS interoperability arrangements. The FP7-co-funded EnerGEO project provides a GEOSS compliant Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW) that permits to discover the Web Processing Service (WPS) allowing computation of the environmental impact. A WebGIS client provided by the FP7-co-funded GENESIS platform allows users to interact with geospatial data and computation processes. This scenario has proven to be an efficient tool to disseminate knowledge on environmental impacts related to PV because of the GEOSS capabilities in interoperability.
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    Three Years of Experience with the SoDa Web Service Delivering Solar Radiation Information: Lessons Learned and Perspectives
    (Informatics for Environmental Protection - Networking Environmental Information, 2005) Gschwind, Benoît; Ménard, Lionel; Albuisson, Michel; Wald, Lucien
    Information on solar radiation is a critical issue in several environmental domains as well as for sun-powered systems. The present means for accessing information by users present several severe drawbacks. Three major problems were identified and should be solved to supply users with relevant information: improved access to information, improved space and time description / knowledge of the radiation field and related quantities, improved matching to actual user needs. The SoDa project was launched (2000-2003, IST programme of the European Commission) to bring solutions by an efficient use of advanced information and communication technologies. An integration of information sources of different natures was initiated by the SoDa Intelligent System (see online at http://www.sodais. com). These sources include databases containing solar radiation parameters and other relevant information; several of them originate from the processing of images taken by satellites. The sources also include user-oriented applications. The successive prototypes of the SoDa Service were validated through users trials. The outcomes of the project SoDa represent a significant step forward beyond the current state of the art and include substantial original work. The main innovations of SoDa are to offer a smart access to diverse networked sources of information that are geographically dispersed, and to supply users with information of high quality. Surveys of users demonstrated that large gains in terms of efficiency, costs, etc. were expected by engineers, companies, agencies and research institutes if relevant information were more easily available for virtually any geographical location at any time. Accordingly, it was decided in 2003 to create the SoDa Service and to operate it. During these past three years, the SoDa Service underwent several improvements, all aiming at consolidating it with respect to access by users. Improvements were made on the SoDa Intelligent System, including works on the user interface and on the presentation of the services. Promotion efforts were made towards media, including TV. The effective use of the SoDa Service is increasing from year to year. In 2003, 2000 requests for information were satisfied; in 2004, 20 000 requests; 35 000 are expected in 2005. This communication presents the lessons learned from the past and the perspectives of the SoDa Service. We discuss the sustainability of the SoDa Service, the technologies used and the approach to customers, in the perspective of developing a B2B merchant site.
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    Web tool for energy policy decision-making through geo-localized LCA models: A focus on offshore wind farms in Northern Europe
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 2: Open Data and Industrial Ecological Management, 2012) Blanc, Isabelle; Guermont, Catherine; Gschwind, Benoît; Menard, Lionel; Calkoen, Charles; Zelle, Hein
    Environmental performances of electricity generation, expressed as environmental impacts per kWh of electricity produced, depend strongly on technical, methodological and geographical parameters. When considering the global environmental performances of renewable energies, a geo-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) taking into account geographical issues is of high. To illustrate this issue, a web map service enabling “geolocalized life cycle assessment” of offshore wind farms for different configurations has been developed. Based on a modular LCA model and on collaborative works made within the framework of the FP7 co-funded project EnerGEO, the developed tool should help decision makers in assessing the global environmental impacts caused by an offshore wind farm in Northern Europe.