52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

The State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LUNG M-V) is the largest data-holding body for environmental data in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In light of the numerous data sets, large volumes of data and various legal frameworks, a comprehensive data infrastructure concept for the LUNG was developed. One component of the data infrastructure will be the “Environmental Measurement Data Portal”.

52°North is responsible for developing this data portal for the LUNG M-V. The portal will serve as a central entry point for time series-based sensor data, offering comprehensive functionality for exploring and downloading available data. The OGC SensorThings API specification and the 52°North Helgoland Sensor Web Viewer are essential technical foundations for establishing this data portal.

In 2025, 52°North developed ingestion tools and workflows for the ingestion of water quality data. Our team also created a customized version of the 52°North Helgoland Sensor Web Viewer, tailoring it to the LUNG M-V’s specific data and visualization requirements.

52°North was contracted by con terra, on behalf of the Marine Conservation Divison of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), to develop a novel, interoperable data sharing solution. This solution focuses on environmental data gathered by advanced measuring buoys and is part of the project titled “Expanding Data Management for the Digitization of Marine Biodiversity Data.”

This project encompassed tasks designed to establish an efficient data-sharing infrastructure. It comprised the selection of suitable standards, the creation of a mapping between these standards and the original data, and the implementation of an interoperable REST-API to receive, store, and share the measurement data. A central element of the architecture developed is the OGC API Connected Systems, which will serve as an interface enabling interoperable access to the collected observation data. 52°North primarily focused on conceptualizing the new infrastructure and providing exemplary demonstration services so project partners could explore and initiate the development of a viewer application.

52°North provided training to a number of municipalities and districts in 2025. These workshops, conducted both online and on site, focused on the practical application and use of KomMonitor.

• Use of KomMonitor for spatio-temporal analysis and urban monitoring
• Administration of KomMonitor and data import workflows
• Data access concepts and practical user management with Keycloak
• Basics in Docker and container-based KomMonitor deployment

The workshops targeted a diverse group of municipal professionals. These included local government decision makers, social and urban planners, geodata managers, statisticians and IT experts, all of whom were trained to use KomMonitor.