Andreas Schuck

The advanced EFIS system

29.06.05NEFIS Symposium

Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy

The advanced EFIS system

Data prepared for NEFIS

Forestry statistics• Scale: international, European, national • Data types: national forest inventory, forest resources,

products, trade and price statistics Rural development, land use and socio-economic data

• Scale: European Union, national, regional• Data types: land use; rural development plans, age

structure, employment ICP-Forest data

• Scale: European • Data type: Level 1 data

Spatial data • Scale: European, national, regional• Data types: forest maps, fire risks, seasonal burnt areas,

protected areas, Natura 2000, climatic raster maps,

forest type maps

Country Annual removals (forest)1000 m3 over bark

Austria 17171Belgium 4400Czech Republic 13140Denmark 2194Estonia**Finland 49500France 47611Germany 38867Greece 2408Hungary 5375Iceland 0Ireland 2330Italy 8381Latvia 6710Liechtenstein 14Lithuania 4740Luxembourg 360Netherlands 1219Norway 10880Poland 26212Portugal 11400Slovakia 5600Slovenia 2300Spain* 14185Sweden 61593Switzerland 6408United Kingdom 8200

METLASLU

UoH

RU

KVL

CTFC

JRC-IES

AISF

SFS

IFN

VTK & metadata-base host (EFI)

data host; host of NEFIS VTK and metadatabase

data host

Distributed access to NEFIS data and VTK application

METLASLU

KVL

AISF

SFS

IFNdata request and identification

data extraction from remote hosts and data compilation

visualise with NEFIS VTK

Forest inventory data extraction from remote data servers

inventory data extracted and new table compiled (at EFI)

Metadata request tometadata base (at EFI)

Visualise with NEFIS VTK

(at EFI)

Group work

Hands-on group (Gennady Andrienko, Tim Richards, Tim Green)• More in depth presentation of the advanced EFIS• Participants are encouraged to actively participate• Give feedback on the current demonstration version and give suggestions for

further development

Vision group (Risto Päivinen, Andreas Schuck)• Give recommendations on how an operational system should be designed in a

European context• How do you see your own organisation within an emerging European system?• Are there benefits/contraints you see from your persepctive towards an

emerging system?• Other recomendations for the future