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INSPIRE and Copernicus?

Christian ANSORGESEIS and INSPIRE implementation

Copenhagen, 20th October 2015

European Environment Agency

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Outline

Data and knowledge in the environmental acquis

INSPIRE

INSPIRE and Copernicus

Data production

Service provision

Data distribution

EEA Case: Land Cover towards INSPIRE

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DATA AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACQUIS

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Generic policy requirements (e.g.):

• Effectiveness• Efficiency• Relevance

• E.g. Pertinent to it‘s objectives

• Coherence• E.g. Relation to other policies

• Consistency• E.g. Positive/negative spill-over effects

• Sustainability• Acceptability

* accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions

We need

better data?

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Characteristic of information needed• Up to date

• Extremely diverse• Cutting across policy domains, economic sectors,

environmental media and themes• Depends upon diverse technologies and data sources, many

of which are not environment specific • Managed by a wide variety of data holders from local to

European level

Motivation for better data about our environment and a

more efficient way to access them

(e.g. INSPIRE & Copernicus)

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INSPIRE

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„INSPIRE“ is an EU legislation

Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the

European Community (INSPIRE) 14.03.2007

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INSPIRE general policy objective

To establish a system of systems for spatial data!

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

to have more and better spatial information available for policy-making and implementation at all levels of government – with a focus on environmental policies

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INSPIRE - COPERNICUS

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INSPIRE - Copernicus

INSPIRE Art. 1 Directive 2007/2/EC

a) “.. general rules aimed at the establishment of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community ..”

b) “.. build upon infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States.”

Copernicus Art. 4 (1) Reg. 377/2014

a) “.. support the protection of the environment ..”

Art. 4 (2)a) ”.. delivering accurate and

reliable data ..”

b) ”.. maximising socio-economic benefits ..”

c) ”.. providing a sustainable and reliable access to in situ data .. in particular, on existing capacities operated at European and national levels”

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INSPIRE Establishes a infrastructure

for data

Brings together data infrastructures across Europe

Beneficial to Copernicus

Copernicus Collects and processes data

from space and in-situ

Provides access to space data

Provides access to in-situ data

Beneficial to INSPIRE

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INSPIRE for Copernicus A way to discover and

access data needed for production and validation for Copernicus Services

A way to distribute data to a wide range of users

Provides standards for interoperability

Copernicus for INSPIRE An user of data (esp. in-situ

data)

A producer of data

A provider of services

An important stakeholder

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Details: INSPIRE Copernicus

Discovery of data*

Centralised access point for search

Meta data availability

> 65.000 records in INSPIRE Geoportal

Legal obligation for MS to provide metadata

Meta data standards

Accessibility of data*

Access via web services

Harmonised content and data models

Machine interoperability

Data quality standards

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Details: INSPIRE Copernicus

Distribution of data*

Access to the European spatial data and service infrastructure

Discoverability

Accessibility

Data quality standards

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* Data under the scope of INSPIRE

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CORDA

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INSPIRE for CORDA

CORDA builds on benefits from INSPIRE for Copernicus purposes

Central search (to currently circa 65k data sets)

Harmonised content and standardized data models

INSPIRE web services

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EEA CASE: LAND COVER TOWARDS INSPIRE

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Motivation for INSPIRE conformity

Corine Land Cover and Urban Atlas are the most requested data sets the EEA offers

A wide range of use cases build on these data

Policies

Other datasets

Part of the Copernicus portfolio

Need for best practices and references for following INSPIRE implementers

No best practices available

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Stages (includes CLC and UA)

Development and documentation of mapping rules from source to Land Cover DS (GML 3.2)

Work done by EAGLE Group (Jan. – Sep. 2015)

Documentation, mapping tables

Example tranformations to generate INSPIRE conformant gml files

Validation rules

Service testing

Different environments and settings

Implementation at EEA and Copernicus platform

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Coming questions

• From test regions to transformation of large scale data sets

• Which encoding is best suited?

• What is the best approach for packaging and clustering?

• Impact on coming round of CLC processing?

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Large scale

data sets

Structured via nomenclature

Traditional GIS formats

Structured via country,

region, city

GML encoding

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CONCLUSION

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Conclusion

INSPIRE

Serves Copernicus

Access to data

Distribution channel

On its way to get operative (till 2020)

Needs experience and capacities

Copernicus

Contributes to INSPIRE

Data and service provider

Service user

Major INSPIRE use case on European scale

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