ESPON Seminar Lillehammer May 1011, 2004

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ESPON Seminar LillehammerMay 10/11, 2004
Spatial Planning in GMES
G - Global M - Monitoring for E -
Environment and S - Security
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What is GMES ?

• A European initiative with different dimensions!
• the user s dimension - the need for independent
  information for EU environmental and security
  policies
• the strategic dimension - the necessity for
  Europe to play a leading role in information and
  Earth observation technology
• Overall goal - Establish by 2008 a European
  Capacity for Global Monitoring of Environment and
  Security
• key drivers of GMES
• The European Commission DG Research / DG InfSo
  / DG JRC / DG Environment / DG Regio / DG Agri /
  DG ?
• The European Space Agency ESA

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Initial List of GMES Priority Themes

• European Regional Monitoring
• Land Cover Change in Europe
• Environmental Stress in Europe
• Water Management (world-wide)

• Global Monitoring
• Global Vegetation Monitoring
• Global Ocean Monitoring
• Global Atmosphere Monitoring

• Security related Aspects
• Support to Regional Development Aid
• Systems for Risk Management
• Systems for Crisis Management and Humanitarian Aid

• Horizontal Support Action
• Information Management Tools and Contributionsto
  the Development of a European Spatial
  DataInfrastructure

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GMES landscape present and future
Program initiators
Projects / Programme
DG Research Support DG-Env
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
2008
GSE projects related to land use/land cover

• SAGE
• GUS
• CoastWatch

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geoland - Thematic Scope
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General Approach

• Starts from user requirements!
• Active involvement of users
• Follows European Standards in terms of
• Nomenclature (e.g. CORINE LC)
• Formats (OpenGIS)
• Technical standards (INSPIRE)
• Quality Assurance (ISO)
• Based on sound experience the partners in LU/LC
  applications, especially for
• Agricultural land use and irrigation
• Forestry
• Urban mapping
• Processing chains designed for efficient
  production of LU/LC products, in terms of
  quality, affordabilty, and highest possible
  degree of automation

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geoland Observatory Spatial Planning

• Lead GeoVille (total budgetgt 2 Mill )
• Strong link with core service Land cover led
  by Infoterra
• Partners
• University of Leeds (UK)
• JRC
• Hugin (D)
• Austrian Research Centres (A)
• Extended user group
• DG Regio
• EURO-CITIES
• METRECS
• ETC-TE
• Federal Environment Agency (A)
• Austrian Institute of Spatial Planning (A)
• State Governments of Vorarlberg Upper Austria
  (A)

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geoland Observatory Spatial Planning

• Objectives and goals
• Introducing innovative EO based services and
  products into the domain of spatial planning
• Products in the urban-urban and urban-rural
  relations domain
• Products in the agricultural-environmental domain
• Tools models to build scenarios
• Becoming the reference for EO spatial planning
  applications at European, national regional
  level

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geoland Observatory Spatial Planning

• Summary of the geoland Services for Spatial
  Planning
• EO based applications for spatial planning to
  provide operational, homogenous and localised
  geo-information services for Europe
• Fulfilling the requirements of
• reliability
• sustainability, and
• affordability
• Thereby helping
• to understand the diversity of the European
  territory (polycentrism, etc.)
• to mitigate urban-rural disparities for a
  balanced territorial development
• to ensure sustainable use of soil as a
  non-renewable resource
• to evaluate spatial planning programmes on
  different levels
• to assess territorial impacts of infrastructure
  investments

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Contact
Dr. Franz JaskollaInfoterra GmbHFriedrichshafen
/ GermanyT. 49-7545-8-9965E.
Franz.Jaskolla_at_infoterra-global.com Dr.
Christian Hoffmann Geoville GesmbH Innsbruck /
Austria T. 43-512-5620-211 E hoffmann_at_geoville.c
om geoland -Webpage http//www.gmes-geoland.info