INSPIRE and GLOBE infrastructure and capacity building in Europe

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INSPIRE and GLOBE- infrastructure and capacity
building in Europe

• Eva Pauknerova
• Visiting Scientist
• European Commission
• Joint Research Centre
• Institute for Environment and Sustainability

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Presentation Outline

• EC JRC Introduction
• What is INSPIRE and how does it progress ?
• What is specific for Europe?
• Is there anything similar outside Europe?
• Why INSPIRE and GLOBE?
• Ideas for join activities in Europe

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DG Joint Research Centre
EU
Commission Parliament Council
Introduction
DG AGRI DG INFSO

• Mission to provide customer-driven scientific
  and technical support for the conception,
  development, implementation and monitoring of
  European Union policies.
• The JRC functions as a reference centre of
  science and technology for the Union.
• Close to the policy-making process, it serves the
  common interest of the Member States, while being
  independent of special interests, whether private
  or national.
• 7 institutes in 5 countries, 2000 people

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What is INSPIRE ?

• INSPIRE INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation
  in Europe,
• is an initiative launched by the European
  Commission and developed in collaboration with
  Member States and accession countries
• it aims at making available relevant, harmonized
  and quality geographic information to support
  formulation, implementation, monitoring and
  evaluation of Community policies with a
  territorial dimension or impact
• intends to trigger the creation of a European
  spatial data infrastructure (ESDI) that delivers
  to the users integrated spatial information
  services linked by common standards and
  protocols.
• The INSPIRE Geo-Portal is Europe's Internet
  access point for Spatial Data and Services. From
  here, you can search for spatial data, services,
  and organizations.

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INSPIRE Principles

• Data should be collected once and maintained at
  the level where this can be done most effectively
  
• It should be possible to combine seamless spatial
  information from different sources across Europe
  and share it between many users and application
• It should be possible for information collected
  at one level to be shared between all the
  different levels, detailed for detailed
  investigations, general for strategic purposes
• Geographic information needed for good governance
  at all levels should be abundant under conditions
  that do not refrain its extensive use
• It should be easy to discover which geographic
  information is available, fits the needs for a
  particular use and under which conditions it can
  be acquired and used
• Geographic data should become easy to understand
  and interpret because it can be visualized within
  the appropriate context selected in a
  user-friendly way

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Memorandum of understanding betweenCommissioners
Wallstróm, Solbes, Busquin11 April 2002
The European Sustainable Development Strategy
advocates a new approach to policy-making through
more coherence in the Community policies. An
information base that provides detailed relevant
harmonized spatial information for different
policy areas and that is commonly accessible
could significantly contribute to this
objective. Currently, exploitation of the
potential of GI is hampered by lack of standards,
of data and of a coherent data policy. A
Community initiative to address these
difficulties could unlock a vast potential of
information and information services...
Standardization of GI services would furthermore
open up new ways of communication, narrowing the
gap between Europe and its citizens.
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INSPIRE Process ( long one -) but needed
!Bottom-up Stakeholder Involvement

• Building consensus in expert groups
• Orientation and Position papers of experts
• Establishing the state-of-play
• Preparing the proposal -gt A Framework Directive
• Scoping policy measures with expert advice
• Assessing the political and socio-economic impact
• A public review of the proposed measures
• Adoption of the Framework Directive by the
  Commission
• The proposal on the political agenda of the EU
  Presidency
• Co-Decision Procedure by Council and Parliament
• Implementing Rules Development
• Adoption of the Framework Directive
• Transposing the Framework Directive
• Implementing the Framework Directive

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INSPIRE Directive Proposal approved by the EC in
July 2004
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Components of the infrastructure

• The infrastructure includes
• metadata,
• spatial data sets and services,
• network services
• agreements on sharing,
• access and use,
• coordination and monitoring mechanisms,
• processes and procedures

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Why INSPIRE and GLOBE?

• INSPIRE lays down general rules for the
  establishment of an infrastructure for SI in
  Europe to support
• (i) environmental policies and
• (ii) policies that affect the environment.
• INSPIRE based on infrastructures for SI
  established and elaborated by the EU Member
  States.
• Therefore INSPIRE implementation depends on the
  awareness of and support by governments on
  national, regional and local levels.
• The GLOBE schools
• educate young people, who become professionals in
  5-10 years
• have potential for raising awareness on municipal
  and regional levels.

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Scope of data harmonisation (1) and (2)

• Annex I
• Coordinate reference systems
• Geographical grid systems
• Geographical names
• Administrative units
• Transport networks
• Hydrography
• Protected sites

• Annex II
• Identifiers of Properties
• Elevation (including terrestrial elevation,
  bathymetry and coastline)
• Land cover
• Cadastral parcels
• Ortho-imagery

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Scope of data harmonisation (3)

• Annex III
• Statistical units
• Buildings
• Soil
• Geology
• Land use
• Human health and safety
• Government service and environmental monitoring
  facilities
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Population distribution - demography

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Key actors in the INSPIREdevelopment process
SPATIAL DATA INTEREST COMMUNITIES
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Joint interests of INSPIRE and GLOBE

• (i) recognition and understanding of local
  environment and data in a regional or global
  context
• (ii) systematic and easy use of spatial data for
  environmental protection,
• (iii) differentiating scales relevant to specific
  environmental phenomena, data collection and
  decision making,
• (iv) data, information and knowledge transfer
  cross administrative borders or professional
  barriers 
• (v) capacity building in a long-term perspective

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Where INSPIRE/ESDI and GLOBE may influence or
support each other?

• guided involvement of GLOBE students into a
  simplified data quality testing or up-dating
• education with the INSPIRE implementation
  perspective of 5-8 years
• empowering researchers to formulate and promote
  the complex INSPIRE goals and process in a clear
  and simple way
• use of IMAGE 2000, Land Cover Maps combined with
  local data for educational purposes.

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Austria
Examples of Land Cover Maps
Ideas comparison of results, changes,
categories used ...
Belgium
Spain
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Searching for local or regional information on
environment
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Flood modelling and protection design (IMIP
Prague)
Czech Example
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Example 1
GIT in Risk management
Evacuation organised by local authority Prague 4
in 08/2002
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UNDERSTANDING LOCAL DATA in a BROADER CONTEXTAn
example using data from the Czech Republic
Example of a Natura 2000 site with several 1st
priority habitats and species as Austropotamobius
torrentium)

• Information on
• Nature Protection

Map display of this
Natura 2000 sites approved by the Czech
government in December 2004
Týrov - Ouporský potok
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Týrov - Ouporský potok CZ0214011
2) Publishing information related to the EC
Policies via INSPIRE will inform the planners,
managers, owners and authorities on all levels in
an efficient way
Natura 2000 site compared with the bio-centre
approved in the spatial plan of Rakovnicko
in the Central-Bohemian Region
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Historic maps may help to understand the
land-use change and issues of nature protection
in a long-term perspective
Týrov - Ouporský potok CZ0214011
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Nature 2000 and INSPIRE in practice
3) Information available through INSPIRE can be
compared with independent information sources as
remote sensing data and used for

• a) Monitoring trends
• and EC Policy impacts
• b) Controlling land-use and management
• c) Detection of damages

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Local Regional/National Global in practice
Natura 2000 Czech Republic
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CZ0214011
Spatial plan and other planning or management
tools
Corine Landcover
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GLOBEs contribution ?!?

• sustainability GLOBE is politically neutral
• capacity building
• GLOBE schools
• educate young people, who become professionals in
  5-10 years
• have potential for raising awareness on municipal
  and regional levels.
• examples of recognition
• GLOBE CZ as a part of the National GI
  Infrastructure adopted by the Gvnt Council for
  Information Society in 2001
• Paul Filmer ...Globe as a key component of GEO
  Capacity Building...

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Conclusions

• INSPIRE is a long-term process covering
  political, organizational and technical aspects
• INSPIRE aims to harmonize and make accessible
  quality geo-referenced information cross Europe
  to
• support implementation of environmental policies,
  incl.
• understanding of the complexity and interactions
  between human activities and environmental
  pressures and impacts.
• The INSPIRE initiative is a major challenge
• given the general situation outlined above and
• the many stakeholder interests to be addressed
• INSPIRE and GLOBE cross-reference and could
  support each other

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Commissioner Dimas The 3rd Earth
Observation Summit16 February 2005
Natural and human-induced disasters, environment
and health, climate change, sustainable
management of water, energy, ecosystems, land,
agriculture and biodiversity are currently at the
top of the environment and sustainable
development agendas. The scale of these problems
is simultaneously global, regional and local
The basic point is that good policy needs good
knowledge The EU has already demonstrated its
firm commitment by establishing policies and
systems through the INSPIRE directive which will
allow us to share information more efficiently
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INSPIRE ? ? GLOBE

• Thank you for your attention
• Eva.Pauknerova_at_jrc.it
• http//inspire.jrc.it/

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