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Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography
INTRODUCTION TO
SPATIAL DATA
INFRASTRUCTURES
IN EUROPE
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomáš ŘEZNÍK, PhD.
Fall 2014
Laboratory on Geoinformatics and Cartography
• Z8210 Introduction to spatial data infrastructures in
Europe
• Language: English
• Extent and intensity: 2/0, 5 credits
• Type of Completion: k (colloquium)
– an academic seminar
• theory as well as practice
• broad discussion
– each student will present one topic (from the list
advertised by the teacher) during the course
About the course
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• Assessment methods
– assessment of student's presentation;
– assessment of student's activity during discussion
throughout the semester.
About the course
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1. Motivations and benefits of the European spatial data
infrastructures (ESDI).
2. Metadata as the founding stone for linking between ESDI
components.
3. Discovery processes, searching for spatial data and Web
services.
4. View processes, preview of discovered spatial data.
5. Download processes, ordering and download of desired data.
6. Data models, understanding the UML diagrams and other
formalised descriptions.
7. Map compositions on the Web, OGC Web Map Context.
8. Data sharing, use limitations and other licensing issues.
Syllabus
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• required literature
– CRAGLIA, M. et al. 2012. Digital Earth 2020: towards the vision for the next decade. In
International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 5, Issue 1. 20 pages.
– http://inspire.ec.europa.eu
– NOGUERAS-ISO J.,MURO-MEDRANO P.R.,ZARAZAGA-SORIA F.J. Geographic
information metadata for spatial data infrastructures :resources, interoperability and
information retrieval. 1st ed. New York: Springer, 2005. xxi, 263 p. ISBN 3-540-24464-
6.
• recommended literature
– ANNONI A.,CRAGLIA M.,EHLERS M.,GEORGIADOU Y.,GIACOMELLI A.,
KONEČNÝ, M.,OSTLAENDER N.,REMETEY-FULOPP G.,RHIND D.,SMITS
P.,SCHADE S. A European perspective on Digital Earth. International Journal of
Digital Earth, Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Taylor and Francis, 2011, July 2011, 4/4, p. 271-
284. ISSN 1753-8947. doi:10.1080/17538947.2011.582888.
– UML modeling languages and applications :UML 2004 Satellite Activities, Lisbon,
Portugal, October 11-15, 2004 : revised selected papers. Edited by Nuno Jardim
Nunes. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. xiv, 294 s.
ISBN 3-540-25081-6.
– KAMBA V. Tvorba systémů a komponent podle specifikace UML. Brno, 2002. 61 s. +
CD.
Literature
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1. MOTIVATIONS AND BENEFITS OF THE
EUROPEAN SPATIAL DATA
INFRASTRUCTURES
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• Initiative/legislation/framework to discover available
spatial data, to evaluate their suitability for the purpose
and to know the conditions applicable to their use.
Why European spatial data infrastructures?
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• Have you ever heard about the PSI directive?
– DIRECTIVE 2003/98/EC OF THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17
November 2003 on the re-use of public sector
information
• How could be any information re-used when we do
not know that it exists?
Why such emphasis on discovery process?
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
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EU has islands of data of
different standards and
quality...
“Spatial data islands”
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
Adopted from http://google.co.uk
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
Search
DISCOVERY SERVICE FOR SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES
Customized time range:
From:
To:
+
Adopted
from http://maps.google.co.uk
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Date of creation
Resource title
Responsible party
Resource abstract
Geographic location
Lineage
Conformity
Topic category
INSPIRE metadata
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A metadata editor?
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INSPIRE-compliant metadata
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GIS software
GIS software GIS software
Geographic location
Topic category
Lineage
Temporal extent
…
Metadata publication
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
Search
DISCOVERY SERVICE FOR SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES
Customized time range:
From:
To:
+
Adopted
from http://maps.google.co.uk
map
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Catalogue server
Client application
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
Search
DISCOVERY SERVICE FOR SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES
Customized time range:
From:
To:
+
Adopted
from http://maps.google.co.uk
map
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
Search
DISCOVERY SERVICE FOR SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES
Customized time range:
From:
To:
+
Adopted
from http://maps.google.co.uk
map
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
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Why European spatial data infrastructures?
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For which themes may I search?
Annex I
1. Coordinate reference systems
2. Geographical grid systems
3. Geographical names
4. Administrative units
5. Addresses
6. Cadastral parcels
7. Transport networks
8. Hydrography
9. Protected sites
Annex II
1. Elevation
2. Land cover
3. Orthoimagery
4. Geology
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For which themes may I search?
Annex III
1. Statistical units
2. Buildings
3. Soil
4. Land use
5. Human health and safety
6. Utility and governmental services
7. Environmental monitoring facilities
8. Production and industrial facilities
9. Agricultural and aquaculture
facilities
10. Population distribution —
demography
11. Area
management/restriction/regulati
on zones and reporting units
12. Natural risk zones
13. Atmospheric conditions
14. Meteorological geographical
features
15. Oceanographic geographical
features
16. Sea regions
17. Bio-geographical regions
18. Habitats and biotopes
19. Species distribution
20. Energy resources
21. Mineral resources
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• Exactly those themes that any student should choose
and present its content to the audience.
INSPIRE spatial data themes
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Metadata
Data
Network services
Data sharing
Monitoring and reporting
Building blocks of any spatial data
infrastructure
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• So-called Legally Mandated Organisations (LMOs)
• Generally defined by the European directive
2007/2/EC
– English version: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32007L0002&fro
m=EN
– Versions for all 24 official European languages:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32007L0002
• In detail written in the appropriate legislation of each
Member State, such as Zákon č. 123/1998 Sb. (CZ) or
Zákon č. 3/2010 Z.z.(SK)
Who is obliged to create such SDI building
blocks in the European Member States?
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• Fulfilling the following conditions (see Article 4)
– they relate to an area where a Member State has
and/or exercises jurisdictional rights;
– they are in electronic format;
– they are held by or on behalf of any of the following:
• (i) a public authority, having been produced or received
by a public authority, or being managed or updated by
that authority and falling within the scope of its public
tasks;
• (ii)a third party to whom the network has been made
available in accordance with Article 12;
– they relate to one or more of the themes listed in
Annex I, II or III.
Which data shall be published under
INSPIRE?
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• See also http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/44
Deadlines
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• Public consultations and
testing
• 6554 comments related to
the data specifications in 2011
– Each comment has to be
answered and if appropriate,
then also addressed
Feedback from the Member States
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Legally binding
At the end there is more than 6’000 pages…
INSPIRE directive (2007/2/EC)
Commission
Regulation No.
1205/2008 (metadata)
Commission
Regulation No.
1089/2010 (data)
Commission
Regulation No.
976/2009 (services)…
Technical Guidelines
for Metadata (1)
Data Specifications
(34)
Technical Guidelines
for Network Services
(4)…
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Make relevant, harmonised spatial data available for
Community Environmental Policy (formulation,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation) and for
the citizen ...
… through the establishment of integrated
spatial information services, based upon a
distributed network of databases, linked by
common standards and protocols to ensure
compatibility.
INSPIRE objectives (purpose of all the 6’000
pages…)
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• http://inspire.ec.europa.eu
INSPIRE document repository
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• http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu
INSPIRE Geoportal
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• http://geoportal.gov.cz
Czech national INSPIRE geoportal