the geographic information system of the european commission (gisco) by albrecht wirthmann, gisco,...

The Geographic Information

System of the European Commission

(GISCO)

By Albrecht Wirthmann, GISCO, EurostatBy Albrecht Wirthmann, GISCO, Eurostat

e-mail: [email protected]: [email protected]

ESPON Seminar 21-22 Nov. 2002

Structure of the Presentation

GISCO project

GISCO mandates

Current GISCO database

New System Architecture

INSPIRE initiative

NUTS Regulation


GISCO Mandate & ActivitiesGISCO Mandate & Activities

Origin : CORINE projectOrigin : CORINE project 1990 : Task force on spatial 1990 : Task force on spatial

statisticsstatistics 1992 : GISCO as a permanent 1992 : GISCO as a permanent

Eurostat projectEurostat project Eurostat has recognised the Eurostat has recognised the

importance of a GIS to integrate importance of a GIS to integrate data from different statistical data from different statistical databases databases ESPON Seminar 21-22 Nov. 2002



MandateMandate : :

Within EurostatWithin Eurostat

Within the CommissionWithin the Commission

Within the European statistical Within the European statistical systemsystem

International co-operationInternational co-operation

manage the GISCO reference database manage the GISCO reference database including its structure, architecture, data including its structure, architecture, data transfer, etc. transfer, etc.

ensure quality control of the contentsensure quality control of the contentsact as a reference centre for Eurostat and the act as a reference centre for Eurostat and the

ECECchair the meetings of the COGIchair the meetings of the COGIexpress and support user’s needs in terms of express and support user’s needs in terms of

software and hardwaresoftware and hardwarepursue the harmonisation of EU and broader pursue the harmonisation of EU and broader

international activities in GIinternational activities in GI



CORE DATA

GISCO

GI & GIS in the CommissionGI & GIS in the Commission


GISCO database structureGISCO database structure

Hierarchical structure of themes, layers and Hierarchical structure of themes, layers and

datasetsdatasets Coverages storing vector dataCoverages storing vector data Grids for raster data (land cover, DEM)Grids for raster data (land cover, DEM) Attribute tables in INFO formatAttribute tables in INFO format File based structureFile based structure Metadata as HTML pages and as Access Metadata as HTML pages and as Access

databasedatabase Equal Area Projection system on a sphereEqual Area Projection system on a sphere Distribution on CD-ROMDistribution on CD-ROM


New system architectureNew system architecture

GoalsGoals Object oriented approachObject oriented approach Integration of temporal aspectIntegration of temporal aspect MultilingualityMultilinguality ISO 19115 profile on meta dataISO 19115 profile on meta data Integration in relational databaseIntegration in relational database Data access via the webData access via the web


UML model for a part of GISCO database Implementation as Geodatabase in Oracle Conversion of spatial and attribute data

Conversion of metadata to ISO 19115 Application for feature generalisation Desktop mapping application Web application for accessing data Concept for updating

Prototype on a new system Prototype on a new system architecturearchitecture


Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

The INSPIRE Vision

is to make harmonised and high quality geographic data and information readily available for formulating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Community policy and for the citizen to access information about the environment, whether local, regional, national or international

INSPIREINSPIRE


INSPIRE Common principlesINSPIRE Common principles

Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively

It should be possible to combine seamlessly 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 visualised within the appropriate context selected in a user-friendly way

INSPIRE Common INSPIRE Common principlesprinciples


INSPIRE

Architecture & Standards

Legal Aspects& Data Policy

Funding & Implementation

structures

Reference Data & Metadata

ImpactAnalysis

Env thematic coordination

Inter-sectoral co-ordination

&..

biodiversitysoils

seveso

urban

noiseforest

water

Environmental components

HorizontalComponents

Agricultural components

Transportcomponents

Other components

Technical Co-ordination & Secretariat

EC inter-service group onGI (COGI)

INSPIRE Expert Group

Thematic Components

E-ESDI

Otherthematic

co-ordination

Transportthematic

co-ordination

Agriculturalthematic

co-ordination

Phase 1:Environmental

Sector

Position papers until September 2002

Expert group meeting end of october 2002

INSPIRE concept paper end of year

Draft of legislation beginning 2003

INSPIRE: timelineINSPIRE: timeline

Information at: http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire


The Draft NUTS Regulation

Time table

Proposal adopted by the Commission on 14 February 2001

Discussion in the Council and Parliament since March 2001

Decision of Parliament October 2001 Second reading in 2002 “Common position” of the Council in October

2002 Discussion in Parliament: end of 2002 (?)



Objectives

Assure comparability and impartiality of regional statistics

fix (more or less) the current state of the NUTS in the MS

set-up objective criteria for the definition of regions

define clear rules for future amendments

stability of the classification over time


Changes of NUTS

Comitology procedure Changes only every 3 years in addition 2 years transition period Aim: reduction of the dispersion of region

sizes



Which countries changed

Germany NUTS level 2 non-admin.

Italy NUTS level 1 non-admin.

Finland NUTS level ? admin. Portugal NUTS level 2 admin. Spain NUTS level 2 admin.



Summary

GISCO project

GISCO mandates

GISCO database

New System Architecture

INSPIRE initiative

NUTS Regulation


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