INSPIRE Directive & LUCAS: coordination of activities EC INSPIRE TEAM Joint Research Centre - Directorate-General Environment – EUROSTAT beatrice.eiselt@ec.europa.eu European Commission EUROSTAT E4 Now that the INSPIRE entered recently into force, Member States, their regions and the Commission are faced with important challenges related to its implementation. Implementing INSPIRE will require commitment and efforts from many public authorities and organisations which are dealing with data related to the environment. Faced with these challenges it may be worthwhile to look again at why we actually need an INSPIRE directive and how it fits in with recent environmental policy developments at Community level

What is Inspire all about? Improve access and use of geographic information mmm For policies and activities that may have an impact on the ENVIRONMENT!

How can this be achieved?  INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe A network where you can search, view, download data sets, access to other services (transformation, invoke) Central access point: INSPIRE geo-portal Technical harmonisation and organisational issues

INSPIRE Geoportal Single entry point Connected to all MS Operated by the EC

What do we need to make the infrastructure work? Network services: to search, view and download, transformation & invoke Metadata: standardised content and structure Data specifications: harmonised data Data and service sharing: legal and organisational issues

Inconsistency across boarders

Different classifications

Different models - 5 m - 10 m - 15 m - 20 m - 25 m 5 m 10 m 15 m

Data specifications Annex III data Annex I data Annex II data Statistical units Buildings Soil Land use Human health and safety Utility and governmental services Environmental monitoring facilities Production and industrial facilities Agricultural and aquaculture facilities Population distribution – demography Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units Natural risk zones Atmospheric conditions Meteorological geographical features Annex I data Coordinate reference systems Geographical grid systems Geographical names Administrative units Addresses Cadastral parcels Transport networks Hydrography Protected sites Annex II data Elevation Land cover Orthoimagery Geology Oceanographic geographical features Sea regions Bio-geographical regions Habitats & biotopes Species distribution Energy resources Mineral resources

Land use & land cover Land use: (INSPIRE, 2007) Territory characterised according to its current and future planned functional dimension or socio–economic purpose (e.g. residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, forestry, recreational). Land cover data is a physical or biological description of the earth surface. In this way it is different from the land use data (Annex III, theme number 4), dedicated to the description of the use of the Earth surface http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/ImplementingRules/DataSpecifications/D2.3_Definition_of_Annex_Themes_and_scope_v3.0.pdf

Participatory approach Thematic Working Groups (TWG) Experts from Member States  Technical proposal is elaborated How to further contribute? Reference material Reviews: internal, public LUCAS Team is coordinating activities with the TWGs for land use and land cover Further information: http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire ESTAT-INSPIRE@ec.europa.eu

Workplan for TWGs

Coordination TWG: Land use, land cover INSPIRE: Monitoring and Reporting LUCAS Inventory of land use land cover information in Member States

http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire ESTAT-INSPIRE@ec.europa.eu