The GISCO progress report 2001/2002 By Anette Björnsson anette.bjoernsson@cec.eu.int

The tasks of GISCO 2001/2002 Restructuring of the GISCO team INSPIRE New architecture Update of reference database Quality control Metadata Project on Farm Structure Survey TANDEM project WFD GIS WG COGI Meetings GIS projects: ESPON NATURA2000 Joint publication Update of transport data Eurosion GISCO has had several different tasks during the last year. As many of the points will be presented later, I will concentrate on the update of the database including the quality control, the Farm Structure Survey project, the TANDEM project, the GIS WG for the WFD and briefly explain about the various GIS projects to which GISCO participates.

Update of reference database Inclusion of the Lovell Johns administrative regions Update of inclusion of a 1:20.000.000 NUTS layer inclusion of Greek and Estonian communes in the commune layer Some changes in the regional divisions Biotopes include now all Candidate Countries New version of designated areas New version of biogeographical regions Inclusion of river catchments at scale 1:1.000.000 Update of structural funds and Leader II Countries in East Europe and Mediterranean See are included in the gazetteer

Quality control A more extensive quality control has been carried out during the work for the update in July 2002 This has resulted in the development of the working and updating procedures and an improvement of the data Further development of the quality control and procedures is expected The GISCO database has now existed for around 10 years and it was believed that now is the time to reflect on the development of the quality control and procedures but also the update procedures. These were looked at throughout the update in July and are being further developed during all the updates

Next update Next update will be at the end of November This will mainly contain improvements of existing data sets as a result of the updated quality procedure The NUTS coverage will be improved so that it will be fully based on SABE The commune coverage containing the statistical regions (Candidate countries and EFTA) will be further updated and refined The quality procedure will be further updated which will probably result in improvements of the database

Disaggregation of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) Overall objective: Better support to CAP by adding a spatial dimension to FSS allowing to calculate more reliable indicators of sustainable development How: Mapping the FSS classes using the CORINE Land Cover map Result: Methodology for disaggregation Relation between CLC and FSS A raster map showing spatial distribution of agricultural lands according to the reduced number of FSS classes The FSS was remapped from administrative regions like NUTS to another spatial dimension e.i. the CLC by redistributing the statistics via a spatial modelling process. Using the CLC meant that the classes had to be adapted to each other as the CLC contains more heterogeneous and more classes. So the groups were adjusted to the number of FSS classes. This fact can be seen from the image in the report showing how the adjustment was done (page 94

CLC to be remapped

FSS classes (final situation)

TANDEM Final report received spring 2002 Recommendations presented at last WP Publication published as a Eurostat Working paper and available at the Eurostat web site: http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop/print-catalogue/EN?catalogue=Eurostat&theme=1-General%20Statistics&product=KS-AN-02-001-__-N-EN New project started autumn 2002 kick-off meeting in September 2002 New report to be received summer 2003 Results to be presented at the next WP The future development in the TANDEM project will be presented later today by the lead-partner of the consortium so I will not say more about the project

WG GIS under Water Framework Directive (WFD) contains a definition of maps to be reported to the European Commission is a template of GIS layers instead of maps purpose is reporting and cartography Resolution is 125-1000m In the beginning centralised, later decentralised The GIS is a tool to fulfil the requirements in the WFD The WG GIS creates a guidance document for the implementation of GIS under WFD The requirements of the WFD are that the Member States have to find the water, delineate etc. Secondly they need to set-up water management plans where they explain the measures taken to improve the water quality. These management plans they have to report on using maps in a digital form. Therefore it is foreseen that the member states provide GIS data for the map production. To do this it has to be decided which data layers are necessary , set-up a datamodel etc. The GIS specifications contain the representation, storage and transfer of the data The validation procedures contain the geodetic reference system, projection, metadata, data exchange and access.

The guidance document contains Definition of layers Data model Validation procedures Proposal for coordinate reference system Chapter on metadata Recommendations for data exchange Suggestions for river coding

WFD (2) - the quality evaluation Based on ISO standards 19113 (quality principles) and 19114 (evaluation procedures) Consist of two elements: data quality overview elements General non-quantitative information purpose, usage and information on the history (lineage) data quality elements How close is the data set to the criteria of its product specification five data quality elements and additionally sub-elements The overall aim of this quality evaluation is to assure that all countries follow the same standards e.g that the borderlines coincide, that the a river stops at the coastline etc.

Data quality elements and sub-elements

Latest news in WFD Proposal for evaluation aspects in the data validation data validation should be performed by either Member States or European Commission The reporting should be according to ISO 19115 metadata standard The reporting should be part of a metadata (profile suggested) Transfer should be in XML format First data to be delivered in 2004, next in 2009

Projects ESPON NATURA 2000 Joint publication (agri-environmental indicators) Update of transport data EUROSION ESPON Objective is to create a geographical database which goes beyond the NUTS framework but uses the GISCO database and is compatible with the GISCO data A Coordination unit was established in January 2002 in Luxembourg and the work program was adopted by the Commission in June 2002. A first seminar will take place mid-November NATURA 2000 Joint publication Third publication under development. Title “building agri-environmental indicators”. It will be published at the end of 2002. Will mainly describe the relations between LUCAS towards IACS, NATURA 2000, the updated CORINE LC and the breeding bird survey Update of transport data A call for tender has been developed in cooperation between Eurostat and DG TREN with the deadline for offers 31.10. The project will last a year and the final update of the transport data can be expected 14-15 month after the signature of the contract and will then be included in the GISCO database EUROSION Project for developing coastal erosion policy recommendations. A geographical database will be developed during this project. The database will be compatible with GISCO and included in the database when finalised