1. INSPIRE Thematic Cluster on Marine and Atmosphere
Highlights of the activities Keiran Millard

2. Activity report on Thematic cluster
60+ Members
Members
National marine institutes (scientists)
national meteorology organisations
Pan-European projects (EMODNET, Copernicus)
Good trajectory towards data harmonisation
Constantly finding new members, slowing with occasional spikes.
Some inertia to active engagement although awareness is high.
Annex III with strong overlap with observation and measurements
Low implementation priority to some groups.

3. Thematic cluster/sub-group discussions
Duality and polymorphism of datasets
Where datasets can be practically belong to more than one theme and the corresponding issues with local data management
Implementation of data models
Technical discussion on using the data models in practice
Code lists
EMODNet and Copernicus
The role they play in Inspire compliance

4. Activity report on Thematic cluster
Lot of examples of services in the spirit of Inspire, but not many true Inspire services:
Catalogue services
View services
True download services with public API
AnnexIII – still only beginning to be on the radar
What is marine?
Inspire theme scope
‘marine’ data published on Inspire portal

5. Thematic cluster/sub-group proposals for gaps filling, improvements
Maintain momentum.
Especially with MS leadership
More examples of true Inspire compliance services to act as a benchmark and exemplar; ideally based on existing services
Inspire Marine Pilot
EMODNet-Inspire Collaboration
Compliance checking – how to do this in practice
Focus on core datasets at EU level
E.g. coastline, simple sea areas, MSFD reporting units

6. Change Requests
marine-areas-to-inspire-themes
segments
supported-representations
extent

7. Questions?