Future financing of GFIS

• sponsor

• project money

EU - project -- Overview• 6th Call IST “Information Society Technology, April 2001”

• Partner institutes - System Development

Tech Univ Vienna

Tech Univ Kosice

WCMC

• Project Partners - Data Provision

IUFRO, METLA, WSL

• Small & medium enterprises

GIS company (UK)

Geospace (Harald Suitner)

Civil Engineers

UMS (Munich, Germany)

EU - project -- Tasks

• Tech Univ Vienna: Database Tech, Data Warehouse, SOMLib

• Tech Univ Kosice: Data Mining

• METLA / EFI: Content of GFIS, Usability Studies

• IUFRO: Content of GFIS, runs the portal

EU - projects -- Open questions

• Boundary line between

GFIS-IT project and

GFIS-Africa

• Boundary line between

European Forest Information System (EFI) and

GFIS-IT