Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE)

as a collaborative and multinational project

Arif Cagdas AYDINOGLU

Overview

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Geo-Data Infrastructure (GDI / SDI)

• INSPIRE

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All objects has a location...

Geo-information, %80 of all information …

%90 of decision support information…

what, where, why, how, ... ?

GIS - Geographic Information Systems

GIS is capable of capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geo-information…

Main function as information system;GIS provides better decisions through mapping and modelling our world.

Geo-information has economic / social / p

olicy value…

GIS - Geographic Information Systems

But currently we have islands of data of different standards and quality

Cross-sector/-border interoperability

TN:Transport

networks

EL:Elevation

BU:Buildings

SO:Soil

PF:Production and industrial facilities

AF:Agricultural and aquaculture

facilities

ER:Energy Resources

HB:Habitats and biotopes

SD:Species distribution

AM:Area management/ restriction/ regulation zones & reporting units

PD: Population Distribution

US: Utilities and Governmental

Services (Waste Management)

Smart cities

Environmental Impact Assessment

Risk Management

…

health

emissions

energy

INSPIRE data Data from other sectors

INSPIRE, Europe’s lingua franca for anything geospatial

Directive 2013/37/EU of 26 June 2013 amending Directive

2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI) Directive 2003/98/EC

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions:

A Digital Agenda for Europe – COM(2010) 245 final/2

EU Open Data Strategy

Towards interoperability for European public services COM(2010) 744

EU implementation of the G8 Open Data Charter

Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the

Regions: A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe

Why Europe needs a spatial data infrastructure (SDI)?• Natural Disasters and as well as

other environmental phenomena do not stop at national borders!

• 20% of the EU citizens (115 million) live within50 Km from a border

• 70% of all fresh water bodies in Europe are part of a trans-boundary river basin !!

Building a European SDI is complex

• Europe is a patchwork of several countries with different traditions, cultures and socio-economic models

• This is reflected in the different ways in which geo-spatial data is managed

• Which data sets exist?

• I cannot access them

• Who owns it? How can I access it?What’s the scope? What’s the quality?

• I cannot view or download it

• I don’t understand the data and map content

INSPIRE in a nutshell

INSPIRE in a nutshell

• Comprehensive data inventory (Monitoring & Reporting IR)

• Facilitate data discovery through standardised discoveryservices & metadata (IR on Network Services & Metadata)

• Data sharing (IR on Data and Service Sharing)

• Facilitate data access by allowing standardised view, download and transformation (IR on Network Services)

• Facilitate data use and interoperability by adopting common cross-domain models to exchange data (IR on Data Interoperability)

(1997) FP5 – JRC Project GI&GIS: Harmonisation

and Interoperability The need for a

European Geographic Information

Infrastructure

(2002-2004) MoU

Commissioners Wallstróm,

Solbes,Busquin

Preparation of the INSPIRE

Directive

(2003) FP6 – JRC ESDI Action: Towards a

European Spatial Data

Infrastructure

(2004) EC Proposal for the

INSPIRE Directive

(2004-2013) MoU DG ENV,

JRC and ESTAT. INSPIRE Policy development

and first Implementation

steps

(2006) JRC created the SDI

Unit

(2007) Adoption of INSPIRE Directive

(2007-2013) FP7 – JRC Actions SHAPE and ENABLE

Support INSPIRE development

and implementation

(2013)MoU DG ENV-JRC

INSPIRE Implementation,

Maintenance and Evolution

Anticipation

Policy development

Implementation

INSPIRE – a (success) story

A collaborative effort

•Transparency and inclusiveness •Stakeholder consultations •Support to Member States on the implementation•Extend INSPIRE to and ensure consistency of different policy domains•Promote INSPIRE in international standardisation

How?

• Maintenance and Implementation Framework (MIF) set up by the Commission, in agreement with the Member States

• Coordinated by Commission Expert Group on INSPIRE Maintenance & Implementation (MIG) with representatives of the Member States Technical and policy sub-groups (MIG-T and MIG-P)

• Following a rolling work programme (MIWP)• MIWP actions executed through

temporary sub-groups• Supported by a pool of INSPIRE

implementation experts

Find out more

http://tinyurl.com/MIG-Platform

Sharing good practices

• National implementation webinars Netherlands, Spain, Poland,

Sweden, Finland, Germany http://tinyurl.com/inspire-ms-impl

• Implementation examples• Good practices, e.g.

Extensions APIs Open data

Many sessions

INSPIREForum

INSPIREThematicCluster

INSPIRE – the future

http://government-2020.dupress.com/driver/geospatial-technology/

Thanks... Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arif Cagdas AYDINOGLU

Gebze Technical UniversityTURKEY

web: www.arifcagdas.come-mail: arifcagdas@gmail.com