SMART SERVICES TO CREATE AN ESDI FROM NSDI: THE EUROPEAN CHALLENGE
The environmental sector in the European Union has taken the lead in an initiative called INSPIRE that aims at creating the framework for the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI). With INSPIRE it shall be possible to combine spatial data from different sources in the National Spatial Data I...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2012-08-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XXXVIII-4-W25/1/2011/isprsarchives-XXXVIII-4-W25-1-2011.pdf |
| Summary: | The environmental sector in the European Union has taken the lead in an initiative called INSPIRE that aims at creating the
framework for the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI). With INSPIRE it shall be possible to combine spatial data from
different sources in the National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI) across the Community in a consistent way and share them
between several users and applications. INSPIRE legislation is legally binding on all authorities in the EU member states. From a
technical point of view, INSPIRE shall achieve the interoperability of spatial data sets by means of network services. The client of
such services shall be enabled to discover, view and download spatial data sets in conformance with harmonised European
specifications. INSPIRE promotes conceptual modeling and mandates formal modeling languages such as UML and GML. The
domain experts need to find a balance between advanced concepts and traditional but well established patterns, while the proposed
solutions should not result in excessive costs for the data providers. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |