Annex I - “Description of Work” - Hlandata

CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3Pilot BHLANDATAPROJECT OBJECTIVES:In the aforementioned context, where no harmonized data model allowing to access the land use andland cover information owned by the different Member States exists yet, the main objective of theproject is to demonstrate the feasible European level harmonization of the Land Use and LandCover datasets taking into account both the data categorization and the data models, for any oftheir possible uses and users, through the development of user oriented value added services.The specific objectives of the project are the following:• To make the assessment of the relevant information related to the harmonization of the LandUse and Land Cover Datasets:o Previous harmonization initiatives and related results:• Data modelso• Data CategorizationsUsers: Types of users and users’ real needs (from the point of view of theapplications).• To make a proposal for the harmonization of the Land Use and Land Cover datasets based onthe previously gathered practical experience.• To make the development and optimization of common data sharing infrastructure (based onweb services) needed for the management of the harmonized Land Use and Land Coverdatasets coming from different sources, allowing to make the visualization and overlay of theinformation• To make the implementation of 3 pilot projects making use of the previous web servicesdemonstrating the feasibility of the harmonization of these datasets and providing some valueadded service to a certain type of end users.• To make the assessment and disseminate the obtained pilot results within their respectivefields of action.• To promote the creation of an experts’ network composed of producers and users of thisinformation.DESCRIPTION OF THE ICT BASED SERVICES TO BE IMPLEMENTED (PILOTS):Three pilot projects will be implemented in HLANDATA project, addressing different users andusages each, but based on the same concepts and same framework:The first phase of the pilot projects will be a common phase, aimed at implementing a harmonizeddata sharing infrastructure based on integration of harmonized European, national and regionalsources of data relevant to land cover and land use ‘Themes’. This will contribute to increasing useand reuse of harmonized data sets related to land cover and land use themes enumerated in annexes I-III of the INSPIRE directive through network services for sharing spatial data between publicauthorities and other stakeholders, enabling the creation of value added services.Once these common web services have been developed and have been tested, each of the pilot projectswill demonstrate the practical usability of the common networking infrastructure through the provisionof some value added services.So, the pilot projects will have a common technological framework, and some common functionalities,being particularized in each of the countries participating in the project in order to provide differentvalue added services in each.This is shown in the next figure:23/03/10 v11 11