Annex I - “Description of Work” - Hlandata

CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3Pilot BHLANDATAfunctionalities such as the visualization of the Land Cover / Land Use layer, the overlay of theown information to other sources, spatial and temporal analysis and downloads of the data indifferent formats.• High-level users: They carry out high-level analysis by making use of GIS tools. Possibly theservices to be created are not sufficient for their needs, but they will be able to get Land Coverand Land Use layers through downloading applications in order to incorporate them to theirGIS.As said, the potential users of the services which are going to be launched by the pilot project are theintermediate level users.Some examples of some of these users’ specific demands and of the response given to such demandscould be the following:• A request (done by these end-users to the information owners) of the Land Use and LandCover information in different formats (for example CAD). This request is in many timesdone through e-mail gateways.• In some other cases (being the Regional Administration and Regional Public Entities the endusers) Land Cover and Land Use layers are managed through desktop viewers with somelimitations regarding its non-universal use (its installation requires a commercial licence) andthe lack of spatial and temporal analysis functions and of download applications.Thanks to this pilot, the intermediate-level users will be provided some added-value services andfunctionalities allowing them to fulfil needs such as the ones described above. For example, thefunctionalities provided by the pilot project will allow the intermediate level users to make theselection of a concrete Land area in an autonomous way, making the election of the thematic variablesof interest for them, allowing to process the data selected together with other data, and to thedownload and print the obtained results. In addition, the pilot project will allow making thisinformation available and to place it at the disposal of a significantly bigger amount of users.The pilot to be implemented will be based on advanced web services which will allow users to makeadvanced analysis of the Land use and Land Cover datasets with information coming from differentsources at a European level. The next are the main advanced functionalities which will be provided bythe project:• Advanced Visualization of the information layers:o Visualization of the “Land Use/Land Cover” layers to different scales thanks tozooming tools (in and out); pan; screening fine-tuning, etc.o Search and localization tool in screen of the requested land item (such as thebinoculars visor).o Surface and distance measuring tools in the screen.o Consultation tool, “Query” type, allowing to select part of the layer according to theestablished criteria and to visualize and work only with the selected area. It could bedownloaded to different formats.o Thematization of the “Land Use/Land Cover” layer by means of an attribute linked tothe layers.o Possibility of modifying the symbols of the thematic layer.o Labelling function (direct introduction of by loading a file with coordinates andassociated labels).o Editing function starting from the thematic layer including the legend, title and othertitle page items.o Thematic map printing and editing with selection of formats and output scale.o Layers’ metadata consultations.o Dynamic visualization of the Land Use layer.23/03/10 v11 13