Annex I - “Description of Work” - Hlandata

CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3Pilot BHLANDATACompany in Europe and participating in several activities at global level. She will coordinate theactivities of TRACASA in the project and support coordination team.Isabel Goñi, Leader of Work Package 2 and Project Technical Coordinator, holds a MSc inAgricultural Engineering from the Public University of Navarre (2003), together with a Postgraduateprogram: Geo-information studies from the Van Hall Instituut in Groningen in 2002. She is aSenior GIS project manager and has a broad experience in the management, coordination andimplementation of governmental GIS projects. She has been involved in large international projectssuch as Crossis and EURADIN as team leader and expert.Ana Leránoz is in charge for the Area of Territorial Engineering of the Information SystemsDepartment of TRACASA, having more than 23 years experience in the management of territorialprojects related to remote sensing and IGS tools: agricultural statistics (Mars Project Action VI),territorial planning, Land Cover mapping (CORINE Land Cover, SIOSE, MCA), temporal changesdetection, cartography and so on. She currently coordinates a work team made up of 25 technicianscarrying out IGS and remote sensing projects.Félix del Barrio is responsible for the Section of Land Cover Projects within the Area of TerritorialEngineering of TRACASA, having 15 years-experience in the direction and execution of projectsrelated to land cover themes, making use of remote sensing tools and photointerpretation of imagesand ortophotos. The main project he implemented consisted of elaborating a Map of Cultivations andLand Uses in Navarra, which still remains nowadays as the most accurate one. He also took part in theSIOSE Navarra project, as well as in the MCA based on the historical ortophoto from 1956.PARTNER 3: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE (SPAIN)Partner description:The National Geographic Institute of Spain (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, IGN) is the NationalAuthority for Cartography and the National Agency of the Central Public Administration with themandate of ensuring the execution of geographical information policy, whereas National Centre ofGeographic Information (Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica, CNIG) has the role of theparticipation in research programs, technological development and innovation, following Europeanand national guidelines and the duty to distribute all the geographical products and give technical andcommercial assessment concerns. The different departments of CNIG/IGN deal with projects as thenational base cartography and are involved in data exchange and fulfilment of data quality: seismicdatabases, geodesic services, etc.CNIG/IGN has been developing different projects to establish a common data model for managingnational geographic information, in order to integrate and interoperate within different data of Nationaland Regional Spanish administrations, satisfying the INSPIRE Directive and the requirements ofNational/Regional Administrations combining bottom-up & top-down approaches (integrating datafrom different sources at different scales).Key staff CVs:Nuria Valcárcel, Leader of Work Package 1, is Head of Land Cover / Land Use Department (LC/LU)within IGN Spain and Leader of CLC and SIOSE projects in Spain, with experience in the design ofObject Oriented Spatial Data Models. She has long experience in GIS and Remote Sensing projects,with an active participation in several International and European projects such as GMES Urban Atlas,and UNEP/MAP Information System Activities. She is Coordinator of Spanish SDIC (Spatial DataInterest Community) relative to LC/LU.Antonio Arozarena, Assistant Manager Cartographic Production, IGN Spain. Project Leader ofNational Plan for Observation Territory (PNOT). Project Manager of National and International23/03/10 v11 37