1. Context
Our planet is a multidimensional system made up of complex, constantly evolving interactions at different spatial and temporal scales. To understand these interactions, we need to collect and integrate different sets of data on physical, chemical, biological, social and economic systems. Together, these data provide the best possible description of the environment. These data are commonly georeferenced, i.e. they describe a location on the Earth's surface (i.e. geographically locatable) through a set of attributes. An environmental dataset is rarely interesting on its own, but rather demonstrates its full informational potential when used in conjunction with other datasets, enabling the actual state of the environment to be monitored and assessed at global, regional or local scales, and thus providing a better understanding of the complex relationships between them and ultimately enabling...
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Bibliography
Software tools
Deegree http://www.deegree.org/
GeoNetwork http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
GeoServer http://www.geoserver.org
MapFish
Websites
Group on Earth Observations http://www.earthobservations.org
INSPIRE http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
SDI Cookbook http://www.gsdidocs.org/GSDIWiki/index.php/Main_Page
...Events
INSPIRE Conference, held every year in a different European city http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/501
GEO/GEOSS Plenary, held annually http://www.earthobservations.org/meetings.php
Standards and norms
- Geographic information – Metadata – Part 1: Fundamentals - ISO 19115-1 - 2004
- Geographic information – Metadata – XML schema implementation - ISO/TS 19139 - 2007
- ISO Geographic information – Services - ISO 19119 - 2005
- OGC Catalogue Service http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat - -
- OGC Geography Markup Language http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml - -
- OGC KML...
Regulations
Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of March 14, 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32007L0002
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament...
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