Geir-Harald Strand
Head of Research
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geir.harald.strand@nibio.no
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Ås O43
Visiting address
Oluf Thesens vei 43, 1433 Ås
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Authors
Stephan Arnold Geoffrey Smith Geir-Harald Strand Gerard Hazeu Michael Bock Barbara Kosztra Christoph Perger Gebhard Banko Tomas Soukup Nuria Valcarcel Sanz Stefan Kleeschulte Julian Delgado Hernandez Emanuele MancosuAbstract
The demand for land monitoring information continues to increase, but the range and diversity of the available products to date have made their integrated use challenging and, at times, counterproductive. There has therefore been a growing need to enhance and harmonise the practice of land monitoring on a pan-European level with the formulation of a more consistent and standardised set of modelling criteria. The outcome has been a paradigm shift away from a “paper map”-based world where features are given a single, fixed label to one where features have a rich characterisation which is more informative, flexible and powerful. The approach allows the characteristics to be dynamic so that, over time, a feature may only change part of its description (i.e., a forest can be felled, but it may remain as forestry if replanted) or it can have multiple descriptors (i.e., a forest may be used for both timber production and recreation). The concept proposed by the authors has evolved since 2008 from first drafts to a comprehensive and powerful tool adopted by the European Union’s Copernicus programme. It provides for the semantic decomposition of existing nomenclatures, as well as supports a descriptive approach to the mapping of all landscape features in a flexible and object-oriented manner. In this way, the key move away from classification towards the characterisation of the Earth’s surface represents a novel and innovate approach to handling complex land surface information more suited to the age of distributed databases, cloud computing and object-oriented data modelling. In this paper, the motivation for and technical approach of the EAGLE concept with its matrix and UML model implementation are explained. This is followed by an update of the latest developments and the presentation of a number of experimental and operational use cases at national and European levels, and it then concludes with thoughts on the future outlook.
Abstract
Access to reliable spatial data is a prerequisite for successful spatialplanning. The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) providesdata about land cover and land use. The utilization of CLMS inspatial planning in Poland and Norway is affected by awareness,data accessibility, alignment with planning needs, and collabora-tion between CLMS providers and spatial planners. The utilizationcould be improved by appointing national authorities to supportadaption, documentation and standardisation, ensure data avail-ability in national language and adjusted to national legal require-ments. This can for example be done through an adjustment of thealready established National Collaboration Program (NCP).