13 EC GI & GIS workshop

Introduction

Over the last few years, the EC GI & GIS Workshop has focused on the development of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI). With the agreement on the text of the INSPIRE directive the focus of this year's workshop is on contribution of SDIs on environmental analyses and modelling. The objectives of this year's workshop are to:

Identify the contribution of SDIs for environmental analysis, monitoring, and modelling; environmental protection, natural hazards prediction and mitigation, and other applications areas including water, soil, land use and land cover change, forestry, and atmospheric pollution;
Review the current state of progress of the INSPIRE legislation,
Offer an opportunity to the INSPIRE Drafting Teams to report on the development of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules
Further our understanding of the implementation challenges, costs, and benefits of SDIs at national, regional, and local level
Identify key issues and opportunities for European SDI projects.

The Workshop will be organised through a series of plenary sessions addressing common policy issues, and parallel sessions focusing in particular on applications / implementations of SDIs, and research issues.