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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Feiden, Katharina"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Building a Soil Information Portal for Europe based on the PortalU Technology
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Feiden, Katharina; Klenke, Martin; Kruse, Fred; Konstantinidis, Stefanie
    The availability and accessibility of environmental information has become a key concern for public and private bodies within Europe in the recent years. The European Environmental Information Directive (EEID, 2003/4/EC), the Directive for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information (INSPIRE, 2007/2/EC) as well as further initiatives of the EU like the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) emphasizes the European-wide need to improve the access to environmental information. Especially the web-based supply of the huge amount of spatial environmental data deserves particularly attention because high organisational efforts and financial expenses are necessary to improve the access to this kind of data. While INSPIRE and its Implementing Rules (IR) give the framework to establish a European spatial data infrastructure, vital obstacles in reference to harmonization and interoperability of data and services as well as in reference to the organisational structure are not removed yet. The project GS Soil “Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data” aims to make a contribution to remove these obstacles by establishing a European web portal for soil information (GS Soil Portal). Within the project 34 partners from 18 European member states are involved and the project is co-funded by the European Community programme eContentplus. The project duration is from June 2009 until May 2012. Overall it will focus on data organisation, data harmonisation as well as semantic and technical interoperability with the objective to produce seamless spatial information in terms of INSPIRE (European Union 2007). Both the description and harmonisation of European spatial soil data and the operation of a corresponding spatial data infrastructure will take centre stage. Out of the 34 partners, soil data are provided for all 18 involved European member states mainly on national level and partly on regional level. That means 67 % of the 27 European Member States will provide soil data for the project. These data build a sufficient base to analyse and improve the access to the different kinds of digital content. As technical base InGrid®, the technology of the German Environmental Information Portal PortalU®, will be used to build up the GS Soil Portal, where all decentralized distributed soil data are bundled. In the GS Soil Portal all soil related information from web pages, over data bases to data catalogues will be made available and accessible. Search results will be ranked and listed in shared result lists and spatial soil data from OGC compatible Web Mapping Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS) will be visualized in a map viewer.
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    From regional to European level: INSPIRE best practice network on providing soil data
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 1: Core Application Areas, 2012) Feiden, Katharina
    The best practice network GS SOIL “Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant GeodataServices for European Soil Data” established a European best practice network to improve the access to spatial digital soil data. In total, 34 project partners out of 18 European member states participated until May 2012. The role of the GS Soil best practice network is vital for the establishment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure for digital soil data in Europe. This in turn fosters - for a specific domain - the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive, which is essential for the successful cooperation of regional, national and European authorities in order to increase the access to spatial digital geodata. The GS Soil network centred the implementation on three core activities and results: Firstly, on the study of the frame conditions for improved soil data access in Europe. Secondly, on the development of an infrastructure for soil data exchange with two specific components: An integrated network, especially for data sets and with a technical infrastructure – the GS SOIL Portal (www.gssoil-portal.eu). Thirdly, on guidance for harmonizing soil data under the framework of the INSPIRE Directive and even beyond. Finally, it also conclude on the long term vision about the availability of digital soil information and thus on the extrapolation of the results achieved in the last three years of this European project related work.
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    Sharing European soil information - Best practice contribution to INSPIRE -
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Feiden, Katharina; Fulajtár, Emil; Dobos, Endre; Schentz, Herbert; Eberhardt, Einar; Baritz, Rainer; Figueiredo, Carlos; Huber, Sigbert; Klug, Hermann
    The GS SOIL best practice network comprises 34 project partners out of 18 European member states. It receives funding by the European Commission and the first two years of GS SOIL, starting in June 2009, were dedicated to the survey and the analysis of data availability and accessibility, the activities towards the GS SOIL metadata profile, the data model and the GS SOIL portal. The aim of the paper is to present the state of the art of the GS SOIL project and the ongoing activities to support the INSPIRE implementation in the soil domain, especially to the development of data specification for the annex III theme “soil (Feiden 2010A; see also GS SOIL Deliverables).