INSPIRE
Thematic Cluster on
Land Cover and Land Use
Lena Hallin-Pihlatie
facilitator
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25-26 November 2015
Thematic Cluster Platform – since 12/2014
Nine thematic clusters
One sub-group per
INSPIRE theme
Nine facilitators
Land Cover and Land Use Cluster
Land Cover
Land Use
Definition: Physical and biological
cover of the earth's surface
including artificial surfaces,
agricultural areas, forests, (semi-)
natural areas, wetlands, water
bodies. [Directive 2007/2/EC, Annex
II]
Defintion: Territory characterised
according to its current and future planned
functional dimension or socio–economic
purpose (e.g. residential, industrial,
commercial, agricultural, forestry,
recreational). [Directive 2007/2/EC, Annex
III]
Description: Land cover is an
abstraction of the physical and
biophysical cover on the earth‘s
surface. [Technical Guidelines on
LC]
Description: Land Use is defined as the
use and functions of a territory. Land
Use is itself split up into two different
types: Existing Land Use and Planned
Land Use [Technical Guidelines on LU]
Group Statistics
• LC and LU cluster group level
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98 Members
12 Discussion topics
15 Discussion replies
15 Uploaded files
8 Pages
4 News
• LC sub-group
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38 Members
18 Discussion topics
65 Discussion replies
2 Uploaded files
0 Pages
0 News
LU sub-group
25 Members
4 Discussion topics
1 Discussion replies
1 Uploaded file
14 Pages
0 News
Main concerns of implementers
• How should Inspire data look like when being according to the
LC/LU application schemas?
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Some examples provided
• How to understand the TG on LC regarding code lists and
documentation of the nomenclature? Which code lists and
requirements are there?
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Requirements have been explained
• How to name different
requirements of INSPIRE?
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layers
in
a
WMS to
meet
the
Naming convention proposed (reference to Geology sub-group)
• How to build working WFS using present tools, following the
INSPIRE Guidelines?
• What is the scope of the INSPIRE theme? How to deal with
duality and overlaps?
Content highlights: Sample data
• Land Cover Vector GML example 1 (best practise),
example 2 and example 3
• Land Cover Vector ESRI database template populated
with CLC data for use in ArcGIS for INSPIRE, example
• Existing Land Use GML example
Content highlights: Reported LCLU data
• Excel file covering datasets reported in the Land Cover and
Land Use themes compiled based on INSPIRE Monitoring
and Reporting in 2014
 Land Cover: N = 441
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Corine Land Cover
Topographic maps
Forestry data
LPIS
ETC.
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LPIS
Topographic maps
Forestry data
Spatial plans
ETC.
 Land Use: N = 836
Content highlights: LCLU presentations
• Links to relevant INSPIRE Conference presentations (2013,
2014, 2015)
1. Cross-thematic Presentations
2. Presentations related to Land Cover
3. Presentations related to Land Use
4. Workshop INSPIRE ‘Land Cover’
@ INSPIRE/GWF 2015, Lisbon
» Link to the presentations from session I
» Links to the presentations from session II
Example of discussion topic
• The Association role: ’Member’ exist in both LC and LU
• It has been modelled (UML -> xsd) differently
• FME does not understand the LC xsd correctly
– An additional FME Workspace (Workbench) needed
– Not a client-friendly solution
– Difficult to be Inspire-compliant and still acheive a working solution for
the provision of GML (WFS)
• Solution? To change the LC Vector UML model, so that the
’Member of’ association role is defined the same ways in the LC
and LU xsd:s?
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Easier for implementers and software developer if they are the same
Easier for users (present LU solution)
TO DO: Ensure that there are no drawback of this kind of change
TO DO: Collect experiences and feedback from the LCLU community
(EAGLE, ELF, eEnvplus project) to reach the best possible solution
Discussion topics related to previous slide
• https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/discussion/view/48703/the-association-role%E2%80%99member%E2%80%99-in-land-cover-and-land-use
• https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/discussion/view/42989/land-cover-gml-files-notcorrectly-displayed-in-gis-environment-a-matter-of-mapping
• https://themes.jrc.ec.europa.eu/discussion/view/43639/associating-landcoverunitinstances-to-their-parent-landcoverdataset-instances-for-wfs-filtering
Taller 3 / Workshop: INSPIRE Thematic Clusters – State of the Art
JIIDE 2015, 04–06/11/2015 – Seville (SPAIN)
Your contribution
What we need
• Contribution to the Association role ‘Member’ discussion
• More experiences from building up (complex) WFS
• Coverage (raster) encoding experiences/examples
• More involvement from the Planned Land Use community
(spatial planners).
• Discussion on how to deal with Duality? LC and LU data
often contain both LC and LU elements/attributes. For example
the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) is reported as a LC
in some countries and as LU in other. Both are correct. Solution:
Community agreement? Linkage of LC and LU information to the
same spatial objects?
Contents
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– to find information
– to tag and categorise new contents
Demo