A call from the AGI INSPIRE AWG: Data Specifications for Annex II and III themes

Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) are currently being set up to propose Data Specifications for Annex II and III themes for INSPIRE and it is stated that '...relevant user requirements shall be taken into account ....' .

The EC INSPIRE team at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra is therefore conducting an on-line 'User Requirement Survey'.  Any AGI members with experience of providing or using datasets within these themes are encouraged to respond to the user requirements survey which can be found [DOCUMENT_NEWWINDOW;policy/urs_version2prepare_answers.pdf;here]

Please note that organisations need to register as a Legally Mandated Organisations (LMO) or a Spatial Data Interest Community (SDIC) before completing the on-line survey. Although AGI is registered as an SDIC it is not a producer or end user of such datasets and it does not therefore intend to respond directly.

A list of the 25 themes appears below. More details of the coverage of each theme, the overall context of INSPIRE and an on-line registration page can be found at http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm�
It is expected that user requirements 'associated' with the described environmental tasks will help the new INSPIRE Annex II & III TWGs to define more precisely the scope for their data specification work. This contribution will also help TWGs with the identification of relevant user communities, individuals etc. to be potentially involved in the data specification work.

• Elevation
• Land cover
• Orthoimagery
• Geology
• Statistical units
• Buildings
• Soil
• Land use
• Human health and safety
• Utility and governmental services
• Environmental monitoring facilities
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Population distribution and demography
• Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units
• Natural risk zones
• Atmospheric conditions
• Meteorological geographical features
• Oceanographic geographical features
• Bio-geographical regions
• Sea regions
• Habitats and biotopes
• Species distribution
• Energy Resources
• Mineral Resources