European Topic Centre on Spatial Information and Analysis (ETC-SIA)

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Own resources project
Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011

Description

The European Topic Centre on Spatial Information and Analysis (ETC-SIA) (formerly known as European Topic Centre Land Use and Spatial Information, ETC-LUSI) is an international consortium assisting the European Environment Agency (EEA). This consortium is led by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) from Spain, UAB was also leading the former European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment (ETC-TE) as well as ETC-LUSI, being the new ETC-SIA for continuation of this consortium work that have been done during last years. ETC-SIA is part of the European Environmental Information and Observation Network (Eionet) and a support to other Eionet partners. Our activities have an important component on networking with various experts in the member countries on the harmonisation, quality and exchange of data and in building capacities. ETC-SIA assist countries in discussing options for improving national information systems related with our topic "Spatial Information and Analysis".ETC-SIA includes a valuable expertise in Europe to handle data in our topic area, and to analyse the environmental data with regards to developments in society and the economy and with regards to environmental and sectoral policies covering the full geographical area of EEA member countries.The Institute for Geoinformatics contributes standardized geoprocessing functionality to the ETC-SIA's Landuse Data Center. This contribution allows the web based generation of information from CORINE Landcover data as well as ECRINS Hydrological Data in an interoperable way.

Keywords: Land use information systems; web processing service