International cooperation and technology transfer

Fras, Mojca Kosmatin

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Persistent identifier:: 856490555

Author:: Fras, Mojca Kosmatin

Title:: International cooperation and technology transfer

Sub title:: Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 2 - 5, 2000 : proceedings of the workshop

Scope:: VI, 163 Seiten

Year of publication:: 2000

Place of publication:: London

Publisher of the original:: RICS Books

Identifier (digital):: 856490555

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Diagramme

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: ISPRS Meeting of WG VI/3 and WG IV/3 in Ljubljana (SLOVENIA), 2-5 February 2000 CONTRIBUTION TO HARMONISED LAND USE STATISTICS IN EUROPE. Willibald CROI, Christophe DUHAMEL, Gerd EIDEN, Maxime KAYADJANIAN

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to farmers, establishment of a rural development policy including protection and improving the environment), the Regional Cohesion policy (including a European Spatial Development Perspective, Initiatives on Urban Areas etc.) or the transport policy (e.g. Trans European Networks). On national and international level, mostly geo- referenced statistical data is used for the formulation of polices in various fields such as agriculture, forestry, rural development and landscape, environment, urban areas etc. On local and regional level mostly geographic map data on land cover / land use is required for purposes of town management and administration, spatial planning, environmental monitoring etc. For answering the needs numerous information systems on land cover and land use do exist in European countries at all levels but when it comes to analysis at the European level these are not harmonised and not comparable regarding the content point of view and the geographic point of view. The problem of compatibility between the data from different systems is of crucial importance: • Information systems or data sets are created for specific sectoral purposes (e.g. for agriculture statistics, forest resource assessment, environment monitoring etc.). The different 'universes' of the sectors are overlapping each other but the land use or land cover categories are not compatible. • Data collection follows different approaches: exhaustive mapping vs. statistical sampling approaches. Depending on the purpose of the application and the financial resources available one or the other approach is chosen. Earth observation provides raw data (aerial photographs or satellite imagery) covering large areas but the information derived thereof satisfies only partly the requirements. • Spatial restitution units applied in the statistical approaches are varying greatly (from census block level to national or even European level). • Mapping units vary depending on the defined scale so that geometry and data content, even with the same subject, are not compatible. This situation is not satisfying regarding the need of comparable information at the international level. Existing data may only be harmonised at the European level with great limitations or not at all. It means that suitable data required for applications at the European level, consistent in terms of thematic content and geographic detail / restitution and covering the whole area of interest (so at least the 15 EU Member States), is simply not available. Improvement of the situation described above can be achieved through different approaches. One approach to that problem is to carry out projects at European level. The CORINE Land Cover project launched by the European Commission in 1985 aimed at satisfying the needs for basic data on land cover and land use in environmental applications. Today, the European Environment Agency (EEA), now responsible for the CORINE program (Co ordination of information related to the environment) plans for an up-date of the CORINE Land Cover database. Specific surveys are carried out for specific purposes, e.g. the operational activities developed by the MARS project (Monitoring Agriculture with Remote Sensing) through regional inventories or the fraud control on subsidies for the Directorate General for Agriculture (DG AGRI) of the European Commission. Harmonisation and integration of existing data sets is another way to overcome the problem. As already mentioned the results of land cover / land use data integration are very limited today because of the many incompatibilities of the data sets and the necessary generalisation and aggregation procedures. To comply with its mission 'to provide the European Union with a high-quality information service' Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, re-activated in 1996 a working group on land use statistics that is dealing with the subject. During the meetings, the problems are identified and discussed at technical and institutional level. The conclusions drawn by the working group are input to the Eurostat statistical work programme on land use statistics. Besides technical issues, Eurostat animates the co ordination of different Commission services concerned with land cover / use information, that are the Directorate General for Agriculture (DG AGRI), the Directorate General for Environment (DG ENV), the Directorate General for Regional Cohesion (DG REGIO) and the Directorate General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC). Execution of a part of this work programme is entrusted to CESD Communautaire. In the following chapters, the CESD approach to contribute to an improvement of the situation is presented. 2 CONTRIBUTION FOR IMPROVEMENT: WORK PROGRAMME ON LAND USE CESD Communautaire established a work programme on land use information (CESD LU programme) in order to answer to Eurostat needs. CESD Communautaire, a non-profit organisation, was founded in 1989 by official statisticians of the EU Member States under the auspices of Eurostat with the objective to co-ordinate statistical co operation and development programmes with Non member countries of the European Union and to assist the European Statistical System in developing statistical methodologies. The overall objective of the CESD LU programme is to contribute to the improvement of the current situation. Following a problem analysis the work

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