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CORDAReference data access for Copernicus services

Henrik Steen ANDERSENProject manager

16 March 2016

EEA

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Access to geospatial reference data is critical for the

Emergency Management Service

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The EEA is setting up CORDA to help …

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https://corda.eea.europa.eu/

Single access node for

Copernicus services.

Provides links to

relevant authoritative

geospatial reference

data.

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The Copernicus in situ component and the role of the EEA

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Specifications and access for day

to day operational management

and ingestion of the in situ data

and service tailored pre-processing

will be provided by the services

themselves

State of play of the Copernicus in

situ component.

Agreements and data access

solutions targeted multiple

services.

Coordination across services and

exploitation of synergies.

Service level Programme level

Delegation agreements with entrusted entities Delegation agreement with the EEA

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Geospatial reference data is critical for the Emergency Management Service

Over 20 reference datasets reported as critical:

ortho-imagery

administrative units

transport networks

buildings

land cover/use

etc…

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Existing challenges and issues (1/2)

In Europe data is often owned by national and regional authorities;

The amount is huge and it is increasing;

Data is heterogeneous.

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WMSWMTS

SHAPE

1: 100 0001: 10 000

≈0.5 m

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Existing challenges and issues (2/2)

Finding the relevant data has been the “headache” of Copernicus service providers;

Data use is often restricted;

Duplication of effort due to cross-cuttinguse of the same data by several services.

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CORDA – what is it?

Single access node providing link to the most up-to-date relevant authoritative geospatial reference data at their source

Tailored to the needs and accessible only for Emergency Management and Land Monitoring services

Hosted and maintained by the EEA

Operationally available since October 2015

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CORDA – what is it not?

Harmonization at Pan-European scale

Creation of derived products

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Number of national data sets and in total

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