Proceedings of the 4th EC - GIS Workshop. Budapest, Hungary, 24-26 June 1998

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INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS, INFORMATICS AND SAFETY
Proceedings of the
4th EC - GIS Workshop
Budapest, Hungary, 24-26 June 1998
Sponsored also by:
National Committee for Technological Development, Budapest, Hungary
Intergraph Europe and ERDAS
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Proceedings of the
4th EC - GIS Workshop
Budapest, Hungary, 24-26 June 1998
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Sponsored also by:
National Committee for Technological Development, Budapest, Hungary
Intergraph Europe and ERDAS
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Printed in Italy Foreword
This volume presents the proceedings of the 4'1' EC-G1S Workshop, which was held in
Budapest from 24* - 26* June 1998.
The location of Budapest was chosen to assist participants from Central and Eastern
European countries to attend, and in the event almost half of over 90 participants came
from such countries.
The workshop presented European GIS projects and applications funded by the
European Commission, mainly by Directorate General III (Industry) the prime spon­
sor of the workshop, but also some related initiatives of Directorate General XIII
(Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research), and others.
This gave opportunities for contacts, exchanges, discussion and cross-fertilization of
ideas between collaborators in a wide range of projects.
Other workshop sessions focused on "GIS and Pan European Infrastructures", "New
Markets" and "Education and Technology Transfer".The last session on "Emerging
Pan-European Issues" led up to the final discussion, which is also reported here. The
important challenges posed by the creation of the European Geographic Information
Infrastructure, the development and implementation of the required standards, and the
implied changes in relationships between the various actors, were all discussed and
debated. Some very useful suggestions were also forthcoming, such as the proposal for
a television programme, or video, to explain and promote the benefits to be gained from
creating the EGII. A consensus was even reached on a "vision statement" for the EGII:
"Gl Infrastructure for Europe should enable public and private sector users to access
appropriate levels of up to date topographic and thematic spatial information in an
interoperable environment at a reasonable cost within a single, easily understood legal
framework covering copyright and confidentiality. The data collected from synoptic
systems (remote sensing) may be centralised but the data collected in individual coun­
tries should be co-ordinated under the subsidiarity principle ".
Warm thanks are due to HUNAGI - the Hungarian Association for Geo-Information -
and in particular to Gabor Remetey-Fülöpp and his colleagues, for assistance with the
local arrangements in the Hotel Agro.
Additional sponsorship for the workshop was provided by the Hungarian National
Committee for Technological Development, and the hospitality was further augment­
ed by Intergraph Europe and ERDAS. All these organisations are sincerely thanked for
their contributions.
Finally, thanks are also due to JRC staff who helped with the organisation, in particu­
lar Cherith Aspinall and Karen Fullerton, and of course to the presenters and authors
who took the trouble to prepare papers for inclusion in these proceedings.
R.J. Peckham
JRC, Ispra
September 1998 Contents
GIS and Pan­European Infrastructures
A first answer to the needs for a Seamless European Gl Infrastructure
C. Luzet, O. Eggers, B. Farrell 3
The GI(S) StandardsContributionto the Global Information Infrastructure(GII)
J.R.Rowley8
Progress TowardInteroperabilityanda Geospatial Infrastructure at the Open GISConsortium
C. Kottman14
NetworkingandEuropeanInteroperability
A. Davey 25
PANEL­GI: Pan European Link for Geographical Information
G.Saio,E.Roccatagliata3 1
GIPSIE:AEuropean Contribution to Open Infrastructures
S.Winter37
Projects
COMMUTER: A New Solution to Grant Flexible Remote Maintenance of SpatialDatabases
F. Chirié, D. Djamei 43
GISontheInternet­New ways of disseminating Public Information
J.Schaller,M.Bonazountas49
EuropeanSpatialMetadata Infrastructure:
TheGeographicInformation Gateway on the Internet
J.Abreu,H.J.Scholten. A. Lo Cashio54
CommonGlS:GISforeveryone, from everywhere
J.Perdigão63
Interactive Visual Comparison for Data Exploration with Maps in IRIS
G. Andrienko, N. Andrienko 72
AGENT Project:AutomatedGeneralisation New Technology
S. Lamy85
Generation ofHighResolutionTerrain Elevation Models from Laser Radar Images
E. Jungert, F. Lantz, G. Neider93
A new Real World Point to Point Model for GIS
Β. Rachev 98
TheBEST­GIS project and the "Guidelines for Best Practice in User InterfaceforGIS"
F.Bonfatti,E. Roccatagliata, G. Saio 107
Applications
GEOMIST:Geological andMiningInformationSystem on the Iberian Pyrite Belt
L.Delgado, F. Herrera, G.Ortiz,R.Hernández, L. Torres, J. Lopes 115
GEIXS­AHarmonised GeologicalInformationSystem for Europe
L.Delgado, F. Pérez Cerdán,I.Jackson120GeoNet: an Information Technology for Space­Time
WWW on­line Intelligent Geodata Analysis
V. Gitis, B. Osher, A. Dovgyallo, T. Gergely 124
The Structure and FunctionalityofaGeoinformation System for Armenia
L. H. Aslanyan 136
RESOURCE:knowledgebasedGISforoilandgas resource monitoring
A.Vaynchtok,V.Gitis,G.Andrienko,B.Ermakov, V.Erkhov141
IntegratedSpatialPotential InitiativeforRenewable Energy in Europe ­ (INSPIRE)
S.P.Dagnall,B.Hillring, D. Sarigiannis146
DevelopmentofRegionswith an IntegratedGIS Environment in Northeast Hungary
M. Herdon, J. Tamás153
Telecom network modeling with GIS Methods
Z. Lisziewicz 163
NeAvMarkets
AnewParadigmfornew Markets ­ Gains from the World­Wide­Web
J.Glover....Τ169
TheapplicationofGISin the insurance and financial services industries
fortheassessmentofnatural and non­natural risk
D.C.Ovadia173
ELEGIA:EuropeanLocal Enterprise and Geographic Information Aggregation
S.Loddo,A.Giacomelli179
Digital Maps are the Key Components for ITS Applications
A. Bastiaansen 184
EducationandTechnology Transfer
InteroperableEducationfor Interoperable GIS
D.I.Heywood,Κ.Κ.Kemp, D. E. Reeve189
TheRegionalGISEducation and Resource Center
S.Selinger202
EmergingPan­European Issues
FacingtheChallengeofEU Accession ­The Emerging Role of GI and RS Technologies
GaborRemetey­Fülöpp209
Data sets for sustainable management of Europe's regions
A. Annoni, D. Ehrlich, P. Smits, L. Montanarella 218
The Association of Geographic InformationLaboratories(AGILE) Aims and Scope
I. Masser .'235
GI2000:Towards a European Policy FrameworkforGI,­where do we stand?
M.Littlejohn240
TheEuropean Coordination Process
C.Chenez243
Reportonthe Final Discussion250
ListofAcronyms254
List of Participants256GIS AND
PAN-EUROPEAN
INFRASTRUCTURES