Europe's environment: the third assessment

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01 November 2007 | By Vector1Media | 1265

Kiev report is the third one in a series of pan-European assessment reports on the state of the environment, called for successive pan-European Ministerial Conferences (1995, 1998, 2003). The Kiev report aims to support the UN-ECE Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" to be held in Kiev next May.

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EuroRegioMap: Incremental Development of a Pan-European Vectorial Database at Medium Scale

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28 October 2007 | By Vector1Media | 1644

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2. EuroRegionalMap, a pan-European database at medium scale suitable for spatial analysis, network analysis and visualisation
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4. The EuroRegionalMap database is intended as a topographic framework or base data product for multi-purpose GIS at the scale of 1:250.000 covering the whole of Europe seamlessly and more or less homogeneously in order to facilitate the implementation of cross-border and pan-European GIS as well as the transfer of GIS expertise and solutions from one national market to another.
5. This project  is at a demonstration phase starting with the production for 7 countries and preparing the extended production on Europe
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7. It will be produced by the official National Mapping Agencies of Europe in a deliberately pragmatic approach towards harmonisation of existing national databases. This pragmatic approach entails that at this stage only six NMAs are participating in the harmonisation process  and furthermore that the result will not be entirely standardised by including the notion that not all specifications have to be uniformly complied with from the outset by all the partners. Partners have the opportunity to integrate the specification gradually and at different speeds into what remains basically a national effort of data collection and maintenance.
8. Cost constraints are not the only reason for this. EuroRegioMap wants to avoid the trap of a harmonised database produced in a one-time effort that cannot be sustained in the longer run when the database has to be maintained. By admitting that the harmonisation of national databases to the full high-quality EuroRegionalMap specification happens step by step, it is hoped that national data collection and maintenance procedures will effectively converge and form a reliable basis for future maintenance and enhancements.
   
9. For the project, a core of mandatory specifications has thus been chosen that all partners can uniformly produce when taking into account the status of their national databases and the resources available to them for re-engineering. Partners who have more advanced GIS structured national databases or more resources will nevertheless have the option to go beyond this core level of harmonisation and produce data that comply with all or some of the specifications marked as optional.

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The Thematic Accuracy of Corine land cover 2000 - Assessment using LUCAS

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01 November 2007 | By Vector1Media | 1257

The purpose of this report is to assess the thematic accuracy of CLC2000 by means of an independent data source, the LUCAS data (not used in the compilation of the target database - CLC2000) and statistical methods homogeneously applied to as many of the participating countries as possible. The purpose of validating geographical data is to derive final accuracy/reliability figures by means of independent, high resolution and more accurate data, which is related to a similar data acquisition period.

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Land Administration Review: Russian Federation

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28 October 2007 | By Vector1Media | 1208

Historically, land has always had a special meaning to the Russian people. Long before the 1917 revolution, land was seen as a community asset and, thus, had more "communal" uses than in Western Europe or North America, where land was seen as an object for market activities following the rules of demand and supply with a price attached to it. The Soviet Union’s Land Law was based on a theory that did not recognize private landownership nor its market economy potential. Land was treated as a publicly owned natural resource. The only economic value that was recognized was its soil’s productivity. That assumption resulted in the development of one of the most accurate and comprehensive soil cadastres that the world has ever known. However, issues of legal ownership were not addressed by the Soviet cadastre. Many of the problems with today’s institutional structures for the registration of ownership rights in land and other real property, as well as the difference between land administration in general and the management of State-owned land, are a direct result of this attitude.

 

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