NATURE-SDIplus Second Conference“SDI for Nature Conservation”jointly organized withVESTA-GIS Final Conference “A Training Framework for ESDI” ВSeptember 29th 2010, Lisbon (PT)В В(Click here to see the announcement or check the News and Events section)Welcome to NatureSDIplusDalai Lama says: "Imagine how our life would be void if we couldn't enjoy the beauty of nature, the presence of the animals, the magnificence of the mountains and the expanse of the oceans…". In few words, this is the biodiversity, intended as the whole of the ecosystems and the genetic diversity of fauna and flora.
The establishment of Natura 2000 and the new transboundary EU approach for protected sites management has enforced the link between nature conservation and geo-information. This has generated the need for interoperable, accessible and harmonised datasets for the EU.В The link is also addressed by the INSPIRE Directive which pursues an EU Spatial Data Infrastructure to support environmental policies. Nature-SDIplus Network aims, through state-of-the-art methodologies and best practice examples, to improve harmonisation of national datasets and make them more accessible and exploitable. Therefore, it contributes to the INSPIRE implementation with specific reference to a cluster of data themes on nature conservation. The main objective of the Nature-SDIplus Network is to: involve new stakeholders; share data and best practices; improve and stimulate exploitation and the re-use of information on nature conservation. |