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EAGLE (Eionet Action Group on Land monitoring in Europe)

Sections in the EAGLE webpage
Introduction	Activities	Information and documents from past events	Activities Foreseen	Information provided by EAGLE members and other stakeholders

Short description

Several representatives of the Eionet - NRC Spatial Analysis are working together to support the discussion for the development of a new European land monitoring programme.

The need to kick-off this working group arose from the discussions at European level on the GMES LMCS and how this GMES initiative fits into already existing national land monitoring programmes.

The use of the improved technologies, product development at a smaller mapping unit, the compatibility of the new developments with the existing ones, the type of procurement (centralised vs. decentralised), the type of model (hierarchical or object oriented) or the useful information that could be incorporated into the model (such as the high resolution layers) are some of the items being discussed in the meetings held by this expert group.

Activities being carried out

Long term perspective

• Development of a proposal for data model for a new European land monitoring programme
• Participation in the specification and validation of the High Resolution Layers (HRL) proposed by EEA and GMES Bureau
• Test the suitability of the model and comparability with other land cover classification systems (e.g. FAO LCCS)
• Compilation of:
• Existing generalisation methods to derive current CLC
• Attributes to describe fundamental classes (to populate CLC polygons with fundamental classes)
• Assessment of the variability of CLC classes among the different countries and check how CLC is implemented in the different countries
• Test the application of the model developed into the existing data sources (to ensure traceability, compatibility and comparability, harmonisation, etc.)
• Support the Inspire Thematic Working Group (TWG) on land cover and land use

Short term perspective

• Agreement on how to continue with the next CLC (2011 - 2012)
• Develop recommendations for GIO

Information and documents from past events

Clicking on the following links you can download the minutes (and other documents) of the meetings already held:

• 1st meeting held in Copenhagen, September 2009/
• 2nd meeting in Madrid, December 2009
• 3rd meeting held in Lisbon, March 2010
• 4rd meeting held in Copenhagen, November 2010 and Draft 1.2 of the User requirements document for the High Resolution Layers of geoland 2 as extra information
• Meeting with voluntary EIONET representatives and geoland2 - Euroland team in November 2009, Bonn, Germany
• 5th EAGLE meeting and Joint Meeting EAGLE, geoland2 (GMES Land), MS. MONINA (GMES Biodiversity) in March 2011, Frankfurt, Germany
• 6th EAGLE meeting and Joint Meeting EAGLE, geoland2 in June 2011, Málaga, Spain
• 7th EAGLE meeting with geoland2 support in October 2011, Wien, Austria

Activities Foreseen

The following meeting will take place in March - April 2012. Expected place will be Budapest or Barcelona. Main topics will be: 1) Generalization and harmonization methodologies using in bottom-up approaches in Europe, 2) EU Land monitoring datamodel and 3) User workshop: geoland2 and EAGLE

Information provided by EAGLE members and other stakeholders

This area is a common place to store and share information, presentations, data, etc. Click here to access

In this section you will be able to see and understand which are the running activities in this EAGLE group. It includes information provided by Member States, FAO and ETC/SIA (former ETC-LUSI).