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LMO Description
Organisation Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing
Details
Level of authority National
Hungary
Formal Mandate All surveying, mapping and related activities are governed by the Act LVXXI of 1996 on land surveying and mapping activities. The basic aim of the Act is to ensure that base maps covering the total area of the country are available, that are suitable for land registration, geographic information systems, and for a wide selection of applications and various economic, scientific and social subjects. The Act makes it compulsory to use the governmental base map data to create GIS.
The Joint Decree no 21/1997 “On execution of some rules defined by the Law LXXVI of 1996 on Activities in Surveying and Mapping” regulates a.o. the co-operation of the ministers responsible for surveying and mapping activities and the rules and conditions for the operation of a Map Supply Coordination Committee.
Another important law is the Act on land registration. According to this law, municipalities, courts, notaries and lawyers are allowed to link to the TAKARNET wide area transmission network, operated by the Land Offices. TAKARNET is the extranet of the land registry, which us recently in the phase of development.
Main Activities The Institute is an integrant part of the network of Hungarian institutions of land management, surveying and mapping (parts of the network are: the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - Department of Land Administration and Geoinformation, the central Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing, 19 County Land Offices, the Budapest Land Office and 115 District Land Offices).
At the beginning the scope of activity of the Institute covered the tasks of organising, managing, supervising the surveying and mapping sector in Hungary, carrying out research and development as well as executing the activities of the state boundary service, of the central surveying data and map library.
LMO URL www.fomi.hu 
Comments
LMO CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact Person Tamás Palya
Organisation Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing
Function Person in charge of INSPIRE
Address H-1149 5. Bosnyák tér, Budapest
Country HUNGARY 
Tel +36 1 460 4091
Fax +36 1 222 5112 
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the LMO in INSPIRE development
  1. allocate experts to Drafting Teams
  2. submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
  3. participate in the review process
  4. contribute to cost/benefit analysis of the draft Implementing Rules
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain: Regional
Description of geographic extent: Carpathian Basin (Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia-Montenegro)
Societal Sector Research/Central government
Specific Expertise
Metadata
Data Specifications
Network services
Data and Service Sharing
Monitoring and Reporting
INSPIRE Data Themes
Theme UserProducerCoordinator
Coordinate reference systems
Geographical grid systems
Geographical names
Administrative units
Addresses    
Cadastral parcels  
Transport networks  
Hydrography  
Protected sites  
Elevation
Land cover
Orthoimagery
Geology    
Statistical units    
Buildings  
Soil  
Land use  
Human health and safety    
Utility and governmental services    
Environmental monitoring Facilities
Production and industrial facilities    
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Population distribution and demography    
Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units    
Natural risk zones    
Atmospheric conditions    
Meteorological geographical features    
Bio-geographical regions    
Habitats and biotopes    
Species distribution    
Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development The National Board of Technical Development and the Prime Minister’s Office play a significant coordinating role with respect to the NSDI and projects contributing to it. One of the dominant movers is the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, which is the main provider of GI in Hungary. The Ministry is responsible and co-ordinates the integrated land registration and cadastral mapping, land use and large-scale topographic mapping. Its institutional network includes 136 District and County Land Offices and the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI), a leading R&D institute in GI. The SDI in Hungary is operational. Data can be downloaded from the internet, or ordered through the internet. Special applications can be provided upon request. The coordination between different spatial data providers and users is highly efficient. The Hungarian National Spatial Data Infrastructure, although still in its early stage of development, is existing, it provides the public information services with high quality of data on spatial location, supports the development of the information society.
Primary Business Surveying, Mapping, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Agriculture 
Environmental application domains Floods & extreme weather Prevention and Management, Drought Prevention and Management, Vegetation Management, Rural development  

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