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Description
SDIC Title Harmonisation of forest resource, carbon pools, and biodiverstiy information in Europe
Acronym COST E43
Details
Mission and Objectives The main objective of the Action is to improve and harmonise the existing national forest resource inventories in Europe. The secondary objectives are to support new inventories in such a way that inventories will meet national, European and global level requirements in supplying up-to-date, harmonised and transparent forest resource information, and to promote the use of scientifically sound and validated methods in forest inventory designs, data collection and data analysis. The ultimate goal is to build up the forestry information services on the national level inventories in order to get maximised benefits from inventories and maximised advantage of local knowledge and requirements together with international requirements. The goal is also to maximise the synergy between NFIs and European and global level processes and policies that require forestry information.
Mandate EU COST Action E43
Formal Mandate None
Main Activities Workshops, working groups, scientific missions, forest inventory
SDIC URL www.metla.fi/eu/cost/e43
Membership Forest inventories in 26 European countries (see URL)
Typology Thematic
Comments
Contact information for SDIC
Contact Person Tomppo Erkki
Organisation Finnish Forest Research Institute, Professor
Function Coordinate the work
Address Unioninkatu 40 A, FIN-00170 Helsinki, Finland
Country
Tel +358-10 211 2170
Fax +358-10 211 2101 
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development
  1. participate in the review process
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain: Europe
Description of geographic extent 26 European countries, see URL
Societal Sector Central governement
Specific Expertise
Monitoring and Reporting
INSPIRE Data Themes
Title UserProducerCoordinator
Coordinate reference systems    
Geographical grid systems    
Administrative units    
Transport networks    
Hydrography    
Protected sites    
Elevation    
Land cover    
Orthoimagery    
Geology    
Statistical units    
Soil    
Land use  
Environmental monitoring Facilities  
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 Long traditions of members in conducting national forest inventories, COST E43 has started the harmonisation work in June 2004, see URL.
Primary Business Forest inventory, Forestry, Remote Sensing 
Environmental application domains Monitoring forest resources, forest carbon pools, forest biodiversity  

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