Geophysics Entering INSPIRE

Geophysics is going to be involved in the INSPIRE process as part of the Geology theme of Annex II. The first public version of the data model (v2.0) was released in June 2011 (INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Geology [2011]). Consultation and testing period will be closed in October 2012. The core data model will become part of the European legislation and will control the data provision of Legally Mandated Organisations (LMO). To support the INSPIRE framework directives with a coherent data model an application schema for geophysical feature types were specified. The Data model is based on ISO and OGC standards and the INSPIRE General Concept Model. It supports two schemas, a simple one for legal data provisioning obligations and an other one for more detailed data descriptions.