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Design of the shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) and development of a web-based GIS interface
Chapter 5The Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) is a collaborative initiative of
the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) aimed to
establish an integrated and shared EU-wide environmental information system together
with the Member States.
SEIS presents the European vision on environmental information interoperability. It is
a set of high-level principles & workflow-processes that organize the collection, exchange,
and use of environmental data & information aimed to:
• Modernise the way in which information required by environmental legislation is
made available to member states or EC instruments;
• Streamline reporting processes and repeal overlaps or obsolete reporting obligations;
• Stimulate similar developments at international conventions;
• Standardise according to INSPIRE when possible; and
• Introduce the SDI (spatial database infrastructure) principle EU-wide.
SEIS is a system and workflow of operations that offers technical capabilities geared to
meet concept expectations. In that respect, SEIS shows the way and sets up the workflow
effectively in a standardise way (e.g, INSPIRE) to:
• Collect Data from Spatial Databases, in situ sensors, statistical databases, earth
observation readings (e.g., EOS, GMES), marine observation using standard data
transfer protocols (ODBC, SOS, ft p, etc).
• Harmonise collected data (including data check/data integrity) according to best
practices proven to perform well, according to the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC
(1) Annexes I: II: III: plus INSPIRE Implementation Rules for data not specified in
above mentioned Annexes.
• Harmonise collected data according to WISE (Water Information System from
Europe) or Ozone-web.
• Process, aggregate harmonise data so to extract information in a format understandable
by wider audiences (e.g., Eurostat, enviro-indicators).
• Document information to fulfi l national reporting obligations towards EU bodies
(e.g., the JRC, EEA, DGENV, Eurostat)
• Store and publish information for authorised end-users (e.g., citizens, institutions).
This paper presents the development and integration of the SEIS-Malta Geoportal.
The first section outlines EU Regulations on INSPIRE and Aarhus Directives. The second
covers the architecture and the implementation of SEIS-Malta Geoportal. The third
discusses the results and successful implementation of the Geoportal.peer-reviewe
SEIS-MALTA Geoportal: Malta’s Shared Enviromental INSPIRE GeoInformation System
The SEIS Geodatabase includes INSPIRE elements for which a correspondence with the source data has-been found as well as additional elements not existing in the INSPIRE data model but present in the source data. The article covers INSPIRE elements not existing in the source data and all elements existing in the EEA reporting schemas.peer-reviewe