INSPIRE Directive implementation in Portugal. The state of play

Paulo Patrício; Danilo Furtado; Vanda Bica; Alexandra Fonseca; Ana Luísa Gomes; André Serronha; Henrique Silva; Sérgio Ferreira; Mário Caetano

Paulo Patrício Direção-Geral do Território
Danilo Furtado Direção-Geral do Território
Vanda Bica Direção-Geral do Território
Alexandra Fonseca Direção-Geral do Território
Ana Luísa Gomes Direção-Geral do Território
André Serronha Direção-Geral do Território
Henrique Silva Direção-Geral do Território
Sérgio Ferreira Direção-Geral do Território
Mário Caetano Direção-Geral do Território

Palabras clave: INSPIRE, infraestructuras de datos espaciales, IDE, SNIG, informaación geográfica, GeoNetwork

Resumen

El tiempo transcurrido después de la transposición de la Directiva
europea INSPIRE a la legislación portuguesa justifica un análisis
sobre la aplicación de la presente Directiva en Portugal: lo que
ha cambiado, qué logros se obtuvieron, pero también qué queda
por hacer. Portugal tiene un nuevo geoportal para la Infraestructura
Nacional de Datos Espaciales – SNIG, desarrollado con
GeoNetwork. Este geoportal incluye nuevas funcionalidades para
facilitar y hacer más eficiente la búsqueda y visualización de datos
espaciales. La implementación de INSPIRE en Portugal dio lugar
a la definición de nuevas especificaciones técnicas para producir
cartografía de referencia a gran escala, basada en las especificaciones
de datos y directrices técnicas de INSPIRE. Analizando el
número de metadatos de datos espaciales portugueses notificados
anualmente a la Comisión Europea y el número de datos
espaciales disponibles a través de los servicios de visualización
y descarga es posible verificar que hay un aumento significativo
de los datos espaciales compartidos por autoridades públicas
de Portugal. En los últimos 10 años se han superado una serie
de barreras para una implementación exitosa de INSPIRE, pero
todavía hay desafíos, a saber: tener datos espaciales más conformes
compartidos a través de servicios de descarga, tener más
datos espaciales que cumplan con las especificaciones de datos
de INSPIRE y una mayor participación de los Gobiernos Locales
en torno a esta Directiva Europea.

Biografía del autor

Paulo Patrício, Direção-Geral do Território

Paulo Patrício is since 2012 the Director of the Geodesy, Cartography
and Geographic Information Department at the
Directorate-General for Territorial Development of Portugal.
He holds a degree in Surveying Engineering from the Lisbon
University and he worked for the Portuguese Army Geographic
Institute from 1996 until the year 2000. From 2007 to
2010 he was the Head of the Acquisition and Treatment of
Geographic Information Division at the Portuguese Geographic
Institute and from 2010 to 2012 he was the Director of the
Geodesy and Cartography Department at the same Institute.
He has 20 years of experience working with GI, and in the last
8 years, as department director, he is responsible for project
management and team coordination.

Danilo Furtado, Direção-Geral do Território

Danilo Furtado is the Head of the Geographic Information
Division at the Directorate-General for the Territory (DGT).
He has a degree in Information Systems Management, with
a Master degree in Geographical Information Systems and
Science. He has over 30 years of experience in the area of
Geographical Information and has an extensive background
working with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MapServer, GeoServer,
MapProxy, Tilecache, QGIS and OpenLayers stack. He has
been collaborating within SNIG since 2006. Currently, he
participates in SNIG´s coordination and on implementation
of INSPIRE Directive in Portugal, especially in INSPIRE Services
and in monitoring working group. Also, he is an OSGeo
Charter Member of International OSGeo and he is a founding
member of the Portuguese OSGeo local chapter. He has
co-authored several technical documents and papers for
congresses in matters related to Geographic Information and
Geographic Information Infrastructures.

Vanda Bica, Direção-Geral do Território

She is a Geographic Engineer of Directorate-General for the
Territory (DGT). She has over 25 years of experience in the area
of geographic information. Since 2015 she has been working
on SNIG, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and on
the implementation of INSPIRE Directive in Portugal. She has
been collaborating on the creation of web services, management
and standardization of metadata, implementation of
the new SNIG´s GeoPortal and updating and developing SNIG
´s content. Before that for about 10 years, she served as head
of division in the area of management and updating cadastral
data. She has co-authored several technical documents
and papers for congresses in matters related to Geographic
Information and Spatial Data Infrastructures.

Alexandra Fonseca, Direção-Geral do Território

Alexandra Fonseca is a researcher at Directorate-General
of Territorial Development (DGT). Her background is on
Environmental Engineering and her PhD was focused on
the use of multimedia GIS for environmental impact assessment.
She is also part of CENSE, a research centre on
Environmental and Sustainability Research from the New
University of Lisbon (FCT/UNL). She has been involved, for
several years, in national and European projects exploiting
geographic information and ICT for environmental
concerns as well as in INSPIRE related projects. She was
part of the development team of the Portuguese NSDI,
SNIG, from 1994 to 1999. She has been part of the INSPIRE
Expert Group (2001-2007) and she is one of the PT delegates
in the INSPIRE MIG-P. Her present research interests
are related to Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).
She is the author of several publications in books, journals
and conference proceedings.

Ana Luísa Gomes, Direção-Geral do Território

Ana Luisa Gomes is a researcher at Directorate-General
of Territorial Development (DGT). She has a PhD
on Wilderness/Conservation/Spatial Modelling from
Portuguese Geographical Institute (IGP), Lisbon, a MSc
on Environmental/GIS/Multimedia, National Centre of
Geographical Information (CNIG), Lisbon, and a BSc on
Environmental Engineering, New University of Lisbon.
Her research focuses on the development of protected
area selection techniques based on an expert system for
modelling the wilderness concept in Portugal. She has
participated in several projects related with GIS, Spatial
Data Infrastructures, Nature Conservation and INSPIRE
implementation (e.g. Cross-Nature, NATURE-SDI, HELM,
GIS4EU, HUMBOLDT).

André Serronha, Direção-Geral do Território

André Serronha has a degree in Geographic Engineering
and Civil Engineering. Since 2016 he teaches several
courses of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in
QGIS software and a module of the discipline of Spatial
Data Infrastructures in the master’s degree in GIS
of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
Since 2015, he has worked in the Directorate-General
of the Territory, in the team of the National Geographic
Information System (SNIG) and INSPIRE. He coordinates
and integrates Working Groups to support the
understanding, dissemination and implementation of
INSPIRE specifications in Portugal to harmonize spatial
data sets and geographic web services. From 2010
to 2015 he worked at the former Portuguese Geographic
Institute. He was the coordinator of cartographic
production at the 1:50 000 and 1: 100 000 scales and
developer of many Computer Aided Design and GIS
applications.

Henrique Silva, Direção-Geral do Território

He works in the Directorate-General for the Territory,
in the Geodesy and Geographic Information Directory,
mainly in the area of metadata and catalog of the national
SDI – SNIG. In this context, he supported most of
the technical activities regarding the introduction of the
ISO and INSPIRE metadata specifications in Portugal.
Also, has been collaborating in other activities regarding
the implementation of the Directive, like Monitoring and
Reporting, and he was the coordinator of the national technological
working group for INSPIRE implementation.
Also, he works in the development of the new technical
specifications of the national topographic cartography
and he is a Java/ Javascript programmer in the field of
geographic information systems.

Sérgio Ferreira, Direção-Geral do Território

He has a degree in Geography – variant of Cartography
and Geographic Information Systems (2008) and a master
in Geographic Information Systems – Technologies
and Applications (2013) from the University of Lisbon. The
professional activity has been in the area of Geographic
Information Systems, with particular focus on Spatial
Data Infrastructures. Currently he is working has a research
fellow at the Directorate-General for the Territory.

Mário Caetano, Direção-Geral do Território

He is a principal investigator of Directorate-General of
Territorial Development (DGT) and since October 2014 he
is the Deputy Director-General of DGT with responsibilities
on geographic information, remote sensing and the
national spatial data infrastructure. Since 2000 he is an
Associate Professor at Information Management School
from the New University of Lisboa (NOVA IMS). Mário
Caetano has a degree in Forest Engineering from the Lisboa
University of Technology (1989), a MSc in Geography
from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1995),
a Ph.D. in Forestry (2000) from the Lisboa University of
Technology, and a Habilitation in Information Management
from ISEGI-NOVA (2013). Research interests include
information systems and management, spatial analysis
and the use of remote sensing data for land cover land
use (LCLU) characterisation and environment monitoring.
He is the author of more than 150 publications in
books, journals and conference proceedings.

Implementación de la Directiva INSPIRE en Portugal. Estado actual

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