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Reportnet for beginners

Hermann Peifer, EEA

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What is Reportnet?

The EEA’s data collection machinery.

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What is Reportnet?

Reportnet is a system of

integrated IT modules and

processes creating a shared

information infrastructure

to support the reporting

of environmental data

and information in Europe

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Reportnet modules

1. Reporting Obligations Database ROD

(A database of reporting obligations)

2. Directory DIR

(Database of data reporters)

3. Central Data Repository CDR

(The website to upload the data.

Including: data conversions

and automated quality checks)

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Evolution of data reporting

Regular mailFax

TapesCD-ROM

Floppy disks

Emailwith

attachments

Reportnet:centralisedweb-based

80‘s 90‘s 21st century

Paper based reporting >> Electronic data reporting

Towardsdata

sharing

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DataCollection

DataProcessing

Disseminationof information

Production line

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From theory to practice

http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/

http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/

Eionet directory

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Deliveries in Reportnet:7667 released envelopes (on 7 May 2010)

Files: 123621

Feedbacks: 25020

Obligations:

~20 (in 2002)

100+ (since 2005)

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GIS data in Reportnet (1)

Point data, e.g.:• monitoring stations• industrial facilities• airports (noise source)

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GIS data (2)

Line data, e.g.:• river network• roads, railways

Polygons, e.g.:• river basins• protected areas• land cover

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Automatic QA

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Manual QA

IDs in shapefilesvs. XML data file

Show shapefile as image

Reported coordinatesvs. geocoded address