Users’ consultation process in building a land cover and land use database for the official Walloon Georeferential

摘要

INSPIRE and PSI directives induced major changes in the Walloon geomatics ecosystem. INSPIRE aims at establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the European community for environmental policies. PSI is the European legislation on the re-use of public sector information, including all government-held geodatasets. For compliance purposes, Wallonia proposed to develop a Georeferential aiming at providing free, open-access and consistent reference geodatasets to the Walloon stakeholders. Some of the current data being outdated, the Georeferential proposes pilot projects for a collaborative and user-oriented design of new maps. One of the categories being identified for the Georeferential is land cover and land use. Build on the knowledge of past researches, the Walous project aims at combining very high spatial with very high temporal resolution Earth observation and thematic data in a classification scheme. To ensure that the new data covers the general interest and to ensure his appropriation by the users, gathering requirements is one of the most vital pieces. Poor gathering of user needs could lead to an unused final product. Walous carried out interviews for clarifying data requirements. This paper introduces this methodology and illustrates how the results impacted the priorities and the specifications of the land cover and land use data.