MDI-DE-German Marine Data Infrastructure

摘要

Driven by the growing interest in marine spatial data and reporting obligations of the European Union with respect to effective framework directives, a novel marine data infrastructure has been established in Germany. 11 Federal and State agencies provide coastal and marine data which are documented with metadata according to the ISO standard and presented with OGC Web services. A new Web portal serves as central access point for spatial data and information from the German coastal zone and the adjacent marine waters. This facilitates intersectoral views of resources by providing technological solutions of networking and distributed data management and for meeting service based reporting obligations. The MDI-DE infrastructure is permanently maintained at BSH as a joint project of Federal and State ministries under the guidance of a steering group.