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3.1 Global platform for natural hazards
With the world's population growing and concentrated in urban and coastal areas, exposure to natural hazards is constantly on the rise, increasing the risk of human and economic loss. Improving the identification of areas, populations and infrastructures potentially exposed to natural hazards is essential to reduce the consequences of these events. Modeling risk, exposure and vulnerability on a global scale requires access to and processing of a vast amount of data from many sources
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Bibliography
Software tools
Deegree http://www.deegree.org/
GeoNetwork http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
GeoServer http://www.geoserver.org
MapFish
Websites
Group on Earth Observations http://www.earthobservations.org
INSPIRE http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
SDI Cookbook http://www.gsdidocs.org/GSDIWiki/index.php/Main_Page
...Events
INSPIRE Conference, held every year in a different European city http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/501
GEO/GEOSS Plenary, held annually http://www.earthobservations.org/meetings.php
Standards and norms
- Geographic information – Metadata – Part 1: Fundamentals - ISO 19115-1 - 2004
- Geographic information – Metadata – XML schema implementation - ISO/TS 19139 - 2007
- ISO Geographic information – Services - ISO 19119 - 2005
- OGC Catalogue Service http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat - -
- OGC Geography Markup Language http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml - -
- OGC KML...
Regulations
Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of March 14, 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32007L0002
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament...
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