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The four-year EU project Humboldt contributes to the implementation of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) that integrates the diversity of spatial data available for a multitude of European organisations. It is the aim of this project to manage and advance important parts of the implementation process of this ESDI.

The main goal of the Humboldt project is to enable organisations to document, publish and harmonise their spatial information. The software tools and processes created will demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe as planned by the INSPIRE initiative, meeting the goals of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES).

* Conformity with standards and major European initiatives
    * Reduction of cost and effort of INSPIRE implementation
    * Integration of services and data to facilitate decision-making in security and environment applications
    * Easy information accessibility and distribution
    * User-friendly interface to support domain experts data and metadata migration and integration
    * Support of data accessibility and distribution
    * Support of sensible acquisition and archiving policies

    * Users, both in the environmental and security fields are supported on the reliability, periodicity, continuity and cost-effectiveness of their data supply
    * Support developers and users with the implementation of their ESDI-enabled software
    * Realisation of a reference implementation with typical application scenarios
    * Core technology will be available as Open Source
    * Information management technology for earth observation related user-driven operational services