ESRI Technology for INSPIRE
ESRI’s ArcGIS and ArcGIS Server technology provide geospatial data creation, integration and use capabilities that anticipate the kind of geospatial data and analysis of the EU. ESRI’s GIS Portal Toolkit anticipates that kind of geospatial data resources sharing envisioned by the EU’s INSPIRE Directive. These technologies provide essential building blocks for the spatial data infrastructure the EU intends to implement.
These building blocks, together with the reservoir of geospatial data that has been developed in Europe over the past few decades using ESRI and other GIS technologies – if harnessed by the EU in the INSPIRE context – can provide a ready head start for the implementation of INSPIRE’s technical infrastructure sooner rather than later.
ESRI SDI Technology can provide INSPIRE with a complete information system of scalable, high performance capabilities for authoring content, publishing services, and searching for and exchanging geospatial information resources. GIS nodes, based on both ArcGIS and ArcGIS Server and already present throughout Europe, create geospatial data for sharing via an INSPIRE portal (or hierarchy of local community portals) based on GIS Portal Toolkit.
These ESRI technologies are designed for use in a world of standards-based GIS technologies, communication protocols, and data formats created by a variety of vendors and organisations. As such they are flexible and anticipate a range of requirements and specifications such as may ultimately be established by the INSPIRE member states during their current explorations and deliberations.
The advantage to INSPIRE is that these ESRI technologies are currently operational and available for immediate implementation, testing, and review.
ESRI IRELAND’S FOUR STEPS TO B-INSPIRED
