Alpine Habitat Diversity - HABITALP
Work package 9 - Transnational spatial database

Management: Nationalpark Berchtesgaden
Duration: 11/2002 – 09/2006

The transnational spatial database will document all aerial images as well as the derived land cover data and analysis results in a Geographic Information System and a relational database. The Landscape Informatics Centre (LIZ) and the Swiss National Park (SNP) will undertake the scientific implementation of these tasks.

All protected areas must provide their data in a harmonized format so they can be integrated in the common database. This standardized format will comprise

• an alpine projection and reference system for the geographic data
• a common database design for the attribute data (normalized table columns and links between data tables)
• a description according to ISO 19115 CORE for the metadata on geographic datasets

Access to the geographic project results will be regulated in two different ways by internet, i.e. by the aid of a mapserver application and web GIS connections. This implies the installation of a specific server technology.

Descriptive project results like reports, specifications, common methods and metadata are documented in the content management system of work package 11.

Open access to the data makes it necessary to define accessibility and user rights. These are granted individually by each project partner.

Results related to this work package

• Summary
• Visualization of geographic results
• Downloadable descriptive documents