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https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-4-85-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-4-85-2021
03 Dec 2021
 | 03 Dec 2021

The INSPIRE harmonisation: the Geological Map of Italy at 1:100,000 scale

Marco Pantaloni, Valentina Campo, Maria Pia Congi, Gennaro Maria Monti, Paolo Primerano, and Renato Ventura

Keywords: Geological map of Italy, INSPIRE, GeoSciML, Open Data

Abstract. The INSPIRE Directive institute a European infrastructure for spatial information to support the environmental policies of the European Union. In the mainframe of the Directive, 34 different themes that represents different environmental information has been identified. One of this is the Geology theme; it is split into three subthemes and represent a "reference data theme” because it provides basic knowledge on the physical properties and composition of rocks and sediments, their structure and their age as represented in geological maps, as well as geomorphological features.

In the feature catalogue of the INSPIRE application schema Geology has been defined the term lists for the information types. Some of these are fully compliant with the features defined in the 1:100.000 scale geological map database and are used in the semantic harmonization procedure.

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