Title
MEUSIS (Multiscale EUropean Soil Information System) - Alpine Grid
Subject
(is this an application and downloadable data ?)
Soil data delivered as grids for some pilot areas in Europe (e.g. Slovakia)
Publisher
Alpine Reference Grid, INSPIRE grid, Environment and Conservation,
Multiscale Soil Information system, participatory approach
European Commission – DG JRC
Status
Final
Keywords
Abstract
Description
(objectives, scope)
The Prototype of the Multiscale European Soil Information System
(MEUSIS) is an application which allows the user to navigate in the
Alpine Reference Grid.
The objective of this application is to allow the user to navigate in a large
Transboundary area by zooming in from upper scales towards more
detailed data.
The Alpine Reference Grid of 100km x 100km contains 11 x 7 = 77 cells
of 100km each. The starting point (origin) is defined at (x,y) = (3.800.000
m, 2.200.000 m). Each cell is identified by a unique label. This label is a
string consisting of two parts concatenated by a "_" ; the first part
indicates the longitude of the lower left corner of the cell and the second
part indicates the latitude of the lower left corner of the cell. The number
of digits to indicate the longitude and latitude depends on the size of the
cells within the file. Below, in the following 100km x 100km Alpine
Refenence Grid the latitude and the longitude are indicated with 2 digits.
Description
(background)
Description
(contents)
Example the cell "38_22", indicates the cell with lower left corner at
3800000m lon and 2200000m lat ; The cell labeled "42_25" which
includes Lago Maggiore has as a lower left corner at 4200000m lon and
2500000m lat.
The Alpine Reference Grid is created in relation to the concept of the
MEUSIS project.
This Prototype of the Multiscale European Soil Information System
(MEUSIS) is an application which allows the user to navigate in the
Alpine Reference Grid.
See above
Source
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Type
Format
Coverage
Live Data and Maps
Applications - ArcIMS Service
Maps
- SDE Feature Class
- ESRI ArcIMS 9.0
- WMS (Web Mapping Service)
Alpine Area (Austria, Italy, France, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany,
Liechtenstein)
3800000m lon and 2200000m lat / 4200000m lon and 2500000m
Scale/Resolution
1: 1 000 000
Frequence of
Updates
NA
Last update
Contact
Rights /
Accessibility
URL
Luca Montanarella (luca.montanarella@jrc.it), JRC
Marc Van Liedekerke (marc.van-liedekerke@jrc.it), JRC
Panos Panagos (panos.panagos@jrc.it), JRC
Nicola Filippi (Nicola.filippi@jrc.it ), JRC
Data are free for download:
http://eusoils.jrc.it/projects/alpsis/alpine_region_gis_data.html
http://eusoils.jrc.it/Data.html
http://eusoils.jrc.it/projects/Meusis/main.html