Open Data is NOT only data that you can access without paying a fee or similar.

Google Maps distributes, for example, proprietary data which neither has an open license, nor can be used without dealing with complex permissions and terms of use. OpenStreetMap, on the other hand, is a genuine Open Data project. Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose. Not every data is “Open” even though the data producers can claim full openness. An open work must satisfy the following requirements in its distribution: 

Implementation plan 2020–2022.

Geo-harmonizer project has 20 outputs, which are linked with the project milestones.

Geo-harmonizer project

Prepared by: mundialis, OpenGeoHub, CTU in Prague and MultiOne

Executive summary

A CSW-compliant metadata catalogue for the Geo-harmonizer project is available for testing at https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork.

Development team: OpenGeoHub, MultiOne,

The Geo-harmonizer project requires an up-to-date terrain model of Continental Europe that can be used for land cover, vegetation and soil mapping. Currently at least three public global Digital Elevation Models exist that cover Europe and are available for spatial modeling:

Geo-harmonizer project

Prepared by: MultiOne, OpenGeoHub, CTU in Prague and mundialis

Executive summary

eumap is a generic software solution which wraps together functions for automated mapping, harmonization and generation of predictions using EO raster layers. The package can be accessed via: https://gitlab.com/geoharmonizer_inea/eumap/. It includes:

Mapping the land-cover (LC) dynamics over the past two decades (2000 to 2020) for Continental Europe is one of the main goals of the Geo-Harmonizer project. To generate annual predictions of land cover, we will use a spatiotemporal machine learning model, able to generalize in space and time, to predict the LC in any part of the European territory over different years.