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Verification/Enhancement Data Exchange Platform

Verification/Enhancement Data Exchange Platform

GIO land HRLs are produced by Service Providers over 39 countries.There are HRLs for 5 main themes:

Imperviousness, Forest, Grasslands, Wetland, Water

Each HRL goes through verification and enhancement procedures. This entails several processes, which are the responsibilities of different stakeholders, including the 39 National Reference Centres and the European Topic Centre for Spatial Information and Analysis.

At each stage, HRL data and reports are transferred between stakeholders using internet protocols. The Verification and Enhancement portal performs these transfers, and provides a mechanism for monitoring the production status of GIO land HRL deliveries.

Purpose

Verification/Enhancement Data Exchange Platform

This document serves to describe the functionality and interface of the portal.

It is an extension of the EIONET system, and registered users can access the portal via their EIONET user account.

For further clarification, please contact Alan.Steel@eea.europa.eu.

User Guide

URL: http://gaur.eea.europa.eu/gioland/

Login – access is restricted to registered GIO land stakeholders

Main Page

Local Navigation

The Local navigation menu bar accesses the main portal functions:

• Subscribe to notifications• Search deliveries• New delivery

Local Navigation

Subscribe to Notifications

Notifications serve to inform users about verification and enhancement actions on HRLs that are of specific interest.

Select the ‘Subscribe to notifications’ option under Local navigation.

This will open a dialogue which allows users to subscribe to receive HRL notifications. Keep the default options, which are set to 'Any', to receive all HRL notifications, or filter notifications by Country, Theme, Extent, Projection, Spatial resolution, processing Stage and Event type.

In this way, when HRL Verification and Enhancement activities matching these criteria occur, the user will receive a notification by email.

Subscribe to Notifications

Gives details of who submitted what and when, and a URL link to the event page.

Notification Example

Search Deliveries

Select the ‘Search deliveries’ option under Local navigation.

This takes the users to a table of all deliveries made.

Users can filter the table for deliveries of specific interest. Once found, clicking on the Stage link takes the user to the most current stage of that delivery - e.g. Final integrated.

Search Deliveries

Search Deliveries

At the top of the delivery page is the ‘workflow overview’ link, which you can follow to view previous stages in the workflow of this deliverable.

HRL Processing Status page

HRL Processing History

New HRL Delivery

The ‘New delivery’ option is available only to Service Providers, allowing them to initiate the upload of a new HRL into the Verification and Enhancement stages.

New deliveries must be labelled by Country, Theme, Extent, Projection, Spatial resolution and Extent (full country coverage or partial coverage).

Clicking on the 'Begin Upload' button takes you to the upload page.

Select the criteria from the dropdown lists that match the HRL to be uploaded.

New HRL Delivery

New HRL Delivery

Service Providers can drag and drop, or select HRL archives files from their computers for upload.

When the archive is uploaded, clicking on the 'Finalise' button will trigger the next workflow step and notifications will be sent to any users who have subscribed to receive them.

Users can add text in the Comment box if they choose.

There is a 'delete' at the top of the upload page, which users can use to remove erroneous HRL deliveries.

New HRL Delivery

Return to main page – select the 'Gio Land' link under Local navigation

Logout - click on your name on the top right of the page, and then click the 'Log out' button.