French National Context Assessment

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French National Context Assessment
Part 1 Protected areas Part 2 Geo-data
production and exchanges
www.gisig.it/nature-gis
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Part IProtected areas
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Protected Areas
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Others areas related to nature conservation

• Inventories Bird Conservation Important Zones
  (ZICO, Bird directive 79), Natural Zones of
  Ecological, Faunistic and Floristic Zones
  (ZNIEFF)
•  Private  protected areas around 400km² and
  1300 sites (managed by Regional and Departmental
  Conservatories)
• Areas bought and managed by the departments
  (Landscape law)
• etc.

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Adminstrative stackeholders

• Environment Ministry (www.environnement.gouv.fr)
• 26 regional directions ALSACE, AQUITAINE,
  AUVERGNE, BASSE-NORMANDIE, BOURGOGNE, BRETAGNE,
  CENTRE, CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE, CORSE, FRANCHE-COMTE,
  HAUTE-NORMANDIE, ILE-DE-France,
  LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, LIMOUSIN, LORRAINE,
  MIDI-PYRENEES, NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS,
  PAYS-DE-LA-LOIRE, PICARDIE, POITOU-CHARENTES,
  PACA , RHONES-ALPES Overseas GUADELOUPE,
  GUYANE, MARTINIQUE, REUNION

• French Institute for the Environment (IFEN)
  (www.ifen.fr)
• environment (geo)data production (example
  Corinne Land Cover)

• Regional (and other territorial collectivities)
  environment services

• Regional Agencies for the Environment (ARPE)
• www.arpe-paca.fr
• environment (geo)data use

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PA managers

• Specialised public organisations National parks
  (www.parcsnationaux-fr.com), regional parks
  (www.parcs-naturels-regionaux.tm.fr), and Coastal
  Conservatory (www.conservatoire-du-littoral.fr)
• Coastal law 861 km, 500sites
• Public non-specialised organisations. Ex Forest
  National Office (ONF) (www.onf.fr)
• Private (associations). Ex Regional and
  Departemental Natural Areas Conservatories
  (www.enf-conservatoires.org)

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Scientific and technical organisations and
networks

• National Botanic Conservatories (9 Bassin
  parisien (Paris), Alpes (Gap), Pyrénées,
  Méditerranée (Porquerolle), Massif Central, Nord
  (Bailleul), Bretagne (Brest), Vosges (Nancy), Ile
  de la Réunion (mascarin). Linked with the Natural
  Sciences National Museum (www.mnhm.fr)

• Natural Areas Technical Workshop (ATEN )
• www.espaces-naturels.fr

Networks

• National and regional many
• International Alps Protected Areas Network
• (www.alparc.org)

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Part IIGeo-data production and exchanges and
GIS interoperability
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Main geo-data producers

• The geo-refencial produced by the National
  Geographical Institute (IGN www.ign.fr)
• Other important producers (at national level)
• French Institute for the Environment (IFEN)
• National Forest Inventory (IFN)
• Statistical agriculture services (SCEES) usually
  not geo-data, unless in some cases example
  TER-UTI
• Private (Michelin, etc.)
• Some producers at regional level National
  Botanic Conservatories, Geographical Information
  Regional Centre(s), etc.

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Limits to geo-data exchanges

• IGN Status
•   Administrative Public Organisation  
• ? the geo-refencial data is not free, even for
  other public organisations

? This limit(ed) free exchanges of any geo-data

• Juridical responsability Which responsability
  in case of mis-use of the exchanged data
  (juricically not perfectly clear)
• ? Aggreements are necessary in any case

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Relationship between producers/technical
users/decision makers
ie  GI policies idea making 

• Department GI Centres (CDIG)
• Regional GI Centres (CRIGE)
• National GI Centre (CNIG)
• From F. Salgé  necessity of political support
  in order to create successful SDI 

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Successful experiences

• CRIGE PACA (regional level, no specific thematic)
• geo-data IGN referencial bought by the PACA
  Region for the CRIGE
• Production of missing data (Regional funded)
• Free exchanges with a unique Web site (no real
  interoperability)
• (a few other similar experiences like this at
  different levels)
• ATEN (national level, protected areas thematic)

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Other interoperability systems

• Example the VIRGIS System
• WFS based
• Aix-Marseille University (Systems and Information
  Sciences Laboratory (LSIS))