Interoperable online catalogs of geospatial data and services will play an important role in the implementation of the EU-INSPIRE Directive. This includes catalogs of environmental geospatial resources. With the Umweltdatenkatalog (UDK) and the German Environmental Information Portal (PortalU®), the environmental ...

With PortalU®, the environmental administration in Germany has created a technical tool in support of the implementation of the European Environmental Information Directive (EEID). PortalU® specifically addresses Article 7.1 of the directive which calls for an “active and systematic” dissemination of environmental ...

In response to EU Directive 2003/4/EC on Public Access to Environmental Information, public administrations need to provide access to all environmental information available. The German Environmental Information Network (gein®), and the Catalog of Environmental Data Sources (Umweltdatenkatalog - UDK) are tools that support ...

Since the end of May 2006, PortalU, the new German Environmental Information Portal, is online. PortalU provides one-stop access to government-owned environmental information in Germany. The portal organizationally and technically integrates the access to a large number of heterogeneous and geographically distributed ...

After the official launch in May 2006, PortalU will act as the new internet portal of the German environmental authorities. The “U” in PortalU stands for “Umwelt”, the german word for the environment. PortalU will provide access to government-owned environmental information of the 16 federal German states and the German ...