AHN

Description

Organisation:

AHN steering committee

Acronym:

AHN

Details

Mission and Objectives:

national height dataset for government agencies and third parties: providing, distributing en maintaining (including validation, dataspecification, metadata) webservices

Formal Mandate:

National Government

Mandate:

AHN is a permanent cooperation (since 1997) between Rijkswaterstaat Data ICT Dienst (RWS-DID), Unie van Waterschappen and Het Waterschapshuis.

Activities:

technical specifications development, workshops, symposium, tendering projects for data collection by third parties, tendering projects for quality control by third parties, validating data, quality checks, data distribution, datamodelling, maintainance, data warehousing, stimulating use of high density and high accurate lidardata for non conventional purposes

Membership:

Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management; All 26 Regional Water Authorities; Dutch Association of Regional Water Authorities

Comments:

AHN= Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland which means a detailed height model for the Netherlands based on high density point lidar data (appr. 8 - 10 points per square m) and very high accurate (5cm). More information: www.ahn.nl

URL:

http://www.ahn.nl

Typology:

Thematic

PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT

Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development

submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams

yes

allocate experts to Drafting Teams

yes

collect and describe user requirements related to Environmental policies

yes

be kept informed

yes

Geographic Domain

National

The Netherlands

Societal Sector

central government

Specific Expertise

Specific Expertise:

Metadata

Data Specifications

Data and Service Sharing

Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development

none

Environmental application domains

expert

Primary Business

datamodelling, dataspecifications of elevation data. metadata and data services

INSPIRE Data Themes
Producer	Elevation

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