Hi Ludovico,

like Kathi says, the CountingUnits and CountingUnitsValues apply for any grid cell size. However, SD has not been foreseen for such small cells, that's why the the values might be inappropriate.

If you provide a distribution of 10x10m, this tells a lot about the exact whereabouts of the species. That was not intended by the theme SD.  The coarse grid cells of 10x10km were meant to "hide" the exact plots, where the species were found - at least for endangered species that was intended. I wonder, if there is any "obligation" to provide a grid cell data set of that much detail under SD. I'd rather provide these data under EF - Observation & Measurement, chosing a more appropriate counting value. Or you should process a new data set with 10x10km cells accumulating the finer grid cells.

Hope this helps, Happy Holydays,

Dirk

Hi Dirk,

I should provide the data both at 1x1km grid and 10x10m grid. I will contact the customer for futher clarifications. 

Hi Ludovico, all

just to add my +1 to Dirk's reply.

Detailed 10x10 m grid data fits better the "observation" concept and therefore the EF data theme .

Best,

Stefania

Hi Ludovico,

I suggest to use one of the categories of https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/CountingMethodValue

Kind regards, Dirk

Thank you Dirk. However, in this way, I'm forced to fill the information about OccurenceCategoryValue. For EEO which is only a geometrical representation of presence data, we do not know if the species is actually present within the polygon. Thus, I should fill the OccurenceCategoryValue as "present" and the countingMethod as "calculated".

However, I can't find a suitable countingUnit and the populationSize is unknown.

Hi Ludivico,

I suggest to use void reason unpopulated for countingUnit and void reason unknown for populationSize.

Hope this helps, Dirk

Hi Ludovico,

• OK to associate the href of the referenceSpeciesid (i.e. http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:305474) with the field of the shapefile through the Rename function. 

Regarding Hale warning, I guess you imported the EU-Nomen Code list in your project à now Hale is trying to validate the value you provided against values in imported code list but cannot do, because values for this code list are not in the INSPIRE registry (so actually Hale did not import them). Summing up: you can just disregard this warning from Hale.

• OK to associate the geom of the shapefile with the geometry of the target schema by the rename function (at least in theory it should work, however please check that Hale encodes correctly)

Regarding the spatialObject association, you don’t need to use it because you are providing the geometry from your source shapefile.

You might find useful to have a look at the following post:

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/forum/discussion/view/264427/good-practise-gml-example-for-species-distribution

Kind regards,

Stefania

Hi Stefania, thank you for your kind advice.

Ludovico