Hungarian proposal: IYPE Declaration should include SDI

The draft Paris Declaration was commented by request of the IYPE (International Year of the Planet Earth) Secretariat with the intention to make the role, importance and scope of the development of SDI visible in the text of the Declaration. Also the related information systems and services (which includes the data acqusition, information management, analysis and visualisation and their technologies as well) was explicitly emphesized.
..." Production of a global, digital and publicly available information system of the subsurface, based on the current OneGeology Project and the recently launched United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) to ensure better geospatial information access and interoperability between information systems and services related to the Earth's subsurface, surface, hydrosphere and atmosphere. "....
After the suggested change has been submitted to the IYPE Secretariat through the Hungarian Committe on IYPE, HUNAGI consulted with the Secretary General of the EuroGeoSurvey who not only agreed with the proposal (recommending the use the word biosphere instead of surface, hydrosphere and atmosphere) , but made additional significant enhancements in the original sentence. EUROGI, GSDI, UNGIWG, FGDC and DG JRC was informed on the HUNAGI proposal for comments as well. It is expected, a second version will be submitted via the Hungarian IYPE Committee in the following days.
Meantime the Executive Director of the IYPE Secretariat Eduardo de Mulder and the Chair of the IYPE Board Larry Woodfork invited the Secretary General of HUNAGI, member of the Hungarian IYPE Committee (chaired by Dr. Károly Brezsnyánszky) to take part on the Global Lauch Event of IYPE hosted by the Headquarters of the UNESCO scheduled for 12-13 February.
Péter Gresicki, Secretary General of the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO, member of the UNSDI HUCO Steering Committee and the IYPE National Committee sent a recent publication of UNESCO entitled "Planet Earth: From Space to Place". More information:
www.unesco.org/en/general-conference/exhibition-planet-earth