Land Information Service for use in agriculture and rural development

Land Information Service for use in agriculture and rural development

Task:
Supporting European Union's Common Agriculture Policy institution building in Hungary. Development of the Land Office Network (LON), service as needed by the implementation of the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS).

Short name:
LISARD (Land information Service for the Agriculture and Rural Development) The system will ensure the appropriate infrastructure and capability for the Land Office Network to provide agricultural parcel based information and control service for the time of the EU accession with the following features:

Establishment of the Parcel-based Information System and required IT infrastructure with full IACS functionality
Access to the cadastre and land registration information by the IACS institutions
Introduction of an IACS compatible parcel identification system
Introduction of an IACS compatible farmer and land user identification and inventory system
Adoption of an IACS compatible registration of land use using EU nomenclature
Satellite remote-sensing based service for subsidy control and monitoring
Ensuring interoperability between systems and procedures of the closed-shop IACS institution framework
Access to aerial photographs, satellite imageries, digital orthophotos, scanned topographic maps and DEM (with full country coverage)as needed by IACS.

Components:
PARCELLA /C-F (phases of the set up a Parcel-based Information System)
CENT (establishment of the Central Land Information Service Facility)
RSCS (recently CABS, Control of Area-based Subsidies)

Related tasks

Definition and concept verification by pilot of the agricultural parcel based information system (PARCELLA /A-B, subject of the Phare Programme HU 9804-03, 1998, approved by the Delegation on 24/01/2000)
Provision of direct access to the land registration and cadastre maintained by the Land Office Network via the systems TAKAROS (Phare 1995), TAKARNET (Phare 1997) and META (Phare 1999)
Integration of the maps completed during the land privatisation and in the National Cadastral Programme into the Land Office System (Phare 1997 and NPAA VIII/A/3 1999)
Aerial Survey of Hungary (NPAA VIII/A/3, 1999),
Set up and access to the land-registry based independent land user inventory system (NPAA VIII/A/1, 1999) maintained by the District Land Office Network. Conformity check between the Land registry and User inventory.
Availability of the raster digitalised 1:10 000 topographic base maps of the agricultural areas on CD and via META/TAKARNET (NPAA VIII/A/3, 1999 and 2000)
Production of the full orthophoto coverage in scale 1:10 000 (NPAA VIII/A/3, 1999-2000) expecting the availability of the countrywide digital elevation model with appropriate functionality (NPAA VIII/A/3, 1999)
Definition and concept verification of the CABS by remote sensing used for IACS (NPAA VIII/A/4, 1999), extension of the data collection for the operational Crop Monitoring System (CROPMON) from 9 up to 19 counties (NPAA VIII/A/4 2000)
Ensuring interoperability with the land registry and providing direct access to the Farmers' register maintained by the Agricultural Offices
Ensuring interoperability between the information systems of the Agricultural Intervention Centre (AIC, the paying agency), County Agricultural Offices and the LON (NPAA VIII/A/4)
Design and test of the capacity upgrade of the wide area networked LON TAKARNET according to the need of the IACS (NPAA VIII/A/2, 1999-2000)

Notice:

NPAA VIII/A/x, 1999 are already approved projects, while the NPAA VIII/A/x 2000 project proposals are to be approved within the yearly updated EU harmonisation framework program financed by state budget dedicated for the implementation of the National Program for the Adoption of Acquis Communautaire.
All these activities and the co-ordination at MARD level will be supported by the French-Germany CAP Twinning expertise and by the IACS-tailored Long term Technical Assistance project of the Phare 1998.

Main tasks planned to be performed:

Implementation of the agricultural parcel based information system (phases PARCELLA /C-F) as needed by the Integrated Administration and Control System

PARCELLA /C
Software customisation, which can provide the appropriate new LON services for supporting IACS. Developing a Land Information System on the META* platform in the level of County Land Offices, which will register, manage and query the following objects:

Farmers who uses the land during a certain season
Agriculture parcels, which are subjects of the subsidy
Plots coded by the OECD/EUROSTAT nomenclature
registration of land use
reporting about land use
checking the contracted land use of subsidy

PARCELLA /D
Compilation of an integrated data set from different sources. The data-set will be managed at County Land Offices by an IT system resulted from PARCELLA/C. Matching to the requirements the following information is needed:

Legal titles from the Land Registration
Land use and user information from the Land Registration
1:10 000 scale digital orthophoto and digital terrain model database with IACS-related functionality
Digital thematic information provided by the remote sensing based control subsystem
Cadastral maps in digital form
Scanned data from existing topographic maps

PARCELLA /E
Upgrading of TAKARNET* and ensure full TAKAROS/META/PARCELLA interoperability as required by the operational mode of IACS. The technological chain of the remote sensing based control and have to be set up ready for operation.

PARCELLA /F
Improving the quality of the project. Evaluating the achievements by independent experts and getting recommendations. Set up of the CENT (establishment of the CENTral Land Information Service Facility)

This centrally located infrastructure is the platform running the PARCELLA. Within the LON, it will receive, handle, archive, compile, visualisate and submit information and provide service as required by the IACS operation within the IACS institutional framework. Fully controlled interoperability will be ensured with META via the TAKAROS intranet and FOMI Remote Sensing Center's CROPMON computer cluster via high speed cable. For data transmission within the IACS institutional framework (including AIC, RegionalAgro Offices, MARD) the enhanced TAKAROS will be used. (Dedicated links e.g. with Territorial Information System (TeIR) of MARD's Regional Development branch and the Central Statistical Office with emphasis on the 2000 Agricultural Census data are also foreseen). Major Components: CENT (central hw/sw infrastructure), DITAB (establishment of the change management of the digitized topographic sheets at 1:10 000 (2001), PILOT (test of the change management in semi-operational environment) TRAIN (multilevel vocational training of the LON staff), LTTA (dedicated long term technical assistance will provide additional expertise, know-how, mobility and technology transfer). The RSCS is highlighted in separately

RSCS/CABS (establishment of the Control of Area-based Subsidies using remote sensing)
The remote sensing segment of the parcel based information system is a dedicated, fully protected subsystem to be developed according to the IACS requirements. High and very-high resolution satellite data will be used as a basic tool for the subsidy control on croplands (as cost effective spin-off effect, providing capabilities for multipurpose application in other NPAA related tasks as monitoring of land use with emphasis on the historical wine growing areas, as well as imagery basis and/or value added products for land evaluation and land consolidation improving the sustainability of the agricultural development in the integrated rural development framework). RSCS provided data, products and information will be handled as classified as required by the PARCELLA operating in the CENT environment.

RSCS will be performed by FÖMI Remote Sensing Centre where the necessary processing infrastructure, expertise and know-how are available from the crop monitoring project (CROPMON), working operational since 1997.