Harmonization of open data

The Geo-Harmonizer project aims to merge national European geodata seamlessly (harmonized) across the entire EU and to make the results available as open data. It is important to use open data licenses and enable broader public access to the data, i.e. not only for scientists and specialists, but also for non-experts. In this way, EU-funded data can be made more easily usable without users being expected to have special or costly infrastructure. This promotes cooperation with national authorities, organizations and NGOs, including existing EU-funded systems such as DIAS or the Copernicus programme. As part of the Geo-Harmonizer project, tools and data were developed to generate decision-relevant geodata such as air quality and pollution, potential natural vegetation, potential for energy generation from solar radiation, wind energy and the like. To add value to these maps, topographic data (DEMs), earth observation data (EO), soil, hydrological and meteorological data were processed using machine learning. The software developed in the project is available as open source software.