Fachdatenintegration in das Amtliche Topographisch-Kartographische Informationssystem (ATKIS) für das Umweltinformationssystem (UIS) Baden-Würtemberg

Abstract

This paper reports the results of the project `Integration of Environmental Data with the Digital Landscape Model of the Authoritative Topographic-Cartographic Information System (ATKIS)`. The project contributes to the Environmental Information System (UIS) for the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is commissioned by the Ministry of Environment and Transport (UVM) with support of the Ministry of Economics (WM) and the Ministry of the Interior (IM) of Baden-Württemberg. The project was carried out by the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) at the University of Ulm and the Institute of Cartography (IfK) at the University of Hannover. The paper describes the use of geographical information system (GIS) technology for the integration of water resources management data with ATKIS data. In the first part, the methods developed by the FAW for supporting geometric and semantic data integration are explained. This data will be used to build up an official information system on water bodies. In the second part, automated methods for the cartographic representation of the integrated data are described. These methods, developed by the IfK, are based on a pattern-matching algorithm which compares the digital landscape model with a raster-scanned topographic map 1 : 25 000.