National Geoportal (IT)

As a huge on line geographic atlas including the cartography available on italian areas, from which to get tons of information on the main environmental and territorial themes: This is the National Geoportal (NG). It is managed and mantained to the Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, it is the national access point of environmental and territorial data.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Portal type Data repository
Topic category
  • Maritime boundaries
  • Terrestrial boundaries
  • Physical characteristics
  • Types of habitat
  • Nature and species conservation sites & protected areas
  • Scientific research
  • Source of pollution
Domain area Italian Seas
Owner Ministry of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea
Presentation form
  • Map (map represented in raster or vector form)
  • Image
  • Document
Spatial representation
  • Vector - point
  • Vector - line (or polyline)
  • Vector - polygon
  • Raster (grid)
Web services
  • OGC-WMS
  • OGC-WFS
  • OGC-WCS
  • OGC-CSW
  • OGC-WPS
  • Other
WCTS
Portal accessibility Open
Data accessibility Open
Features
  • Catalogue
  • View services
  • Download
Additional informations
Relevance for case studies CS 1 - Italy
Metadata completeness Complete