ABSTRACT
Interoperability Interoperability is vital to the effective use of information: it can be defined as the ability to transfer data freely and seamlessly between different information systems. It brings different data together in a consistent form, which allows different models and analytical systems to link dynamically in order to derive and deliver information that would otherwise be difficult to acquire and use. Successful interoperability rests upon the establishment of:
• measurement and monitoring standards;
• data and exchange standards;
• sound methods and arrangements for linkage between different data sources and technologies (for example, Earth observation, ground-based and management-derived data) and systems for generating information; and
• suitable arrangements for integration across different sectors and policy areas, implying, for example, the linkage of environmental and non-environmental data.
