METADATA STANDARDS AND PRE-STANDARDS

• ENV 12160: European Prestandard (ENV) 12160, Geographic information - Data description - Spatial schema approved by the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), 13 September 1997.
  
  
• ENV 12656: European Prestandard (ENV) 12656. Geographic information - Data description - Quality approved by the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), 9 October 1998.
  
  
• ENV 12657: European Prestandard (ENV) 12657, Geographic Information - Data description - Metadata approved by the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), 9 October 1998.
  
  
• ENV 12762: European Prestandard (ENV) 12762, Geographic Information - Referencing - Objects position approved by the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), 9 October 1998.
  
  
• CSDGM: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata revised by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), June 1998.
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• CSDGM_RS_EX: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata approved by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), October 2002.
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• ISO 19115:2003: International Standard, Geographic information - Metadata approved by the International Organization for Standardization, Technical Committee 211, August 2003.
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• ISO/WD 19115.2: Working draft 19115-2: Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data approved by the International Organization for Standardization, Technical Committee 211, October 2003.
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• ESDC ECS: Release 6A: Implentation Earth Science Data Model for the ECS Project, Technical Paper, approved by the Earth Observation System Data and Information Core System, June 2001.