SDIs: potentials for agriculture

Driven by especially legal forces, the use of geoinformation(GI)-technology in European agriculture recently takes a turn from being just a niche-technology to a turn-key-technology in near future in this application domain. Due to the multifaceted character of agriculture, it can be foreseen that this evolution results in a clear demand for well working spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and corresponding geo-services to cover the new requirements coming from all involved parties like administration, farmers and industry. Focusing on two main user-groups (administration and farmers), the work tries to give an overview by concrete examples of the agricultural SDI-situation in Germany.