The current standard is developed for the purpose of implementation of Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China; promoting the application of information technology in environmental protection and standardizing and guiding the processing of environmental spatial data. The current standard specifies the contents such as data classification, data description method, data organization, storage format, data stratification, symbol specification, basic color scheme, update rule for data collection and data quality control rules for common environmental spatial data. Annex A and Annex B of the current standard are normative annexes. Annex C, D, E, F and G are informative annexes. The current standard is released for the first time.
Technical specification for environmental spatial data processing(HJ 724-2014)