According to the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2004 each Member State is obliged to annualy report on several LPIS quality elements. Therefore LPIS Quality assurance framework has been developed by the Joint Research Centre (DG JRC). An ISO compliant methodology is proposed whereby industry standard sampling plans are applied by Member States to collect objective data, using an enhanced and harmonised method based upon data collected for the Control with Remote Sensing programme.

The project covered wide range of services starting from Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite data processing, through LPIS completeness check and detailed inspection of the LPIS thematic & temporal accuracy (mostly based on satellite orthophotos) up to extensive statistical analysis of the seven prime quality elements defined in the QA framework.