"Activities" for sites or plots

[cookeac]

The INSPIRE standards guidelines we have been using for sites (land management units) and plots (maturity areas, paddocks, etc) provide for recording the primary and secondary activity using either:

• LUCAS or a similar land use coding list (not much use to much, all our activities would come under "Agriculture")
• UN International Standard Industrial Classification, which does go down to the type of product produced, but is a reasonably complex looking set of letters and numbers. All agricultural activities start with A (e.g. grapes is A0121, sheep/goats is A0144, cattle has no distinction of dairy/beef and is 0141).

There is also the US NAICS coding, which does at least differentiate dairy and beef but is even more numeric - dairy 112120 and beef farming 112111.

Regardless of coding, I propose an array of Activities at a Site or Plot level, which could include:	Attribute	Type	Comment
activityType	enum	To be decided, see above!
isPrimary	bool	True if this is the primary activity on this site/plot.
productiveArea	number	The productive area (in square metres) used for this activity - often called effective area.

Suggestions welcome!

[cookeac]

Updated suggestion to the above:

Attribute	Type	Comment
id	IdentifierType	Allows a scheme/id form of enumerating the activity. e.g. { "un.isic", "A0121" }
name	string	User-readable name for the activity e.g. "Grapes"
isPrimary	bool	True if this is the primary activity on this site/plot.
productiveArea	AreaMeasureType	The productive area (in square metres) used for this activity - often called effective area.