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capas

English translation: service layers

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Spanish term or phrase:capas de los diferentes servicios
English translation:service layers
Entered by: DLyons

23:57 Feb 16, 2013
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Science - Forestry / Wood / Timber / Forest resources
Spanish term or phrase: capas
This is a noun phrase from a long, detailed list of programs developed in Chile to monitor forest degradation. Of the translations I know for "capas," none of them fits here.

Proceso para estandarización y mejora de la gestión del sector silvoagropecuario nacional y regional mediante el uso de una Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales (IDE) del Ministerio de Agricultura común para todos los servicios del agro que cuenta en la actualidad con 49 **capas** de los diferentes servicios.
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:38
spatial framework layers / service layers
Explanation:
It seems to me potentially broader than just "data layers".
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DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 17:38
Grading comment
Thanks! I'm using 'different service layers' for the whole bit.
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Summary of answers provided
3spatial framework layers / service layers
DLyons


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spatial framework layers / service layers


Explanation:
It seems to me potentially broader than just "data layers".


    Reference: http://geoinfo.montanastatelibrary.org/data/msdi/
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_data_infrastructure
DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 17:38
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks! I'm using 'different service layers' for the whole bit.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  James A. Walsh: There may be broader terminology out there, but the source text quoted doesn't use it. In fact, it doesn't even say "datos", just "capas".
21 mins
  -> Let me put it another way - in this context "capas de los diferentes servicios" are "service layers".
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