1. Marine SDI Initiatives
Roger Longhorn
Secretary-General, Global SDI Association
Member, IOC IODE International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) Steering Committee
External Expert, IHO Marine SDI Working Group
Member, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) –
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2. GSDI Marine SDI Project (2015-2017)
Identifying frameworks used for Marine/Coastal geospatial data, services and Coastal/Marine data infrastructures;
Exploring use of Marine/Coastal geospatial data, services and infrastructures;
Investigating governance structures enabling the successful and efficient management and the use of Marine/Coastal data, especially operating within national and regional (pan-European) SDI programmes;
Conducting comparative benchmark assessments on Marine/Coastal geospatial data and SDI issues;
Identifying, developing, maintaining and publishing a repository of Marine/Coastal SDI good practices;
Capacity building on issues related to Marine/Coastal data/SDI issues, including workshops, webinars, etc.
Project extended to 2018 with funding from EuroSDR (to investigate land-sea interface SDI requirements).
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USA Coastal SDI
The Coastal Services Center of NOAA (now the Office for Coastal Management) published in 1999 definitions and goals for the Coastal National Spatial Data Infrastructure within the US NSDI initiative.
Coastal SDI supported establishing metadata standards within remit of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) work on the national Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) - first published in 1998.
Today, Coastal/Marine SDI developments are under the FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee. Visit:
subcommittees/mcsdsc/index_html
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USA Coastal SDI
“The vision of the US Marine and Coastal NSDI is that current and accurate geospatial coastal and ocean data will be readily available to contribute locally, nationally, and globally to economic growth, environmental quality and stability, and social progress.”
NOAA’s DigitalCoast is one of the most-used resources in the US coastal management community.
Visit:
See the stakeholders (450+ !) for measure of success: partners/
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5. Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS)
Web based interactive mapping and decision support system that improves access to integrated government and non-government information in the Australian Marine Jurisdiction.
Contains many layers of information displayed in themes of Maritime Boundaries, Petroleum, Fisheries, Regulatory, Environment, Native Title and Offshore Minerals.
Data is sourced from Geoscience Australia, other Australian government agencies and some industry sources.
Contains offshore mineral locations data that was used to create the Offshore Minerals Map (a key driver for the MSDI).
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6. Australian Marine SDI (AMSIS)
Elevation and depth are in the national Foundation Spatial Data Framework, under custodianship of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM).
Bathymetry dataset includes a 50m multibeam dataset of Australia to provide an understanding of the nature of the seafloor plus various representations of the coast, ranging from lowest to highest tide, to aid in coastal planning and monitoring.
The data underpins many applications - safe hydrographic navigation, definition of maritime and administrative boundaries, emergency management, natural hazard risk assessment, water management, natural resource exploration and exploitation and national security.
Started ‘bottom up’ in early 2000’s – now supported from within the Australian NSDI.
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7. Coastal/Marine SDI in Europe
Marine SDI developments are being driven by the INSPIRE Directive and marine-related Directives that require use of INSPIRE harmonized datasets – mainly Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSP).
Many large, funded R&D projects are underway that will have a direct bearing on EU marine SDI development, including for example AtlantOS – Optimising and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing Systems
European northern States are involved in Arctic SDI development.
EU States ocean/marine government agencies are directly involved in many existing global and regional marine initiatives and programmes, such as GOOS (EuroGOOS), GCOS, GEO/GEOSS (via Copernicus), etc.
… which leads to a further, wider-ranging consideration for the WG …
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8. Global/Regional Marine Initiatives and Programmes to Consider
Because they already exist - many for years or even decades.
Have significant investment in their own marine information standards.
Have existing information tools and approved workflows based on those standards.
Have extensive training relating to those standards, tools and workflows.
Have existing capacity to deliver on the objectives of these initiatives and programmes.
Are driven by pre-existing global agenda with officially agreed goals and outputs.
So the big question is:
Why should they change – at what cost - what timescale – who pays?
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