1. NWT Centre for Geomatics
Recent Trends, System Analytics and Hybrid Cloud

2. Who are we?
Initially established in 1987 as the NWT Centre for Remote Sensing with 3 staff.
Today team includes 16 staff with the an newly opened Western Arctic Centre for Geomatics located in Inuvik.
Government-wide corporate service and part of Informatics Shared Services.
The team has evolved dramatically since devolution to meet demand

3. NWTCG Services Geomatics Services Cartographic products / mapping
Spatial analysis
Data creation/maintenance
Data validation
Remote Sensing Services (Earth Observation)
Data acquisition and tasking
Image interpretation/analysis
Spatial monitoring (multispectral, temporal, 4 dimensional)
UAS coordination and Services
Enterprise Spatial Data Systems and Administration
Web map and data services and tools
Data warehousing and coordination services
Software administration
Data standards
Big Data storage
Geomatics Services
Cartographic services include map production, heat maps, GeoPDFs
Spatial Analyses include statistics, data buffering, hydrological modelling etc.
Data creation and maintenance can include metes and bounds descriptions, field data integration, boundary adjustments (Elections NWT)
Remote Sensing Services
Data acquisition and tasking is intended to streamline GNWT investments in EO data and reduce duplication. EO data should be considered as Assets and the NWTCG intends to develop a tool that tracks this better and improves discoverability in
Image interpretation/analysis can include classifications, photogrammetry, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)
Spatial Monitoring can include development of Landscape Level monitoring programs using Remote Sensing data and procedures
Data Services and Tools
The NWTCG hosts a centralized platform for spatial services enabling GNWT clients to store once, use many times their data assets.
The NWTCG spatial platform is an enterprise system with the ability to leverage access to client databases to offer dynamic data services
Improvements are planned to provide better spatial data discovery
The NWTCG is the main point of contact for all GNWT spatial data holdings, but acts as the custodian, not the authority.
The NWTCG offers guidance and support on standards as they are applied within the SDW. We also offer guidance on best practices, workflows and tools that can assist GNWT geomatics users and data consumers.

4. Other Activities Education and Outreach Training Partnerships Edukits
Community engagements
Promotion of tools and services
Training
UAS
Data tools and viewers
Field operations
Partnerships
Canadian Council on Geomatics
Natural Resources Canada
Aurora Research Institute
NASA ABoVE
Academic
Partnerships keep us on track with data interoperability and international standards, best practices, maximize benefits and reduce costs for data acquisition, leveraging new technology, and improve knowledge transfer and data access.

5. Delivering our Services
Challenges:
One Fiber link South
Increasing Congestion
Inuvik Regional Database with Replication
Hosted Services are in Yellowknife, NT
Regional Database
GNWT Hosted Services

6. Knowing our clients (2 year trend by City)
Source: Google Analytics

7. Knowing our clients (2 year trend by Region)
Source: Google Analytics

8. Knowing our clients (2 year trend by Nation)
Source: Google Analytics

9. Hybrid Cloud Solution
Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms.
Current Initiatives
ArcGIS Online Organization Accounts and ESRI Portal
Azure Cloud Off Site Storage (Toronto, Canada)
Streaming Services
Future Initiatives
Azure Connect with On-Premise and Cloud ArcGIS Servers (Scalability and Pan-Canadian Coverage)
ESRI Portal “On-Premise”
SaaS; eg) Geocortex Workflows 5, Printing and Reporting (Third Party Services)
Source: Google Analytics

10. In-depth Understanding of the Clients (systems Analytics)
System Status
Performance
Alarms
Trends
Visualize Users
Customize Dashboards
Stay on top of issues
Users Analytics

11. Where are we now? Challenges: Big data storage and backup
Big data computing
Rising software costs
Infrastructure costs
Opportunities
Enterprising systems
Internet of Things
Smart Cities / Communities
Strategic plan and Governance
Cloud-based big geospatial data analytics tools
Northern Canada Geospatial Innovation Centre

12. Questions?