Introducing the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure CGDI

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...Canadas geographic information on the Internet

• Introducing the Canadian Geospatial Data
  Infrastructure (CGDI)

Cameron Wilson, Sylvain Latour, Jennifer
Sokol March 2003
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Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Workshops

• CGDI Introduction Workshop 900 to
  1230
• Overview Cameron Wilson
• Architecture Sylvain Latour
• Break / Questions
• Application Jennifer Sokol
• Conclusion Cameron Wilson
• CGDI Technical Workshop 130 to 500

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Agenda

• Introduction to Mapping
• Digital environment
• Issues
• The need for a geospatial infrastructure
• What is an infrastructure?
• Response GeoConnections Program
• Architecture
• Highlights

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Why we use maps and mapping
Social Applications
Business Applications
Science
Infrastructure Development
Settlement and Resource Management
Defense and Public Safety
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QuickBird Image Presidential Palace, Baghdad,
Iraq September 10, 2002
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Old ways dont work
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Geospatial data challenges

• Majority of geographic or geospatial data is
  collected and stored by governments
• across multiple federal agencies and other levels
  of government
• data and info often developed for one target
• Large volumes of data
• 5 terabytes of satellite images, 1 terabyte of
  topographic data, much more..
• Inaccessible sporadic commitments on
  Information Management standards/procedures
• not searchable, not inventoried
• Existing standards are always evolving
• new standards evolve and eclipse/integrate
  existing efforts
• Key technical services/architecture missing
• storage and access protocols

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One-window access
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GeoConnections initiative

• Primary mission making Canadas geo-info
  accessible on the Internet
• GeoConnections is an initiative to develop
• - the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
  (CGDI)
• - an enabling infrastructure to support the
  management of national economic and social
  priorities
• Enabling applications such as -- environment,
  health, sustainable development, disaster
  management, community, service delivery,
  transportation, business development and others

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GeoConnections Objectives

• 1. Increase the amount of geospatial data,
  information and services available on-line
• 2. Ease data integration issues and data
  standardization
• 3. Expand the use and application of geo-info
• 4. Promote the development of innovative
  technology
• 5. Simplify the conditions for geo-info use and
  resale

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GeoConnections Benefits

• Informed Decision Making easy access to current
  information, knowledge and expertise.
• Efficiency To reduce duplication of effort by
  recommending national standards, specifications
  and services that support partnerships.
• Usability Canadian governments, firms and
  individuals need a reliable access system, an
  "infrastructure, to make use of these resources.
  
• Growth Export Canadian technology, products and
  services.

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Targeted Client Groups

• Citizens
• emphasis on youth and aware public
• Experts, scientists, academia, value-added and
  private sector
• All levels of government and partners

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Support in the Federal Budget

• Allocated 60 million over 5 years
• key part of knowledge and innovation strategy
• links with Connecting Canadians to disseminate
  knowledge
• Implemented over 6 fiscal years
• Currently in year 4
• Based on matching investments by partners
• Majority of work contracted to private sector
• firms and expertise developed across Canada

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Advisory Network
Management Board
Program Advisory Network
Funded Programs
GeoPartners
Access
GeoInnovations
Framework Data

• Application/Key Users
• A. Sustainable Develop/
• Resource Mgmt
• B. Transport/Road
• Applications
• C. Emergency/Disaster
• Mgmt
• D. Marine

Sustainable Communities
Geomatics Skills Network
National Atlas of Canada
Technology Advisory Panel
Policy
Cross Issues
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Conceptual Model - CGDI
CGDI enabling infrastructure of geospatial data
and services
Federal and Provincial Portals
Community Gateways/Portals
Natural Resources Canada
Govt of Sask
National Forestry
Vendor Infrastructure
Govt on Line
Access
ESRI Geography Network
Federal Infrastructures
Technology Innovation
Cdn Info System for the Env.
Standards
Policy
Sustainable Communities
Frameworks
Global Infrastructures
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
Service Programs
Atlas of Canada
Intl-Fed-Prov Partnerships
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3 part Architecture
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Developed through an evolutionary strategy
1. Establish a CGDI nucleus
2. Incrementally build up by pursuing
opportunities along several fronts
3. Follow a spiral development approach 4.
Support and deliver to Communities of Practice
Analyze
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Using International Standards

• International Participation
• ISO Technical Committee 211 (Geomatics Standards)
• OpenGIS Consortium
• Objectives
• participate in evolving world standards
• help Canadians anticipate, adopt, and use
  standards

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Five Key Results Areas

• Access increase Canadian geographic content
  and available on-line
• Framework data develop consistent framework
  data content for integration and value-add
• Standard web-services expand the use and
  application of geographic content
• Partnerships develop partnerships/leverage,
  work with communities and expand skills,
  simplify geographic content policies
• Innovation stimulate the development of
  innovative Canadian technologies

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What has been delivered

• Results (after year 3) ACCESS PROGRAM
• On-line access to 1138 Canadian data products
• Distributed searches to 165 data collections
• GeoGratis delivery of vector and raster data
  (gt 300,000 files, 1.5 Terabytes, GeoGratis II).
• Data providers publishing content using 54 web
  services used by 10 applications.
• Web applications using access services/tools
• Discovery Portal - resounding favourite in USGS
  study of access infrastructure
• Numerous public and private sector partnerships

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Geobase Framework data

• Results (after year 3) FRAMEWORK DATA
• national consensus on definition of framework
  themes
• working within federal-provincial-territorial
  strategy for delivery of framework data
• Geobase framework for Canada
• simplify data integration
• basis for application development and value-added
• framework on which other datasets can be built
• joint US/Canada projects with USGS
• 1st project completed - Yellowstone to Yukon
  ecology zone
• 2nd project - Red River Basin watershed
  monitoring
• 3rd project Great Lakes

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Landsat 7 orthorectified images
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Standard services

• Results (after year 3) STANDARD SERVICES
• National Atlas on-line mapping of Canadian issues
  
• 200,000 dynamic maps/month
• 30 increase in content in 2 years
• CGDI development network
• Pre-operational environment for
  interoperability of emerging Web-addressible
  network services
• Field-testing of CGDI architecture specifications
  implementations
• Mature services contribute to the operational
  CGDI
• Environment for developing CGDI-enabled
  applications
• Benefit to vendors marketing, showcase
• Benefit to new service/application providers
• Driven by communities of practise/interest
  requirements

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GeoConnections Business Performance Plan

• Developed through consultations with
  stakeholders/delivery partners/user
• completed in Fall 2001
• Includes multi-year implementation plans
• Focus on next three years of program delivery
• Key aspect ? advocates change in primary focus
  from data provider to user/community-based
  infrastructure

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Expand and partner with Communities of Practice

• Shift primary focus from data provider to
  user/community-based infrastructure
• Develop user communities of practice/interest
• Users of infrastructure services and data
• Contributors of data and linkages
• Develop applications/innovative services
• Target and partner with communities target 3
  per/year
• Underway - forestry, geology, biodiversity,
  agriculture
• Under development disaster management, health,
  environment (water, air and land cover), private
  infrastructure

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Current Focus...

• Develop Communities of Practice/Interest
• Further core infrastructure development
• Web services development, architecture and
  specifications, pilots-enhancement
• Deliver access to more content
• expand access partnerships with
  provinces/territories
• Complete and deliver geobase framework themes
• Evolve innovation efforts to broaden impacts
• absorption of innovative technologies

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Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Workshops

• CGDI Introduction Workshop 900 to
  1230
• Overview Cameron Wilson
• Architecture Sylvain Latour
• Break / Questions
• Application Jennifer Sokol
• Conclusion Cameron Wilson
• CGDI Technical Workshop 130 to 500

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Conclusion and Discussion

• Seeking new efficiencies
• A new paradigm
• Data / Web Services / Applications
• How to participate
• Supply publish using standards
• Demand build applications from services
• GeoTec CGDI venues
• Contacts

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Old ways dont work
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Distributed applications, data, and services
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Infrastructure Example
Provider
Application
Interface
System
Output
Electricity
Output
Application
Interface
Provider
System
Maps/Data/ Decision Making
Geospatial Data
Web Map Service
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Methods evolving
Information Access
Off-line
On-line
Method
Type I Behavior
Type II Behavior
Data ordering by mail, fax or telephone for use
on customers computer
Data files accessed online downloaded and used on
customers computer to extract information
Off -line
Type III Behavior
On- line
Transaction based approaches to access, modify
and integrate geospatial data to create
information products.
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Transition from Type I to Type III behaviour

• Represents a real paradigm shift in how people
  deal with geospatial data.
• Greater emphasis on transactions and services.
• Affects client expectations, and,
• Affects how organizations respond (e.g IM policy,
  corporate culture).

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Current Focus...

• Develop Communities of Practice/Interest
• Further core infrastructure development
• Web services development, architecture and
  specifications, pilots-enhancement
• Deliver access to more content
• expand access partnerships with
  provinces/territories
• Complete and deliver geobase framework themes
• Evolve innovation efforts to broaden impacts
• absorption of innovative technologies

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How Can YOU participate in building and using
CGDI?

• Supply
• Consider CGDI architecture, standards and
  specifications when publishing products and web
  services.
• Take advantage of the standard tools, datasets,
  and services that are already accessible on the
  Internet.
• Public Agency Content and Connectivity
  announcement of opportunity and other
  GeoConnections RFPs
• Demand
• Register your products and services to make them
  available through the Discovery Portal.
• Leverage standards based technologies.
• Communities of Practice announcement of
  opportunity.

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GeoTec CGDI Highlights

• Sunday - 130 technical workshop (7)
• Monday - 200 Open GIS Showcase (10)
• Monday - 200 GIS Expo (exhibits) (16)
• Tuesday - 900 Framework Data (11)
• Tuesday - 200 Access / TAP meeting (?)
• Tues/Wed - Vendor Sessions (20)
• Wednesday AM - Supply (access, policy, GeoBase)
  and Demand (CGKN, DFO GeoPortal, NFIS) (14)
• Wednesday - 130 GSDI Panel (18)

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Information

• GeoConnections Secretariat
• Phone [phone]
• Email info_at_geoconnections.org
• Website www.geoconnections.org
• www.cgdi.gc.ca

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