The Big Picture Spatial Data Relationships 5th DE Community Meeting Penn State Harrisburg January 31, 2001

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The Big Picture Spatial Data Relationships 5th
DE Community MeetingPenn State
HarrisburgJanuary 31, 2001

• John Moeller
• Staff Director, FGDC

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Purpose

• Discuss Relationship of Spatial Data
  Infrastructure activities
• Build on existing partnerships and establish new
  opportunities

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Issues Affecting Nations Citizens -
Happen in Places
Population Growth Washington, DC - Baltimore
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Spatial Data Infrastructure Progress

• Growth in participation and partnerships
• Federal - State, Local Tribal
• Associations - Industry Academia
• Expansion of NSDI Clearinghouse
  - 238 Nodes
• Metadata and Data Standards
• Training Programs
• Community Support for use of GIS, DSS and
  Applications
• International

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CURRENT SITUATION
Institutionally Separate Redundant, Costly
Unreliable

• Stove-piped Definitions, Standards, Capital
  Planning Funding
• Much data Data Is Not Catalogued, Reused,
  Reusable or Shared. Tools to Use Data Rebuilt
• Need Common Privacy, Security, Data Quality and
  Licensing Policies
• Policy and Decision makers ( and others) not
  effectively using GI technologies and data
• Technology and Data initiatives need better
  linkage

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TRENDS
Information Services Incentives Community
View Open Geoprocessing Worldwide Reach
Products Mandates Federal View Closed
Solutions Limited Communication
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Major Activities

• International Organization for Standardization -
  ISO
• Open GIS Consortium - OGC
• Global Map

• National Spatial Data Infrastructure - NSDI
• Global Spatial Data Infrastructure - GSDI
• Digital Earth - DE
• Global Disaster Information Network - GDIN

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The NSDI

• OMB Circular A-16 and EO 12906
• Develop and implement spatial data resource for
  nation
• Reduce duplication of effort
• Promote effective management by all
• levels of government
• Improve the acquisition, distribution and
• use of geographic information
• Stakeholder collaboration - public private
  partnerships (State, local, tribal, Pvt,
  Academic)
• Federal leadership provided by the FGDC
• GeoData Alliance is developing as National
  leadership governance structure

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The GSDI

• Policies, standards, technologies, human and
  financial resources
• Support collaboration on regional and global
  issues of importance
• Encourage the growth of Spatial Data
  Infrastructures
• Provide mechanisms to link national and regional
  efforts
• Public and private sector participants
• Guided by Steering Committee represented by many
  nations

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Digital Earth

• Improve application of geodata visualization,
  decision support analysis
• Accelerate research and development
• Focus on community end use applications
• Focused research, funding, and collaborative
  partnerships to resolve gaps and issues
• US Digital Earth led by NASA with Interagency
  Steering Committee
• International Digital Earth

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GDIN

• Focus on sharing disaster information
• Improve use of existing and new technologies
• Facilitate institutional processes to promote
  global sharing of disaster information
• Improve effectiveness and interoperability of
  natural and technology information
• Foster improved early warning and mitigation
• International public/private partnership
• Guided by an International Executive Committee

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ISO

• Promote development of standards worldwide
• Facilitate international exchange of goods and
  services, develop cooperation
• TC 211 is responsible for Geographic
  Information/Geomatics
• Standards specify geographic information,
  methods, tools, and services
• 2 Published standards and 27 in development
• International Committee for TC211 includes 33
  participating nations 19 observers

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OGC

• Addressing interoperability needs among systems
  that process georeferenced data
• Promotes connection of mainstream computing
  systems and geoprocessing systems
• Develops technology specifications and business
  process innovations to support widespread use of
  geodata and services
• International membership of public and private
  entities
• Activities guided by multi-national/sector Board
  of Directors

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Global Map

• Objective is to help understand global
  environmental issues in support of Agenda 21
• Developing global scale geographic information
  through international cooperation (81 countries
  and areas have participated)
• Selected thematic data sets will be provided at
  11,000,000 scale - Focus is on base data, such
  as elevation, vegetation, drainage systems,
  transportation
• International Steering Committee provides guidance

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Emphasis Areas For Spatial Data
Community Applications
Leadership
Outreach and Education
Resources
Partnerships
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Emphasis Areas

• Geodata NSDI, GSDI, Global Map, GDIN
• Metadata NSDI, GSDI, ISO
• Clearinghouse NSDI, GSDI, OGC
• Framework NSDI, GSDI, Global Map
• Standards NSDI, ISO, OGC
• Partnerships ALL
• Community
  Applications DE, GDIN
• Outreach ALL
• Resources ALL
• Leadership ALL

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Common Characteristics

• Each is seeking to expand value of place based
  information to decision-making
• Seek to improve geographic information and
  technologies
• Build on cooperation/partnership of many
  individuals and organizations
• Public and private are each critical to success
• Call for interoperability of data and
  technology
• Often involve many of the same organizations
• Each are addressing pieces of the Big Picture
• Each is guided by a multi-agency or multi-sector
  committee
• Each presents opportunities for synergy,
  leveraging and better coordination of activities

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Access, Sharing, Interoperability and
Relationships to Build Once, Use Many Times
Other Thematic Data
Framework/Core Data
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Spatial Data Infrastructures
Regional/Multi-National
National
Global
State, local
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Lessons Learned

• Common Spatial Data Infrastructure improves
  information access, sharing and use
• NSDI and GSDI are building blocks to support many
  activities
• Availability, quality, and consistency of spatial
  data still an issue
• DE, GDIN, Global Map and other activities should
  use SDIs and help them grow
• Standards-based technologies and information are
  key for dynamic application of spatial data on
  the WWW.
• FGDC developing data standards for NSDI
• ISO supports GSDI and SDI work in many nations
• OGC developing interoperability specifications
  for geoprocessing technology

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Lessons Learned

• Significant efficiencies can be gained through
  local, state, federal partnerships
• Reduce redundant data collection and maintenance
• Improve quality, lower cost
• Public Private Partnership models show promise

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Future Needs/Opportunities

• Focus on continued growth of spatial data
  infrastructures
• metadata, cataloging, standardization, access and
  framework (SDI)
• Focus on place
• Web Delivered Technologies
• Decision Support, Location Based
  Services,Visualization
• G-Government
• Partnerships
• Consortia to pool resources for data collection,
  maintenance and use (federal, state, local,
  tribal, private sector) - OMB Initiative
• Agreements to enhance flow/transfer of
  technology, information and ideas
• Technology test beds and pilots
• Procurements for standards based COTS and NSDI
  compliance

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Future Needs/Opportunities

• Leadership and Awareness
• Help policy makers see capabilities for improving
  decision process
• Promote interaction of scientist, engineers,
  program managers, and others to institutionalize
  policies to better use place based information
• Increase understanding of opportunities to use
  geodata and technologies to help tie together
  many functions of government and business
• Promote agreement on the alignment of initiatives
  and determine how each can more fully contribute
  and avoid duplication
• Promote awareness and a consistent common Big
  Picture

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SDIs supporting user needs
The Big Picture View
User Applications drawing on supporting SDIs
Regional/ Multi-national
Digital Earth GDIN E-Gov National Atlas Community
2020 Geography Network many others
National
Global
Standards supporting Infrastructure
Applications NSDI, ISO, OGC
State, local
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Resulting in

• Better information
• Better decisions
• Better operations
• Better customer service
• Greater accountability
• More trust in government business

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To find out more.

• www.gsdi.org Global Spatial Data
  Infrastructure
• www.fgdc.gov NSDI / Federal Geographic Data
  Committee
• www.digitalearth.gov Digital Earth
• www.opengis.org Open GIS Consortium
• www.iso.ch International Organization for
  Standards
• www.gdin-international.org Global Disaster
  Information Network
• www.gsi.go.jp Global Map

www.fgdc.gov