Centre for Sustainable Watersheds

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Centre for Sustainable Watersheds and DM
Solutions Group Watersheds InfoXchange Enabling
Applications for Communities of Practice using
the CGDI presented by Mark Sunohara April 23,
2004 OGC Interoperability Day
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Presentation Outline

• Common thinking
• Centre for Sustainable Watersheds (CSW)
• WIX history and objectives
• WIX Applications
• Benefits of CGDI
• Leveraging CGDI-endorsed / OpenGIS Specifications
• Old and new paradigms

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Common Thinking Community is key

• Community groups can be effective participants
  in integrated water resources management but
  require support and guidance
• Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network CO
• Canadian Community Monitoring Network
  Evaluating Collaboration between Environment
  Canada and Canadian Community Based Monitoring
• Canada Stewardship Agenda
• National framework endorsed by several federal
  and provincial agencies
• National Watershed Stewardship Coalition
• Discussion of provincial representatives of
  watershed stewardship across the country

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Common Recommendations

• Improve access to data for all watershed
  stakeholders and facilitate data management for
  community participants
• Cost-effective and accessible, using coordinated
  approach to meet needs of all stakeholders
• Data sharing networks available through the
  Internet, free of charge
• Data needs to be of high quality promote
  standardized protocols, develop support and
  expertise for training and data verification

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Centre for Sustainable Watersheds (CSW)

• Centre for Sustainable Watersheds (CSW) evolved
  out of established lake association
• Non-government, non-profit organization formed to
  facilitate community participation in watershed
  stewardship
• Fosters cooperative approaches to water resource
  protection by cross-linking among various
  agencies
• Sustains effective partnerships between
  Government and Community through communication
  and cooperation
• Links partners to maximize use of limited
  resources, improve communications, and help build
  consistency among programs

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Centre for Sustainable Watersheds (CSW)

• Experience with Community Based Monitoring
• Coordinating a network of environmental resource
  partners
• Coordinating Lake Links, a Community of
  Practice of Lake associations, community groups,
  and small environmental organizations
• Information sharing meetings, website, email,
  workshops
• Data collection and management
• Access to data and data sharing
• Status reporting

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CSW Objectives

• Develop and promote shared responsibility for
  water resource protection
• explore roles of community and government
• Assist community participation in water resource
  protection
• data management tools, stewardship training and
  resources
• Networking and learning/engagement opportunities
• Support for community level program delivery
• Improve understanding of watershed dynamics
• watershed processes and impacts

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Watersheds InfoXchange (WIX)

• A community-driven web-based mapping and database
  application that will help engage community group
  participation in monitoring
• WIX will allow community groups to input, manage
  and view monitoring and stewardship data via the
  Internet
• Provide cost-effective model for access and
  management of community group information
• Guide effective community group monitoring
  strategies
• Follow government-approved data collection
  programs protocols and standards

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WIX Applications

• Water Quality Monitoring
• Ontario Ministry of Environment Lake Partner
  Program
• Fisheries Populations
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Volunteer
  Angler Diary
• Environmental Health
• Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network
  NatureWatch program
• Communication and Sharing among Stewardship and
  Monitoring Groups
• Ontario Stewardship Organization Information

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Benefits of the CGDI to WIX
WIX applies to the objectives of
GeoConnections 1. Provides government with
on-line access to community-collected geospatial
data, information and services 2. Enables
community to integrate and standardize their data
into a common national framework 3. Enables
community to increase the use and application of
their geo-info 4. Enables partnerships with
community through innovative technology 5.
Simplifies the use of geo-info for community
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Benefits of the CGDI to WIX

• 1. Provides on-line access to community-collected
  geospatial data, information and services
• Increases awareness of community efforts
• Better access quality community collected
  information for more effective decision-making
• Leveraging CGDI-endorsed Specifications
• GeoData Discovery Service - Z39.50 Metadata
  Search and Retrieval Services
• GeoServer OGC compliant Transactional Web
  Feature Service

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Benefits of the CGDI to WIX

• 2. Enables community to integrate and standardize
  their data into a common national framework
• Enables community to leverage a standards-based
  approach
• Community information matches international
  standards
• Improves access to and quality of community
  collected data
• Leveraging CGDI-endorsed Specifications
• MapServer - OGC compliant Web Map Service and WMS
  client
• CWC2 - Chameleon PHP/Mapscript access to all
  OGC Standards

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Benefits of the CGDI to WIX

• 3. Enables community to increase the use and
  application of geo-info
• Provides cost-effective model for access and
  management of community information
• Leveraging CGDI-endorsed Specifications
• CGDI Gazetteer Services
• Filter Encoding controls feature selection and
  presentation

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Benefits of the CGDI to WIX

• 4. Enables partnerships between government and
  community
• Community can capitalize on collective expertise
• Uses existing and reusable services
• Facilitates a coordinated model for sustainable
  governance of shared resources
• Facilitates networking
• Easily integrate and function with other groups

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Benefits of the CGDI to WIX

• 5. Simplifies the use of geo-info for community
• Minimum GIS Expertise required
• No need for GIS software, only Internet access
• Provides standards and protocols
• Supports the necessary distributed data model,
  providing access to government data
• Easily integrates multiple WMS data sources into
  a seamless view

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Leveraging CGDI-endorsed Specifications
Optimal Interoperability through OpenGIS (OGC)
Compliance MapServer - OGC compliant Web Map
Service and WMS client GeoServer OGC
compliant Transactional Web Feature Service
PostGIS/PostgreSQL open source spatial
database server Chameleon PHP/Mapscript
access to all OGC Standards Styled Layer
Descriptors control of cartographic
presentation Filter Encoding controls feature
selection and presentation Web Map Context XML
description of WMS data Geography Markup
Language - data transport and storage CGDI
Gazetteer Services Discovery Services - Z39.50
Metadata Search and Retrieval Services
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Old Paradigm
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CGDI Paradigm
CGDI
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In Summary

• Community groups can be effective participants in
  integrated water resources management but require
  support and guidance
• CSW works to develop and promote shared
  responsibility for water resource protection
• CSW is developing WIX for community groups to
  input, manage environmental monitoring data via
  the Internet
• WIX follows CGDI-endorsed specifications and OGC
  specifications for optimal interoperability
• WIX is being developed through collaborative,
  cost-efficient partnerships

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Thanks to generous support from our Partners
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