Geographic Data for Sustainable Development GISD

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Geographic Data for Sustainable Development (GISD)

• Initial Capabilities Pilot
• Douglas Nebert
• U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee

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World Summit

• The World Summit on Sustainable Development
  (WSSD) will be the 10-year follow-on summit after
  Rio/Agenda21
• Johannesburg, South Africa, August 20-September 3
  will the venue for the event
• Ministerial delegations and interested parties
  expected to number over 30,000 individuals

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Geographic Information for Sustainable Development

• An agenda item promoted by the UN Environment
  Programme, U.S. Government, Global Spatial Data
  Infrastructure (GSDI), OGC and others to
  demonstrate use of geographic data and services
  in sustainability matters
• An exhibition area is being established to host
  presentations for GISD

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OpenGIS Pilot

• Request for Proposals was issued by OGC in April
  for participants to develop an initial capability
  for GISD
• Intention is to set up baseline services, data,
  servers, and client software for used in both
  demonstration and continued activities

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Portal Construction

• Build and expose on the WWW a portal that makes
  location of these existing data and OGC-accessed
  services a one-stop access.
• Operate during the demo preparation period and
  the demo period during the last 10 days of August
  with 100 availability
• Continue operation with limited down time for
  maintenance

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Data Catalogs

• Build and maintain on the WWW a Catalog/Registry
  system that is used to locate these data.
• Build and provide on the web a catalog / service
  registry, to include registration of data and
  service providers to be used during the
  demonstration
• Continue operation with limited down time for
  maintenance, to include registration of
  additional data and service

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Services

• Extend designated existing Web Servers with WMS
  and/or WFS interfaces to enable interaction with
  SCOTS clients
• Provide Africa data on existing OGC-enabled WWW
  servers.
• Add OGC-enabled server to existing WWW data
  server.

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Clients

• Create and demonstrate several different kinds of
  client applications that are able to use the
  facilities above.
• Commercial browser
• Commercial desktop
• NGO browser
• Non-commercial browser or desktop

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Operational Partners

• Central Regional Program for the Environment
  (CARPE) UMd
• MIOMBO Network
• URI Tanzania-Kenya Coastline Management
• UN FAO

• NOAA
• EIS-Africa
• USGS
• USAID
• US Dept of State
• CIESIN
• UNEP

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Opportunities

• GISD is looking for hosted environmental, social,
  and imagery data that are/can be supported by
  OpenGIS services with FGDC/ISO metadata in OGC
  Data Catalog
• Viewer/analytical software can be shown that
  expoits data content
• GISD exhibit with staff can show your scenario
  for addressing sustainable development, provide
  by July 1, 2002

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Douglas Nebert

• U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee and GSDI
  Secretariat
• http//www.fgdc.gov
• http//www.gsdi.org
• http//www.opengis.org/gisd