Canadas National Forest Information System NFIS

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Canadas National
Forest Information System (NFIS) a Canadian
Council of Forest Ministers Initiative Canadian
Interoperability Day APRIL 23, 2004
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NFIS Vision
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NFIS Project

• Steering Committee - CCFM
• Chair Ontario Deputy Minister
• Provinces, Territories, Canada
• GeoConnections Observer
• Project Office CFS, Pacific Forestry Centre
• Secretariat
• NFIS Implementation
• Funding
• CCFM
• GeoConnections
• CFS

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Development Principles

• Operating Guidelines
• CDGI Principles
• International Standards (OGC, ISO, etc.)
• Vendor neutrality
• Open Source
• Partner Requirements
• Security
• Minimal impact on business practices
• Branding

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NFIS Connectivity Status
NFIS Project Office Node
Provincial/Territorial Nodes
British Columbia Alberta
Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario
Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia
PEI Nfld. Labrador Yukon
NWT Nunavut
CFS Nodes
Atlantic Laurentian Great Lakes
Northern Pacific HQ
Other Federal Infrastructures
CISE NLWIS DFO CGKN CANSIS CTI
CCRS
Established In process Planned To be
initiated
Servers in place, connectivity to be established
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NFIS - Next Steps

• Complete Connectivity
• Provinces and Territories
• CFS
• Other Federal Infrastructures
• Build Services
• Analytical Capabilities
• New applications including NFI, EOSD
• Enhance Existing Capabilities
• NFDP, DACS, etc.
• Maintain existing operational systems

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NFIS Services

• Infrastructure / Connectivity / Web Site
• Publishing Thematic Templates
• Security - Distributed Access Control System
• Terrain Server
• Area of Interest
• Data Domain Statistics
• Spatial Operations
• Data capture, access, analysis, download and
  reporting

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Access to National and Provincial Thematic Views
and Information
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PEI Thematic Portal anonymous access
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NS Thematic Portal anonymous access
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NFIS Distributed Access Control System (DACS)
controls access to information
holdings
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NFIS Web Site Work Activities
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Accessing distributed Protected Areas Information
(CISE/CCEA)
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CreditsCanadian Council of Forest
MinistersCanadian Provinces and Territories
Natural Resources CanadaEnvironment
CanadaCanadian Council on Ecological
AreasGeoConnectionsCanadian Forest Service
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Local Schemas
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Disparate Services operating against Provincial
/Territorial Schemas
Reports, maps, statistics, raw data, interactive
Web applications
Web get/post
Service A
National - Design, build NFIS reference services
Service B
Jurisdictional Threshold
Service C
NS Services (A, B, C..)
Nfld. Services (A, B, C..)
NB Services (A, B, C..)
PEI Services (A, B, C..)
Provinces Territories - modify implement
reference NFIS services against P/T schemas
Protected Areas
Forestry
Eco-zones
Others
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Common Services operating against National Schemas
Reports, maps, statistics, raw data, interactive
Web applications
Web get/post
National - Design, build and implement NFIS
services
Service B
Service C
Service A
National Schemas
Jurisdictional Threshold

• Provinces Territories
• Collectively define national data models
• map information holdings to National Schemas
• host and run services

Schema
Mapping
Forestry
Protected Areas
Eco-zones
Others
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Viewing Scolytidae Collections (Bark Beetles)
using Terrain Server
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Bark Beetle collection sites draped over terrain
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Forest Cover classified for root rot risk draped
over terrain
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Rotated
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Area of Interest (AOI) capability
Area of Interest
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Data Domain Statistics
Existing Geometry or User Digitized Area (AOI)

• Stage 1
• Min, Max, Arithmetic Mean, Median, Mode, Standard
  Deviation and Frequency Distribution
• Stage 2
• Implementation of R Statistical package
  (http//www.r-project.org/

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Spatial Operations Intersection of forest cover
with ownership
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Buffered points Intersected with Ecozones
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Representation of MAI by Forest Types
Analysis
Entire Area - 8.4 million ha
Culmination
MAI
Cover Types
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Representation of Age Classes (CCFM CI 1.1.2
and 1.1.3)
Entire Area - 9.5 million ha
Protected areas - 0.43 million ha
Percent
Area
Age Classes
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Multi-temporal NFI Query
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1980 1990
T-GENUS1 PICE T_GENUS2 PINU T_GENUS3 POPU
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Contribution to CGDI

• NFIS ascribes to the CGDI principles
• CGDI standards have been fully adopted by NFIS
• NFIS participates in the work of the CGDI
  Architecture Working Group (CAWG) and is active
  in the CGDI-DEV Network
• NFIS staff participate in the GeoConnections
  Program Advisory Network node (TAP)
• NFIS supports and sponsors GeoInnovations
  projects
• NFIS provides discovery, evaluation and access
  to Canadian forestry related geospatial data and
  services
• NFIS actively promotes technology transfer to
  the Private Sector for product commercialization

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Where to now .

• CCFM - agreement for two years, 2004-2006
• Governance Model to be developed
• Services to be expanded based on partner needs
• Industry, NGOs and others to be engaged

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Visit NFIS at
http//nfis.org
Where to now .

• CCFM - agreement for two years, 2004-2006
• Governance Model to be developed
• Services to be expanded based on partner needs
• Industry, NGOs and others to be engaged

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Logical end
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1980
1993
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Computing Array Layers
Presentation
Business Logic
Database
Data Storage
Network
Application Specific Software and
Configurations
mod_ssl, CubeServ, f-prot, CubeStor
Software Extensions
Tomcat /Apache Oracle
Base Software
NetNS Linux
Solaris
Operating System
Cisco DELL
Sun IBM
Hardware
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Computing Array Hardware
Presentation
Business Logic
Distributed Servers
Data Storage
Network
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National Forest Information System FOR NFPD
STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING APRIL 20-21, 2004
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Overview

• Project Management
• Implementation
• Progress
• Associated Activities
• Next steps

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Project Management

• Steering Committee
• Chair Ontario Deputy Minister
• Provinces, Territories
• GeoConnections Observer
• Project Office
• Secretariat

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Implementation

• CCFM
• Agreement for two years
• 2002 - 2004
• Work plan 2004 - 2006

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Implementation (contd)

• GeoConnections requirement
• 2002-03 CCFM Work plan, 17 action items

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Progress

• Workshops
• Server installation
• CCFM meetings
• Software development including NFDP application

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Associated Activities

• Discussions within the federal system
• Presentations and discussions industry, data
  sources

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Next Steps

• Workplan 2003-04
• Complete connectivity
• Develop service applications
• NFI

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NFIS Information Content Linkages
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Applications deployed through NFIS
Project site http//nfis.org NFDP
https//nfdp.nfis.org/questionnaire/index.jsp NAI
https//nai.nfis.org/naiapp/splash.jsp MARShttp/
/mars.nfis.org The Arc https//ca.nfis.org/cfsnet
/arc/index.html