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Coastal management and GI training the
GI-INDEED project
Emanuele Roccatagliata
VESTA-GIS Workshop GI-Forum, Salzburg July 1st,
2008
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We are here!
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What does this mean?
GIS and ICAM actors are gathered together in a
multidisciplinary approach. Application field is
coastal zone, with particular regard to coastal
landscape as perceivable synthesis of all coastal
factors

• This application field is expected to give a
  contribution in
• the elaboration and the dissemination of a GIS
  based approach to coastal areas
• the implementation of GIS pilot projects for the
  inclusion of coastal landscape within ICAM
  programmes
• The assessment of the applicability of the
  INSPIRE principles to coastal GI
• The training of experts able to employ the
  different features of GI in a cross-cutting,
  multidisciplinary approach to coastal area
  management.

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Two general objectives ...

• To create opportunities to discuss and share
  knowledge, expertise, needs, methodologies in the
  field of GI for the sustainable management of the
  coastal areas and of their resources.
• To improve the access and the sharing of coastal
  GI by planners and stakeholders as well as by
  enhancing the scientific value of coastal
  landscape analysis and planning.

One path to achieve them....
to get together the different stakeholders
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Some considerations (additional to the results of
the training survey)

• tools for communication spreading over and over
• different approach, to professionals and final
  users
• a critical point data assessment and validation
• ..

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• About the interviews /1
• (the questionnaires are a little too long and
  often, after a while, the attention of the
  interviewed persons is distracted)
• Training offer
• non official training suppliers (i.e. firms that
  occasionally organise training activities)
• the distinction among the three application
  domains is not so neat
• courses are usually short and address local
  audience
• audience is mainly composed by technicians
  already working in the field
• courses are often tailored to the audience
  needs
• teachers are usually chosen among the firm
  staff on the base of their skill
• official training suppliers (i.e. Universities,
  training institutions, etc.)
• usually one specific application domain is
  covered
• courses are longer and rigidly structured
• courses address different kind of audience
• courses are part of a wider education programme
• teachers are professional

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• About the interviews /2
• Training requirements
• generally training is required in more
  application fields
• it above all regards the improvement of applied
  skills
• short and tailored courses are preferred
• Preferred training suppliers are those subjects
  that practically operate in the field
• Financial aspects are of great concern, as well
  as the number of hours that a worker spends in
  training activities

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• Some figures
• 22 adhesions to this application field before
  submitting the proposal
• 13 involved Countries
• Immediate availability of courses on Coastal
  Management already provided by diverse VESTA-GIS
  partners
• Several proposed courses dealing with the two
  other application fields are about subjects
  strongly linked with the coastal stream
• The same is for some aspects of implementing
  technological courses, as regards for example
  data modelling and harmonisation, web-publishing,
  compliance to OGC and INSPIRE, , even the use
  of Google Earth

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The GI-INDEED training project and its coastal
module

• Use of SDI for Coastal Areas
• An example of training offer in the Coastal
  Management and Landscape application domain

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GI-INDEEDGeo-Information in the Implementation
of Net-based Distance Education for Environmental
Decision-making Leonardo da Vinci II Pilot
Project Start Autumn 2005 Duration 24
months Partners University of Gävle
(SE) University of West Hungary (HU) University
of Zilina (SK)? National Land Survey
(SE) Educational and Advisory Institute of MARD
(HU) ICCOPS - Landscape, Natural and Cultural
Heritage Observatory (IT)? GISIG - GIS
International Group (IT) AGILE - Association of
GI Laboratories in Europe (NL)
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GI-INDEED objectives

• To
• develop tools for vocational training in the
  fields related to
• INSPIRE, SDIs and web services
• (Management of protected areas)?
• Management of coastal zones
• develop at a European level training modules
  applicable also at the local level
• contribute to offer stakeholders a better access
  to geo-information
• in the long term, to support the implementation
  of EU Directives

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GI-INDEED target

• National environmental agencies responsible for
  implementing the legislations
• Local authorities that (will) use information
  services
• Private companies that require environmental
  information for their decisions
• Citizens, special interest groups
• Training education providers

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GI-INDEED structure
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All modules are uploaded on an e-learning
platform, accessible in a teachers and in
students view
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• Training module
• Use of SDI for coastal areas

• a tutorial introduction to Integrated Coastal
  Area Management
• an overview on relevant use needs, data
  specifications and models, solutions to provide
  and utilize geo-data for coastal analysis,
  planning and management
• a presentation of a practical exercise for
  web-publishing of coastal geo-data

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Contents

• In line with the project aims the syllabus of
  module 4 has been structured into two main parts
• one is conceived as a tutorial, with practical
  tests and exercises, on integrated coastal area
  management
• the other one is intended to offer the
  possibility of a practical revision and
  implementation of what learnt in the two initial
  GI-INDEED modules, with an assisted
  web-publication of geo-data.
• That means, also, a wider audience including GI
  practitioners and coastal planners, both
  individuals and organisations

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Course components

• Introduction and guide to use the module
• Tutorial on ICAM introductory, and also
  stand-alone, but designed and structured mainly
  as the background for a correct and pertinent use
  of geo-information in ICAM
• Presentation of the link between GI and coastal
  planning (also best practice of integrated
  plans)?
• Exercise(s) on integrated coastal management
  (analysis, data-sources and metadata, proposals
  for solution)?
• Guided web publication of coastal data and
  information
• Ancillary information (reference bibliography,
  glossary)?

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The components of the module seen on the training
platform
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Course contents and structure are explained in a
general introduction
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The course starts with a tutorial on ICZM
discipline (principles, problems, actors, )
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. and exemplar cases
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It is followed by the fundamentals of GIS
modelling, in the perspective to show the trainee
examples of GI for coastal areas and to end with
a guide on web-publishing of coastal data
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The tutorial on web-publishing show different web
servers and gives the possibility to create your
own use case, starting to the analysis of the
solution for your own case and ending with the
publication of your data
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Trainees are guided step by step to publish their
own data
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Use cases can be published and viewed in the
ICAM-GIS geo -portal
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An example of data published in the GEO-portal....
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... and in Google Earth
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• thanks you for attention!