Jani Kylmäaho - Enabling Access to Arctic Location Based Information - Mindtrek 2016
1. Jani Kylmäaho
Arctic SDI Geoportal WG Lead
National Land Survey of Finland
MindTrek Conference
18 October 2016
Enabling Access to
Arctic Location Based Information
8. 9
Spatial Data Infrastructure is..
–Technology
–Policies
–Open standards
–Human resources
…necessary to acquire,
process, distribute, use,
maintain and preserve
spatial data
Graphic Source: OGC
9. 10
Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Arctic
– Working with stakeholder
organizations to make their key
data available
– Information Management best
practices
– Open standards and
interoperability
– Helping data contributors and
users understand how to
participateGraphic Source: OGC
11. Capacity Building
SDI Manual for the Arctic
with guidelines & best
practices
Arctic Spatial Data Pilot
with Open Geospatial
Consortium – Climate
Change Scenarios
12
12. 14
• Assisting CAFF WGs with use their
thematic data
• MODIS satellite data derived products:
– Vegetation Indices (incl. NDVI)
– Land Cover Type
– Snow Covered Area
– Sea Surface Temperature (SST)
– Marine Chlorophyll-a
• Time-Series Migratory Bird Index
• …
2012 Land Cover Type
Land Surface Temperature
Sea Surface
Temperature
Technical Support
13. 15
• Pan-Arctic Digital Elevation Map
• Marine Data
• Gazetteer Database and Search
• Arctic Reference Basemap
Pan-Arctic DEM
Data Resources
Shaded relief for depthsGazetteer search
14. Provided Directly
from the
8 Arctic National
Mapping Agencies
• Common Cartographic
Specification
• A Trusted Source of
Detailed Information
Authoritative Reference Basemap
Southern Svalbard:
Arctic SDI Basemap
vs.
Google Maps
17. Oskari – Geoportal solution for ASDI
• Open Source Framework for Geoportals
• Easy-to-use tools for consuming and disseminating data
• Embedded Maps Tool and Integration API - like Google
maps with rich SDI content
• Time Series Data Visualization
• Thematic Mapping with Statistical Information
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19. 21
Roadmap 2017-2018
• Improved Time
Series, also in
Embedded Maps
• Data Download
• Arctic Projection
support
• Combining Spatial
and Statistical Data
from the Arctic
Region
• Sensor data
20. Arctic SDI Video on YouTube
Arctic SDI Fact Sheet
Information on Oskari
How can we stay informed of the effects of Climate change and disseminate information about it?
How do we find out the current status of Endangered species over the Arctic?
How can we help to Conserve Rare Arctic Flora?
How can we help to improve Emergency Response in extreme circumstances?
These are all challenges the Arctic area is facing
Part of the solution is providing relevant and reliable data, which is a basis for
monitoring,
management,
emergency preparedness and
decision making
in the Arctic
-> This is the Arctic SDI
Arctic SDI is
… a voluntary collaboration of the 8 National Mapping Agencies
… endorsed by the Arctic Council in 2009
… supported by voluntary commitments by the eight Arctic countries and a signed MOU
Key messages:
- Towards a common baseline (common approach and helping to set a baseline)
- Arctic SDI should be presented and sold as an IM tool to help answer issues affecting the Arctic
2015 – 5-year Strategic Plan and Governance Documents approved by the Board. Significant work to “Deliver on the Strategic Plan”
2016 - Active progress being made working on an Arctic SDI Manual, User & Data Provider Guides, Data Evaluation Framework to assess growth and progress, Glossary of Terms
2015-2016 – OGC Arctic Spatial Data Pilot with a Goal to demonstrate the diversity, richness, and value of SDI Web services to Arctic SDI stakeholders using Arctic Council Relevant Scenarios
Elevation Experts and NMA Representatives from the eight Arctic SDI countries collaborated to enrich the process towards delivery of a Pan-Arctic DEM, an initiative of the Arctic Council US Chairmanship.
SDI is the technology, policies, standards and human resources necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data
Improving data sharing on local, national, regional and global levels
We are working..
In order to achieve this, we need to understand the needs and requirements of stakeholders and Develop and Identify Use Cases, like data dissemination and reportin
We try to educate them on Data management and sharing best practices,
as well as on Standardized Web Services
SDI is the technology, policies, standards and human resources necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data
Improving data sharing on local, national, regional and global levels
We are working..
In order to achieve this, we need to understand the needs and requirements of stakeholders and Develop and Identify Use Cases, like data dissemination and reportin
We try to educate them on Data management and sharing best practices,
as well as on Standardized Web Services
Collaboration has been started with Arctic Council Working Groups
CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna)
PAME (Protection of the Arctid Marine Environment)
Other working groups to follow are e.g. EPPR (Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response as well as AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme)
Collaborating with Arctic Council Working Groups to develop common data sharing methodologies and best practices
Data modeling and standardization guidelines
Standardization guidelines (web services)
Contributing to the data management plan of the Biodiversity Monitoring Stations (Iceland, Canada, Greenland)
Collaborating with CAFF and PAME to enable time series embedded maps of the new protected areas database for the last century
Assisting with CAFF’s Earth Observation Plan to acquire and distribute derived products for Landsat EO data (70’ to present)
SDI Manual for the Arctic: To provide guidance on the planning, management, development and maintenance of the Arctic SDI to the various involved groups.
Arctic SDI should be presented and sold as an IM tool to help answer issues affecting the Arctic
With NRC Canada and USGS as key sponsors, Arctic SDI participants are involved in Arctic Spatial Data Pilot lead by OGC.
Will create a scenario based video to showcase how open standards and common approaches to data management can
Specific Objectives:
To increase awareness of the Arctic SDI
To foster data sharing and interoperability in the Arctic
To improve Arctic SDI architecture
To apply geomatics best practices to the North
To improve usage and user experience
Assisting CAFF WGs with use of remote sensing for Arctic biodiversity monitoring and assessment activities
From CAFF: Arctic SDI is providing:
Technical support
Information exchange
Advice: OGC model ……
CAFF Work Plan: Digital Elevation Model
Reporting to Arctic Council
……
Like INSPIRE, Arctic SDI aims to be a trusted source of authoritative information from the arctic area, provided by the 8 Arctic National Mapping agencies, especially in form ot the Arctic Basemap.
As you can see in this comparison of Arctic Basemap and Google, the information in the previous one is much more detailed. There is a common cartographic specification which will result in a unified view over the entire arctic.
In addition to data and APIs, the Arctic SDI features a geoportal with tools for both key stakeholders and other users.
You can search for metadata and compile data layers …
…but most importantly, the same fully functional map client can be placed on the website with the context information with the Embedded Maps tool provided by Oskari geoportal software.
A few words about the Geoportal software itself. Oskari is completely open source, and offers multilingual tools for consuming distributed SDI’s like INSPIRE, ELF and Arctic SDI.
Oskari has built-in capabilities to read complex schema data products.
That means all the rich content from the SDI’s can be further displayed on other websites using Embedded maps like, a bit like in Google maps, then integrated with the website using a JavaScript API. Further features include e.g. support for WMS Time Series and Spatial data and statistical data integration. Time series is already working for some layers on the current ASDI geoportal
Apart from some GIS professionals, it is rarely the general public who download data and consume services directly, but rather go to the website dealing with e.g. climate change, and that is where we need to present the valuable information we can stream down from our SDIs.
Topics in Video
Arctic: Size, scope, 8 countries, population, languages
Discusses the focus of the 6 WGs of the Arctic Council
Discusses Data Sets, data sharing, publishing, diverse sources: predict, understand and react to a changing arctic
8 countries NMAs, MOU
Geoportal: View & Discover: Authoritative Reference data, trusted source: Monitor, Management, emergency preparedness, and decision making
Geoportal provides data, maps and tools
Arctic SDI will deliver documentation
There is the Fact Sheet for 5-minute overview of the project, updated on a regular basis.