Presented by Terri Ryan and Kyle Taduran, Booz Allen Hamilton, at the March 2014 MEASURE GIS Working Group meeting.

1. 4 March 2014
World-Wide Human Geography Data
Working Group (WWHGD WG)

2. Agenda
Background Information
WWHGD WG Objectives
Human Geography Theme Areas
WWHGD WG Events
WWHGD WG Partnerships and Metrics
Data Workbook and GeoPlatform
Future Efforts

3. “We need foundation data globally on human
geography in order to understand people to
support human security, humanitarian
assistance / disaster relief and emergency
preparedness, response and recovery”
What is Needed
John Goolgasian (NGA VIT) and Dr. Lee Schwartz (DoS Geographer) May
2011

4. The World-Wide Human Geography
Data Working Group (WWHGD
WG) is designed to build voluntary
partnerships around human geography
data and mapping focused on the
general principle of making
appropriate information available to
promote human security.

5. Human Geography Data
It is data about…
why people do…
what they do…
where they do it.
J. Rowland Illick

6. Energy
Security
Ecosystem
Services
Food
Security
Humanitarian
Assistance /
Disaster Relief
Nation Recovery
and
Reconstitution
Water
Security
Disaster
Risk
Reduction
Political
Stability
Infrastructure
Security
Emergency
Preparedness,
Response and
Recovery
Transportation
Security
Cultural
Property
Public
Health
Communications
Security
Education
Emerging
Infections
Economics
Human
Security
Many Missions Enable Human Security and All Require
Foundation Human Geography Data

7. Build voluntary partnerships/“community of the
interested” across Human Geography data and mapping
communities with the goal of promoting Human Security
Document Human Geography data requirements,
priorities, and gaps
Discover & Catalog Human Geography data sources and
mapping efforts
Facilitate sharing among Human Geography data and
mapping communities
Promote methodologies to build data sets at scales
appropriate to end-users.
Objectives

8. Theme Areas
Communications
Demographics
Economy
Education
Ethnicity
Groups
- Civil, Political, and Ideological
Land
- Use, Cover, and Ownership
Language
Medical / Health
Religion
Significant Events
Transportation
Water

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Organizations
Members
Data Sources
Cataloged
John Goolgasian
leads WWHGD
conceptual
discussion
(15 HG
participants)
John Goolgasian
& Lee Schwartz
lead second
conceptual
discussion (26
HG participants)
Typhoon
Haiyan
UN;
South Sudan;
Univ of Georgia
World Bank
Mapping For
Results
Initiative/
Open Aid
Pacific
Disaster
Center;
CCAPS;
NASA
Servir
Communications
And
Land Use
Medical and
Health
SOUTHCOM
Mexico
INEGI
GeoPDFs
Fiji IDA
GDELT
ACLED
TerraPop
Building the WWHGD Data Source Catalog
SOUTHCOM
AOR
Western
Africa
Webinar
Series
Latin
America
Webinar
Series
NGA Director’sVision
“GEOINT into the hands of the
users – provide on-line, on
demand access to GEOINT
knowledge.”
“Create new value by
broadeningand deepening
our analytic expertise...
informedby...Human
Geography”
Building Unity of Effort
for Human Geography Data
Western
Pacific
Webinar
Series

10. 125 countries have visited the WWHGD Working
Group website
1743 WWHGD Working Group Members
592 Organizations Throughout:
U.S./DoD
Civil Departments and Agencies
International Groups
Academic Institutions
NGOs and VTCs
Private Industry
WWHGD WG Metrics Summary

11. 511
(+28)
186
(+3)
258
(+9)
124
(+8)
508
(+17)
156
(+11)
WWHGD Working Group
Members - 1743 (+76 as of 31Jan14)

12. WWHGD Working Group
Organizations - 592 (+23 as of 31Jan14)
72
(+3)
47
(+0)
130
(+3)
91
(+5)
172
(+4)
80
(+8)

13. Data Capture Workbook
• Compiling Human Geography datasets from WWHGD community
• Over 900 unclassified/open source datasets
• Some Key Contributors of Data – Mexico, South Sudan,
DoS/HIU, NGA, UN, Univ. of GA, Robert S. Strauss Center,
Columbia, NATO, ESRI, Intermap Federal Services Inc., Institute
for Defense Analysis
• Ensuring integrity of the data links and important fields; theme
area, description, publisher and contact information
• Updating the workbook according to the Common Core Metadata
Fields to ensure discoverability

14. Providing Access to Data
• Pilot leveraging existing www architecture of the GeoPlatform
• Identifying, cataloging, tagging WWHGD Datasets
• WWHGD WG community storefront has been created in the
development environment on geoplatform.gov
• NGA testing data ingest process to get the
catalogued data to analysts on all networks
• GeoPlatform will provide data access to the
WWHGD Community
• Prototype currently contains 5 test datasets
CIESEN, HIU, Robert Strauss Center, FEWS NET, UN
• Currently working with catalogued data owners to tag data so it is available
via the GeoPlatform

15. Way Ahead
• Continue Webinar Series to bring relevant presenters and data to the
WWHGD WG
• Continue building voluntary partnerships around HG data and mapping
• 19 March 2014 – Mapping Water Security Data in the Industrial Western
Pacific
• 28 May 2014 – Central Africa – Health and Human Security
• 16 July 2014 – Western and Central Africa – Education and Capacity
Building
• 10 September 2014 – Central and South America – Land Use and Tenure
• Continue work to establish the WWHGD WG community on GeoPlatform
• Finalize the pilot and implement the process to get the entire data capture
workbook on GeoPlatform

16. Questions?
Thank You For Your Time
and
Participation

17. Contact Information
https://WWHGD.org
Todd Sweet
571-557-2234
Todd.L.Sweet@nga.mil
Justin Sherin Terri Ryan Kevin Kurtz
757-478-1393 757-810-7681 757-651-4800
sherin_justin@bah.com ryan_terri@bah.com kurtz_kevin@bah.com
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