CSIRO – an overviewGeospatial Information & Systems Activities

CSIRO LAND AND WATER

Paul Box| System Interoperability Team Leader 12th UNGIWG Plenary Meeting 28th – 30th March 2012

Australia’s national science agency

6500+ staff over 55 locations

CSIRO today: a snapshot

160+ active licences of CSIRO innovation

20+ spin-off companies in six years

Ranked in top 1% in 14 research fields

One of the largest & most diverse in the world

Building national prosperity and wellbeing

Our Structure and Sectors

Food, Health & Life Science

Industries

Food, Health & Life Science

Industries

Environment Manufacturing,Materials &

Minerals

Energy Information & Communications

National Research Flagships – providing outputs

Core Research Portfolios (Divisions) – providing capability

FutureManufacturing

LightMetals

MineralsDown Under

SustainableAgriculture

Water fora HealthyCountry

PreventativeHealth

Wealthfrom Oceans

ClimateAdaptation

FoodFutures

EnergyTransformed

National Research Flagships

CSIRO - AusAID relationship

Research for Development Alliance - improve the impact of aid• Responding to climate change • Integrated water management• Sustainable urabnisation• Food security

http://www.rfdalliance.com.au/site/

Africa Food Security Initiative (AFSI) - Increasing the productivity of Africa’s agricultural systems

Australian Square Kilometre Array PathfinderConstructing the ASKAP telescope

Wireless and broadband

Inventors of WiFi and research into remote and regional access to wireless broadband

Sustainable Yields Project

Complex and comprehensive water assessments of river systems for sustainable water management

Water InformationWater Information Research & Development Alliance, developing and extracting information from digital elevation models

DEM -bare earthDEM-SDEM-H

Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric• Suite of related hydrological products • Features of the Australian Hydrological System & relationships between them• Spatial index for Australian Water information (AWRIS)• Multiple

representations

across scales,

time , geometries

http://www.bom.gov.au/water/geofabric/documentation.shtml

User oriented & model driven products

Consistent identity - multiple representations

Solid Ground • creating and maintaining modular formal information models• ISO/TC211 Geographic Information modelling framework

Solid Ground: registry and toolset

Registration paradigm

models

Registry

communitymodeller

Adoption - ArcGIS Profile

ArcGIS™ Geodatabase Design with UML

Enterprise Architect

UML profile for ArcGISNew ArcGIS diagram type and toolbox supportModel Pattern for ArcGIS WorkspacesQuick Linker to help build valid ArcGIS schemasGenerate ArcGIS 10.0 schemas in XMLReverse engineer legacy geodatabases in UML

http://www.sparxsystems.com/arcgis

GIS

SISS (OGC& other services)

Report

Simulation and Modelling

SISS

GSV

GA

MRT

NTGS

Dat

a P

rovi

ders

The Spatial Information Services Stack – infrastructure for the AuScope Community Earth Model

Spatial Information Services Stack

Community Agreed Service Interfaces and Transfer Standards (Information Models, File Formats)

Service catalogue

(Data + Applications)

International/Community

Standard Vocabularies

Discovery Layer

Exchange Layer

Resources

CLIENTS(ie: Discovery Portal, Analysis Workflows)

Government Agency

Data

Images(Web Map Service)

Structured data(Web Feature Service)

Persistent ID Service

(URN Resolver Service)

Coverage data(Web Coverage

Service/DAP)

Service Registry(RIF-CS, ISO 19115)

VocabularyService

(SKOS) Geoserverwith Application Schemas

Geospatial Standards Open Geospatial Consortium: • Chair, OGC Naming Authority; • Member of OGC Architecture Board, WFS/FES 2.1 SWG, REST policy, WFS-Gazetteer, Registry Standards Working Groups; • Co-chair of Geosemantics Domain, and Hydrology Domain Working Groups; • Editor and co-editor of various standards, including WMS 1.0.0, GML 2 and GML 3; and • Participation in various other working groups, including Hydrology, GML, Document Team, WCS, SOS

ISO/TC 211• Editor, ISO 19156:2011 (Observations and Measurements) • Chair, Working group on configuration management and backward compatibility (complete)• Member, Harmonized Model Maintenance Group• Member, ISO 19109 Project Team (Rules for application schema) • Member, ISO 19150-2 Project Team (Ontology encoding)• Member, ISO 19115 Working Group (Metadata) • Member of Working Group on structure of encoding and XML implementation

Putting it all together

• SoS architecture and standards• Modeling information systems• Creating geospatial information• Delivery mechanism Information Models – feature types and vocabs

Thank youCSIRO Land and WaterPaul B oxInteroperable Systems Team Leadert +61 2 9325 3122e paul.j.box@csiro.auw www.csiro.au

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