Geographic Data for Sustainable Development

(GISD)

Initial Capabilities Pilot

Douglas NebertU.S. Federal Geographic Data

Committee

World Summit

• The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) will be the 10-year follow-on summit after Rio/Agenda21

• Johannesburg, South Africa, August 20-September 3 will the venue for the event

• Ministerial delegations and interested parties expected to number over 30,000 individuals

Geographic Information for Sustainable Development

• An agenda item promoted by the UN Environment Programme, U.S. Government, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI), OGC and others to demonstrate use of geographic data and services in sustainability matters

• An exhibition area is being established to host presentations for GISD

OpenGIS Pilot

• Request for Proposals was issued by OGC in April for participants to develop an initial capability for GISD

• Intention is to set up baseline services, data, servers, and client software for used in both demonstration and continued activities

Portal Construction

• Build and expose on the WWW a ‘portal’ that makes location of these existing data and OGC-accessed services a one-stop access.

• Operate during the demo preparation period and the demo period during the last 10 days of August with 100% availability

• Continue operation with limited down time for maintenance

Data Catalogs

• Build and maintain on the WWW a Catalog/Registry system that is used to locate these data.

• Build and provide on the web a catalog / service registry, to include registration of data and service providers to be used during the demonstration

• Continue operation with limited down time for maintenance, to include registration of additional data and service

Services

• Extend designated existing Web Servers with WMS and/or WFS interfaces to enable interaction with SCOTS clients

• Provide Africa data on existing OGC-enabled WWW servers.

• Add OGC-enabled server to existing WWW data server.

Clients

• Create and demonstrate several different kinds of client applications that are able to use the facilities above. – Commercial browser– Commercial desktop– NGO browser– Non-commercial browser or desktop

Operational Partners

• Central Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) UMd

• MIOMBO Network • URI Tanzania-Kenya

Coastline Management • UN FAO

• NOAA • EIS-Africa• USGS• USAID• US Dept of State• CIESIN• UNEP

Opportunities

• GISD is looking for hosted environmental, social, and imagery data that are/can be supported by OpenGIS services with FGDC/ISO metadata in OGC Data Catalog

• Viewer/analytical software can be shown that expoits data content

• GISD exhibit with staff can show your scenario for addressing sustainable development, provide by July 1, 2002

Douglas Nebert

U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee and GSDI Secretariat

http://www.fgdc.gov

http://www.gsdi.org

http://www.opengis.org/gisd